“No other nation comes close to what we see here even though we have comparable mental health problems and mental illness.” “We have gun violence and gun deaths 20 times higher than other industrialised nations like France, the UK, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Japan,” he said.
This sobering statistic makes the country “globally unique” to other Western nations, despite other countries dealing with the same challenges around mental illness, he said. The Maryland lawmaker told the hearing attendees that gun violence is the number one cause of death for children in the US today. “Will we continue to accept the slaughter of innocence including innocent children as acceptable collateral damage for loyalty to a completely bogus and distorted misreading of the Second Amendment and what the Supreme Court said about it?” he asked. The district is located in Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extends through rural Frederick County to the. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. In his impassioned speech, Mr Raskin questioned whether his fellow lawmakers were willing to continue to accept the “slaughter” of innocent children by refusing to pass common-sense gun reform. Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. “Will we be recorded as such as society that accepts the sacrifice of innocence?” Before coming to Congress, in 2017, Raskin had spent more than 25 years as a professor of constitutional law, and on arrival he quickly emerged as what Pelosi calls one of the House’s leading.
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