{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://morrison.house.gov/media/press-releases/us-rep-kelly-morrison-reads-letters-minnesotans-calling-gun-control-house", "U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison Reads Letters from Minnesotans Calling for Gun Control on House Floor", "2026-06-04", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Kelly Morrison", "M001234", "morrison.house.gov", "morrison", "https://morrison.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison (MN-03) spoke on the House floor to recognize National Gun Violence Awareness Month and call out the Trump Administration for its refusal to act on gun violence.\n\nThis June marks nine months since the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota, which killed two children and injured dozens more. But as America faces hundreds of school shootings a year, the Trump Administration has enacted a historic rollback of gun regulations: reducing background checks, repealing bump stock regulations, and even proposing a new rule that would let people mail handguns, undermining protections against gun trafficking across the country.\n\nIn her speech on the House Floor, Rep. Morrison read letters written from the hundreds of Minnesotans who attended her gun violence prevention town hall last fall in the wake of the Annunciation School shooting. The letters from Minnesotans demanded action on gun violence and called for common sense reforms.\n\nWatch Representative Morrison\u2019s floor speech HERE.\n\nImage\n\nRead a transcript of Representative Morrison\u2019s remarks below:\n\nMr. Speaker, today I rise in recognition of June as National Gun Violence Awareness Month.\n\nAs one Minnesotan wrote: \u201cI\u2019m standing up for children because we\u2019re the adults, it\u2019s our responsibility to make them feel safe.\u201d\n\nI have a stack of notes here from hundreds of Minnesotans who came together after the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School demanding action\u2026\n\nCalling for common sense reforms,\n\nExpressing their grief and their anger and their frustration,\n\nBegging for their elected leaders to do something.\n\nAnything to respond to the tragedy that left an 8 year old and a 10 year old dead\u2026 hundreds more forever traumatized\u2026 and a community reeling.\n\nWhat are we doing if we are not listening to the American people?\n\nNot protecting our children?\n\nWe need to listen to the American people.\n\nWe need to act to keep our children safe.\n\nWe need to ban assault weapons, bump stocks, and high capacity magazine sales\u2026\n\nGet weapons of war off our streets\u2026\n\nInvest in addressing our nation\u2019s mental health crisis\u2026\n\nThe list goes on.\n\nThere won\u2019t be one policy alone that will end this public health crisis, but what we can\u2019t do is nothing.\n\nThere are so many steps we could take immediately.\n\nGun violence is an epidemic that has stained our country \u2013 and we are going in the wrong direction.\n\nAs our country faces hundreds of mass shootings every year \u2013 more mass shootings than any country on the face of the planet \u2013 the Trump Administration is taking an ax to our nation\u2019s gun safety laws and doing the dirty work of the big gun lobby.\n\nRolling back dozens of federal safety regulations\u2026\n\nMaking it easier for criminals to buy and ship guns\u2026\n\nCutting funding and abandoning critical gun violence prevention programs that keep our communities safe\u2026\n\nThey are doubling down on the number one killer of children in the United States of America.\n\nGun violence is preventable.\n\nOur children deserve to be our priority.\n\nThey deserve to feel safe.\n\nAnd they deserve adults who will act.\n\nEvery day we are here in Congress, we are creating the world our children will inherit.\n\nWe should be creating a world where children feel safe at school.\n\nWhere they can be healthy and thrive.\n\nNot where they live in fear and see adults refusing to protect them.\n\nMr. Speaker, I want to share some examples of what Minnesotans wrote:\n\n\u201cMy students should not have to worry about being killed at school.\u201d\n\n\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to worry about if my kids are safe at their school and daycare.\u201d\n\n\u201cMy grandchildren go to school every day and I worry they will be victims. I also am devastated they will live their school lives in fear.\u201d\n\nThis is tragic.\n\nThis is heartbreaking.\n\nAnd this is preventable.\n\nIt doesn\u2019t need to be this way.\n\nWe don\u2019t have to live like this.\n\nWe could choose to take steps to make our children and our communities safer.\n\nWe could create a world with far less gun violence, where people don\u2019t live in fear of it.\n\nIf only Congress had the courage to act.\n\nThank you, Mr. Speaker. 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