[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         REPEAL THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN? A POLITICAL DEATH WISH

  (Mr. SKAGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, the House votes today on a bill to repeal 
the assault weapons ban, a political death wish in the most literal 
sense possible.
  Please think about what Dion, Ty, and Aaron would say about this.
  One night in 1993, these three high school students from Westminster, 
CO, were driving home, minding their own business, when out of the 
dark, without any warning or cause, another young person in a car 
pulled up beside them and started firing.
  Dion was hit five times, Ty twice, Aaron once. Luckily, none of them 
died. But they were all shot, and shot so many times, because the 
person shooting at them had a AK-47.
  Mr. Speaker what in the world is a weapon like that doing on the 
streets of Colorado?
  It was not there because any hunter needed it. It was there because 
the gangs and the criminals and the psychos want to use it to kill as 
many people as they can and to outgun the police.
  In September 1993, one of them was used on these three young men. 
Please, for God's sake do not repeal the ban on these awful weapons.

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