Well, it is wonderful to be back in Colorado. It is wonderful to be back in Denver. I want to thank Chief White for that introduction. You’ve got some outstanding elected officials who are here today, and I want to acknowledge them. First of all, a wonderful governor -- John Hickenlooper is here. He’s here somewhere. I know, because I just talked to him. There he is. 好吧，能再次回到科罗拉多州真好。能再次回到丹佛市真好。我要感谢怀特局长的介绍。今天在场的有一些非常优秀的民选官员，我想介绍他们。首先，我们优秀的州长约翰·希肯卢普就在这里。他就在附近。我知道，因为我刚刚还和他说过话。他在那儿。
Next to him an outstanding lieutenant governor, Joe Garcia. One of the finest young senators in the country -- Michael Bennet is here. Terrific members of the House of Representatives -- Ed Perlmutter -- and Dianna Degette. And your own mayor, Michael Hancock, is here. 他旁边是出色的副州长乔·加西亚。全国最优秀的年轻参议员之一迈克尔·贝内特也在这里。还有优秀的众议员爱德华·珀尔穆特和戴安娜·德盖特。你们自己的市长迈克尔·汉科克也在这里。
I want to say thank you to the Denver Police for having me here, and more importantly, for the outstanding work that all of you do each and every day to serve your communities and protect your citizens. 我要感谢丹佛警察局邀请我来到这里；更重要的是，感谢大家日复一日地为社区服务、保护市民，并做出杰出的工作。
Before I came out here, I had a chance to sit down with some local law enforcement, Attorney General Holder, and some of the leaders I just mentioned, the wonderful mayor of Aurora who’s here, sportsmen, parents, loved ones of the victims of the shootings in Columbine and Aurora. And we talked about what we can do to protect more of our citizens from gun violence. 在出来之前，我有机会与一些当地执法人员、霍尔德司法部长、我刚才提到的几位领导人、来到这里的优秀的奥若拉市市长、户外运动爱好者、家长以及哥伦拜高中和奥若拉枪击案受害者的亲友坐在一起。我们讨论了如何保护更多市民免遭枪支暴力伤害。
And from the beginning of this effort, we’ve wanted law enforcement front and center in shaping this discussion and the reforms that emerge from it -- because law enforcement lives this every day. Law enforcement are the first to see the terrible consequences of any kind of violence, certainly gun violence -- lives lost, families broken, communities that are changed forever. They’re very often in the line of fire. The law enforcement knows what works and what doesn’t, and so we wanted that experience and that advice. 从这项工作开始时起，我们就希望执法部门在塑造这场讨论和随后出台的改革方案时处于核心位置，因为执法人员每天都亲身面对这些问题。无论何种暴力，尤其是枪支暴力，执法人员总是最先目睹它带来的惨痛后果：生命逝去、家庭破碎、社区永远改变。他们常常还身处火力线上。执法部门知道什么管用、什么不管用，因此我们需要这些经验和建议。
And it was also important for us to hear from mayors like Steve Hogan, because he’s been on the front lines having to deal with these issues under incredibly sad circumstances. And I’ve come to Denver today in particular because Colorado is proving a model of what’s possible. 同时，我们听取斯蒂夫·霍根这样的市长的意见也很重要，因为在极其悲痛的情况下，他一直站在处理这些问题的第一线。我今天特意来到丹佛，是因为科罗拉多州正在证明什么是可以做到的。
It’s now been just over 100 days since the murder of 20 innocent children and six brave educators in Newtown, Connecticut -- an event that shocked this country and I think galvanized parents all across the country to say, we’ve got to do something more to protect our kids. But consider this: Over those 100 days or so, more than 100 times as many Americans have fallen victim to gun violence. More than 2,000 of our fellow citizens, struck down, often because they were just going about their daily round. 康涅狄格州纽敦市20名无辜儿童和6名勇敢教育工作者遇害，距今刚过100多天。那场事件震惊全国，我想它也促使全国父母一致表示：我们必须为保护孩子做得更多。但请想一想：在这约100天里，沦为枪支暴力受害者的美国人是纽敦遇害者的100多倍。超过2000名同胞倒下，而他们当时往往只是在过普通的日常生活。
