Julian Castro

Good for him. Leadership begins by creating the willingness, the spirit to make change.

Because politicians like Ted Cruz are bought and paid for by the NRA. Because Ted Cruz and his colleagues, his Republican colleagues don`t have the moral courage to do the right thing.

Almost 90% of Americans support universal background checks, and yet you have Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate. And let`s be honest, a couple of Democrats also who have refused essentially to expand background checks to make…

Unfortunately, this is the result, I think of a state that has made it very, very easy over the last two decades, especially to get a hold of guns. Just recently, Greg Abbott and Texas leadership, the legislature passed constitutional…

They're going to do everything that they can to deflect, to distract, to turn people's attention away from the real problem, which is easy access to guns.

This is who we are now. We thought that this would be over after Newtown and what happened at Sandy Hook and that, finally, Republicans in Washington, D.C., would take the steps necessary to start making this less and less likely.

Texans have a very clear choice in November between a governor who’s made the situation worse and has helped enable the kind of thing that happened today and a candidate in Beto O’Rourke who actually wants to take some of these commonsense…

More guns is not the answer. We need to enact common sense gun safety.

They’re going to do everything that they can to deflect, to distract, to turn people’s attention away from the real problem, which is easy access to guns.

What you have in Senator Murphy is someone who has a heart and also has the mind to try and fix this problem, and hasn’t forgotten why he’s there, to try and keep the people of his state and of the country safe and do what it takes to…

I believe, unfortunately, that the more we see massacres like this... that is getting us closer to change.

There's no question that the American people support some commonsense gun reform, starting with universal background checks.