with a robust set of laws, we can significantly limit damage. why can t we do that with guns? on that point. and they always fall back on the same argument, the constitution doesn t guarantee you are right but it does guarantee your gun right. a well regulated militia being necessary to the free stay, the right to the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. the second amendment. argue that the second amendment makes america unique, exceptional, and they re right. apart from the uk, we don t have the second amendment there, it s a right that doesn t exist in canada or france, or india, or russia, or brazil. in fact, only three countries on earth have gun rights embedded in their constitution. the united states, mexico and guatemala. both those two countries say that right only extends to the home, and they both make it very difficult to purchase guns. america, of course, is different, not just because of the second amendment but how the courts have interpreted i
my hands and knees and begged my colleagues, find a path forward, here. by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement, to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing. shooting after shooting, what are we doing? why are we here? what are we doing? i yield the floor. with us tonight, connecticut senator chris murphy. senator, i turn that question to you. it has been 24 hours, what are we doing? i was presiding over the senate last night or yesterday afternoon, when i look down at my phone and saw that another sandy hook had happened, 19 kids in texas. i went straight to my desk, and that was the question that i kept on asking myself. it was the question that i spontaneously asked my colleagues. what are we doing? why are we here? why do you care so much about being a united states senator, if in the face of this evil and carnage, with all these parents who are just so frightened for their k
quote, trite that in a small town. which aldean didn t obviously right, but he recorded. there is several descriptions of crimes being committed, as he mentioned. followed by a warning not to quote, try that in a small town. suggesting there will be violent consequences for those actions. talk to me about the culture of gun extremism and the revenge rhetoric that permeates on the far right, and the cost that permissive gun laws have in southern states in particular? well, when you combine lax gun laws by like shoot first, also called stand your ground, or permit-less carry, open carrie, it s not surprising we see simple misunderstandings turned into these horrific shootings of young people. many people of color, we ve seen that over and over again this year. someone running the wrong doorbell. someone getting into the wrong car. somebody playing in the wrong driveway or driving into the wrong driveway. this is because mostly men with guns shot first and asked questions later. that is
that right only extends to the home, and they both make it very difficult to purchase guns. america, of course, is different, not just because of the second amendment but how the courts have interpreted it. take the militia clause. historically states and only states could raise militaries comprise of their own armed populace. in 2008, a conservative lead, john roberts supreme court in, it that the second amendment confirmed, not a collective, but an individual right to bear arms. since then, republican led states have rushed to expand gun rights, stand-your-ground, open carrie, permit-less carry. we now live in the only nation on earth where there are an estimated more guns than there are people, where guns now killed more children than adolescents in america than cars do.
local look at texas. it had a mass shootings in the last 13 years. but during that same period of time, the republican controlled legislature has expanded where government we are guns are allowed and who can have a firearm in schools, like how open carrie has expanded. how has that happened in a state that has experienced mass shootings? voters still say, oh, i am down with that? no, again, it s among the most gerrymandered states in the country. if you look at what just happened in this last cycle, texas got two additional congressional seats. that was largely because of an increase in the population, 90% of which was hispanic people 90% of which was people of color and 50% of which was hispanic people. and yet what they did in the gerrymandered legislature there was to create one more white majority district. so, they maintained their gerrymandered power and frustrated the desire of people in the state to do the kinds of