Political Quotes

“I rise today to acknowledge the years of bipartisan hard work on one of the most challenging subjects we have here, which is gun violence, mental illness, and all the things that basically contribute to these horrible, horrible tragedies. Something has to be done, and something has been done. There are going to be people who look at the piece of legislation we are about to pass in a bipartisan way and say that it is not enough. I can understand that. There are going to be other people saying that it is too much, that it is the camel's nose under the tent and they want to take my guns away. I can understand their concern because people have scared them. It is a constitutional amendment. That is not going to happen. So what I want to reaffirm is, myself coming from a little town-- Farmington, WV--being raised in a gun culture, growing up in a gun culture--my father was not a sportsman. He was not a gun person. But he wanted to make sure I had access to people who knew how and lived in this culture and who knew how to teach me properly. So, growing up, they had what they called the Farmington Sportsman's Club. These were a lot of the men who worked in the mines who kind of took us under their wing, all us young kids. They taught us gun safety. They called it ``gun sense.'' We are going to teach you some gun sense, Joe. I said OK. And I understood it. Gun sense--it is the sensible thing you do with a gun. It is the law-abiding thing law-abiding gun owners do.…”