[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               SANDY HOOK

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Presiding Officer is from the State of 
Connecticut, and I want the record spread with how much I admire what 
he and Senator Blumenthal have done in not letting the American people 
forget about Sandy Hook--not forget about those little tiny boys and 
girls.
  My little grandchildren do not live here. I have three grandchildren, 
but they are teenagers. My little grandchildren are in Nevada, so I 
don't have a chance to see them. But I was in church yesterday and saw 
all these little kids, little beautiful children. To think these little 
boys and girls, just like the ones I saw yesterday, would be gunned 
down--shot multiple times, most of them; teachers trying to save these 
little children just cut down with an automatic weapon.
  I admire the two Senators from Connecticut. They are not going to let 
this fade from our minds. Keep in mind, I met with the Sandy Hook 
people on several occasions. They are not asking for anything that is 
outrageous. Their first step is to say that someone who is crazy--I am 
sorry, that is not a good term of art--someone who has extreme mental 
problems should not be able to buy a gun. Someone who is a criminal 
should not be able to buy a gun. That is all we want. We will settle 
for that. The people of Sandy Hook will settle for that.
  I admire what the Presiding Officer has done and what Senator 
Blumenthal has done. We cannot let these terrible things that happened 
in Aurora, CO--someone walks in with a weapon that has a magazine of 
100 bullets. He would have killed a lot more, but the gun jammed.

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