[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 111 (Monday, July 11, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   RECENT TRAGEDIES ARE TIED TOGETHER

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, Dallas, Texas; Falcon Heights, Minnesota; 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana--these are not individual incidents occurring in 
a vacuum outside the orbits of each other. These tragedies are tied 
together by the threads of anger and fear. They filled me with horror, 
with sadness, and grief.
  I know that we as a nation cannot allow ourselves to grow numb to 
this. Each of these deaths, each of these innocent lives lost, should 
cause each of us great sorrow and pain. They should pain us not just 
for the simple loss of human life, but also for the realization that 
their deaths--and the more than 90 people who die from gunfire each day 
in this Nation--are the painful signs that something is profoundly 
wrong in our society.
  Let us begin the healing and let us unite by passing no fly, no buy 
and universal background checks. As the President has said, ``We are 
better than this.''

                          ____________________