Jerry Demings

Our residents, all Florida residents should be outraged. And they should ask the question now, where's our state? Where's our governor? Where is Ron DeSantis now?

We have to look at some of our gun laws and make a determination of what we stand for and just how prevalent some of these assault rifles are available today.

If we are going to be successful at reducing attacks on American citizens by violent extremists, Federal, State, and local law enforcement authorities must improve our working relationships.

As policymakers, I would urge this body, which is the only body that can get it done at a National level, to celebrate the Second Amendment by ensuring that we take steps to ensure that responsible people are gun owners and not people that…

I agree with the Chair and Ranking Member that we should not accept the current state of affairs as the new normal.

If we are going to be successful at reducing the attacks on American citizens by violent extremists, Federal, State, and local law enforcement authorities must improve: (1) Access to information, (2) the sharing of actionable intelligence…

We have armed guards in banks, and banks get robbed every day, and people get killed in banks every day.

It is an imminent threat, it is an on-going threat, and it is a threat that we must continue to fight.

I am not here to be a doomsday reporter, but I do believe that our Nation has experienced a paradigm shift in our global war on terror.

Are we funding our police departments like we should? Are we making an investment in our law enforcement in an extent to help them protect lives?

If you want to talk about your officers and your deputies, you have to talk about sovereign citizens that have killed more police officers than anybody else.

We spend more time talking about whether Colin Kaepernick is standing for the National Anthem, but we don't want to talk about why he is kneeling.

I believe sovereign citizens pose one of the most significant threats to civilian law enforcement today.

we have to look at some of our gun laws and make a determination of what we stand for and just how prevalent some of these 'assault rifles' are available today.

I believe that we have got to improve our analytical capabilities in sharing criminal intelligence information across the Federal, State, and local authorities.

Funding for counterterrorism efforts, to include training and equipment, must be increased.

Even if we are not empowered, and we are not asking to be empowered, to be in charge of deportation, we should be empowered with information.

Just a couple of days after the Pulse nightclub incident in Orlando, there was a reporter who came to town... to prove his point, how easy it is to acquire an assault weapon in America, he bought one.