[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                         STANDING UP TO THE NRA

  (Mr. TORRES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, like the American people, like the people in 
my own district, I have a vested interest in this bill. I have a 
provision in this bill that would deal with those gang members that 
drive by my streets at night in my district and shoot down innocent 
people, people like we heard about earlier in San Diego, Willie, a 
bullet through his head, the Persian Gulf veteran who was gunned down 
by a 15-year-old punk with an assault weapon, the innocent grandmother, 
the innocent child that gets killed.
  Every weekend I go home and I am tired of wakes, I am tired of 
funerals.
  Mothers, fathers tell me, ``Congressman, do something. Do something 
back there.''
  I am doing something. I am going to vote for this crime bill today. I 
am going to make sure that these gang members go to prison and pay the 
penalty for killing people.
  It is in this bill, and this is the only way we are going to do it.
  When the NRA sends me an insidious letter like this saying that there 
can be an impact because I am going to vote for this bill, I say, come 
on, I am ready to take you on.

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