Political Quotes

“I strongly urge a no vote on this rule. Every day 1 million children go home in this country to households with loaded guns. Fifty-five percent of the guns in this country are loaded, kept in homes. It results in the death of approximately 16 children a day, and for every child who is killed, there are approximately 5 who are seriously wounded. If this gun lock proposal would come to the floor, an element that both sides of the gun control issue agree upon, which 80 percent of the American public support, if the Committee on Rules in their wisdom would allow us to bring this before the House, it would overwhelmingly pass, and next year at this time there would be dozens of children alive, hundreds who would not be wounded, including the accidental deaths and use in violent crime. I strongly urge a no vote on the rule. Send this back, and allow us to give something that all Americans can agree on.”