[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 163 (Tuesday, December 18, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H6836]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REINSTATE THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, we've been to this place before. Before the 
gut-churning horror and sadness of the killings at the elementary 
school in Newtown, there was a movie theater in Aurora, a college 
campus in Virginia, a high school in Columbine.
  On Friday, I couldn't stop thinking about my own grandson, Josiah, 
who is 6 and a first-grader at a school in Colorado. How much grief is 
enough? I think this grief is enough.
  We need to reinstate the assault weapons ban. We need to ban high-
capacity clips. We need more thorough background checks. And we need to 
offer more mental health services. But a life taken with a handgun is 
no less of a tragedy. A mother does not suffer less knowing that her 
child's life was extinguished with a gun that did not have a 30-round 
clip. Guns kill people. They need to be a lot harder to buy. We need to 
do a lot more to get them off our streets.
  This is our time, colleagues. This is our time. We need to pass bold, 
necessary, overdue gun control legislation. If we do not, this will 
happen again.

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