Senator Klobuchar was the first woman elected to represent the State of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate when she took office in 2007. She was interviewed by Walter Issacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, in one of the first events of the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I will never, ever forget was this one mother who said they were all in the firehouse after the shooting,\u201d [at Sandy Hook] said Klobuchar. \u201cAnd one by one, the kids would come in from the school. After about a few hours had passed, the parents that were left knew that their kids were never coming back into that firehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her story left the entire room quiet, the silence only being punctured by sniffling and crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when you sit there with those parents and think of the courage that they have and think that the Senate did not have the courage to pass a simple background check bill, it was really the lowest,\u201d said Klobuchar, adding that the possibility that the Senate could do something about gun control would be a step forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hmm. \u00a0She seemed pretty quiet about background checks in 2012 and 2014…<\/p>\n
…here at home, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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