[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               MANAGING ASSAULT WEAPONS AND ASSAULT CLIPS

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. We've heard about it already: Friday was a terrible 
day in America, a terrible day in Connecticut. I represent the city of 
Aurora, Colorado, and we had a terrible day on July 20 when 12 people 
were killed and 58 were injured through assault weapons and these 
assault clips, these high-capacity clips. We've had numerous people 
killed at a Sikh temple since then, and shots were fired in a shopping 
center in Oregon just last week.
  Assault weapons and assault clips, we must manage these things. The 
old saying is, ``Guns don't kill people. People kill people.'' Well, 
crazy people with guns kill people, and we've got to start handling 
this so that we protect our children, our seniors, our shoppers, our 
churchgoers. This is something that we need to tackle now, Mr. Speaker. 
I appreciate the opportunity to speak about this. It is time to tackle 
these assault clips and assault weapons, which have done such terrible 
damage to our kids and our people.

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