November 15, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 183 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Page H8905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            GUN VIOLENCE PROTECTION AND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN

  (Ms. UNDERWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. UNDERWOOD. Madam Speaker, the shooting in Santa Clarita yesterday 
marks the 365th mass shooting this year. At least one of those 
shootings rocked my own community.
  Today is exactly 9 months since the senseless workplace shooting in 
Aurora, Illinois, that took the lives of Trevor Wehner, Clayton Parks, 
Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez, and Josh Pinkard. Some of the heroic 
police officers who responded to that shooting just returned to full 
duty this week.
  This does not have to be the norm. This year, the House passed 
bipartisan legislation that would save lives by implementing universal 
background checks for every gun purchased. The Senate needs to pass it 
and to send it to the President.
  And we should do more still. I support legislation that would prevent 
gun violence by: one, committing Federal funds to study it for the 
public health crisis that it is; two, keeping guns out of the hands of 
known domestic abusers; and, three, just this week, I cosponsored the 
Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, because weapons of war do not belong in 
our neighborhoods.
  These are commonsense policies that would save countless lives: 
children's lives, first responders' lives, our own neighbors' lives.

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