Political Quotes

“I want to associate myself with the outstanding comments of my colleague from Massachusetts (Mr. Capuano). I couldn't agree with him more. I am, proudly, a member and co-chair of our task force against gun violence. I proudly support every American's right to own a firearm. I believe as strongly as anyone in this room that all we are trying to do here is get a vote, a simple vote--let the votes fall where they may--a simple vote on closing loopholes as they relate to background checks and making sure terrorists can't buy guns if they can't even fly. Now, over the last many months, I have spent many 5-minutes talking about all those who have died because of mass shootings in this country. I have a memorial wall outside my office that is filling up quite quickly with all the lives that have been lost because of mass shootings. During our sit-in on the House floor last week, we read the names of those in Orlando who were victims. Today, I am going to remember the 54 other victims last month in 51 other mass shootings that took place in the month of June. Even excluding Orlando, so many people last month were affected by mass shootings that I don't have time within my 5 minutes to list those who were injured but survived. Here are those who died in mass shootings in June that were not victims in Orlando: Devonne Burton, 28; Sean Pointe, 27; and Derrius Woods, 27; were killed on June 4 in Denver, Colorado.…”