They weren’t doing anything special. Just doing what folks do every day -- shopping, going to school. Every day that we wait to do something about it, even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. 他们没有做任何特别的事，只是在做人们每天都会做的事，比如购物、上学。我们每多等一天而不采取行动，就会有更多同胞被枪弹夺去生命、永远离开我们。
Now, the good news is Colorado has already chosen to do something about it. Look, this is a state that has suffered the tragedy of two of the worst mass shootings in our history -- 14 years ago this month in Columbine , and just last year in Aurora . But this is also a state that treasures its Second Amendment rights -- the state of proud hunters and sportsmen. 好消息是，科罗拉多州已经选择采取行动。请看，这个州曾经历我们历史上最严重的两起大规模枪击悲剧：14年前的这个月发生在哥伦拜，去年则发生在奥若拉。但这也是一个珍视宪法第二修正案权利的州，是以猎手和户外运动爱好者为荣的州。
And, by the way, the Governor wanted me to remind everybody that there is outstanding elk hunting here in Colorado. There’s a strong tradition of gun ownership that’s handed down from generation to generation, and it’s part of the fabric of people’s lives. And they treat gun ownership with reverence and respect. 顺便一提，州长要我提醒大家，科罗拉多州的猎麋活动非常出色。这里拥有世代相传的浓厚持枪传统，它是人们生活的一部分。人们以敬畏和尊重的态度对待枪支所有权。
And so I’m here because I believe there doesn't have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities. There doesn’t have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights. I’ve got stacks of letters in my office from proud gun owners, whether they’re for sport, or protection, or collection, who tell me how deeply they cherish their rights, don’t want them infringed upon, but they still want us to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence. And I appreciate every one of those letters. And I’ve learned from them. 因此我来到这里，是因为我相信，调和这些现实并不一定会产生冲突。保护我们的市民与保护宪法第二修正案赋予的权利，并不一定相冲突。我办公室里堆着一摞摞来自自豪持枪者的信。无论是为了运动、自卫还是收藏，他们都告诉我，自己无比珍视这些权利，不希望它们受到侵犯，但同时仍希望我们采取行动，阻止枪支暴力这一流行病。我感谢每一封这样的来信，也从中学到了很多。
And I think that Colorado has shown that practical progress is possible thanks to the leadership of Governor Hickenlooper and some of the state legislators who are here today. When I was talking to Steve, he mentioned that Aurora is very much a purple city. 我认为，在希肯卢普州长和今天在场的一些州议员的领导下，科罗拉多州已经证明务实的进展是可以实现的。我与斯蒂夫交谈时，他提到奥若拉是一座非常典型的“紫色城市”，两党力量势均力敌。
It’s got a majority Republican city council; a majority of the state legislators are Democrat. But they came together understanding that out of this tragedy there had to be something that made sense. And so we’ve seen enacted tougher background checks that won’t infringe on the rights of responsible gun owners, but will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. 该市议会中共和党人占多数，而该地区的州议员中民主党人占多数。但他们团结起来，明白在这场悲剧之后必须采取合理的行动。因此，我们看到更严格的背景审查制度已经通过；它不会侵犯负责任的持枪者的权利，却将有助于阻止危险人物获得枪支。
Now, in January, just a few weeks after Newtown, I put forward a series of common-sense proposals along the same lines as what’s passed here in Colorado, to reduce gun violence and keep our kids safe. In my State of the Union address, I urged Congress to give these proposals a vote. And, by the way, before we even asked for a vote, I had already signed numerous executive orders doing what we could administratively to make sure that guns don't fall into the hands of the wrong people. 今年1月，也就是纽敦悲剧发生几周后，我提出了一系列常识性方案，思路与科罗拉多州已经通过的措施相同，目的是减少枪支暴力并保护孩子。在国情咨文中，我敦促国会就这些方案进行表决。顺便说一句，在我们甚至还没有要求表决之前，我就已经签署了多项行政命令，在行政权限内尽我们所能，确保枪支不落入不该拥有它们的人手中。
