With a lets begin this prayer. We cannot remain silent. For us to honor the responsibilities that we have to protect and defend the american havee we must not only moments of silence, we must have days of action. , am grateful to Mike Thompson the chair on the gun violence robintion task force and kelly for bringing us together this morning. Many of our members are here this morning to bear witness. It is not just the high profile cases that challenge our cases. It is the everyday violence that must be addressed. I think our colleagues were hosting this forum and for the relentless efforts and determined leadership in confronting the gun violence crisis. We are grateful to our expert panelists for sharing their insights, experiences, and solutions. They will be introduced by our cochairs here today, but i wanted to personally welcome them and thank them. I am here to say, no more silence. We must take action to prevent gun violence. To start, we cant and must to closethe bipartisan the
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halted funding for public health research to understand the crisis. most republicans disagree saying the money wouldn t go for legitimate research but for anti gun research. the national rifle association adds, quoting, the abuse of taxpayer funds for anti gun political propaganda under the guides of research is unethical. it was the nra that lobbied to have gun research money taken away from the cdc in the mid 90s and in 1996 republican congressman jay dickie sponsored the dickie amendment that resulted in cdc funding being slashed but after the theater shoot income aurora, colorado, dickie changed his stance and pushed to have funding reinst e reinstated writing in the washington post quote we don t know whether having more citizens carry guns would decrease or increase firearm death or whether firearm registration and licensing would make inner city residents safer or expose them to greater harm. we don t know whether a ban on assault weapons or large
assault weapons or large capacity magazines would have saved lives in aurora or would make it riskier for people to go to a movie. dickie s change of heart has done very little to rally support among progun groups who say the cdc has a history of producing skewed results. megyn? trace, thanks. for the first time in weeks, some big news, breaking in the search for that missing malaysia airlines plane and wait until you hear what happened now, plus president obama is now being urged to help a christian woman sentenced to death over her fate. she is in jail now. the mother of two american babies, we re told. tony perkins is next on how he is getting involved and what he expects our president to do. plus, the kelly file exclusive, dennis michael lynch is here with reports of what he is calling the border on the brink of collapse. there is no doubt if the terrorists wanted to come to the
political grand standing has halted funding for public health research to understand the crisis. most republicans disagree saying the money wouldn t go for legitimate research but for anti gun research. the national rifle association adds, quoting, the abuse of taxpayer funds for anti gun political propaganda under the guides of research is unethical. it was the nra that lobbied to have gun research money taken away from the cdc in the mid 90s and in 1996 republican congressman jay dickie sponsored the dickie amendment that resulted in cdc funding being slashed but after the theater shoot income aurora, colorado, dickie changed his stance and pushed to have funding reinst e reinstated writing in the washington post quote we don t know whether having more citizens carry guns would decrease or increase firearm death or whether firearm registration and licensing would make inner city residents safer or expose them to greater harm. we don t know whether a ban on