And injured 26 others including precious little children. Then in the early hours of sunday morning in dayton, ohio another twisted monster opened fire on a crowded downtown street. He murdered nine people including his own sister and injured 27 others. The first lady and i join all americans in praying and grieving for the victims, their families and the survivors. We will stand by their side forever, we will never forget. Are onarbaric slaughters assault on our communities and an attack on our nation and a crime against all of humanity. Byare outraged and sickened this monstrous evil, the cruelty , the hatred, the malice, the bloodshed, and the terror. Our hearts are shattered for every family whose parents, children, husbands and wives were ripped from their arms and their lives. America weeps for the fallen. A loving nation and our children are entitled to grow up in a just and peaceful and loving society. Arms to we lock shoulder the grief. We ask god in heaven to ease the anguish of those who suffered and we bow to act with urgent resolve. I want to thank the many Law Enforcement personnel who responded to these atrocities with the extraordinary grace and courage of american heroes. Ive spoken with the Texas Governor and the Ohio Governor as well as the mayor of el paso, texas and the mayor of dayton, ohio. To express our profound sadness we send the condolences of our nation to the president of mexico and all the people of mexico for the loss of their citizens in the el paso shooting. Terrible thing. I have been in close contact with the attorney general and fbi director wray. Federal authorities are on the ground and i have directed them to provide any and all assistance required, whatever is needed. The shooter in el paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in america. , ravagesrps the mind the heart, and devours the soul. We have asked the fbi to identify all further resources they need to investigate and disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism, whatever they need. Recognize that the internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts. On the darka light recesses of the internet and stop mass murders before they start. Drug traffickers, illegal Drug Distribution and so many heinous crimes. The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored and they will not be ignored. In the two decades since columbine our nation has walked with rising horror and dread as one mass shooting has followed another. Over and over again, decade after decade. We cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless. Eviln and will stop this we must honor the memory of those we have lost and act as one people. Open wounds cannot heal if we are divided. We must seek real bipartisan and we have to do it in a bipartisan manner that will we have to doafer a better job of identifying and acting early acting on Early Warning signs. I am directing the department of justice to work in partnership with local, state, and federal agencies as well as social Media Companies to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike. The monster in the Parkland High School in florida had many red flags against him yet nobody took decisive action. Nobody did anything. Must stop the glorification of violence in our society. It is too easy for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately. Hard but eache is of us can choose to build a culture that celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every human life. That is what we have to do. Third we must reform our Mental Health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence and make sure those people not only get treatment, but when necessary involuntary confinement. Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. We must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to Public Safety do not have access dofirearms and that if they those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. That is why i have called for red flag laws also known as extreme Risk Protection orders. Today im directing the department of justice to propose thoseation ensuring that who commit hate crimes and mass murders face the Death Penalty and that this Capital Punishment be delivered quickly, decisively and without years of needless delay. These are just a few of the areas of cooperation that we can pursue. And ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference. Republicans and democrats have proven that we can join together in a bipartisan fashion to address this plague. Last year we enacted the stop into lawolence providing grants to improve and strengthening critical background checks for firearm purchases. At my direction the department nned bump stocks and last year we prosecuted a Record Number of firearms offense is. There is so much more that we have to do. Setting destructive partisanship aside. So destructive. Answering hatred with unity, devotion and love. Our future is in our control. America will rise to the challenge. We will always have and we always will win. The choice is ours and ours alone. It is not up to mentally ill monsters, it is up to us. If we are able to pass a great legislation after all of these years we will ensure that those who were attacked will not have died in vain. May god bless the memory of toledo,o perished in may god protect them and may god protect all of those from texas to ohio. May god bless the victims and their families. Thank you very much. [indiscernible] do you support the house bill . Reaction from members of congress to this weekends mass shooting. Insteadhumer tweets of flailing around blaming everything under the sun if the president is serious about strong background checks theres one thing he can do demand senator mcconnell put the bipartisan house passed universal background checks bill up for a vote. Video gamesump said and Mental Illness are the problem following the shootings in el paso and dayton. A congressman from virginia responded every other country in the world has people with Mental Illness and video games. We have a gun violence problem being fueled by hate and racism and stupid excuses to avoid facing these facts will only get more people killed. A cspan producer points out that flags were lowered to half u. S. Throughout the capitol complex on saturday to honor those who are killed. Flags will remain at half staff until thursday. Tonight on cspan will show the gun rights debate from Dartmouth College in hanover, New Hampshire with lawyers on both sides of the issue. Here is a preview. Then there is the obvious sort of practical problem of drawing useful comparisons from the late 1700s in the mid1800s to today. Especially with regards to a rapidly changing Technology Like guns. Trying to identify a lineal descendents of guns from the late 1700s to today with a lineal descendent of gun regulations is a hard thing to do. Judges are not historians and guns dont have progeny. They dont have family trees. In what way is an ar15 a descendent of a musket . If you look to the barrel length and how many shots per minute and muzzle velocity, those are hard questions. In practice what we will see is ,hat judges will answer them and judge kavanaugh answers this, by analogy. We reason by analogy all the time. To analogize is to find relevant similarities between two things. That is a lot of weight on what judges see as relevant similarities. Views look like yours, maybe they dont. Maybe their intuitions are the same and maybe they were not. Maybe they are protective of gun rights. I think there is a reason to be skeptical of a test that says it is based on history and tradition but i think well probably boiled down to a test of judicial intuition or judicial analogy. An effort to support the gun regulation side of things. When heller talked about handguns being the quintessential firearm and why they are the quintessential selfdefense weapon and in the scope of the constitution the court was saying in the context of rejecting the argument that there was no need for people to have handguns as long as they can possess long guns. What the report says is that so long you have some type of arm youstate can pick one and get nothing else, they said if you have a long gun you have a constitutional right to handguns because they are a quintessential selfdefense weapon that is commonly owned for the lawful purpose of selfdefense. Rning around and saying that heller said handguns or what is protected so we dont have to worry about the rest of it. Some ofill down on these definitions of what it is that constitutes an assault the courtst it is look at when trying to say these weapons are categorically different. Essentially it is taking traditional rifles and having aspects of them that make them easier for someone to use for selfdefense and make them safer for someone to use. Make them less likely to cause Collateral Damage if you do actually need to use them for selfdefense purposes. All ofe courts saying these things make them more effective. And therefore more dangerous and therefore take them outside the scope of the constitution. That is a counterintuitive proposition if what youre thinking about is the notion of being able to own a particular firearm so you can effectively use it if you were to need it for purposes of selfdefense. Dartmouth College Hosted that debate over the constitutional right to bear arms. You can watch the entire debate on gun rights from hanover, New Hampshire tonight at 8 00 eastern. Last week fbi director Christopher Wray talked about the mystic terrorism and white supremacy. This took place during a Senate Oversight hearing. Welcome. I would like to ask you a question. Do you know what group was responsible for more homicides 000 to 20 more than any other domestic Extremist Group . Ir. Wray i am not sure but guess you are about to tell me. Drubin your testimony talked about homegrown violent extremism. Idea dhs joining telogen bulletin in may of 2017 found that white supremacist