[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22512]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, for 5 months, common sense gun safety 
measures have been stymied by the Republican leadership. Our efforts to 
close the loopholes that give kids and criminals easy access to guns 
have been repeatedly stifled. Every day results in lives that are lost.
  Thirteen children in this country are killed by guns every day, 13 
American youngsters every single day. The other side argues that no 
laws can stop bad men with evil in their hearts from shooting innocent 
people. Perhaps they are right. But they are masking a very important 
truth.
  I am sad to say that thousands of children are killed by guns by 
accident. These children find loaded guns without safety locks and they 
pull the trigger. The frequency of these deaths is heartbreaking, and 
they could be prevented.
  I urge my colleagues to pass the common sense measures that could 
reduce our country's epidemic of gun deaths.
  Today I continue reading the names of children who have been killed 
by guns since Columbine:
  Kenneth Acoff, age 17, killed by gunfire on September 4, 1992, 
Cleveland, Ohio; Casey Crow, age 15, killed by gunfire on September 6, 
1999, Maple Heights, Ohio; Nicholas Lenz, age 13, killed by gunfire on 
September 9, 1999, Clear Lake, Iowa; George Mark, age 17, killed by 
gunfire on September 12, 1999, Quinhagak Alaska; Joseph B. Frazier, age 
16, killed by gunfire on September 14, 1999, Durham, North Carolina; 
Cassandra Griffin, age 14, killed by gunfire on September 15, 1999, 
Fort Worth, Texas.

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