[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 53 (Thursday, May 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 5, 1994]
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         VOTING AGAINST ASSAULT WEAP- ONS BAN WILL HURT AMERICA

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today's debate is not about guns. It is 
about politics.
  Congress is getting phone calls. People are saying, ``Vote `no''' 
vote ``no''; from good Americans who believe Congress will ultimately 
take away their guns.
  As a former sheriff, let me remind Members today that Congress is 
getting no phone calls from the graves of victims in cemeteries all 
over America.
  It is time to stand up. The President is right. Ladies and gentlemen, 
there is a limit to this madness.
  Mario Andretti cannot drive his Indianapolis 500 race car on the 
Pennsylvania Turnpike, and you do not need a machine gun with a grenade 
launcher and a bayonet to kill a rabbit.
  Congress, stand up. This vote will hurt me today politically, but a 
``no'' vote by Jim Traficant and by this Congress will hurt America.

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