“This year alone [2016] 6,093 people have been killed by guns in our country. This includes the one hundred and twenty-five people who were killed by guns in the three and a half days since Orlando. A hundred and twenty-five more people have died since Orlando. If we stood here and provided 6,093 victims a minute of silence, we’d be standing here for four days, five hours, and thirty-three minutes. Moments of silence are not enough.”
— Senator Mazie Hirono (D) of Hawaii putting the amount of people who die by gun violence in the United States into perspective during her filibuster speech (via coldwarlesbian)