Also on the calendar, this years state of the Union Address from President Trump before a joint session of congress. As always, you can watch the house live on cspan and see the senate on our companion network cspan 2. Next testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposed banning bump stock and similar devices. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislation. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by an evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in t
Good morning everybody. And thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil men in las vegas and southern springs, and those two places get all the attention, but there is lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans new whatknew what a b stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire oammunition as i he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died. 500 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in our history. Our laws prohibit the manufacturer of machine guns, for decades and decades thats been the case, and greatly restrict their sale.
Explain to our children how such evil can exist. How there can be such cruelty and such suffering but we can not be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites such terror. Words can not describe the bravery that the whole world witnessed on sunday knight. Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage. We will all have to wrestle with the horror of what has unfolded this week, but we will struggle through it together, and we will overcome together as americans. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist, mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Bill, what do you make of the president s response . I think it was right. It was the right tone. A president needs to to and visit. He is a national figure. I also think the tone of the people out there, we saw incredible stories of bravery and its a very american story. People in official positions standing up and not running away from the fire. There was a marine that st
Mourning. We struggle are to the words to explain to our children how such evil can exist. How there can be such cruelty and such suffering but we can not be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites such terror. Words can not describe the bravery that the whole world witnessed on sunday knight. Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage. We will all have to wrestle with the horror of what has unfolded this week, but we will struggle through it together, and we will overcome together as americans. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist, mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Bill, what do you make of the president s response . I think it was right. It was the right tone. A president needs to to and visit. He is a national figure. I also think the tone of the people out there, we saw incredible stories of bravery and its a very american story. People in official positions standing up and not running away
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