The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday to support a new package of gun controls. The legislation would raise the age at which people can purchase a semiautomatic firearm from 18 to 21. It would also regulate the storage of guns on residential properties, while cracking down on illegal sales of guns and high-capacity magazines. The legislation likely faces a Republican filibuster in the Senate. This is Congressmember Lucy McBath of Georgia, whose 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was murdered by a gunman in 2012.

Rep. Lucy McBath: “Do we as a nation have the god-given right to live free from this scourge of gun violence, of senseless suffering, of death and despair? Because we cannot keep doing this. An entire generation of children are learning that the adults they look up to cannot or will not protect them. We all agree that the status quo is unacceptable. We all understand that the murder of our children cannot continue. And we have solutions that a majority of American people believe in.”