[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 920 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 920

Expressing support for the designation of June as National Gun Violence 
   Awareness Month, and calling on Congress to address gun violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2018

   Ms. Norton (for herself and Mr. Hastings) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing support for the designation of June as National Gun Violence 
   Awareness Month, and calling on Congress to address gun violence.

Whereas summer is the season with the highest rates of gun violence in the 
        United States;
Whereas 100,000 Americans suffer gunshot wounds in the United States every year;
Whereas approximately 96 people die and approximately 200 are injured from gun 
        violence each day in the United States;
Whereas more than 60 percent of all gunshot victims in the United States are 
        under 30 years old;
Whereas every 70 minutes one American under the age of 25 loses his or her life 
        to gun violence;
Whereas 5 percent of gun dealers (approximately 3,000 dealers nationwide) supply 
        nearly 90 percent of all crime guns that show up in American streets;
Whereas more children have been killed by guns in the United States since the 
        2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting than the total number of 
        American soldiers killed in overseas combat since September 11, 2001;
Whereas more Americans have died from gunshot wounds in the past three decades 
        than the sum total of combat deaths in all the wars in United States 
        history;
Whereas half of all suicides are a result of gunshot wounds;
Whereas 90 percent of homicides of law enforcement officers are the result of 
        firearms;
Whereas firearms used during a robbery are three times more likely than knives 
        and ten times more likely than other weapons to result in the death of a 
        victim;
Whereas 20 percent of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former 
        partner using firearms;
Whereas gun violence declined in the 1990s after the enactment of the Brady 
        Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993, which created a national 
        background check system, and the Violent Crime Control and Law 
        Enforcement Act of 1994, which placed a 10-year ban on the sale of 
        assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines;
Whereas the ban on the sale of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition 
        magazines expired in 2004;
Whereas according to a 2014 study, of the 16 States that then required 
        background checks of private gun sales, there were 38 percent fewer 
        fatal shootings of women by their partners, 39 percent fewer police 
        murdered by firearms, 17 percent fewer firearm-aggravated assaults, and 
        49 percent fewer suicides using firearms;
Whereas more than 38,000 deaths in the United States were due to guns in 2016; 
        and
Whereas June would be an appropriate month to designate as National Gun Violence 
        Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the designation of National Gun Violence 
        Awareness Month; and
            (2) calls on Congress to pass gun violence prevention 
        legislation, including the following:
                    (A) H.R. 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018, to 
                ban assault weapons.
                    (B) H.R. 4240, the Public Safety and Second 
                Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2018, and H.R. 1612, 
                the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2017, to require 
                universal background checks.
                    (C) H.R. 4052, the Keep Americans Safe Act, to 
                prohibit large capacity ammunition magazines.
                    (D) H.R. 3464, the Background Check Completion Act, 
                to prevent firearms dealers from transferring firearms 
                before a background check of the prospective buyer has 
                been completed.
                    (E) H.R. 2598, the Gun Violence Restraining Order 
                Act of 2017, to allow ``red flag'' restraining orders 
                for those who pose a risk of injury to themselves or 
                others.
                    (F) H.R. 3999, to ban bump stocks.
                    (G) H.R. 1475, the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act 
                of 2017, to limit the trafficking of firearms.
                    (H) H.R. 3207, the Zero Tolerance for Domestic 
                Abusers Act, to protect victims of stalking from gun 
                violence.
                    (I) H.R. 5383, the Ammunition Background Check Act 
                of 2018, to require background checks for all purchases 
                of ammunition.
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