June 4, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 93 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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




             ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: ACT NOW TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. SCHNEIDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHNEIDER. Madam Speaker, June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, a 
time for extra reflection on the immeasurable cost of lives lost and 
destroyed in senseless shootings. And it is another chance to demand 
that Congress act to stop the bloodshed.
  Once more, last Friday, a gunman attacked a local government building 
in Virginia Beach, killing 12 and wounding many more.
  This was the 150th mass shooting in America since the start of the 
year, on the 151st day of the year. Let that sink in: 150 days, 151 
mass shootings. Enough is enough.
  But it is not just mass shootings. This past weekend, in Chicago 
alone, at least 52 people were shot, and eight people died. Enough is 
enough.
  It is long past time for the Congress to take concrete action to 
reduce gun violence. As a House, we did that this year, passing H.R. 8, 
a bipartisan universal background check bill, but it has been more than 
100 days since we sent that legislation to the Senate and, still, no 
vote.
  How many more shootings, how many more lives lost, before Leader 
McConnell ends the obstruction and allows a vote on this commonsense 
bill? Congress is not powerless. Congress has the ability to save 
lives. Let's act now.

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