Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman kindly for his courtesy in granting me this time. Today is June 13. We have had 164 days in the year 2023, and we have had 291 mass shootings. We are having, on average, 1\1/2\ mass shootings every single day in America. Of course, our colleagues would prefer not to talk about it because they say it is impolite to talk about a mass shooting on the day it happens. With that theory, we would never talk about it, and we would continue ad infinitum into the carnage and the bloodshed that this unlimited, open-arms policy is giving America today. A number of my colleagues have invoked the Second Amendment. They only quote half of it. They say: `` . . . the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.'' What about the first half of it? ``A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.'' They say we want to repeal the Second Amendment. Mr. Speaker, we don't want them to repeal the Second Amendment. We want them to read the Second Amendment because the Second Amendment would ask us why we are allowing people to go into elementary schools, Walmarts, supermarkets, churches, and synagogues all over America with AR-15s enabled sometimes with a stabilizing brace--as in Dayton, Ohio; Boulder, Colorado; Colorado Springs; Nashville, Tennessee--and assassinate our people.…”