[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9919]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    GUN VIOLENCE AT AMERICAN SCHOOLS

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Tuesday morning's fatal 
shooting at Reynolds High School is the 74th shooting at a school on 
American soil since a lone gunman's attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in 
Newtown, Connecticut, in December, 2012.
  The list of shootings, which includes 13 school shootings in the 
first 6 weeks of this year, was compiled and is on the Web site of Moms 
Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Earlier, my colleague, Ted 
Deutch, recited all 74 of them.
  Yesterday and two other times in the last 2 weeks, the House rightly 
held moments of silence. I and two of my colleagues did not stand, not 
because of disrespect for those who lost their lives; we abhor the loss 
of life, and we abhor the House of Representatives taking moments of 
silence and then returning to business as usual and doing absolutely 
nothing about gun violence.

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