Political Quotes

“Madam President, last Friday, America watched in horror as the news story broke of yet another school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Eight students and two teachers were fatally shot. Thirteen victims were wounded in another devastating tragedy. The alleged gunman was a student who came into the school with his parents' shotgun and handgun and used them to commit mass murder. Of course, we grieve for the families and victims in Santa Fe, and, of course, we are grateful for first responders who ran toward the sound of gunfire. But let's be honest--the shooting in Santa Fe High was, by one count, the 22nd school shooting in America this year. We are in the 21st week of this year. We have had more than one school shooting a week in the United States of America. America's schoolchildren, sadly, now go to school expecting that there will be a shooter on the premises. After the Santa Fe High School shooting, a reporter interviewed a student named Paige Curry at the school. The reporter asked: ``Was there a part of you that was like, this isn't real, this could not happen at my school?'' Paige Curry replied: ``There wasn't.'' When the reporter asked why so, she said: ``It's been happening everywhere. I've always felt it would eventually happen here too.'' Can you imagine we have reached this point in America if that is how many of our Nation's high schoolers think? Sadly, in Paige Curry's case, she was right. Her school was the target last week.…”