Political Quotes

“I rise today to express my deep disappointment of what I just heard, unfortunately, from my Senate colleague from Nebraska, Senator Pete Ricketts, who blocked Senator Heinrich's and mine and Senator Collins' legislation--common sense-- that would save lives. And I am talking about S. 1909, which is the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts Act, or what we are calling the BUMP Act. Now, it is shocking to me that my colleagues aren't willing to move forward on such an important issue. Bump stocks are deadly firearm accessories that turn semiautomatics guns into machineguns, which are illegal, allowing a shooter to fire multiple bullets per second. Now, my husband and I are gun owners. We don't need a bump stock. And I know any commonsense gun owner doesn't have a bump stock. What do you need it for? They are dangerous. They are incredibly deadly devices that have no place on our streets. And I will tell you what, I know firsthand the damage that bump stocks can do because, nearly 7 years ago, when I was a brandnew Senator and had just been elected, in 2017, Las Vegas, my hometown, experienced the deadliest mass shooting in American history because of bump stocks. On October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in my hometown of Las Vegas. He had outfitted his weapons with bump stocks, allowing him to spray over 1,000 bullets into the crowd of concertgoers.…”