Political Quotes

“The amendment in the second degree I have just sent to the desk requires that all handguns sold in the United States include a child safety lock. I am offering this amendment for one extremely simple reason: to keep our children safe. The Centers for Disease Control reports that 1.2 million children have access to guns in the home, and a survey sponsored by the National Institutes of Justice found that 34 percent of handgun owners store their guns unlocked and loaded. As long as this continues to be the case, our children are not safe. I have on this chart just some numbers. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan--no children; 19 in Great Britain; 57 in Germany; 109 children were killed in France; 153 children were killed in Canada; and in the United States of America, the greatest democracy in the world, the greatest nation in the world, 5,285 children have been killed. I know that some of my colleagues prefer that I not offer this amendment at this time.”