Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo
And its less than an hours drive from my Congressional District. We mourn all the people who lost their lives on friday, including 20 Elementary School children and six educators. Over the past few years, we have seen innocent lives lost to gun violence in a supermarket parking lot in arizona, a Movie Theater in colorado, an army base in texas, a College Campus in virginia and now an Elementary School in connecticut. The weapons have spawned these tragedies and long past time that we control them. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms but does not guarantee an absolute right to militarystyle, high caliber, semiautomatic, combatassault rifles with high capacity magazines to anybody who wants them. It just does not and must not let Interest Groups persuade us otherwise. We need restrictions and sensible gun control legislation. We need them here and we need them now. Our children are counting on us and we really need to not let them down. I yield back. Mr. Murphy i yield