May 10, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 78 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Page H3687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            KIDS DESERVE LEADERS WORKING TO END GUN VIOLENCE

  (Ms. WEXTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WEXTON. Madam Speaker, a 12-year-old from Highlands Ranch, Nate 
Holley, explained that he was in his classroom's closet with his hand 
on a baseball bat because he was going to go down fighting if he was 
going to go down.
  In the span of 2 weeks, two students were killed lunging at shooters 
in their classrooms to defend their classmates. Their names: Kendrick 
Castillo, 18 years old, just 3 days away from his high school 
graduation, and Riley Howell, 21 years old, an ROTC cadet at UNC 
Charlotte.
  These young men are heroes, but they shouldn't have to be.
  The Senate majority leader won't even allow a vote on any gun safety 
bills. What is it going to take? How many shootings, how many more 
young lives cut short, until we take action?
  The STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting marked the 30th incident of 
gun violence on K-12 school grounds just this year. Our kids deserve 
leaders who will do everything in their power to end gun violence in 
America.
  No more heroes. No more victims.

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