January 8, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 3 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages H278-H279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HELP SOLVE THE GUN CRISIS

  (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Madam Speaker, on November 7, 12 lives 
were stolen from us during the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill 
in my district. As our community began to reckon with this tragedy, I 
said: ``Today we mourn. Tomorrow we work to end the senseless gun 
violence ravaging our Nation.''
  But we didn't even have time to recover from our shock before 
wildfires raged through our community. Our trauma was made unthinkably 
worse, but we were also united by these dual tragedies, united in 
reflection and healing.
  My community knows that there is no single solution to ending mass 
shootings, but we also know that to do nothing, to not even try, would 
be unimaginable. We cannot bring back those lives lost, but we can take 
sensible action to find solutions that will make the lives of our 
constituents better and safer.
  One very obvious, commonsense solution that more than 90 percent of 
this country supports is universal background checks. H.R. 8 will not 
solve all of the gun violence that is ripping our Nation apart, but it 
will help. That is

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what we are here to do. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 8.

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