[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10178]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      GUN VIOLENCE MUST END TODAY

  (Mr. KENNEDY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, 3 weeks ago we gathered on this floor for 
another moment of silence to remember 49 victims of the mass shooting 
in Orlando. In the days that followed, our response was the same as it 
was after Sandy Hook, Umpqua Community College, and Colorado Springs--
silence followed by more silence.
  In the days since, we can add hundreds of names to the list of those 
lost in our Nation to a unique epidemic of gun violence, including the 
following from Massachusetts:
  David Atherton, a young firefighter and veteran;
  Marcus Hall, killed as his 4-year-old son sat feet away getting his 
haircut;
  Trevor Washington, gunned down after a disagreement at a party;
  Andrew Flonory, murdered less than a mile from where his sister and 
2-year-old nephew had been executed 6 years earlier;
  Anthony Clay, a married father of two, who died as a woman yelled 
``Don't leave me'' over his body;
  And 19-year-old Sabrina DaSilva, who had just stepped out of her 
apartment to grab juice out of her car for her 2-year-old daughter, a 
daughter who will never see her mother again.
  Mr. Speaker, they are friends and neighbors who will be forever 
missed by the lives they touched, daughters and sons, mothers and 
fathers, whose families will forever live with the pain and suffering 
of losing a loved one. This violence must stop.

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