NPR: Giffords: ‘We Must Do Something!’ About Gun Violence

January 30, 2013

National Public Radio reports :

”Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something!” former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in a brief, emotional appearance at the start of the panel’s first hearing about what the nation should do about gun violence. Her short statement kicked off a day of testimony from witnesses on all sides of the debate over the nation’s gun laws and whether they need to be tightened in the wake of last year’s mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut. The points in dispute were familiar: Proponents of tighter background checks for gun buyers and bans on some weapons and high-capacity cartridges said their proposals would reduce shootings. Opponents of such measures said such actions would do little good and infringe the Second Amendment rights of gun enthusiasts.