Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding I come to the floor again to ask my Republican colleagues to bring to the floor two commonsense proposals that will significantly reduce gun violence in this country. We have, each day it feels like--certainly regularly--come to the floor of the House and observed moments of silence. That is what we have done. We have spent one moment, said, and done nothing as our communities continue to be ravaged by gun violence. There are many of us who believe we have a responsibility to do more than to just observe moments of silence. So these two bills are overwhelmingly supported by the American people. The first bill says that if you are determined to be too dangerous to get on an airplane, if you are a suspected terrorist barred from getting on an airplane because it is too dangerous, then you should also be prevented from going into a gun store and buying as many guns as you want. The American people should know this: between 2004 and 2014, over 2,000 individuals on the terrorist watch list went into a gun store and bought guns. Ninety-five percent of the American people who have been killed by terrorists since September 11 in this country were killed with a firearm. We have allowed more than 2,000 individuals on that watch list, that terrorist watch list, to go into a gun store. We must stop that. No fly, no buy: if you are too dangerous to get on a plane, then you are too dangerous to buy a gun.…”