The House Committee and the judiciary will come toto order we can declare recesses at any time we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the assault weapons i now recognize myself. Assault weapons have been repeatedly v used for violence on her citizens just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, mid and odessa. We have seen powerful shootings and Mass Shootings in those communities shattered by violence. But todays hearing is whether america will tolerate weapons but simply put civilian assault weapons or semi automatic versions of military weapons. And now to feel as quickly as possible now to rapidly and repeatedly fire human targets without stopping to reload designed for maximum bloodshed. And then to address the assault weapons estate laws have proven to easy to evade. This is one reason i support a national ban on assault weapons despite californias ban a man could drive across the border into nevada to buy a 75 round highcapacity
The committee of the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of an gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities to experience violence. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and neighborhood. Civilian assault weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. They have no purpose but to kill as many as possible as quickly as possible. By allowing killers to rapidly fire targets without stopping to reload, assault weapons are designed for bloodshed. State laws have proven too easy
viewers joining us this the united states and all around the world. ahead, on cnn newsroom the gloves were off at the fourth republican presidential debate last night. who swung at who and the man who was missing from the stage. plus, a shooting on the las vegas campus of the university of nevada leaves three dead and a fourth wounded. i ll speak to a gun violence survivor about the latest mass shooting in the united states. and benjamin netanyahu says israeli forces are encircling the house of a top leader of hamas in gaza. a live report with the latest. we re following two major stories. in alabama, four presidential hopefuls met on a cage. six weeks before the contest in iowa. these clashed from electability, to the border and whether donald trump is fit to return to the white house. the former president chose to skip the debate. we re looking at the shooting on the campus of university of nevada. the gunman is a retired college professor. it s not clear what con
I know how deeply personally affected he has been. And i guess i tell you why i am doing this as a means of telling you why senator blumenthal and i are doing this, and i tell it through a prism of a story that just awful, awful series of days following the shootings in sandy hook. Senator blumenthal and i went through the first of what were umpteen wakes and funerals, and we were standing in line at the first wake about to talk to the first set of parents who had lost in this case their young daughter, and i remember being so uncertain about what we were supposed to say to these parents, not just what you were supposed to say to provide some measure of condolence, but we were their elected representatives. We had some additional obligation to show them that we were ready to act, but was it too soon to make that offer . Was it not the right moment to suggest that there was a Public Policy response to the slaughter of their children . It was senator blumenthal that very gently and appro
Reporter vai, everyone from naacp to clergy from all stripes. They denounced the extremism terrorism weve seen of late and encouraged regular citizens of faith to work for peace. You grew up in this neighborhood . Right in in napt. Reporter yousef is a south philadelphia native, a born and bred americans. But his own neighborhood streets have felt less friendly after the mass shooting investigated as terrorism in california planned and executed by radicalized muslims and here at home, a pigs head left at the mosque in north philly where he went to grade school. I dont feel safe in my own environment, in my own neighborhood. I dont feel safe. I have to look out for my own wellbeing. Kroma, who is studying to become an imam, says the terror hes seen on the news beis nothg like his faith. Leaders denounced the recent extremist attacks in the name of religion and stressed christianity, judaism and islam are fundamentally religions of peace. They also criticized president ial candidate Dona