[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11907]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      EXPRESSING SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE COLORADO TRAGEDY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we all came together 
prayerfully last week as the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, took place.
  The State of Texas has a relationship with Colorado. We probably were 
of one territory some time ago. But I rise today to extend my sympathy 
to Congressman Perlmutter and the entire congressional delegation in 
Colorado, both House and Senate.
  I also rise to offer sympathy to the victims and those fallen--
families, innocent babies, children, that were injured.
  And I reach out to say this: Tell the NRA to come and sit down with 
all of us so that this Congress can work in an effective manner, that 
we can begin to look at issues such as buying 6,000 rounds of 
ammunition on the Internet, not against the Second Amendment, but that 
the fact that the Internet sellers did not even have to give notice 
that one person was buying 6,000 rounds of ammunition. There's no 
Federal law on that issue. There's not even a Federal law to give 
notice on that issue.
  We can find common ground. Something has to be done, whether it is a 
disturbed person or not, whether it's a terrorist act. And for me, this 
issue was a terrorist condition because of what happened.
  But I want us to come together as one. We can do so, and we can come 
together to do what is good for the American people, respect the Second 
Amendment, but find ways to protect the American people, whoever they 
are, wherever they live, from these dangers.
  May God bless the people who have now fallen, and those who suffer, 
and God bless the United States of America.

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