Trey Gowdy: “I confess upfront: my bias is toward public safety.”

He is the best hope to produce a product that my fellow citizens can have confidence in. It will not come from Congress. Let me assure you of that.

The gentleman yields back.

If there is a restraining order with the element of violence, that person is prohibited from having a single bullet, much less an AR-15.

Anytime you have a hearing title that has the word 'preventable' in it, I think we owe it to our fellow citizens to discuss the limitations of our justice system.