Political Quotes

“15 years ago, in the days after the shooting at Columbine High School stunned our Nation, I spoke to the Economic Club of Detroit. There, as our country reflected on gun violence's horrific toll, I asked a simple question: ``Are we willing to say enough is enough?'' Now, so many years later, that question still haunts us. Today, in a country dedicated to ``life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,'' guns kill over 32,000 people a year. That is almost 88 people a day. On top of that, there are over 73,000 nonfatal gun injuries each year. That is 200 a day. Some statistics have shown that 50 percent of suicides in the United States are committed with a firearm. Others have found that children and young adults account for 38 percent of gun deaths and nonfatal injuries, and that when guns are present during incidents of domestic violence, the risk of homicide escalates over 500 percent. Each of these statistics represents tragedy: people with stories, families, loved ones left behind and dreams shattered. A recent CNN report, for example, analyzed all the gun incidents that occurred in America on a day picked at random--July 12, 2014. Their research found on that day alone, at least 83 gun incidents occurred in our country. At 3:20 a.m., a 23-year-old man was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Tallahassee, FL.…”