[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13077]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               GUNS PREVENT MORE CRIME THAN ANYTHING ELSE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I voted for the Brady bill. I voted to 
ban certain semiautomatic weapons. I honestly tried to help. But enough 
is enough. Guns are a two-edge sword, dangerous for sure, but guns 
prevent more crime than anything else in America, and no one is saying 
it.
  Mr. Speaker, armed robbers just do not fear the welcome wagon, and 
all the policemen in the world, and I used to be one, may never get 
there in time.
  I say be careful, Congress. Certainly guns are a symptom of great 
problems in America. But guns are not the root causation of all these 
problems in America.

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