On the recordJune 15, 2016
I think you are exactly right. I think this has become an either/or debate in so many different perspectives. I am so glad we are bringing together this question of how we respond to terrorism and how we protect Americans from the consequences of loose gun laws because there is also this juxtaposition in which these terrorist attacks are either about the fight against ISIS or they are about our loose gun laws, and they are about both. And this shooting in Orlando is about a whole host of other subjects as well. So I think we have tried to stay true to the complexity of this question on the floor during this time. We are not suggesting that what we are proposing is going to solve the problem, but we do have to get out of this paradigm in which if you are a supporter of the Second Amendment, you can't support any restrictions on individuals, whether or not they are on a terrorist watch list, to obtain guns.
