house floor where lawmakers will debate on the bill. rep. nadler: the committee will come to order. the committee dispensed of the shaaban amendment. what purpose does mr. tiffany seek recognition? i have an amendment. point of order. rep. nadler: point of order is reserved. put forth the amendment. amendment to the amendment. rep. nadler: the amendment will be considered. the gentleman is recognized to explain his amendment. s amendment addresses an issue that this committee has refused to address in the past as it relates to gun violence across our nation. the bill before us has been named the protect our kids act but it does little of that. it does create unconstitutional restrictions on lawful gun ownership, the american people know the endgame. it is to strip law-abiding citizens of their ability to defend themselves. my amendment addresses gun violence in a meaningful way. it is not to get new laws, but enforces them. it would require the department of justice t
let s come together and pass this legislation and help to save lives. for what purpose does mr. mcclintock recognition? thank you. i think the reason we don t often hear about mass shootings stopped by a citizen with a gun is that they didn t come mass shootings precisely because they were stopped by a citizen with a gun. a mass shooting was stopped by a woman with a gun in charleston the very day after uvalde. she couldn t have done that in a gun free school. is there any other possible way to stop a bad guy with a gun thin with a goodbye with good guy with a gun? there is no question. it s often said the police can be there in minutes when seconds count even when the police respond, they don t always act once they get there. those who are directly threatened gunmen are those in the best position to stop such an attack because they are there on the spot in their lives depend on it. and yet you won t let them. that s stunning to me. nor do you seem to be serious about e
years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and, anguish in america: we speak with angel garza, after the loss of his ten-year- old daughter, amerie. i just want my baby back. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dokoupil: good evening to our viewers in the west on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil, in for norah, who is recovering from covid. and tonight, we are here in uvalde, texas, a community shattered by one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 21 victims, 19 of them innocent children. they ranged in age from ten, down to as young as eight. one victim described by family as the sweetest little boy i ve ever known, so full of life. others loved baseball, they loved swimming, loved dancing to tiktok videos in other words, these are your everyday american kids: extraordinarily loved,
it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen