[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               GUN SAFETY

  (Ms. CARSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CARSON. Mr. Speaker, Mother's Day just passed, a day for 
celebration for some and, unfortunately, a day of mourning for too many 
women who no longer have a child to call them mother.
  In Indianapolis, a young mother named Michelle Miller mourned her 
young son who was killed while playing with a loaded firearm.
  In Littleton, Colorado, 12 mothers mourned their children, killed by 
two teens who found access to deadly firepower all too easy.
  We have a number of good proposals pending before this 106th Congress 
on gun safety. I have a common-sense bill, H.R. 515, that has already 
been joined with 49 cosponsors, that will require child safety devices 
on handguns and establish standards for those devices.
  We can move now to enact common-sense gun regulations that does not 
violate anybody's constitutional rights to bear arms but does protect 
the lives of a lot of innocents.
  Mr. Speaker, let us celebrate Father's Day in a more profound way, by 
passing gun safety legislation.

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