[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2013]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, there is senseless gun violence.
  Over the past weekend in our community, a young man who was 19 years 
old, who worked in a pizzeria, was gunned down. The story says that, 
during this robbery, he attempted to respond to the killer's demands. 
In spite of that, he was gunned down--murdered.
  We have listened to the sad but eloquent comments of our colleagues 
from Michigan of vicious gun violence--of a person with 11 guns in his 
home. Yes, as many say, people kill; guns don't--but they use guns to 
kill.
  It is time for this Congress, as many police officers have said to 
me, to get its hands around the rampage of guns and gun violence, of 
senseless killings, of bad guys--some good guys--killing people with 
guns. It is important to close the gun show loophole, to be able to use 
and to demand science and safety restraints.
  I am appalled, but I am outraged. Enough is enough of innocent people 
being killed by gun violence.

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