Political Quotes

On the recordMay 9, 2016
the article included harrowing stories like this one: Sha'Quille Kornegay, 2 years old, was buried in a pink coffin, her favorite doll by her side and a tiara strategically placed to hide the self-inflicted gunshot wound to her forehead. She had been napping in bed with her father late last month when she discovered the 9-millimeter handgun he often kept under his pillow in his Kansas City, Missouri home. It was equipped with a laser sight that lit up like the red lights on her cousins' sneakers. Her father told the police he woke to see Sha'Quille by his bed, bleeding and crying, the gun at her feet. A bullet had pierced her skull. On the night of April 20th, Kanisha Shelton had placed her purse out of her 2-year-old son Kiyan's reach on the kitchen counter, but when her phone started ringing, the boy apparently pushed a chair close to the counter, climbed onto it and reached for the purse. There was also a .380-caliber Beretta pistol in it. Just after 9 p.m., Ms. Shelton heard a loud bang and rushed downstairs. There, in the kitchen, she found Kiyan lying on the floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest. The police in Indianapolis said such scenes were becoming more common.…
Said by
Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut
Source
govinfo.gov
May 9, 2016

Share

More from Richard Blumenthal

Aug 5, 2026

Trump is openly selling preferential access to his presidential statements on Truth Social—trading insider information to benefit himself and his billionaire cronies.

padilla.senate.gov
Aug 4, 2026

Cornyn and Tillis seem to have gotten nothing. The tax immunity deal is still unlimited in terms of tax control liability, and the slush fund, or the thug fund, as I call it, is still alive and well so far as Donald Trump is concerned.

theguardian.com
Jul 31, 2026

Today’s hearing is another page in that playbook, sadly, tragically.

huffpost.com
Jul 31, 2026

Republicans are eager to rebrand you as a villain in order to extract from their own failure to protect Americans from soaring healthcare costs...

huffpost.com

Other voices in this conversation