I just want people to understand that -- I want people to understand why there are no open caskets after Sandy Hook. And think about whether you want another set of families to go through that.

Your community could be next if we do nothing, again. And that’s why I need people to rise up right now and get up tomorrow morning and make a call to your senator, make a call your member of Congress, tell them that you don’t want your…

I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. By doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers, whose brains are…

I always like to begin where we agree, and we agree-- Republicans and Democrats on this committee--that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon and we should have a policy that makes that prospect the least likely.

What are we doing? In Sandy Hook elementary school after those kids came back into those classroom, they had to adopt a practice.

the rivers of blood will one day run deep enough and the slaughters tragic enough that these politicians will say, OK, that`s enough, let`s do something, because their tolerance for blood and the NRA`s tolerance for slaughter are bottomless

And I want to be clear, well, I want to make sure people understand that every single day, there are over 100 people dying from guns.

But by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers, whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing.

We only have a handful of Republicans. And so, it is probably impossible to pass that proposal despite the fact that if you ask the American public if they support, expanded background checks to cover all commercial sales, 90% of Americans…

So all day, I've been in conversations with Republicans and Democrats, we are going to spend next week trying to come up with a bipartisan compromise, it will be incremental, I'm going to be honest with you.

But we might be able to do a piece of Manchin-Toomey. And so despite my frustration with the Republican Party, I'm willing to work with them to get a piece of that bill done.

I'm going to work with my Republican colleagues, as you heard me pleading on the Senate floor last night for their help.

I truly can`t imagine anything more ghoulish, more -- just morally repugnant, than to go cheer on the cult of American guns three days after this in the state where it happened.

Yes, the only way that we can make change in this democracy is for people to stand up, to speak out, to vote. But there have been instances where the power of lobbyists here, the gun lobby is very, very difficult to overcome, even when the…

Our kids are living in fear, every single time they set foot in a classroom because they think they`re going to be next. What are we doing?

Yes, and this is a product in part of how the industry has changed, right?

The industry a few years ago, sort of was facing a crisis because fewer and fewer Americans were owning guns.

There are 14 kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African-American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?

By doing nothing, again, by reelecting all the same people who do nothing, year after year, you are inviting another set of families and another set of families to go through that horror scene that happened last night in Texas that I…

There's literally something rotting in our core right now because we are becoming so anesthetized to this. We're becoming numb to it.

Chris Murphy is one of my heroes.

And so, why don’t we just do something about it? My plea was honest, really. I mean, I don’t want to call out Republicans tonight. I just want to ask them, please, please, whatever you can vote for, come and talk to me about it. I’m…

Why? Why are we here? If not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through? What Uvalde is going through?

So this is a pretty simple bill that's supported by 90% of the American public.

I understand my Republican colleagues will not agree to everything that I may support. But there is a common denominator that we can find. There is a place where we can achieve agreement.