Jackie Speier actually said...

"I cannot believe that my colleagues don't recognize that prohibiting the sale of an assault weapon until the age of 21 isn't going to save lives."

"All I am asking my colleagues to do is open your hearts and listen, and I hope we still have enough humanity in this body to do this."

"These are the same tired arguments used by the gun lobby to prevent meaningful change after Sandy Hook, after Parkland."

"The idea of turning our schools into prisons, into places where they are not conducive to teaching and learning, that is not the solution to this problem."