Gun Violence
Floor Speech
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Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because Americans are still being taken from us by gun violence.
The Republican majority's strong ties with the NRA--an organization that has blocked commonsense, lifesaving legislation and told America's doctors, our public health experts, that addressing gun violence `isn't in their lane'--has prevented this Congress from acting.
Why is that Mr. Speaker? Could your caucus be so beholden because of the millions of dollars the NRA funnels into your campaign accounts and leadership PACs?
As the NRA was telling doctors to `stay in their lane', a domestic abuser entered Chicago Mercy Hospital--a hospital, a place a refugee, healing and wellness--and took the lives of:
32-year-old Dr. Tamara O'Neal,
28-year-old Chicago Police Officer Samuel Jimenez, and
25-year-old pharmacy resident Dayna Less, PharmD.
These are just three of the more than 90 Americans lost to gun violence each and every day in America.
Mr. Speaker, how many times do we have to see American lives lost to senseless gun violence before we act? When will we be part of stopping violence?
Unfortunately, this long list does not end with them. These are the names of the Americans that this Republican-controlled House has failed with our failure to pass commonsense gun legislation:
1. Nathan Majors, 8
2. Hayden Mayes, 2
3. Amy Hayes, 5
4. Ronald Rocket
5. Patrick Smith, 41
6. Ke'Anthony Jelks, Jr., 2
7. Lauren McCluskey, 21
8. Florence County Deputy Farrah B. Turner
9. Nicole Barker
10. Antoine Hartwell
11. D'Onjay Jackson
12. Selina Rowsell
13. Aries Rowsell, 15
14. Avi Rowsell, 5
15. Michael Franco
16. Qa'id Muhammad, 29
17. Darren Scott Stroh
18. Onexis Del Valle Delair
19. Dustin John Delair
20. Claudia Cordero Garcia, 20
21. Diosdan Benitez-Cruz, 25
22. Ted Williams Hale
23. Joanne Lynn Strussenderg
24. Glenn Strussenderg
25. Donna McElfresh
26. Matthew Minkler, 17
27. Raheem Anthony Rice, 23
28. Michael Lamar Ragland
29. Mia Banks
30. Undra Colbert
31. Zachary Ragusa
32. Jesse Ordonez
33. Dylan Ray Martin
34. Martha Johnson
35. Richard Dean Johnson
36. Weldeyoanes Zelealem 37. Edward Budd
38. Christopher Hodgkin
39. Nicole Nguyen
40. James Charles Powell
41. Giovanni Melton, 14
42. Craig O'Driscoll
43. Nicholas Joseph Diamond, 29
44. Darrion Bolden, 26
45. Gabriel Valenzuela,
46. Bradley Whitis 47. Anthony Garrett, 16
48. Karen Michelle Jackson
49. John Lunetta Jr., 11 months
50. John Henry Lunetta
51. Eric Brooks, 18
52. Anthony Stearns, 17
53. Margaret Distler
54. Clarence Distler
55. Angel Thompson
56. Andres Guillen
57. Holly Ann Guillen
58. Kimberlee Ann Kincaid-Hill
59. Paul Carr Palmer, III
60. Fabriccio Patti, 13
61. Ethan Hogan, 25
62. Joshua Lee, 20
63. Jon ``Rabbit'' Gomez
64. Sydney Land, 21
65. Nehemiah Kauffman, 21
66. Javier Munoz, 28
67. Kaji Goode, 22
68. Rex Vance Wilson
69. Christopher Stewart
70. Aleksandr Khutsishvili
71. Lamar Dale Reid, 22
72. Paulette King
73. Felipe George
74. Gianni Corsentino, 18
75. Art Wulf
76. Jan Wulf
77. Aaron Wulf
78. Mark Santee
79.Vincent G. Maltese
80. Kevin Michael Hockar
81. Matt Christensen, 24
82. Lanard Wilson
83. Jaime Borja Molina
84. Donald Jecusco
85. Devry Moore, 22
86. Steven Wayne Spurlin, 27
87. Johnny Dee Haney II, 26
88. Kevin Clanton
89. Mbayi Ngenza
90. Marcell Titus
91. James Smyth
92. Tristan Taylor Green, 19
93. Clayton James Singleton, 8
94. Jennifer Bagley Donoso
95. Lex Donoso, 8
96. Joe Frankulin
97. Marquic Williams, 26
98. Kye McClendon, 21
99. Derrick Patterson, 46
100. Geovany Garcia, 19 101. Jerelle Javanta Lamb 102. Jerrelle Lamb 103. Melroz A. Klungseth 104. Charles Schroeder 105. Zoey Schroeder 106. John Noble 107. John Allen 108. Androples Lewis
109. Veronica Caldwell 110. Cory Childers, 21 111. Yvonne Reyes, 18 112. Blake Widmar, 21 113. Won Jae Lee, 26 114. Jiyeon Lee, 23 115. Phia Vang, 25 116. Monty Gibson 117. Deanna Serano 118. Marvin Surrell, 22 119. Timothy Donnelly 120. Alabama's 17th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Greg Griggers 121. Clayton Wesley Bronson, 18 122. Evan Plunkett, 25 123. Arcenio Lujan 124. Zachary Wayne Girdner, 23 125. Joseph Lucero, 27 126. Cecil Johnson
127. Officer Samuel Solorio 128. Dejanay Stanton, 24 129. Eh Thon Gar, 22 130. Jamymell Ray 131. Yvonne Woodard 132. Allen Troyer, 21 133. James Lonaker 134. Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus 135. Sean Adler
136. Cody Coffman, 22
137. Alaina Housley, 18
138. Daniel Manrique
139. Justin Meek, 23
140. Kristina Morisette, 20 141. Telemachus Orfanos, 27--a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas who was killed in another mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA
142. Noel Sparks, 21
143. Mark Meza, Jr., 20
144. Blake Dingman, 21, and
145. Jacob Dunham, 21.
Mr. Speaker, this Congress--led by Republicans--has failed to implement commonsense gun safety legislation. This leaves the door open for chaos to take place, day in and day out, in our movie theatre, hospital, country concerts, synagogues and bars.
So I ask you again, Mr. Speaker: `When will it stop?'
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