[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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          CONGRESS OWES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GUN SAFETY REFORM

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, shame on us. Twenty 
kids killed in Newtown, Connecticut. You can see their faces here.
  Six college kids killed this week in Santa Barbara. Guns kill more 
young people in America than cancer, yet we can't pass universal 
background checks, an assault weapons ban, or limits on massacre 
magazines.
  Shame on us. We even have a gag order on any publicly funded health 
research into gun violence. As Edmund Burke said:

       There is no issue that is so controversial that it cannot 
     be debated.

  I would add that there is no issue that is so controversial that it 
cannot be researched, especially if such research could save lives.
  Congress is failing the American people, and it is time to stop. 
Let's pass the Thompson amendment today. We owe it to the families who 
have lost loved ones to gun violence, and we owe it to the families 
whose loved ones could be saved by real gun safety reforms.

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