Hello everybody, I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to a very special prime time town hall.

We're calling it America Under Assault, the gun crisis.

It's been a tough week, but we should not waste this moment.

So let's take a breath and let's talk and take the time to listen.

We've put together a beautiful program for you tonight with some of the most prominent

voices and they have very different ideas about protecting our society from gun violence.

And I am surrounded by a gift tonight, the strength of survivors, the same kind of strength

I saw on the ground in El Paso.

This audience traveled from far and wide and mostly in lousy weather, so thank you for

dealing with the elements.

And they did so to represent their communities.

How do we heal when this happens to us?

No one and nowhere is immune.

El Paso, Dayton, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Las Vegas, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Chicago.

Many of the people here survived the bullets that tore through their bodies, changed their

lives, and changed their communities.

Many lost loved ones.

Some are now advocates for reform.

Some work in the firearm industry.

Others work to limit that industry's reach.

We also invited the National Rifle Association, the NRA, to be part of tonight's conversation.

They declined.

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