Political Quotes

“Americans, understandably, feel a sense of fear and chaos caused by the news of the senseless attacks that have been carried out against civilians in this country and around the world in the past few weeks. We can and we should help reassure the American people that their Representatives in Congress--that we here in this Chamber--are doing everything in our power to prevent such a brutal attack from happening in any one of our communities. If we do not act this week, how can we go home? How can we go home and look our constituents in the eyes and tell them that we are doing everything we can? that we are upholding our sworn duty to protect the American people? But we can act. We can act, and we should act today. We need to close the loophole that allows dangerous people from buying guns. There is no loophole more egregious, more glaring, or more shocking than the one that allows suspected terrorists in this country to walk legally into a gun shop, to go online or to go to a gun show, and purchase a weapon in order to kill American citizens. This astounding loophole has allowed more than 2,000 individuals on the FBI's terrorist watch list to buy weapons legally in this country in the last 11 years. In that time, more than 90 percent of the individuals on the watch list who have tried to buy guns have been given a green light. They have been handed a gun. Those numbers are shocking, and they are disturbing.…”