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Are we now going to say that a 19-year-old who is a legal adult in the United States does not have the mental capacity to own a shotgun or an AR-15, but they have the mental capacity to enlist in the military?

It is common sense to impose a ban on the manufacture and sale to the public of military-assault weapons meant for use on the battlefield.

Policymakers who stand in the way of doing something to address the problem should be ashamed of themselves.

No other country has a problem like the gun violence problem plaguing our country.

That policy, Madam Chair, has been a deadly failure.

This stopping a bad guy with a good guy with a gun just has not worked.

The fact of the matter is that the gun lobby, led by the NRA and the gun manufacturers that fund it, exert great influence on politicians.

Americans have grown weary, frustrated, and frightened by the ever-intensifying cascade of gun violence afflicting our country.

We have to keep history and context in mind in all of this.

It would be wrong for us, just out of the sake of doing something, to measure our personal compassion by how much of other people's constitutional rights we take from them.

There is a lot of data that points to the fact that gun control leads not to more safer communities, but to more dangerous communities.

It doesn't appear that the attempts that are produced by the gun restrictions are having any effect of keeping bad people from getting guns.

The answer is not defunding the police. The answer is not pitting one group of Americans against another.

More gun laws are not going to stop that, not in any way, shape or form, because criminals simply do not obey the law.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

The simple truth is that top-down legislative actions from Washington do not provide the states the due deference they deserve.

We must be thoughtful in how we discuss and address this issue.

Evil deeds do not transcend constitutional rights. It is the other way around.