Expressing support for the designation of June 2020 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month", and calling on Congress to address gun violence.

IV 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. RES. 993 Expressing support for the designation of June 2020 as ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Month’’, and calling on Congress to address gun violence. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 4, 2020 Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of June 2020 as ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Month’’, and calling on Congress to address gun violence. Whereas summer is the season with the highest rates of gun violence in the United States; Whereas 100,000 Americans suffer gunshot wounds in the United States every year; Whereas approximately 96 people die and approximately 200 are injured from gun violence each day in the United States; Whereas more than 60 percent of all gunshot victims in the United States are under 30 years old; Whereas every 70 minutes, one American under the age of 25 loses his or her life to gun violence; VerDate Sep 11 2014 16:05 Jun 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR993.IH HR993 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HRES 993 IH Whereas 5 percent of gun dealers (approximately 3,000 deal- ers nationwide) supply nearly 90 percent of all crime guns that show up in American streets; Whereas more children have been killed by guns in the United States since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting than the total number of American sol- diers killed in overseas combat since September 11, 2001; Whereas more Americans have died from gunshot wounds in the past three decades than the sum total of combat deaths in all the wars in United States history; Whereas half of all suicides are a result of gunshot wounds; Whereas 90 percent of homicides of law enforcement officers are the result of firearms; Whereas firearms used during a robbery are 3 times more likely than knives and 10 times more likely than other weapons to result in the death of a victim; Whereas 20 percent of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former partner using firearms; Whereas gun violence declined in the 1990s after the enact- ment of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993, which created a national background check system, and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which placed a 10-year ban on the sale of as- sault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines; Whereas the ban on the sale of assault weapons and large ca- pacity ammunition magazines expired in 2004; Whereas according to a 2014 study, of the 16 States that then required background checks of private gun sales, there were 38 percent fewer fatal shootings of women by their partners, 39 percent fewer police murdered by fire- VerDate Sep 11 2014 16:05 Jun 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR993.IH HR993 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HRES 993 IH arms, 17 percent fewer firearm-aggravated assaults, and 49 percent fewer suicides using firearms; Whereas almost 40,000 deaths in the United States were due to guns in 2017; and Whereas June would be an appropriate month to designate as ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Month’’: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1 (1) supports the designation of ‘‘National Gun 2 Violence Awareness Month’’; and 3 (2) calls on the Senate to pass gun violence pre- 4 vention legislation, including— 5 (A) H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background 6 Checks Act of 2019, to require a background 7 check on every gun sale or transfer, which 8 passed the House of Representatives on Feb- 9 ruary 27, 2020; and 10 (B) H.R. 1112, the Enhanced Background 11 Checks Act of 2019, to close the ‘‘Charleston 12 Loophole’’ by providing the Federal background 13 check system additional time to make a final 14 determination on a potential gun purchaser be- 15 fore a licensed dealer can transfer a gun, which 16 passed the House of Representatives on Feb- 17 ruary 28, 2020. 18 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 16:05 Jun 05, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR993.IH HR993 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS