Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yes, this Senator is from Florida. This Senator is from Orlando. This is an AR-15. It is the civilian semi-automatic version of the military version M-16. This is what the killer used in Orlando a week ago. It is the same .223 caliber. It is collapsible stock. It is the SIG SAUER MCX. Do we think that a person who is on the no-fly list ought to be able to buy one of these lethal killing machines? I have been a hunter all my life. I grew up on a ranch. I own numbers of guns, but my guns are for hunting. These guns are for killing, and that is exactly what that weapon did to 49 people just a little over a week ago. If we have a list, and it is approximately 1,000 American citizens or American people who are here legally, both--not Americans--that category is called American persons. There are roughly a thousand on the no-fly list. If they cannot get on a plane to fly, should they be able to go out and buy one of these? There are another 1,700 folks that are on a selectee list, and those are the ones for which there is close to credible evidence that they are a terrorist--1,700. There is close to credible evidence that they are a terrorist, and do we want them to go and buy this kind of a weapon? Then there is another category, and that is those on what we call the terrorist watch list. In this country that is about 5,000 people-- American persons--for which there is declaratory evidence that they are a terrorist.…”