Political Quotes

“So as others have said--and this is the language that struck me--when this matter was in committee, before it failed under suspension of the rules here, for good reason, this paragraph struck me. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ``imminent threat alerts include natural or human-made disasters, extreme weather, active shooters, and other threatening emergencies that are current or emerging.'' So the existing IPAWS system explicitly covers this issue, which again, takes you back to, then, what this debate has materialized as. The soon-to-retire gentleman from Michigan on the Republican side recited an event in North Carolina where Little League teams withdrew from a tournament because they heard shots. The police in Wilson say that they had no evidence that there was an active shooter involved. That incident had nothing to do with what we are talking about today, and yet, the gentleman from Michigan offered it in support of this bill. The gentleman from Illinois or the gentleman who just spoke about the Highland Park shooting in Illinois--by the way, according to the wisdom of the majority and some Republican Senators, we passed support for red flag laws--well, Illinois has a red flag law. That person had been implicated in all circumstances that a red flag law ought to respond to. It didn't work. We have been doing gun control since 1968. Are you satisfied with the trajectory?…”