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Speaker 1: Last weekend, thirty one people were murdered dozens more injured

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Speaker 1: in two mad shootings just hours apart in El Paso,

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Speaker 1: Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The death though may still grow.

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Speaker 1: The shooters killed the young and the old, men and women.

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Speaker 1: In El Paso, the white nationalist shooters intent was to

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Speaker 1: claim as many Latino lives as possible. In both cities,

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Speaker 1: the victims had their tomorrows taken or their futures forever

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Speaker 1: altered a domestic terrorists as they were simply shopping or

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Speaker 1: enjoying an evening out everyday activities we all expect to

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Speaker 1: pursue in safety, and in both cases, the gunmen used

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Speaker 1: military style assault weapons that were purchased legally. America is

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Speaker 1: reacting as we've come to expect in the wake of

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Speaker 1: mass shootings. Thoughts and prayers are offered as they should be.

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Speaker 1: Communities come together as they should in vigils to remember

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Speaker 1: those lost and injured, and to remind ourselves that we

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Speaker 1: shouldn't keep letting this happen. Elected a shill speak about

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Speaker 1: the need for change, but the tragedies do keep happening. Well.

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Speaker 1: The one thing we know that can reduce the number

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Speaker 1: and the death tolls of mass shootings has not been

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Speaker 1: done reinstituting the ban on assault weapons and the limits

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Speaker 1: on high capacity magazines that were in effect from until

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Assault weapons are designed to infect

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Speaker 1: maximum harm in a short period of time. I studied

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Speaker 1: by Every Town for Gun's Safety found that shootings where

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Speaker 1: assault weapons were used resulted in a hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: five more people shot and forty seven percent more people

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Speaker 1: killed than gun incidents with other types of weapons. It

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Speaker 1: should come as no surprise that when we see high

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Speaker 1: death and injury totals from Sandy Hook to Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: to park Land, to help Passo to Dayton, the killers

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Speaker 1: have used these weapons. The Dayton killers shot forty one

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Speaker 1: bullets in thirty seconds before the police got him. He

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Speaker 1: killed nine people and wounded fourteen others, almost one victim second.

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Speaker 1: I worked hard to pass and was proud to sign

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Speaker 1: the ban on these weapons of war and the law,

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Speaker 1: and the results were clear. Mass shooting fatalities declined while

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Speaker 1: they were in effect and have risen sharply since they

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Speaker 1: were allowed the lapse. For too long, America has allowed

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Speaker 1: a determined wealth and nance group to pretend to grieve

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Speaker 1: with us, while spreading paranoia among those who responsibly use

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Speaker 1: guns for hunting, sports, shooting, and self protection. For too long,

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Speaker 1: the gun lobby and their elected allies as stalled, deflected,

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Speaker 1: can get back to business as usual, heedless of the

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Speaker 1: killings still yet to come. It pains me to see

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Speaker 1: people in the culture I grew up in buy into

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Speaker 1: the argument that banning weapons of war threatened the Second

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Speaker 1: Amendment and their way of life. Assault weapons man shows

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Speaker 1: deaths from mass shooting fell, while the number of hunting

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Speaker 1: licenses actually increased. No one has to give up their

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Speaker 1: culture to save lives of innocent people, so many of

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Speaker 1: them very very young. The gun lobby often invokes the

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Speaker 1: Democratic losses in the midterm elections after passing the assault

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Speaker 1: weapons ban and the Brady background Check Bill to try

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Speaker 1: to scare lawmakers of both parties into maintaining the status quo.

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Speaker 1: Those who lost their seats in that election did cast

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Speaker 1: brave votes to make our country safer and give our

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and eighteen elections, thanks to the pass and

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Speaker 1: activism of citizens groups across the country proved that it's

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Speaker 1: a different world now Today. Members of Congress will be

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Speaker 1: supported if they reinstate the assault weapons and large ammunition

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Speaker 1: magazine bands, and if the Senate passes the universal background

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Speaker 1: check law already passed by the House of Representatives. Of course,

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Speaker 1: no single action can completely in mass shoutings and the

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Speaker 1: wave of gun violence that plagues communities all across America.

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Speaker 1: We all have to stand against, not inflame, the racial, religious,

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Speaker 1: mass killers. The red Flag law is a good idea. Also,

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Speaker 1: we can and should do more to prevent, treat, and

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Speaker 1: manage mental illness. But the incidents of mental illness in

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Speaker 1: America is similar to that of other wealthy nations, yet

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Speaker 1: we have far more deadly mass shootings. What's different is

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Speaker 1: the sheer number of guns per capita and the widespread

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Speaker 1: accessibility of weapons of war. We know reinstating the assault

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Speaker 1: weapons ban and the ammunition limit and making improved background

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Speaker 1: policies that could bring about a drop in gun deaths

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