[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 204 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 204

Supporting the Million Mom March against gun violence and accepting the 
 challenge to reduce by 5,000 the number of lives lost to gun violence 
  by the year 2005, by instituting and supporting policies that will 
                           further that goal.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 3, 2003

     Mrs. McCarthy of New York submitted the following concurrent 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Supporting the Million Mom March against gun violence and accepting the 
 challenge to reduce by 5,000 the number of lives lost to gun violence 
  by the year 2005, by instituting and supporting policies that will 
                           further that goal.

Whereas the United States has the highest rate of death by gunfire of any 
        industrialized nation, and for every person that is killed by a gun in 
        the United States, approximately 3 people are injured;
Whereas, from 1999 to 2002, approximately 120,000 people were killed by gunfire 
        in the United States, and of that number, approximately 14,000 of these 
        victims were children and young adults;
Whereas every 9 hours in the United States someone's child aged 10 to 19 commits 
        suicide with a gun;
Whereas the number of gun deaths, particularly for gun-related suicide, 
        represents a public crisis that is in need of resolution;
Whereas the Million Mom March, a nationwide, grassroots, chapter-based 
        organization, committed to keeping communities free from gun death and 
        injury, has called on Congress to achieve the goal of saving 5,000 lives 
        by the year 2005, by instituting and supporting policies that will help 
        further this goal;
Whereas that goal of 5,000 lives represents just under 10 percent of the 
        approximately 56,000 people who, at the current rate, will die from gun 
        violence over the next 2 years;
Whereas each death due to gun violence leaves a trail of grief, trauma, and 
        sorrow in friend and family of the victim; and
Whereas there are many common sense, reasonable solutions to saving lives from 
        gun violence: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) recognizes that the number of gun-related deaths and 
        injuries in the United States is unacceptable and amounts to a 
        public health crisis;
            (2) urges the Surgeon General, as a public health issue, to 
        warn parents of the dangers of keeping a loaded, unlocked 
        firearm in a house with small children or teenagers;
            (3) concurs with the Million Mom March that--
                    (A) people throughout the United States have the 
                right to be safe and secure from gun violence in their 
                homes, schools, workplace, and places of worship;
                    (B) all children have the right to grow up free 
                from the threat of gun violence;
                    (C) gun violence is a public health crisis that 
                harms the spiritual, social, and economic health of our 
                families and communities; and
                    (D) it is possible to reduce the number of gun-
                related deaths and injuries with reasonable, common 
                sense policies; and
            (4) supports the Million Mom March against gun violence and 
        accepts its call to action to reduce by 5,000 the number of 
        lives lost to gun violence by the year 2005, by instituting and 
        supporting policies that will further this goal.
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