[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 129 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H3824-H3825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    GUN VIOLENCE PLAGUES OUR COUNTRY

  (Ms. STEVENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the gun 
violence plaguing this country and the elected officials who stand by 
and watch, content on not passing new laws to address its scourge on 
the American people.
  I rise for the 9-year anniversary of the mass shooting that took 
place in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, 9 years ago this week--12 
lives gone, 70 injured.
  I rise for all of those who were at the baseball game just this last 
weekend around the corner, running for their lives because they heard 
there was a shooting.
  Your gun rights are not under attack when 23 million firearms were 
sold in the United States of America in 2020 alone. But what is under 
attack is your ability to live freely in this country without the 
threat of gun violence in a movie theater, in your place of worship, in 
your school, in your backyard, or driving around at night.

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  I rise for the students who marched for their lives, and I rise 
because the need to pass a law for gun safety is of the fierce urgency 
of the now.

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