Frank Lautenberg: “Trivializing the ownership of guns, saying that if we have gun enforcement laws, guards from the Federal Government will…”

“Trivializing the ownership of guns, saying that if we have gun enforcement laws, guards from the Federal Government will come into every room in every house. Don't protect the children. He wants to have a statistical debate about how many really died. Not that many. Heck, no, not so many. A few maybe, but not a lot--unless it is your kid, unless it is your friend, unless it is your niece or your nephew or your sister's kid or your brother's kid. A lot of us have not experienced it directly, but anyone who doesn't empathize or sympathize with someone who has lost a child, who doesn't understand the emotion that renders, doesn't get it, just doesn't understand it. When 12 young people were shot in Columbine High School, those were not the only wounds. There were some who were hit by guns who also were wounded. But that wounding took place throughout the school, throughout the community, throughout the country. People had a vision of that boy hanging down from the window pleading for help: Save me. We couldn't hear the words, but we could see the gesture. Well, we are detached from that. Why do you have to control guns? Just because a few kids got killed? That is what is being said here. I can't believe my ears.”