Facilitate the discussion with the speakers. We are looking forward to a valuable hour of presentation and discussion. This briefing is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the national History Center that brings historical perspective to issues confronting congress and the nation. The center is nonpartisan and as such the purpose of the briefing is not to advocate for any particular policies or public positions, but to provide historical content to inform policymakers and the public. As ever, we are grateful to the Mellon Foundation for funding this and the office of congressman connolly for booking the room. Todays subject is the history of gun rights and regulations in america. The Depth And Complexity of the politics of these or any subjects should not make us shy from the historical record. History is whether we are aware of it or not the context for every discussion we take, whether individual daily ones, such as assumptions that the trains will run on time or not, based on our
Welcome. Please note that we have distributed cards. Ill be moderating the Q A. The cards are on your chairs. The purpose of those cards is to facilitate the Q A. Jeff is standing outside. There you go. Theres jeff who will collect those questions. I will collate the cards and facilitate the discussion with the speakers. We are looking forward to a valuable hour of presentation and discussion. This briefing is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the national History Center that brings historical perspective to issues confronting congress and the nation. The center is nonpartisan and as such the purpose of the briefing is not to advocate for any particular policies or public positions, but to provide historical content to inform policymakers and the public. As ever, we are grateful to the Mellon Foundation for funding this and the office of congressman connolly for booking the room. Todays subject is the history of gun rights and regulations in america. The Depth And Complexity of th
Through it. Its quite an exciting place. Were delighted to have you back to our second series. Some of you came to the first one, and this is the second one. The first one in january, and the Topic Tonight is biblical influences on religious freedom, but before we get started, so take out your cell phone. If youre in to social media, take a selfie of yourself, and then post it to museumofthebible. Should be right there. A selfie is fine or take a picture of your neighbor. So we placed a few items on your seat, youll see there, and one of them is a membership brochure. My personal favorite because we are a nonprofit. We exist totally on donations and members and so we hope youll consider becoming a member in any category. I think there are 27 different categories. You also have a flier on our February Speaker series, which is coming up next month, and theres a sheet that lists future programs provided by the museum. Were cohosting Tonights Program with the Baylor Institute of studies fo
Martin Luther King jr. The museum of the bible and the Buy Lore Institute for studies on religion cohosted the discussion. This is an hour. Im tony zis, the director of the museum. What a wonderful privilege it is to be in this privilegic being. We hope you will come to think of this very soon as your museum because it is the communitys museum. In fact, its the worlds museum. We are going to be live on cspan tonight. Thank you so much, fellows, for what you are doing. We appreciate that. We are very excited to welcome you to the museum. You will have to come back. It takes several days to go through it. Its quite an exciting place. We are delighted to have you back the our second series. Some of you came to the first one. And this is the second one. The first one in january. The Topic Tonight is biblical influences on religious freedom. Before we get started, so, take out your cell phone, if you are into social media take a selfie of yourself and then post it to museum of the bible. Sh