Angie Craig: “somehow today, if you do not believe what I believe, you are not caring nor are you compassionate. Let me suggest to…”

“somehow today, if you do not believe what I believe, you are not caring nor are you compassionate. Let me suggest to anyone listening, and certainly to all Senators, no one on this side of the aisle--and I know no one on that side of the aisle--is saying that. We listen, too. Many even participated in the Million Mom March in this Nation's Capital last Saturday. I cannot tell you we felt their pain, but we heard it spoken because unless you have experienced the kind of loss that some of those mothers experienced, I doubt that you can feel it. But you can empathize with it, and all of us do. Is that why we are bound up on the floor with this issue today? No, it is not. We have been on this floor before, for the last year, on the issue of guns, long before the Million Mom March. The reason we have been on the floor is because what some have wanted to do, the rest of the Congress has not wanted to do--largely because the American people are tremendously frustrated at this moment about violence and about laws and laws not enforced and laws that are enforced and the lack of safety or the sense of security and the obvious real violence that goes on in America today. No, those moms, at least many of them, were sincere. Others, I am quite confident, had a political agenda. There were second amendment moms who were there. They had a political agenda. They are also sincere because they really do believe that passing gun laws does not a safer world make.”