[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 17 (Thursday, January 26, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H348-H349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                END EASY ACCESS TO UNREGULATED FIREARMS

  (Mrs. McBATH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McBATH. Mr. Speaker, there have been 40 separate mass shootings 
since the year began. This weekend, 18 people were murdered within 
hours of each other.
  That is it. That is all there is to say.
  What do these mass murders all have in common? Easy access to 
unregulated firearms. That is the problem.
  It cannot get any clearer. Without easy access to unregulated 
firearms,

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these mass murders do not happen; these families do not grieve; and 
this country does not live in fear.
  Without easy access to unregulated firearms, we save lives. It is 
just that simple. It is truly that simple.
  This type of bloodshed doesn't happen in other developed nations 
around the world, only here in the United States of America. Other 
nations don't allow unfettered access to unregulated firearms.
  This is not who we are supposed to be as America. We should feel safe 
in our communities.

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