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]




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      IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH MASS SHOOTING

  (Ms. DEAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. DEAN. Madam Speaker, Mr. LaQuita Brown, Ryan Keith Cox, Tara 
Welch Gallagher, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Joshua O. 
Hardy, Michelle ``Missy'' Langer, Richard H. Nettleton, Katherine A. 
Nixon, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Robert Williams, Herbert Snelling--these 
are the victims of Friday's mass shooting in Virginia Beach.
  That phrase, ``Friday's mass shooting,'' should sound bizarre, but it 
doesn't. This year is averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 
our country.
  How long would it take to read all of the victim's names?
  How long would it take to process the grief, to wrap our hearts 
around the scale of this tragedy?
  And how long will it take for our leaders to act?
  This year, the House passed legislation to require universal 
background checks and to close the Charleston loophole, but these 
measures have gone to the graveyard of bills that the Senate has 
created.
  Each of these reforms will save lives; none of them threatens our 
Second Amendment rights.
  I will close with the words of John Donne: Do not ask ``for whom the 
bell tolls; it tolls for thee.''

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