Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to introduce a Senate Resolution honoring the victims of the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California. On November 7, 2018, a shooter armed with a semiautomatic pistol and high-capacity ammunition magazine attacked the Borderline Bar and Grill. Borderline is known as a popular meeting place for residents and country music fans. That night was a ``college night,'' and students had gathered there for a night of music and dancing. What happened next was the deadliest mass shooting in California since the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino. Twelve people lost their lives that night in Thousand Oaks. They included students, military veterans, and 27 year old Telemachus Orfanos, who was a survivor of the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Just think about that for a moment. A survivor of the deadliest mass shooting in our Nation's history lost his life in another mass shooting a year later. Ventura County Sheriff Sergeant Ron Helus also lost his life that night. He was one of the first law enforcement officers on the scene, and he gave his life confronting the assailant and protecting his community. Thousand Oaks is one of the safest cities in America. If an attack like this can happen there, it can happen anywhere. This Resolution condemns the terrible violence experienced by the Thousand Oaks community and honors the memory of those who we have lost.…”