18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994 i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years mass shootings were down. ten years in a row. i was going to say i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004 republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] it s time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. [ applause ] look, i m prouder that after seven years we finally had a senate confirm director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms responsible for fighting gun crimes, for seven years the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement identify the ballistics. a whole range
authorities who sent him to the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluationlu. gender was there for just twenty hours as he wrote later in his diary, quote i got out of it because i stuck with the story that i wastory getting ouf class and i just stupidly wrote that down. that s the reasonown. i believe i m still able to purchase guns. . t he was lyingng general s intention to a commit mass murder was, as he later wrote, quote,s not a jokee . i wrote that downwn because that s what i was planning to do and he was taking gendron was mentally ill this classmates knew that gendron made strange facial expressions and said odd things m in class. last year he showed up for f school for a full week wearingul a hazmat suit, boots, gloves, everything recalled another student. police and school administrators understood perfectly well the gendrontors potentially dangerous. that s why they sent him too the psych ward even his ownve parents must have knownso that something was very wrong