[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SAVE THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, in the extremist world of this Republican 
Congress, things just get stranger every day.
  Today's outrage is the Republican concept of rights. What rights do 
the American people have?
  Quality, affordable health care for our seniors? That's not a right.
  Head Start and student loans and immunizations for our children? 
Those aren't rights.
  How about job training, a decent minimum wage, and economic security 
for American workers? No rights there.
  But owning an Uzi submachinegun that can fire over 100 rounds a 
minute and is designed to terrorize our communities? Now that is a 
right.
  What my Republican friends have really forgotten is a sense of right 
and wrong.
  What is absolutely right is for this Congress to take every step 
possible to protect our families, our children, and our neighborhoods 
from senseless gun violence.
  What is absolutely wrong is to care more about a few thousand bucks 
from the NRA than keeping our kids and communities safe.
  Today let's vote for our kids instead of for the cash. Vote to 
protect our families and save the assault weapons ban.

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