Political Quotes

“I don't think there could be a more serious matter before this body. Everyone in the country, frankly, everyone in the world knows we can't continue to see what is happening in our cities, in our schools, in vulnerable communities, we can't continue to see those things happening. Sadly, Democrats have a preconceived play for every tragedy. A famous Democrat even coined the phrase, never let an emergency go to waste, never let a crisis go to waste. It is a crisis for sure. But the crisis isn't the fact that America has guns or that individual American citizens have guns. We have always had guns. What is different is the level of despair in our communities. We see it surging not just in mass shootings but in the rise of violent crimes, in the surge in suicides, in fatal overdoses. The leading cause of death for 18- to 45-year-olds is now fatal drug overdoses. A lot of people will point to the mass shooters as they are ready to lose their lives. They have even coined a phrase, suicide by cop. They know how it is going to end when they go in doing it. So what is driving this? Is it the gun? It is an inanimate object. The solution, the Democrats say--it is a longstanding wish list. They have had a dream for a long time to repeal the Second Amendment. Frankly, they don't want to campaign on that. Our colleague, Mr. Mondaire Jones from New York, when we were moving some of these bills through Judiciary Committee said, ``You will not stop us from passing gun control.…”