Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

One of the things we do at the Brady Center is we're trying to reform the gun industry through litigation. We have a small law firm in our office of eight or ten lawyers who are suing gun companies, trying to get them to change the product they make and change the way they do business.

Campaign finance reform is long overdue. The passage of Shays-Meehan is a victory for democracy. Perhaps now, the gun lobby's stranglehold on Congress will be broken.

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.