Political Quotes

“It shows, I say to Senator Klobuchar, that we are intentionally putting our constituents in danger, that we have data which tells us that when people on the terrorist watch list are walking into gun stores, they are getting approved at a 90-percent rate. By the way, the 10 percent who aren't getting approved because they are on the terrorist watch list--it is because they are on some other list. But that is a chilling statistic. If you play it out over the course of 10 years, it is the same percentage. Over the course of 10 years, 90 percent of individuals who walked into gun stores who were on the terrorist watch list have been handed a gun that they could walk out with. It is a small number on a year-to-year basis--200 people--but it only takes one of those individuals in order to commit a mass atrocity. I thank the Senator for coming back to the floor here tonight and making this very clear case because what we are asking for is eminently reasonable.…”