Cory Booker: “So the last question--and I know the senior Senator from Connecticut would like to ask a question. But this is where I…”

“So the last question--and I know the senior Senator from Connecticut would like to ask a question. But this is where I have to say it becomes deeply personal to me, because what you are talking about there is your persistent, unyielding fight for commonsense gun legislation from the second you walked into the U.S. Senate, to the noncontroversial idea that terrorists in America--people who are suspected terrorists--should not be allowed to buy assault weapons, period. And your comment that that affects a very small universe of people, that in order to make that ironclad--again, nothing is going to stop everybody, but this is doing something that will constrict access to terrorists--you have to do a universal background check, so you close the back door, as you said. Now, this is what gets personal to me even more so because it is more than all this. When you do that, you are not affecting sports people; you are not affecting Second Amendment right believers who believe that I need to have my right to bear arms; you are not affecting folks who are worried about self-defense and want to have a gun to defend themselves; who you are affecting when you do that is not just terrorists, but you actually have a collateral benefit when you tighten up the system that you then stop criminals of all categories from getting guns. We live in a nation where women are victims of violence at astonishing rates.…”