Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this bill that I introduced with my colleague from Michigan (Mr. Upton), the bipartisan Active Shooter Alert Act that we introduced along with 14 Democrats and 14 Republicans--fully bipartisan. This bill is a commonsense piece of public safety legislation that police have asked for over and over and over again and that we are past due in delivering to them. It is so clear that they need it. Between 2000 and 2020 there were close to 400 active shooter events with 40 active shooter incidents in 2020 alone. Last year we saw 61 active shooter events. We see what this looks like in our communities. This past April a shooter gunned down 10 people in a New York City subway and then was on the run for 29 hours. On July 4 another shooter gunned down parade goers in Highland Park, Illinois, and evaded arrest for 8 hours. Those are just two examples of the most recent ones. This doesn't even include the shooters who were at large for hours and hours in Midland and Odessa in 2019 and the Atlanta, Georgia, area in 2021; Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2016; and in too many other life-and- death situations for our communities. Active shooter emergencies have become so common that we barely even register them anymore. We have become numb to them and starting to view them as statistics. We cannot let this become normal.…”