Political Quotes

“today should not be a normal day. Today should be a day of national grief and pain and horror at what happened yesterday. Yesterday, in Oxford, MI, there was yet another school shooting. Within the span of just 5 minutes, four children were shot dead by a fellow student; seven more people--six students and one teacher--were wounded. Reports are that more than 100 9-1-1 calls were made in the span of minutes. Imagine the horror, imagine the fear, imagine the terror, imagine the pleas for help on those 9-1-1 calls as students listened to gunshot after gunshot ring out, killing their fellow students. The students huddled in corners as their teachers desperately tried to lock doors, barricading them with desks, fearful of what was happening outside--some escaping through windows and sprinting and running for safety. And what should outrage every single American is that this is not unusual in our country. This was not a one-time occurrence. We know the names--that should be hallowed names of pride--of our children, but, no, they are names that speak to horror when we think about Parkland and what happened there, when we think about Newtown and what happened there, and so many other communities that have been ripped apart by that nightmare that happened yesterday. We live in a distraught present in America.…”