[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9277]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CLOSE THE GUN LAW LOOPHOLES

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, this morning, as I watched some news 
reports of my good friend Chris Murphy's closing comments on the Senate 
floor, I thought about another period of time in this country that 
focused on some real troubling circumstances that existed. A man named 
Thomas Paine sat down to write what he felt.
  He wrote: ``These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier 
and the Sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service 
of their country; but he that stands by it now deserves the love and 
thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; 
yet we have this consolation with us that, the harder the conflict, the 
more glorious the triumph.''
  We are living in some trying times. This House, for some reason, is 
refusing to stand up and face the consequences of what we are about to 
live if we don't close these loopholes that exist in our gun laws.
  Mr. Speaker, in a few minutes, we are going to be debating a piece of 
legislation that we have already voted on, but it didn't stop Orlando 
or Charleston. Tomorrow, as we commemorate the first anniversary of the 
Emanuel nine, I would hope we would give serious consideration to 
closing these loopholes.

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