Political Quotes

“On Monday, just about a mile from here, once again, our Nation experienced a horrific incidence of mass gun violence. Our sympathies obviously go out to the friends and the families who lost loved ones in the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. But as this chart shows, this mass shooting is only the latest in a long line that includes Columbine and Virginia Tech and Tucson and Aurora and Newtown. But even these horrendous mass killings don't fully reflect our Nation's problem with gun violence. Each year, 100,000 people in America are shot by a gun, 30,000 die from a gun-related injury, 10,000 are murdered by a firearm. By 2015, gun-related deaths will surpass auto-related deaths for the first time. And while it's too early to know what might have prevented this week's mass shooting, we do know what will ensure that it will happen again--doing nothing, business as usual. The chief medical officer at MedStar Hospital expressed the sentiments of many when she pleaded: There's something evil in our society that we, as Americans, all have to work to try and eradicate. If we don't do all we can to reduce gun violence through stronger laws and improved services, all we'll have to offer our constituents are only more condolences. ____________________”