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Universal Background Checks and Gun Violence

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 9, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Guns Criminal Justice

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Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, just a few weeks before I was sworn into office, a deranged gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and murdered 20 young children and 6 school employees.

What was the response of this Congress to make sure that never happened again? Nothing. Despite an overwhelming amount of support across the country for universal background checks, and bipartisan legislation to implement them, this Congress did nothing.

Across my district in San Diego, moms, dads, college students, seniors have all been calling on us to take action that will keep our children and our community safe. They are angry at our inability to act, and I share their anger.

We should pass the bipartisan Thompson-King bill on background checks, and we should do it today. That would be a good start to addressing this devastating problem. It is time to do something.

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