[CC may contain inaccuracies] For God's sake. How much more carnage are we willing to accept.
How many more innocent American lives must be taken before we say enough enough.
I know that we can't prevent every tragedy. But here's what I believe we have to do.
Here's what the overwhelming majority American people believe we must do.
Here's what the families in Buffalo and you Valdivia in Texas told us we must do.
We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can't ban assault weapons then we should raise the age to
purchase them from 18 to 21. Strengthen background checks and act safe storage law and red
flag laws. Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability.
Address the mental health crisis. Deep in the trauma.
Gun violence and as a consequence of that violence. These are rational commonsense measures.
Here's what it all means. It all means this we should reinstate the assault weapons ban on high capacity magazines that we
passed in 1990 forward. Bipartisan support in Congress and the support of law enforcement.
Nine categories of semi-automatic weapons were included in that ban like AK 47 ISE and they are 15s. And in the 10 years it was
law mass shootings went down. But after Republicans let the law expire in 2004 and those
weapons were allowed to be sold again mass shootings tripled. Those are the facts.
A few years ago the family of the inventor of the AR 15 said he would have been horrified to know that its design was being used
to slaughter children and other innocent lives. Instead of being used as a military weapon on the battlefields as it was
designed. That's who's dying for enough. Enough. We should limit how many rounds a weapon can hold. Why in God's
name should an ordinary citizen be able to purchase an assault weapon that holds 30 round magazines that let mass shooters fire
hundreds of bullets in a matter of minutes. The damage is so devastating in your valley. Parents had to do
DNA swabs to identify the remains of their children. Nine and 10 year old enough.
We should expand background checks to keep guns out of the hands of felons fugitives and those under restraining orders. Stronger
background checks are something that the vast majority of Americans including the majority of gun owners agree on.
I also believe we should have safe storage laws. Personal liability for not locking up your gun.
The shooter at Sandy Hook came from a home full of guns. There were two easy to access. That's how we got the weapons.
The weapon he used to kill his mother and then murdered 26 people including 20 first graders.
If you own a weapon you have a responsibility to secure it. Every responsible gun owner agrees.
To make sure no one else can have access to it to lock it up. To have trigger locks.
And if you don't if something bad happens you should be held responsible.
We should also have national red flag laws so that a parent a teacher counselor can flag for a court that a child a student a
patient is exhibiting violent tendencies threatening classmates or
experiencing suicidal thoughts makes them a danger to themselves or to others. 19 states the District Columbia have red flag
laws. The Delaware law is named after my son. Attorney General Beau Biden.
Fort Hood Texas. 2009 13 dead and more than 30 injured Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. 2018 17 dead.
17 injured. In both places countless others suffering with invisible wounds.
Red flag laws could have stopped both these shooters. You Valerie the shooter was 17 when he asked his sister to buy
an assault weapon knowing he'd be denied because he was too young to purchase one himself. She refused. But as soon as he
turned 18 he purchased two assault weapons for himself because in Texas. You can be 18 years old or buy an assault weapon even
though you can't buy a pistol in Texas until you're 21. We can't ban assault weapons.
As we should we must at least raise the age to be able to purchase one to twenty one.
Look I know for some folks will say 18 year olds can serve in the military.
And fire those weapons. But that's with training and supervision by the best trained experts in the world.
Don't tell me raising the age won't make a difference. Enough. We should repeal the liability shield that often protects gun
manufacturers and being sued for the death and destruction caused by their weapons.
They're the only industry in this country that has that kind of immunity.