I am an immigrant, and the research is clear that immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens.

Far too many families experience tragedies like ours every single day.

It is the criminals that do not follow the laws, right. Law-abiding citizens follow the laws.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. I am also a survivor of domestic violence.

It is time. In Congress, we sit here with the ability and the power to do something, and history will not be kind to us if we continue to allow the gun lobby to buy us and sell us.

I cannot tell you how important your being here and all these students and gun violence survivors, and I applaud you for being here.

Many of you know, gun violence is an issue that is deeply personal for me.

I hope you realize that we all care. We want to reduce gun violence.

I want to thank you very much for explaining the truth.

So when it comes to voting rights, my father's work is still completely unfinished.

I still wake up every day thinking about how to parent him, how to protect him and his legacy, how to ensure that his death doesn`t overshadow his life. We`re going to keep telling our children`s stories. And we`re urging you to say their…

But you can never really know my boy because an angry man who owned a gun, kept it close at hand and chose to demonstrate unbridled hatred one balmy evening for reasons I will never understand.

Honorable men and women of the Senate, you can prove them right today.

Even the Wild West had more stringent laws governing the taking of life than we have now.

These laws empowered his prejudiced beliefs and subsequent rage over my son’s own life, his liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Just incensed that Stand Your Ground legislation can be used to cover up and to hide the real problem with the gun culture in this country, and particularly in Florida, the Stand Your Ground legislation is being used in a tremendous number…