Five Years of Mfol and Persistence of Gun Violence Prevention

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Mr. SCHNEIDER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to declare that our calls for gun violence prevention will not stop until we see real action to keep our kids and communities safe from senseless shootings plaguing our Nation.

Madam Speaker, ten years ago, after Sandy Hook, grieving parents came to this place and called for urgent action.

Five years ago this Friday, student survivors of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School led millions of fellow students in the first March for Our Lives calling for urgent action.

Yet still here we are, after Pulse, after Las Vegas, Buffalo, Uvalde, Highland Park, Monterey Park, and literally countless other shootings and so many beautiful lives cut short.

This morning, my sister texted me, ``two teachers shot'' at the Denver school my niece and nephews attend. It was their second shooting this year, in addition to four other lockdowns.

Enough is enough. Together with March for Our Lives, Moms Demand Action, Everytown, Sandy Hook Promise, Giffords, and every other concerned American, we will not stop our calls for action until our families feel safe in our schools, in our pews, at our stores, at our Fourth of July parades.

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