[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 13, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H874]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. RUSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor of the House today to 
address the issue of gun-related violence and deaths in America. Last 
Thursday, the first day I began this series of statements on the plague 
of gun violence that's sweeping our country, two more gun-related 
incidents captured the Nation's attention.
  In Portsmouth, Ohio, an estranged husband shot and then stabbed his 
wife to death on the schoolhouse steps. She was a fifth grade teacher, 
and she died in front of her students.
  The second incident that grabbed headlines that day occurred during a 
city council meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri. In that suburban town, the 
assailant took the lives of five innocent people. A sixth victim, 
Kirkwood Mayor Michael Swoboda, is still clinging to life. And so in a 
sign of respect for the victims, Kenneth Yost, police officers Tom 
Ballman and William Biggs, and council members Michael Lynch and Connie 
Carr of Kirkwood as well as teacher Christi Layne of Portsmouth, I 
enter these six names in the Record.
  When will America join me in saying, Enough is enough? Stop the 
killings.

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