Political Quotes

“Madam President, last Thursday I was on the floor honoring the victims of the mass shooting in Kalamazoo, MI, another shooting spree that left six people dead and two others injured, and on that very same day another shooting spree broke out in Kansas that forever changed another town--another community in this country like the change that has overcome Sandy Hook, CT, since that fateful day in December of 2012. This was a shooting spree in Kansas that spanned several miles in nearly 30 minutes. Three people were killed. It could have been a lot more. Fourteen were wounded. The shooting spree took place in two locations as well as the Kansas workplace. The gunman had multiple felony convictions which prohibited him from buying a firearm, but he used his former girlfriend as a straw purchaser to buy yet another military-style semiautomatic weapon that he used in the shootings. It sounds a lot like many of the other shootings I talked about on the floor. As has been the case, I try to come down to the floor, seemingly every week, to tell the stories of who these victims are because the numbers don't seem to be moving my colleagues--31,000 a year, 2,600 a month, and 86 a day are being killed by guns in this country.…”