[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15891-15892]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          ENDING GUN VIOLENCE

  (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, last week we 
experienced the 45th school shooting in 2015. Nearly 10,000 people have 
been killed by guns this year alone; yet, too many leaders respond with 
absolute indifference. They tell us that ``stuff happens,'' that we 
should just move on.
  Are the 20 kids killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School just stuff 
happening? Are the 32 murdered at Virginia Tech just stuff happening? 
Are the 12 people gunned down in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater 
just stuff happening? What about the 9 people killed at Umpqua 
Community College on Friday?

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  This stuff has real costs to families, to friends, to our whole 
community, to our country. It does not have to happen.
  Let's make gun trafficking in illegal weapons a Federal felony and 
have universal background checks.
  Let's end the moments of silence on the floor and have, instead, 
votes on the floor to end gun violence.

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