[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5433]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                GUN LAWS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, America has been through a tough time 
the last few weeks due to serious incidents that happened in Buffalo 
and in Texas. But last week, I was down at the Mexican border, and I 
talked to some Border Patrol guys, who, because we were Congressmen, 
brought up what happens when we make it as difficult as possible for 
law-abiding people to own guns.
  Right now, if you compare Mexico and the United States, Mexico has--
per capita--about five times as many murders as they do in the U.S. Not 
5 percent more, not 50 percent more, five times as many. I am sure the 
Mexican elected officials who passed those laws making it so difficult 
to get a gun thought they were going to have a peaceful paradise down 
there.
  Right now, many people are running all over each other to say: Let's 
pass law. Let's pass this law. Let's take a look and see what happened 
in Mexico and whether the sole answer is more laws.
  Meanwhile, I have a bill making it more difficult to bring guns into 
schools, and right now, that bill is not moving. I think that would 
have a good impact.

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