[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, this is Gun Violence Awareness Month. I rise 
to commemorate the life of Ms. Briuna Harps, a young woman with a 
bright future in Fort Worth, who lost her life in a senseless act of 
gun violence last month.
  Nineteen-year-old Briuna had just finished her first year of pre-med 
classes when she was visiting her sister at an apartment complex in 
Fort Worth and was struck by a bullet in the crossfire between two 
gangs, two idiotic gangs, in an idiotic gang war. Sadly, Briuna's death 
and deaths like it are too commonplace in America. Each day, nearly 100 
people in our Nation are killed by someone using a gun.
  Recently, the city of Fort Worth launched a local initiative to 
protect our neighborhoods and curb gun violence. The Senate can help us 
in this area by taking action to pass commonsense gun safety 
legislation that the House passed over 100 days ago. Taking action is 
the best way that we can honor the life of Briuna and the other lives 
just like hers who were lost to gun violence.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the community and give special thanks to Pastor 
Milton Pace, Tiffany Pace Whitaker, and Montreal Dukes for hosting a 
recent dialogue on curbing violence in our Fort Worth community.
  But we need the Senate to do their part. We need them to act. Pass 
the legislation that we passed in the House now.

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