Political Quotes

“a week ago the Nation reeled in horror as a deranged gunman shot and killed eight people at three different locations across the Atlanta area. Six of them were Asian-American women. Just 6 days later, another shooting. Ten people were shot and killed by a gunman who entered a grocery store in Boulder, CO. Some were customers, some were employees. One was as young as 20, and one was as old as 65. One of the victims was merely walking through the parking lot after fixing the coffee machines at the nearby Starbucks, the son of Serbian refugees and the shining hope of his family. One of the fallen was a local police officer, Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of Boulder Police and a father of seven. You look at each of their faces--young, wise, older. You ache. Gone. You think of their families whom you don't know. They never will see them again, taken so cruelly and so quickly. Today, flags around the Capitol will remain at half-staff in honor of the victims, and we all grieve with their families. We also grieve with the community of Boulder and the people of Colorado. And we grieve with the people of Georgia and all people across the United States whose lives have been forever marred by the plague of gun violence. COVID-19 is not the only epidemic claiming innocent lives in America. Last year alone, 20,000 Americans were killed by gun violence, the highest number in almost two decades.…”