[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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       LAWS DO NOT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE, ENFORCING CURRENT LAWS DO

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting as so many come to the 
well to try and make sense of the senseless. But it is extremely 
difficult to understand how we can undue senseless acts when current 
laws are not enforced. Penalizing law abiding Americans who freely 
exercise their rights under the Second Amendment does not improve 
anyone's safety.
  Indeed, the tragedy in Michigan that so many of us mourn could not 
have been reversed by expecting a 19-year-old criminal to put a lock on 
a loaded gun in a shoe box, preventing a 6 year old from getting the 
gun.
  Laws do not make the difference. Enforcing the current laws do. While 
we have an administration that refuses to enforce current laws and in 
some cases refuses to obey current laws, we have the crux of the 
problem confronting America.

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