[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12186]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DOMESTIC TERRORISM

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the moment of silence that we 
extended the victims of the Aurora, Colorado, massacre yesterday. But 
the more telling silence is this body's refusal to address the issue of 
gun control. As a result, a comparable number of Americans will be 
killed by firearms every day. There are 10,000 homicides by firearms in 
America every year, 19 times the number of firearm deaths in all 
civilized countries combined.
  Today is the anniversary of the shooting deaths of two of our Capitol 
policemen. We responded to those killings with remorse and even more 
heartfelt condolences after our colleague Gabby was shot, but 60 more 
multiple murders have been committed since then.
  Thirty-two innocent students at Virginia Tech were massacred, and 
Virginia's legislative body actually weakened the State's gun control 
laws, suggesting that the fault was with the students because they 
weren't carrying firearms themselves. A similar comment was made by a 
Member of this body after the Aurora killings that there should have 
been a shootout in that darkened theater.
  This is domestic terrorism, Madam Speaker. We ought to stop being so 
soft on such crime. If this shooting had been committed by foreign 
terrorists, we'd send the marines out after them, but foreign 
terrorists don't buy their weapons from dealers who are members of the 
NRA.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Emerson). The Chair would like to 
remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the 
House and that any manifestation of approval or disapproval of 
proceedings is in violation of the rules of the House.

                          ____________________