Dear San Franciscan,

The families of the victims of gun violence deserve more than just our thoughts and prayers – they deserve real, urgent and long-overdue action to end this crisis. But just days after the worst mass shooting in modern American history, the House Republican Leadership in my view has refused to even begin a bipartisan, common sense process to address the gun violence epidemic. 

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi responds to questions from the audience on gun violence, including from Bob Patterson who lost his wife in the Las Vegas mass shooting. During her CNN Town Hall, she promises “We’re never going to rest until we get this done.” 

All of America grieves for the innocent men and women whose lives were cruelly cut short by the mass shooting in Las Vegas. It is particularly despicable that this attack was carried out during a concert, transforming an evening of music and celebration into a heartbreaking and horrific night of violence. Now more than ever, the Congress has a greater responsibility than just thoughts and prayers - we must finally take commonsense action to prevent gun violence.

Democrats are calling on the House Republican Leadership to: 

• Permanently abandon the radical and dangerous SHARE Act, which would open the floodgates to silencers and armor-piercing bullets.
• Pass the bipartisan King-Thompson legislation to strengthen the life-saving background checks that keep guns out of the wrong hands. 
• Establish a bipartisan Select Committee on Gun Violence to study and report back commonsense legislation within 60 days.
• Ban the “bump stocks” that cheat the law and enabled the Las Vegas shooter to spray murderous automatic fire at innocents at a rate of 400 to 800 rounds a minute, with the Cicilline-Thompson bill, which has nearly 150 cosponsors so far (the companion to Sen. Feinstein’s legislation in the Senate).

Members of Congress take a solemn oath to protect the American people.  Democrats will never stop fighting to protect American families, and we urge our colleagues to join us to take long overdue action to reduce the horror and heartbreak of gun violence.