Research. Committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. Without obsession t chair is authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We have a very important hearing this morning. A federally funded Cancer Research in innovation. This one some hearings are more important than others. I wish it were the type of hearing that was on the headline at the top of the fold of every newspaper that we have. But it is cancer is something that statistically is going to touch every family in some way, shape, or form. And unfortunately ive had that personal experience myself and lost my mom to breast cancer. She fought it for some tenplus years and passed away in 1995. My dad who was old school, my dad was the kind of guy who never thought he had to have a checkup. Hed be just fine. He felt fine. He didnt need a checkup. Unfortunately he got colon cancer and doctors told me if he had any checkup in the eight or ten years preceding that hed probably with be us today. And i passed away a
Maybe you have a weapon or Something Like that. But this is a warrant to do whatever. It is a littleknown fact. That they have a reference to keep them uptodate on the technology. [inaudible] [laughter] that violent do violent videogames thatcher remember when she was expecting concerned about the breath of the ban in the statute she made a comment about the clerks back up the chain so they can get educated. And Justice Sotomayor mentioned shes a fan of technology and has more than one device and i think just having that degree of diversity on the bench and technological experience diversity for ones is important. Disney hd or whatever its called. Okay lets go to this gentleman right here. We will ask all of you if you could just introduce yourself and tell us if you have any affiliation and then ask your question. I am an adjunct professor at Georgetown University law center and i would like to ask professor kenrick can you please tell us what is the procedural history of that case .
First amendment, you need to explain that these are not mainstream people, that what they are saying is not something that a lot of americans are people picking up more americans feel. Certain ones do. The best defense is to be as open as you can about it, try to explain it, and in some ways that the message fall flat for the United States and say what effect does this have on what we do . Often the proof is it has very little effect on us. But we are constantly dealing with those guys. It is troublesome. But we have to explain this is our society and how we do it, but look at the results. Do they throw back at us the same thing of all the people who are nursing terrorism, you throw throw us all in the same basket . Yes, we hear constantly how varied muslims are, and in the field you appreciate that. Muslims are like you and me. They just want a middleclass life, get their kids educated and all that. A lot of them recognize the problem they have got. A senior official i became friends
speech. and a number of stations also ended up dropping. one other quick example, we had susan koman for the cure being forced by public outrage to reinstate their partnership with planned parenthood. and in virginia we had transvaginal probes which were being mandated by the government. and that was also pulled back despite the fact that republicans held all the leverage of power because of public outrage. so that is the true way to hold politicians and corporations accountable. and i think when we start talking about the new element here that i think what nra is not thinking about is not banking on is the transparency that social media provides. it s one thing to have a public outrage, but had this happened five years ago, you wouldn t be able to mobilize in such a turn of a dime when you actually see results. walmart is the number one manufacturer, the number one seller of firearms. so while you go pick up your milk, you pick up your ammunition. there s an opportunity for the
0 crises, people answer differently. i just showed you an example of an nra online broadcast where the woman was saying we need more guns. that view is out there. and 69% of americans have shot a gun. if you tell people what you re after their guns, they get nervous. but look. i m not talking about gun control. i m talking about semiautomatic gun control. that s a different thing. i grew up in a house with a hunting shot gun. we re not talking no one is talking about going after hunting guns right now. we are talking about the ars. joe biden put it best in that moment there. if you think you need an ar at home, you probably need help. and i m comfortable seconding that. we need to completely restart this debate. richard, how is it possible that when thomas hamilton walks into a school in scotland and murders 13 children, the british government acts. in the same year in australia there s the port arthur massacre and the uaustralian government acts. and we ve had columbine, newto