[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SECURE GUNS AND PROTECT OUR KIDS

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, last week we read a powerful story under the 
headline: ``One Week in April, Four Toddlers Shot and Killed 
Themselves.''
  Last year, toddlers shot someone with unsecured guns at a rate of one 
per week, and we are outpacing that horrific rate this year.
  I stand here over and over, begging for Congress to act on gun 
violence, but today I plead for gun owners to be smart about the guns 
in their homes.
  The groups Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety are 
educating Americans and are encouraging gun owners to secure guns in 
their homes and vehicles, to model responsible behavior, to ask about 
unsecured guns in other homes, to recognize the risks of teen suicides, 
and to tell their peers to be smart by sharing these simple steps to 
stop heartbreaking violence. Our society is saturated with guns. There 
are 357 million guns and there are 317 million people--the highest 
concentration in the world.
  As The New York Times noted, if owners do not secure these guns, they 
will continue to end up in the hands of ``shooters who need help tying 
their shoelaces, too young sometimes to even say the word `gun,' killed 
by their own curiosity.''
  Mr. Speaker, on this gun issue, let's come together, all of us, to 
secure guns and to protect our kids.

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