[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1779-1780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN CONTROL

  (Mr. POMPEO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMPEO. Mr. Speaker, we're now some 11 weeks out from the tragedy 
that occurred in Newtown, Connecticut. And while all the talk today is 
about the sequester, we still have politicians and pundits all across 
the country that are purporting to try and solve this epidemic of gun 
violence with new rules taking away guns from ordinary citizens.
  Unfortunately--and this is humbling for many in politics--no law or 
set of laws can possibly address in a meaningful way all of the 
challenges that we face today with a violent America. In fact, we face 
a much deeper, more malignant problem. It's a culture that degrades and 
cheapens life.
  That's why I continue to be disappointed to hear the President 
propose further gun control. The President's plan isn't so much an 
attempt to solve a problem as an attempt to fulfill a wish list for gun 
control advocates. Unfortunately, for the American people, an 
opportunity for a real national dialogue on the root causes of this 
type of violence is being missed.
  I've heard from hundreds of Kansans on the issue of gun control, and 
the vast majority of them understand that Washington restricting their 
Second Amendment rights will do very little to end the violence in our 
society or to improve the safety of their families or in their schools 
of their children.

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