Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the GOP has become, sadly, the ``Guns Over People'' party. Their answer to the desperate pleas of families from all across America who want to stop the slaughter of schoolchildren and other innocents--their answer is to do absolutely nothing. Today, during this National Gun Violence Awareness Month, what do they do? They go a step further. This is the only opportunity this year that Speaker McCarthy has permitted us to consider any gun violence legislation. What do they do about gun violence? They enable a little more of it. More pistol braces in the hands of killers will cause us to brace for more death. Republicans want to stop an ATF rule that will require background checks in certain narrow instances when a brace turns a handgun into a rifle. Background checks are exactly what we need for all gun purchases so that those who go through the gun shop loophole and don't get a check when they buy it at a gun show or on the internet have to have the same standard as if they bought it in a gun shop. They will not even permit us to respond to the desperate pleas of the people of Uvalde to ban weapons of war from the hands of teenagers who couldn't on their own go out and buy a beer.…”