[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     COMMONSENSE GUN REFORM NEEDED

  (Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. Mr. Speaker, every day, dozens of Americans lose 
their lives to guns. If a virus killed dozens of Americans each day, we 
would treat it as a public health emergency. But despite that loss of 
life from gun violence, our country has failed to implement commonsense 
gun reform.
  One of those solutions is my bill, the COOL OFF Act, which would 
establish a 3-day waiting period on all handgun sales, to take the 
passion out of crimes of passion.
  Research has shown waiting periods reduce murders by 17 percent and 
suicides by 10 percent. A national waiting period would save hundreds 
if not thousands of lives each year by preventing handgun sales to 
those motivated toward crimes of passion.
  Thousands of Americans have died as we have waited to pass gun 
reform. By passing the COOL OFF Act, we can ensure that a wait of just 
3 days starts to save lives.

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