I am a resident in santa rosa. Ive been a california resident since 1975. It pains me, and many of us that have to be here, and name from the past as some people in this room might remember charles wittman. Austin tower shooting. Since then, we have been on a path in this nation of moral degradation and the lack of god, lack of leadership at all levels right now. The lack of any kind of moral compass, as well as the lack of medical care for kids. In one of the things that is very unfortunate about a new town andorra and these other fans is that gun free zones do not seem to be a winning concept. I think that security is at some level an extremely good idea. We have more gun laws now than we know what to do with. You instructed us not to address the Second Amendment. That one phrase in there, to infringe, seems to be happening quite a lot lately. I have a lot of friends in town who have businesses that revolves around a Second Amendment. In this economy, i do not think we need to close
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Schools, our communities, children and families must be safe. I respectfully ask my colleagues to make this issue of violence a priority and to support our nations leadership as they work through resolving this challenge which should not be difficult. If we compromise and keep focusing on saving lives. Madam chair, i pledge to support you and to support all my other colleagues with the Congressional Black Caucus to make a difficult task safe and to protect the lives of our children and families from gun fire and a culture of violence. Ms. Fudge i thank the gentlelady from ohio for participating. We certainly know how difficult this is going to be as we move forward, but im pleased. Thank you so much. I yield to the gentleman from new jersey who has joined our caucus. Representative donald payne junior. Pain pain mr. Speaker, let me mr. Payne let me begin by thanking my chairwoman, fudge for anchoring this evenings special order on the culture of violence. Coming together to address unv