This should not be a political issue.
More than 500,000 Americans have died from gun violence.
One party has made this a priority, and it is us. It shouldn't be us alone.
Unfortunately, President George W. Bush was not able to persuade enough of his Republican colleagues, and the ban expire...
We have a responsibility to do everything within our power to shape a future in which no child, woman, or man dies from ...
I would agree with you that is bad judgment. I agree that the President should not have said that.
We owe them something. This Committee is willing to pay the debt.
Assault weapons account for 430, or 85 percent of the total 501 mass shooting fatalities.
I am adamantly against assault weapons. I believe in a buy-back. I have no shame in that.
The science is clear. The evidence is clear.
What kind of wound would a child's body receive from an automatic weapon?
You are here supporting a ban on assault weapons?
These are weapons of war, period, full stop. They don't belong in our communities.
Did you -- you guys need to read the transcript, because I'm listening to this throughout the whole show.
You may be surprised to hear that I disagree with this.
The reason, of course, is because of our particular topography.
Let me thank you so very much for this particular hearing.
we live in a state of crisis in jurisdictions and topographies like Florida along the southeast coast.