"Our local officials cannot defund our police, and our prosecutors cannot be soft on crime."
"We are in decline as a Nation when it comes to the moral and societal decline in our Nation."
"The purpose of the Second Amendment is clear. It is to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens."
"It is our responsibility to defend it."
"We have to keep history and context in mind in all of this."
"We must learn from these senseless acts of violence and take concrete action to reduce violence in the future."
"The measures put in front of us would not have actually stopped these shootings."
"We don't pass laws because of the 'one or two psychopaths.'"
"Are we now going to say that a 19-year-old who is a legal adult in the United States does not have the mental capacity to own a shotgun or an AR-15, but they have the mental capacity to enlist in the ..."
"It would be wrong for us, just out of the sake of doing something, to measure our personal compassion by how much of other people's constitutional rights we take from them."
"There is a lot of data that points to the fact that gun control leads not to more safer communities, but to more dangerous communities."