Political Quotes

“Every single one of us on both sides of this issue absolutely love children. It is just very hard for me to understand that we cannot come together on this commonsense approach. This amendment does no violence to the right to own a gun, to the right to buy a gun, to the right to use a gun lawfully. It merely says that we are going to make sure that parents, when they buy a gun, have with it a safety lock that is easy to put. And I have to tell my friends and colleagues here, I know if you could meet with just one of the parents of these children who were killed accidentally, you support this amendment. Of the 5,285 children killed every year by gunfire, more than 440 are completely accidental deaths. And let us think about 400 kids dying accidentally every year and what that means--kids who would have grown up and had families of their own and given joy to their parents and grown to be grandparents. This is a small thing to do. I am always amazed, I say to my friends, that we cannot come together and reach across the party lines on these issues.”