But what I said then is still true: If we're really going to tackle this problem seriously, then we've got to get Congress to take the next step. And as soon as next week, they will be voting. As soon as next week, every senator will get to vote on whether or not we should require background checks for anyone who wants to purchase a gun. 但我当时说的话依然正确：如果我们真想严肃应对这个问题，就必须让国会迈出下一步。最快下周，国会就将进行表决。最快下周，每位参议员都将就我们是否应当要求任何想购买枪支的人接受背景审查进行表决。
Now, some say, well, we already have background checks. And they're right. Over the past 20 years, those background checks have kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun. But the loopholes that currently exist in the law have allowed way too many criminals and folks who shouldn’t be getting guns -- it has allowed them to avoid background checks entirely. That makes it harder for law enforcement to do its job. It's not safe. It's not smart. And, by the way, it's not fair to responsible gun owners who are playing by the rules. 现在，有人说，我们已经有背景审查了。他们说得对。过去20年里，背景审查已阻止超过200万名危险人物购买枪支。但现行法律的漏洞让过多罪犯和不应获得枪支的人得以完全避开背景审查。这使执法工作更加困难。这不安全，也不明智。而且，这对守规则的负责任持枪者也不公平。
Now, understand, nobody is talking about creating an entirely new system. We are simply talking about plugging holes, sealing a porous system that isn't working as well as it should. If you want to buy a gun, whether it's from a licensed dealer or a private seller, you should at least have to pass a background check to show you're not a criminal or someone legally prohibited from buying on. And that’s just common sense. 请大家明白，没有人在讨论建立一套全新制度。我们只是在讨论堵住漏洞，封上这套千疮百孔、运作未达应有水平的制度。如果你想买枪，无论是向持牌经销商还是私人卖家购买，至少都应该通过背景审查，证明自己不是罪犯，也不是依法禁止购买枪支的人。这只是常识。
During our roundtable discussion with Governor Hickenlooper, who I know was in the midst of this passionate debate about the legislation here in Colorado, and some people said, well, background checks aren't going to stop everybody. And the Governor was the first one to acknowledge, yes, they won't stop everybody, but as he pointed out, statistically, there are a whole bunch of folks who have been stopped. 在我们与希肯卢普州长的圆桌讨论中，有人说，背景审查无法阻止所有人。我知道，州长当时正处在科罗拉多州这场激烈的立法辩论之中。州长第一个承认：是的，它无法阻止所有人；但正如他所指出的，从统计数据看，确实已有相当多的人被阻止了。
As a consequence of background checks, law enforcement has been able to stop people who have been convicted of murder from getting a gun, people who are under restraining orders for having committed violent domestic abuse from getting a gun. In a couple of cases the governor mentioned to me, law enforcement has actually been able to arrest people who came to pick up their gun -- because they were criminals, wanted. 由于实施了背景审查，执法部门得以阻止曾被判谋杀罪的人和因家庭暴力而受到限制令约束的人获得枪支。在州长向我提到的几起案例中，执法人员甚至得以在对方来领取枪支时将其逮捕，因为他们是被通缉的罪犯。
So this does work. And, by the way, if you’re selling a gun, wouldn’t you want to know who you’re selling it to? Wouldn’t you want to know? Wouldn’t you want in your conscience to know that the person you’re selling to isn’t going to commit a crime? 所以，这项制度确实有效。而且，如果你要卖枪，难道不想知道枪卖给了谁吗？难道你不想知道吗？难道你不想求个问心无愧，确认买枪的人不会去犯罪吗？
So these enhanced background checks won’t stop all gun crimes, but they will certainly help prevent some. This is common sense. And, by the way, most gun owners -- more than 80 percent -- agree this makes sense. More than 70 percent of NRA members agree. Ninety percent of the American people agree. So there’s no reason we can’t do this unless politics is getting in the way. There’s no reason we can’t do this. 这些更严格的背景审查无法阻止所有枪支罪案，但肯定能够预防其中一部分。这是常识。而且，大多数持枪者，超过80%，都认为这样做合理。超过70%的全国步枪协会会员表示赞同，90%的美国民众也表示赞同。所以，除非是政治在作梗，否则我们没有理由不这么做。我们没有理由不这么做。
