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Ending Gun Violence

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 8, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Guns

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Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, last week we experienced the 45th school shooting in 2015. Nearly 10,000 people have been killed by guns this year alone; yet, too many leaders respond with absolute indifference. They tell us that ``stuff happens,'' that we should just move on.

Are the 20 kids killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School just stuff happening? Are the 32 murdered at Virginia Tech just stuff happening? Are the 12 people gunned down in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater just stuff happening? What about the 9 people killed at Umpqua Community College on Friday?

This stuff has real costs to families, to friends, to our whole community, to our country. It does not have to happen.

Let's make gun trafficking in illegal weapons a Federal felony and have universal background checks.

Let's end the moments of silence on the floor and have, instead, votes on the floor to end gun violence.

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