Chair is declare the subcommittee will come to order. We welcome anyone to this mornings hearing. Substantial threats to Gun Violence and Mass Shootings. Address and Distribution List dedicated to circulating exhibits motions or other written materials that members might want to offer as apartment of our Hearing Today. If you would like to submit materials please send them to email address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials the members and staff as quickly as we can. I would also ask all members to mute your myophone when youre not speaking. This will help prevent feedback and other technical issues. You may unmute yourself any time you seek recognition and as well when youre speaking you may not have your mask. I will now recognize myself for an ongoing of this hearing for an Opening Statement. Were here today on may 20th, 2021, when throughout america states have rates of death by guns of 12, 15, 22 of our population. America stil
Subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is declare recesses the Sub Committee any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. And unending crisis the central steps to reducing Gun Violence and man shootings. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established an Email Address and Distribution List dedicated to circulating exhibits motions or other written materials that members might want to offer as apartment of our Hearing Today. If you would like to submit materials please send them to Email Address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials the members and staff as quickly as we can. I would also ask all members to mute your myophone when youre not speaking. This will help prevent feedback and other technical issues. You may unmute yourself any time you seek recognition and as well when youre speaking you may not have your mask. I will now recognize myself for an ongoing of this hearing fo
and to learn about effective evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. to have a panel of experts director for mental health programs for overset office at department of defense, the director of defense of suicide prevention office for the office of the department of defense and acting director at the department of veterans affairs the suicide prevention chief of substance abuse and mental health at the department of mental health and human services healthcare policy department of health care policy at harvard medical school thank you for being here and our topic today is a heavy one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it that the readiness and well-being of troops and families and veterans suicide tragically rates of suicide with veteran populations have increased from the reports affecting young men under 30. veteran suicide as a member of the veterans affairs committee of those who die by suicide is one of my top priorities the department of defense impr
and to learn about effective evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. to have a panel of experts director for mental health programs for overset office at department of defense, the director of defense of suicide prevention office for the office of the department of defense and acting director at the department of veterans affairs the suicide prevention chief of substance abuse and mental health at the department of mental health and human services healthcare policy department of health care policy at harvard medical school thank you for being here and our topic today is a heavy one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it that the readiness and well-being of troops and families and veterans suicide tragically rates of suicide with veteran populations have increased from the reports affecting young men under 30. veteran suicide as a member of the veterans affairs committee of those who die by suicide is one of my top priorities the department of defense impr
good morning, everybody. thank you for attending today s hearing. we gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but there s 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. then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into. a crowd of those attending a country music concert. the bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an aut automatic weapon. 58 people died. our laws prohibit the manufacture machine guns for decades and decades that has been the case. during the obama administration they determined that bump stocks are legal. a number of member of congress recently rote the atf asked it to revision the decision. two days ago the a