February 27, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 36 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CLOSING BACKGROUND CHECK LOOPHOLE IS LIFE SUPPORT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, selling a gun to a convicted felon, to a 
perpetrator of domestic violence, to a fugitive from justice, merits a 
jail term, but those who oppose this reasonable background check bill 
are enabling just that.
  Someone who couldn't buy a .22 inside a gun shop can, today, go 
outside that shop and buy a military-style killing machine and get away 
with it.
  Doctors Seth Goldstein and Lisa Epstein, who visited my office this 
very week on behalf of Moms Demand Action, and 117 San Antonio 
physicians, they have a view that is different from Members of Congress 
concerning the result of gun violence. They witness this violence in 
the emergency room after young bodies are torn apart.
  What a different view this debate would have if it were occurring 
amidst the pain, violence, and blood in a hospital emergency room, 
because closing this loophole is about life support.
  We have got to end the trauma. Let's join the doctors who are out 
there seeking to save lives and do our part to save lives by passing 
this bill.

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