Political Quotes

“Yesterday was the 74th school shooting incident since the horrific day at Sandy Hook in December 2012 where 26 people, including 20 children, were slaughtered. Only this time, it was my district. Reynolds High School, the second-largest in the State of Oregon, was the scene of the tragic murder of 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman, a junior high school varsity soccer player and volunteer soccer coach. He was gunned down; a teacher was wounded, and the shooter, apparently an ex- student, dead. I was struck by, just a few days earlier, when The Onion, the satirical newspaper, had their response to this recent spate of shootings that has shaken us all. The Onion headline read: ``No Way To Prevent This,'' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. The article read: In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.…”