Political Quotes

“LaQuita Brown was 39 years old. She was a public servant from Chesapeake, VA. She had worked in the public works department for more than 4 years. She was a right-of-way agent. Her friends called her ``Ms. Worldwide'' because she loved to travel. She had been all around the world, and her social media was plastered with pictures of her travels. Her father, as any father would be, is absolutely heartbroken by her death. He said: She was just everything. She was everything to me. I know nobody's perfect--but from the time she was born, she had no faults. For the Brown family, the grief surrounding LaQuita's death comes on the heels of LaQuita's brother dying from a hit-and-run driver 3 years ago. Her father said that LaQuita helped him through the grief. ``She saved me,'' he said. ``I wouldn't have made it through that [without her].'' In 100 days into the year, we have had 100 mass shootings. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world except in the United States of America. We can't claim to be helpless, and we can't claim to have no solutions because, if it only happens here and nowhere else, then there must be something different happening here. We can learn. We can adapt. It has now been 100 days since the House of Representatives passed a universal background checks bill, a universal background checks bill that is supported by 90 percent of Americans and would have a significant downward effect on the number of people who are shot in this country.…”