Roland Gutierrez: “this vote boils down to one question: How much is a life worth? How large a campaign check from the gun lobby is big…”

“this vote boils down to one question: How much is a life worth? How large a campaign check from the gun lobby is big enough to convince you to put these guns back on the street, $1,000 from the NRA, $5,000? To put the life of a police officer in grave danger, to put a child in an early grave? Because of these guns, they mean combat, they mean assault, they mean killing. This vote shows that the Republicans never wanted a Contract With America; they wanted to combat within America. How many children were able to avoid a drive-by shooting? How many police officers made it safely back home because of this ban? Let us keep the ban and keep our children and our communities safe.”