[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, last week, a man submitted his 2-weeks' 
notice to his place of employment in Virginia Beach before going there 
and shooting 12 people and injuring 4 others. He unloaded dozens of 
rounds indiscriminately. In addition to having two handguns, he had 
extended ammunition magazines and a suppressor to muffle the sound of 
gunfire.
  This was the 100th mass shooting in America, coming on the 100th day 
of the year. This has become a regular part of life in the United 
States of America--individuals walking into churches and shopping malls 
and schools and places of employment and shooting indiscriminately such 
that dozens of innocent lives are lost. In most cases, the same kinds 
of weapons are used--semiautomatic rifles, extended magazines--weapons 
or components of weapons that are banned in other countries and that 
were banned in this country for a period of time because they were 
believed to have been so dangerous such that they should have been in 
the exclusive province of the military and law enforcement.

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