As soon as next week, every senator will get a chance to vote on a proposal to help strengthen school safety and help people struggling with mental health problems get the treatment that they need. 最快下周，每位参议员都有机会就一项提案进行表决，以加强校园安全，并帮助正在与心理健康问题斗争的人得到所需的治疗。
As soon as next week, every senator will get to vote on whether or not we should crack down on folks who buy guns as part of a scheme to arm criminals. That would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of people who are intent on doing harm. And it would make life a whole lot easier and safer for the people behind me -- police officers. 最快下周，每位参议员都将就我们是否应打击那些参与武装罪犯计划、替他们购枪的人进行表决。这将减少流入街头和蓄意伤人者手中的枪支，也会让我身后的警察工作得轻松得多、安全得多。
Every senator will get a say on whether or not we should keep weapons of war and high-capacity ammunition magazines that facilitate mass killings off our streets. The type of assault rifle used in Aurora, for example, when paired with a high-capacity magazine, has one purpose: to pump out as many bullets as possible, as fast as possible. It’s what allowed that gunman to shoot 70 people and kill 12 in a matter of a few minutes. I don’t believe that weapons designed for theaters of war have a place in movie theaters. Most Americans agree with that. 每位参议员都将就我们是否应让战争武器和会助长大规模杀戮的大容量弹匣远离街道发表意见。例如，奥若拉枪击案使用的那种突击步枪一旦配上大容量弹匣，就只有一个用途：尽可能快地发射尽可能多的子弹。正因如此，那名枪手才能在短短几分钟内射击70人，导致12人死亡。我不认为为战场设计的武器应该出现在电影院里。大多数美国人都赞同这一点。
Most of these ideas are not controversial. Right now, 90 percent of Americans -- 90 percent -- support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun. More than 80 percent of Republicans agree. Most gun owners agree. Think about it: How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything? 这些主张大多并无争议。目前，90%的美国人，是90%，支持实施背景审查，阻止罪犯以及已被认定对自己或他人构成危险的人购买枪支。超过80%的共和党人赞同，大多数持枪者也赞同。想想看：美国人有多少次能在任何事情上达到90%的一致？
And yet, there are already some senators back in Washington floating the idea that they might use obscure procedural stunts to prevent or delay any of these votes on reform. Think about that. They’re not just saying they’ll vote “no” on the proposal that most Americans support. They’re saying they’ll do everything they can to avoid even allowing a vote on a proposal that the overwhelming majority of the American people support. They’re saying your opinion doesn’t matter. 然而，华盛顿已有一些参议员在放风，声称他们可能会利用鲜为人知的程序把戏，阻止或拖延对这些改革提案的任何表决。请想想这件事。他们不只是说，要对大多数美国人支持的提案投反对票。他们是说，要尽其所能，连让这项获得绝大多数美国人支持的提案付诸表决都要避免。他们是在说，你们的意见并不重要。
We knew from the beginning that change wouldn’t be easy. And we knew that there would be powerful voices that would do everything they could to run out the clock, change the subject, ignore the majority of the American people. We knew they’d try to make any progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration, or maybe people would just stop paying attention. 我们从一开始就知道，改变不会轻而易举。我们也知道，会有强大的势力竭尽所能地拖延时间、转移话题、无视大多数美国人的意见。我们知道，他们会试图让任何进展在恐惧和挫败感的重压下瓦解，或者干脆指望人们不再关注。
