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18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. thats 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. its time to ban these. its time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] its time to hold every elected of...

Appreciate the emergency frame around this. we have an emergency, folks. the maga republicans, these are not normal republicans. these are not conservative republicans. these are people who cant or wont condemn an insurrection. and they have insurrectionists confused with patriots. it was just this shot of -- this injection of reality and truth into a debate that hasnt really had particularly sharp edges on the part of elected democrats until the president stepped right into the center of it tod...