[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H858]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        GUN VIOLENCE IS MISNOMER

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, it is indeed National Gun Violence 
Survivors Week. We all share in mourning the loss of those lives that 
have been taken by those filled with anger, hate, and evil. However, 
gun violence is a misnomer.
  Evil lies in the hearts of people. Guns are inanimate objects, much 
like this pen, which isn't going to move for the entire time I am 
making this speech.
  It is naive to believe that more gun seizures, more violations of our 
Second Amendment, are going to do anything other than create more 
victims in gun-free zones. Ask Jack Wilson, who stopped evil because he 
was armed in that church in Texas recently.
  It is naive to think that evil will be disarmed. Only the innocent 
will be disarmed in this continued press to have our Second Amendment 
violated and eliminated.

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