The only way this time will be different is if the American people demand that this time it must be different -- that this time, we must do something to protect our communities and our kids. We need parents, we need teachers, we need police officers, we need pastors, we need hunters and sportsmen, Americans of every background to say, we’ve suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue. 这一次要有所不同，唯一的办法是美国人民要求这一次必须不同，要求我们这一次必须采取行动，保护社区和孩子。我们需要家长、教师、警察、牧师、猎手和户外运动爱好者，需要各种背景的美国人都说：我们遭受的痛苦已经太多，我们太在乎自己的孩子，不能再容许这种情况继续下去。
We’re not going to just wait for the next Newtown or the next Aurora before we act. And I genuinely believe that’s what the overwhelming majority of Americans -- I don’t care what party they belong to -- that’s what they want. They just want to see some progress. 我们不会干等着下一个纽敦或下一个奥若拉出现后才采取行动。我真心相信，这正是绝大多数美国人想要的，我不在乎他们属于哪个政党。他们只是想看到一些进展。
It was interesting, during the conversation, a number of people talked about the trust issue. Part of the reason it's so hard to get this done is because both sides of the debate sometimes don't listen to each other. The people who take absolute positions on these issues, on both sides, sometimes aren't willing to concede even an inch of ground. 在交谈中，一个很有意思的现象是，不少人都谈到了信任问题。这件事如此难以办成，部分原因在于辩论双方有时并不倾听对方。双方那些在问题上持绝对立场的人，有时连一寸都不愿退让。
And so one of the questions we talked about was, how do you build trust? How do you rebuild some trust? And I told the story about two conversations I had. The first conversation was when Michelle came back from doing some campaigning out in rural Iowa. And we were sitting at dinner, and she had been to like a big county, a lot of driving out there, a lot of farmland. And she said, if I was living out in a farm in Iowa, I'd probably want a gun, too. 因此，我们讨论的一个问题就是：如何建立信任？如何重建一些信任？我讲了自己经历的两次对话。第一次是米歇尔从爱荷华州农村地区竞选回来后。我们坐在一起吃晚饭，她去的似乎是一个很大的县，在那里开了很久的车，沿途到处是农田。她说，如果我住在爱荷华州的农场里，大概也会想要一支枪。
If somebody just drives up into your driveway and you're not home -- you don't know who these people are and you don't know how long it's going to take for the sheriffs to respond. I can see why you'd want some guns for protection. That's one conversation. 如果有人直接把车开上你家的车道，而你又不在家，你不知道他们是谁，也不知道治安官要多久才能赶到。我能理解你为什么会想要几支枪自卫。这是一次对话。
I had another conversation just a couple of months ago with a mom from Chicago -- actually, Evanston, Illinois -- whose son had been killed in a random shooting. And she said, you know, I hate it when people tell me that my son was shot because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in the right place. He was on his way to school. He wasn't in the wrong place. He was exactly where he was supposed to be. 就在几个月前，我还与一位来自芝加哥，准确地说是伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿的母亲交谈过，她的儿子在一起随机枪击中遇害。她说，你知道，别人告诉我，我儿子中枪是因为他在错误的时间出现在错误的地方，我讨厌这种说法。他当时在正确的地方。他正在去学校的路上。他并没有走错地方。他就在自己应该出现的地方。
Now, both those things are true. And sometimes we're so divided between rural and urban, and folks whose hunting is part of their lives and folks whose only experience with guns is street crime. And the two sides just talk past one another. And more than anything, what I want to just emphasize is there are good people on both sides of this thing, but we have to be able to put ourselves in the other person's shoes. If you're a hunter, if you're a sportsman -- if you have a gun in your house for protection -- you've got to understand what it feels like for that mom whose son was randomly shot. 这两种情况都是真实的。有时，城乡之间的分歧太深；一边的人把狩猎视为生活的一部分，另一边的人对枪支的唯一经验却来自街头犯罪。双方只是各说各话。我最想强调的是，这件事情的双方都有好人，但我们必须能够换位思考。如果你是猎手、户外运动爱好者，或家里放着枪支用于自卫，你就必须理解那位儿子无端中枪的母亲是什么感受。
