Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Connecticut. I believe firmly-- and I really appreciated the conversations between him and Senator Kaine about the Second Amendment. I am a Second Amendment Democrat. A lot of us are. I believe firmly that as Senator Schumer said, you can't pick the amendments you like and pick the amendments you don't like. I believe that we can protect the Second Amendment while protecting communities from gun violence. As stated by the late Justice Scalia, ``Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.'' To Senator Murphy, I would like to ask him, how does he view the Second Amendment fitting into this conversation? Speaking of bogeyman, I think that there is this sense that if you are for reasonable restrictions on purchasing a gun, that you are against guns. It seems to me, at least in the State of Hawaii, that people who are the most concerned with gun safety, the people who impart gun safety to their children, the people who do this right are gun owners, are hunters, are people who even have a gun for protection. So the question I have for the Senator is, What is the right balance, both under the law and from the perspective of keeping our people safe?”