Once you've actually - you're pent-up, you really want to say, 'Let's raise the age to 21,' or 'Let's have red flag laws,' but you're scared to death? Once you actually say it, and you rip the band aid off, and you get all the angry texts? You feel very liberated.
Kinzinger encourages lawmakers to speak out on gun control measures despite potential backlash.
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[A]s I watch the behavior of our political leaders, the comments of an ever-increasingly unhinged Trump, and the growing indifference of many Americans toward our role in the world, I have to ask a painful question: Are we now the bad guys?
I think it's very obvious that the president didn't do anything but gleefully watch television while this was going down.
It's chilling. I mean, I think he was sending a very clear message, which is, this is my Department of Justice.
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