[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22425]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            GUN CONTROL LAWS

  (Mrs. CHENOWETH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, most people who know me know that I am 
never really inclined to praise The Washington Post. But The Washington 
Post, to their credit, ran a very fine story this past Sunday about gun 
control that surprised me quite a bit.
  Apparently, my friends on the other side of the aisle missed that 
article or have decided to merely misrepresent this whole issue. The 
article points out that none of the gun control bills debated by 
Congress this year if passed into law would have stopped any of the 
recent shootings which have taken so many of our children's lives.
  The reason is quite simple. All of the killers had either bought 
their guns legally or found an easy way to get around State and Federal 
laws. The article went through each shooting and each killer, the 
killers at Columbine; Mike Barton in Atlanta; Buford Furrow, Jr., in 
Los Angeles; Benjamin Nathaniel Smith in Illinois and Indiana; and 
Larry Geen Ashbrook in Fort Worth, Texas; and it traced the steps 
through which the purchase of the guns occurred before those shootings.
  Again, no gun control laws so passionately advocated by those on the 
other side would have had any impact on these killers.

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