[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8696]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IT IS TIME TO ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, if I could every minute of the day 
offer to those in Orlando who had to experience the most horrific 
terroristic mass shooting in the United States, I would do so every 
minute of the day. I would also do so, however, for others who have 
suffered at the hands of those who have used guns violently and used 
guns illegally, for I am not ashamed to be someone who understands the 
First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and all amendments, to stand and 
say that it is immoral that this Congress does not act to move forward 
on securing the American people.
  It is important to know that assault weapons, guns have been used in 
mass shootings: San Bernardino; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Charleston, 
South Carolina; Garland, Texas; Oak Creek, Wisconsin; and Fort Hood, 
Texas. Mother Emanuel, of course, is Charleston, and then, of course, 
Newtown, where babies were murdered and slaughtered.
  This was a hateful crime, and more than one in three hate crimes end 
in violence. It was Hispanics. It was the LGBTQ community. Tell it what 
it is: hatefulness, terrorism. Pass the assault weapons ban now. No 
fly, no buy now. Time to act. It is immoral for us not to act.

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