[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17291]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PREVENTING ANOTHER SANDY HOOK MASSACRE

  (Ms. DeGETTE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, last Friday, 20 beautiful children and 
their loving teachers were shot by a deranged man with an assault rifle 
that had a high-capacity magazine. The time has come for us to have a 
national conversation about this--about mental health, about the 
community issues, about school safety, and about these types of 
weapons.
  Now, we know we are never going to be able to stop disturbed 
individuals from going into a school or a movie theater or a shopping 
mall to do harm, but we can slow them down. We don't have to give them 
so many bullets in high-capacity clips so that they can shoot 26 people 
in 10 minutes multiple times. We can take those away, and that will 
give people a fighting chance. By limiting those clips, we can save 
lives.
  We can start right now by doing that, Mr. Speaker. There is a bill 
which Congresswoman McCarthy, Congresswoman Maloney, and I are 
sponsoring. We can pass the bill this week on a bipartisan basis, and 
we can tell the moms and dads of America that it's a first step to 
keeping their kids safe.

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