level. but what is different now is that first of all, the outrage and deep grief of the country, and secondly, we have built a movement, a political movement. it s a groundswell and grassroots movement. and all of those organizations, whether it is connecticut against gun violence, or brady gifford s, the sandy hook promised organization all of the other groups that are at the table by proxy, through a number of us, who have worked on this issue for years and years and going to red flag laws, if the new york law had been enforced properly, if resources had been provided, which is what our red flag statute would do, provide incentives, then people might have been saved. lives might have been saved. that is what reg flag statutes would do, particularly in suicide cases, which are half
that first of all, the outrage and deep grief of the country, and secondly, we have built a movement, a political movement. it s a groundswell and grassroots movement. and all of those organizations, whether it is connecticut against gun violence, or brady gifford s, the sandy hook promised organization all of the other groups that are at the table by proxy, through a number of us, who have worked on this issue for years and years and going to red flag laws, if the new york law had been enforced properly, if resources had been provided, which is what our red flag statute would do, provide incentives, then people might have been saved. lives might have been saved. that is what reg flag statutes would do, particularly in suicide cases, which are half of gun deaths in the country.
0 us. do something. just do something. for god s sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that cannot be true. this time we must actually do something. they issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. it was justice scalia who wrote, and i quote, like most rights, the right of the second amendment the rights granted by the second amendment rights are not unlimited. not unlimited. they never have been. it comes to the carnage we are willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. let there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off of her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in her classroom to