Political Quotes

“I am a Texan, I am a veteran, and I am a gun owner. I am a gun owner of multiple AR-15s, primarily for hunting, and, of course, to protect my three little kids at home, a 4-year-old, a 2- year-old, and a 5-month-old. No one is going to walk into my house and harm my children or my wife--my family. That, I can assure you. Mr. Speaker, 6 percent of all gun homicides are at the hands of an AR-15 and weapons that are outfitted with a pistol brace--6 percent, and 60 percent are at the hands of a handgun, and the rest are weapons designated not as the two that I just mentioned--6 percent. This is clearly an attempt to diminish our Second Amendment rights because if you just take away 6 percent of the gun homicides, it leaves you with 94, and I can assure you, Mr. Speaker, that a homicidal maniac who wants to arbitrarily murder people will find another weapon of choice. I hear the words weapon of war oftentimes, as well. I am an A-64 Delta Apache pilot. I flew 55 combat air missions in Baghdad. That is a weapon of war. A civilian-made AR-15 is nothing that I would ever take to battle. Now, I also recognize that we do have a mass shooting problem in this country, and my colleagues on the left want to, of course, blame the AR-15. However, Mr. Speaker, I stand before you to blame the homicidal maniac. I walk in these Halls every single day, and I am surrounded by brave men and women who carry AR-15s and weapons every single day.…”