[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 355 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 355

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the people of 
   the United States should be encouraged to practice random acts of 
                               kindness.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 1994

  Mr. Tucker (for himself, Mr. Lehman, Mr. Thomas of California, Mr. 
  Valentine, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Watt, and Ms. Roybal-
 Allard) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the people of 
   the United States should be encouraged to practice random acts of 
                               kindness.

Whereas the incidence of random acts of violence in the United States has 
        reached epidemic levels;
Whereas the Surgeon General of the United States estimates that, every day in 
        the United States, 135,000 children carry guns to school;
Whereas every day in the United States 3 children are killed by child abuse, 9 
        children are murdered, 13 children are killed by guns, 30 children are 
        wounded by guns, 307 children are arrested for crimes of violence, 7,945 
        children are reported abused or neglected, and 5,703 teenagers are 
        victims of violent crime;
Whereas every 4 hours a child in the United States commits suicide;
Whereas, in the United States, every 6 minutes a rape is committed, and every 
        year between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 women are battered by their 
        partners and more than 200,000 women are stalked;
Whereas, every year in the United States, there are 4.7 random acts of violence 
        committed against every 1,000 persons 65 years of age or older;
Whereas, every year in the United States, there are 758.1 random acts of 
        violence for every 100,000 persons in the United States, and 235 
        firearm-related acts of violence for every 100,000 persons in the United 
        States;
Whereas there are 238,000,000 handguns in the United States;
Whereas, in 1992 in the United States, there were 1,730 anti-Semitic incidents, 
        the total number of white-supremacist groups rose 27 percent above the 
        number from the previous year, and a record number of bias-related 
        incidents, including 31 murders, were reported;
Whereas hate crimes against Asians comprised 8.9 percent of all hate crimes 
        documented in Los Angeles County in 1990;
Whereas the United States strongly opposes random acts of violence, and all 
        forms of intolerance and mean-spiritedness based on ethnicity, religion, 
        race, gender, or sexual orientation; and
Whereas Professor Chuck Wall of Bakersfield College has committed his efforts to 
        promoting random acts of kindness among all people: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the people of the United States should be encouraged to practice random 
acts of kindness, in the spirit of compassion, kindness, and goodwill 
toward all persons.

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