And if you live in an urban area and you're worried about street crime, you've got to understand what it might be like if you grew out on a ranch and your dad had been taking you hunting all your life. And we had a couple of sportsmen in our conversation today, and I thought one of them said something very important. He said, all my experiences with guns have been positive, but I realize that for others, all their experiences about guns have been negative. 如果你住在城市地区，并为街头犯罪担忧，就必须理解在牧场长大、父亲从小就带你打猎是怎样的体验。今天的交谈中有几位户外运动爱好者，我认为其中一位说了一句非常重要的话。他说，我与枪支有关的经历全都是正面的，但我意识到，对另一些人而言，他们与枪支有关的经历全都是负面的。
Well, that's a start, right? If we start listening to each other, then we should be able to get something done that's constructive. We should be able to get that done. 这就是一个开端，对吧？如果我们开始倾听彼此，就应该能够做成一些建设性的事情。我们应该能做到。
One last thing I’m going to mention is that during this conversation -- I hope you don't mind me quoting you, Joe. Joe Garcia, I thought, also made an important point, and that is that the opponents of some of these common-sense laws have ginned up fears among responsible gun owners that have nothing to do with what’s being proposed and nothing to do with the facts, but feeds into this suspicion about government. 我最后还想提一件事。在这次交谈中，我希望乔不会介意我引用他的话。我认为乔·加西亚也提出了一个重要观点：一些常识性法律的反对者在负责任的持枪者中煽动恐惧，而这些恐惧与正在审议的提案毫无关系，与事实也毫无关系，只会助长人们对政府的怀疑。
You hear some of these quotes: “I need a gun to protect myself from the government.” “We can't do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away.” 你会听到这样的话：“我需要一支枪来保护自己免受政府侵害。”“我们不能实施背景审查，因为政府要来把我的枪收走。”
Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It’s a government of and by and for the people. 但政府就是我们。这些官员是由你们选出的。他们由你们选出。我也由你们选出。我受到建国者创建的制度约束，他们也一样。这是民有、民治、民享的政府。
And so, surely, we can have a debate that's not based on the notion somehow that your elected representatives are trying to do something to you other than potentially prevent another group of families from grieving the way the families of Aurora or Newtown or Columbine have grieved. We’ve got to get past some of the rhetoric that gets perpetuated that breaks down trust and is so over the top that it just shuts down all discussion. 所以，我们当然可以展开辩论，而不是基于这样一种观念：你们选出的代表正试图对你们做什么，而他们其实只是可能在阻止更多家庭像奥若拉、纽敦或哥伦拜的家庭那样悲痛。我们必须抛开那些不断流传、破坏信任、过分到让所有讨论都无法进行的言论。
And it’s important for all of us when we hear that kind of talk to say, hold on a second. If there are any folks who are out there right now who are gun owners, and you’ve been hearing that somehow somebody is taking away your guns, get the facts. We’re not proposing a gun registration system, we’re proposing background checks for criminals. 当我们听到这样的话时，大家都应该说：等一下。如果现在外面有持枪者一直听人说有人要拿走你们的枪，那就去了解事实。我们提议的不是枪支登记制度，而是对罪犯进行背景审查。
Don't just listen to what some advocates or folks who have an interest in this thing are saying. Look at the actual legislation. That's what happened here in Colorado. And hopefully, if we know the facts and we’re listening to each other, then we can actually move forward. 不要只听某些倡议者或在此事中有利益关系的人怎么说。去看看实际的法案。科罗拉多州就是这样做的。我希望，如果我们了解事实、倾听彼此，就真正能够向前迈进。
