On the recordMay 8, 2002
Members are coming to the floor as we approach Mother's Day. I am coming as well. Many mark Mother's Day in their own ways, very diverse ways. But if we ask the mothers of the Nation what would they most want for Mother's Day, the choice of many would be gun safety legislation to protect their children. The proof, of course, is that 2 years ago on Mother's Day, almost a million mothers and their families used Mother's Day to come to their Nation's capital to work productively for just such legislation. We do not yet have the gun safety legislation for our children these mothers so desperately wanted, but in recognition of Mother's Day this year, I thought that it would behoove me to introduce a realistic piece of gun safety legislation, recognizing that in many ways this issue has been off the radar screen, to find a way to put it back on the national agenda. And so I have introduced the Nationwide Gun Back Act of 2002.
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