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Barbara Boxer: “The fact is, we should be pushing for them because over his opposition we did pass those laws and they are stuck in the…”

On the recordApril 6, 2000
The fact is, we should be pushing for them because over his opposition we did pass those laws and they are stuck in the conference committee. The Reid amendment would simply call on the conference committee to do its work and report these laws out so we can turn around the tragedy that is meeting too many families, too many children. I heard a statistic the other day: 75 percent of all gun murders of children in the world occur in the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. It does not matter how brave a child is. Twelve a day are killed.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Addressing gun violence and advocating for the passage of gun laws during Senate floor debate.

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