And that’s what members of Congress need to hear from you. Right now, members of Congress are at home in their districts. Many of them are holding events where they can hear from their constituents. So I'm asking anyone out there who is listening today, find out where your member of Congress stands on these issues. If they're not part of the 90 percent of Americans who agree on background checks, then ask them why not. 这正是国会议员需要从你们口中听到的话。现在，国会议员都回到了自己的选区。其中许多人正在举办活动，以听取选民意见。所以，我要请今天正在收听的所有人，弄清楚你选出的国会议员在这些问题上持何立场。如果他们不在赞同背景审查的90%美国人之中，就问问他们为什么。
Why wouldn’t you want to make it more difficult for a dangerous criminal to get his or her hands on a gun? Why wouldn’t you want to close the loophole that allows too many criminals to buy a gun without even the simplest of background checks? Why on Earth wouldn’t you want to make it easier rather than harder for law enforcement to do their job? 你为什么不想让危险罪犯更难获得枪支？你为什么不想堵住那个让过多罪犯连最简单的背景审查都无需接受就能买枪的漏洞？你究竟为什么不想让执法人员的工作更容易，而非更困难？
I know that some of the officers here today know what it's like to look into the eyes of a parent or a grandparent, a brother or a sister, or a spouse who has just lost a loved one to an act of violence. Some of those families, by the way, are here today. And as police officers, you know as well as anybody, there is no magic solution to prevent every bad thing from happening in the world. 我知道，今天在场的一些警官知道，看着一位刚刚因暴力行为失去亲人的父母或祖父母、兄弟或姐妹、丈夫或妻子的眼睛，是怎样的感受。顺便一提，这些家庭中有一些今天就在这里。作为警察，你们比任何人都清楚，世上没有什么灵丹妙药能阻止每一件坏事发生。
You still suit up, you put on your badge, put yourself at risk every single day. Every single day, you go to work and you try to do the best you can to protect the people you're sworn to protect and serve. Well, how can the rest of us as citizens do anything less? 你们仍然每天穿上制服、戴上警徽，让自己身处险境。你们每天去上班，尽最大努力保护自己宣誓要保护和服务的人民。那么，我们其他公民又怎能少做一分呢？
If there is just one step we can take to prevent more Americans from knowing the pain that some of the families who are here have known, don’t we have an obligation to try? Don’t we have an obligation to try? If these reforms keep one person from murdering dozens of innocent children or worshippers or moviegoers in a span of minutes, isn't it worth fighting for? I believe it is. That’s why I'm going to keep on working. I'm going to keep on giving it my best efforts. But I'm going to need your help. 如果我们只要采取一项措施，就能防止更多美国人体会今天在场的一些家庭所经历的痛苦，难道我们没有义务去尝试吗？难道我们没有义务去尝试吗？如果这些改革能阻止一个人在几分钟内谋杀数十名无辜的儿童、礼拜者或观影者，它难道不值得我们为之奋斗吗？我相信它值得。这就是我将继续努力的原因。我将继续尽己所能。但我需要你们的帮助。
This is not easy. And I'll be blunt -- a lot of members of Congress, this is tough for them. Because those who are opposed to any form of legislation affecting guns, they're very well-organized and they're very well-financed. But it can be done if enough voices are heard. 这件事并不容易。坦率地说，对很多国会议员而言，这很艰难。因为那些反对任何形式枪支法律的人组织严密，资金充足。但只要有足够多的声音被听见，这件事就能办成。
So I want to thank all the police officers who are here for giving their best efforts every single day. I want to thank Governor Hickenlooper for his outstanding leadership. I want to thank all the families who are here for your courage in being willing to take out of this tragedy something positive. I want to thank the people of Colorado for coming together in sensible ways. Let's see if we can get the whole country to do so. 因此，我要感谢今天在场的所有警察，感谢你们每天都竭尽全力。我要感谢希肯卢普州长的杰出领导。我要感谢今天在场的所有家庭，感谢你们有勇气愿意从这场悲剧中创造出一些积极的事物。我要感谢科罗拉多州人民以理性的方式团结起来。让我们看看，能否让整个国家也这样做。
Thank you, Denver. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. 谢谢你，丹佛。愿上帝保佑你们。愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
