[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19395-19396]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             MASS SHOOTINGS

  (Ms. KELLY of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, another mass shooting, another 
moment of silence. Actually, we will have to do two in a day or back-
to-back because of the shooting in Savannah, Georgia. That did not get 
the attention because 1 person died and 3 people were injured, not like 
in California, where 14 died and 17 were injured.
  You stood already this week for Colorado. I say ``you'' because I 
don't do it

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any more. I can't be hypocritical. You stand up, you sit down, you do 
nothing.
  There have been 355 mass shootings so far this year, not to mention 
the many who have died alone and get no attention or no moment of 
silence.
  When are we really going to stand up and do something? Just who has 
to die--your mother? your wife? your son? Or how many? We need to stand 
up, speak up, and take actions rather than another moment of silence. 
It is deafening, and it is killing us.

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