Lucy McBath

The pain of losing a child to gun violence never ends, and it is in that pain that drives me to do this work to prevent gun violence.

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

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

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

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

I do think it is very important.

We need to push along extreme risk protection orders, ERPOs, so that we have these red flag laws to supplement the use of background checks to find out if someone has a mental disturbance. This is the single most important thing that we…

Our community and our Nation cannot wait any longer for common-sense gun safety solutions like extreme risk laws and universal background checks.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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…