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Assault Weapons Ban of 2022

Floor Speech

Date: July 29, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, this has been an interesting debate.

The cumulative debate from the Republican side has been Members who have been wanting to show their intimate knowledge of weapons. It is almost a fetishism with weapons, something that only Freud would properly understand and be able to explain to the American people.

They have talked about hands being dangerous and knives being dangerous, but hands and knives and other weapons that they discussed don't kill people in volume and number like AR-15s do.

The CIA did a study and said that even shots to extremities all made fatal impacts on people. The AR-15 is an outgrowth of a military weapon that was designed for military use. The AR-15 is a weapon that destroys people's bodies and kills them quickly. It should not be allowed in a civilized, safe society, particularly for children and for people in the general public.

Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of the bill.

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