 Thank you, Director Ray, for joining us and for your remarks in honor of this annual event. I'm John Chorchieri. I'm an Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement here at the Ford School, where I also direct our International Policy Center and Wiser Diplomacy Center. In preparation for today's event, we invited our whole community, students, staff, and faculty to engage over the past few weeks and to submit questions that they'd want to hear addressed on the issues that matter the most to them. We received dozens of thoughtful questions from many of you who are here in the audience today on a wide variety of topics, and we've crafted today's conversation around the key themes that were raised. I'll ask questions with three of my colleagues here in the front row who are experts in counterterrorism, cybersecurity and national security, immigration policy, science and technology policy, and more. But I'd like to start with a question that I know is on the minds of many members of our community, and that you referenced as we mourn the losses of still more innocent lives in mass shootings recently in Colorado, Virginia, and elsewhere. As a federal law enforcement agency, what are the most important ways in which the FBI is working to address gun violence in the United States? Well, certainly, you know, the shooting in Colorado Springs and in Chesapeake, Virginia, are heartbreaking, and I think even more than the toll of the, in some ways, the people who tragically were murdered in those situations, it's a direct assault on the feeling of safety that people in communities have, which is fundamentally what law enforcement is designed to try to help address. Obviously the, I say obviously, I assume most people know that the first line of defense for violent crime and active shooter situations is our state and local law enforcement partners who are fantastic, and they're the first line of defense, but the FBI plays a number of very important and kind of unique roles. You know, one, we have, we investigate any number of different types of violent crime. We have something like 300 task forces all over the country that are FBI led, but that have task force officers from state and local departments, and those task forces are arresting literally thousands of violent criminals, seizing thousands of guns from those violent criminals, dismantling hundreds of gangs and criminal enterprises, so there's that piece of it. We also have something called NICS, which is the place that does the, you've all heard about the background checks when somebody's buying a gun, the FBI owns the service that runs the background checks, and they process, you know, I think it's something like 40 million firearms purchases a year. The goal of those background checks being to identify those people who are prohibited by law from buying a gun, and there's probably, I think it's like 150,000 denials a year, so again, these are people who are typically who have felony records or something else like that who are legally barred from buying a gun, but tried to do it anyways, and that NICS, that service helps prevent that from happening, so we do that. We study the trends about active shooter situations and put out information about that. We recently put out our active shooter incident report for 2021, and the numbers are pretty, because along with your question are pretty stark. The number of active shooter incidents last year was higher than it's been, I think, in over 20 years. We do training, we do training both of state and local law enforcement on active shooter situations, but we also do outreach and training to things like schools, you know, houses of worship, community organizations, and things like that to help them protect themselves in an instance of an active shooter situation. And then, you know, having forbid there is a situation, then we deploy to help with all sorts of things, which, you know, forensics, all sorts of lab services, evidence recovery, we have, if the situation calls for it, you know, our SWAT teams or our hostage rescue team might get involved. We have crisis negotiators, if it's a hostage situation, for example, and we have those victim services professionals that I was talking about before, and every one of these incidents that we're talking about, those folks are deploying to help, you know, whether it was Buffalo with the little grocery store up there where we had that awful shooting, all the way back to early in my tenure as API director in Las Vegas shooting was pretty early in my tenure, and that was, boy, that was a pretty eye-opening crime scene to be there for that. But again, all those folks are deploying to do the shooting reconstruction to help our law enforcement partners in that situation. Thank you for that, and I'll turn to a few of my colleagues to ask them questions.