[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 DISAPPOINTING LEGISLATION FROM THE HOUSE LEADERSHIP ON GUN SAFETY AND 
                            SCHOOL VIOLENCE

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, disappointed in this House. I 
come from the district in California with the highest gun registration. 
Four years ago, when I ran for Congress and I walked 60,000 households 
door-to-door, I came across a lot of those gun owners, hunters, people 
who liked to go down to the range and shoot their guns, people who 
collect guns.
  But they agreed with me, they agreed that decent people who want to 
own guns do not mind waiting to have their background checked. They 
agreed that there were too many weapons in criminals' hands, especially 
in an urban area like the one I represent.
  That was before Jonesboro, that was before Littleton, and that was 
before last week, just this past weekend, when one of our deputy 
sheriffs in Orange County was sitting in his patrol car and was gunned 
down, riddled by someone with a machine gun who was mad because this 
officer had stopped him 3 weeks before.
  Mr. Speaker, we need real legislation to help America.

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