Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I, too, rise in strong opposition to the rule, but I would like to speak to the two pieces of legislation that we are imploring our colleagues to bring to the floor: the no fly, no buy and universal background checks. Since the House adjourned on June 23, at least 522 more Americans have been killed in incidents of gun violence just since we adjourned; men, women, children, sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers. We dishonor the lives of those we have lost to gun violence with this NRA- written bill that we are taking up this week rather than the two commonsense gun safety proposals pending before the Congress. Just in case anyone doesn't understand, we have a gun violence epidemic in this country, different from every other country in the world. We kill each other with guns at a rate 297 times higher than Japan, 49 times higher than France, and 33 times higher than Israel, just to give you an example. So far this year, more than 6,300 people have been killed and more than 13,000 wounded in incidents of gun violence, and that includes 1,600 children. On average, 31 Americans are murdered with guns every single day and 151 are treated for gun assaults in an emergency room. This issue of making sure terrorists or suspected terrorists don't have access to guns and making sure there are universal background checks is not controversial anywhere else in America except in Congress. It is widely supported by the American people, 85 and 90 percent.…”