Blake Moore: “A 6-year-old little girl is dead and that is a real fact, and she was shot dead by a 6-year-old little classmate who was…”

“A 6-year-old little girl is dead and that is a real fact, and she was shot dead by a 6-year-old little classmate who was holding an inanimate object, a gun. This is a trigger lock. And had this trigger lock been in place, that 6-year-old little girl would still be alive because the gun could not have discharged. In my district, in June of last year, a 6-year-old boy picked up a rifle leaning against the wall in his apartment when his mom went next door and shot his 4-year-old brother in the ear, fortunately not the head but the ear. That little boy would not have been injured and that gun could not have discharged had there been a trigger lock in place. We need to start getting with the real facts and recognizing the realities in this country. I do not want to take anybody's gun away that is not a convicted felon, a mentally ill person, or a child without adult supervision. But, as a prosecutor for 12 years, I have seen firsthand gun violence. I believe in the Second Amendment. I own a firearm myself. But adults who are going to exercise the right to own a firearm should do it responsibly.”