Political Quotes

“In the 10 years since the Sandy Hook shooting, the NRA has spent more than $100 million to help elect Republicans who will make it easier to sell more guns so we can kill more kids--$100 million. They have gotten what they paid for because we have had 189 more school shootings and 279 people killed on school grounds since Sandy Hook. Some of my colleagues may be happy about that, but I am angry, and my constituents live in trauma. Mr. Speaker, I had a student in my district who wrote in to tell me: ``We are tired. We are exhausted. We are sick of going to class and any public area and forming an escape route.'' I had another constituent who asked me: ``How many children and teachers are going to have to be killed by guns before our government takes action?'' The honest answer is that I don't know. In the wake of these shootings, I have to tell them that I work with people who wear AR-15 lapel pins on the floor of the House, people who send holiday cards where their whole family cosplays as Rambo. They actually believe that our Founders envisioned and designed a country where you have a right to shoot innocent strangers dead, but no American has the right not to get shot. Five months into this year, America has already had 199 mass shootings. Sometimes, we have a moment of silence on the floor afterward, but quite frankly, there are too many to keep up. I am not proud of this, but we ignore most of them. The American people can't.…”