[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 18, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H6368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               GUN SAFETY

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, every day the Republican leadership wastes 
not taking action on gun safety, 12 to 13 children die as a result of 
gun violence. That is 13 children gone forever. This is not a game, 
this is about our children's lives.
  Yesterday a 13-year-old boy fired a gun in a cafeteria at his middle 
school in Seattle. How many more children's lives need to be 
jeopardized before this Congress acts?
  Our children need safety locks on guns, they need effective 
background checks, and they need the NRA to loosen its grip on the 
Republican leadership. They need all of this now; not tomorrow, not 
next year, now.
  With just 2 weeks before the August recess, I urge my Republican 
colleagues, stop playing politics with our children's lives. Start 
working on a meaningful gun legislation package. Our children's lives 
depend on it.

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