Political Quotes

“In South Carolina, unfortunately, we are no stranger to mass shootings. Seven years ago in June, we had nine Black church members at Mother Emanuel who were murdered in cold blood by a single killer. On April 26 of this year, right adjacent to a little league baseball game in the evening, in a parking lot, over 30 shots were fired. The harrowing video of seeing young kids literally crawling off the baseball field in tears, parents frightened, scared to death about their children and this shooting had taken place just next door. On Memorial Day of this year in Charleston, there were 13 people shot that evening, including three law enforcement officers, to say nothing of the hundreds of mass shootings that we have seen so far this year, including over two dozen in our schools and Uvalde. More recently Highland Park--and I will mention that my father's last duty station in the military as a U.S. Army General was at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. I spent a year of my life in Highland Park going to Highland Park Middle School. I am very familiar with that community and have been heartbroken by what they have been through over the last few weeks. And in Chicago, there are mass shootings every single weekend. The beauty of H.R. 6538 is that I agree with both sides of the aisle and what they are saying today. As someone who owns seven firearms, a rifle, two shotguns, and four pistols, I support law-abiding citizens' right to own firearms included in the Second Amendment.…”