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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 282 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 282

 To designate October 10, 1996, as the ``Day of National Concern About 
                    Young People and Gun Violence''.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 1996

 Mr. Bradley (for himself, Mr. Specter, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Frist, Mr. 
Levin, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Akaka, Mr. DeWine, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. 
 Moynihan, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid, Mr. Simon, Mr. 
 Kohl, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Bennett, Mr. McCain, 
 Mr. Coats, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Kassebaum, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
 Inouye, Mr. Burns, Mr. Graham, Mr. Nickles, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Roth, Mr. 
  Dorgan, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. 
 Faircloth, Mr. Bumpers, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Thompson, 
Mr. Kerry, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Craig, 
 Mr. Robb, Mr. Kempthorne, Ms. Moseley-Braun, Mr. Mack, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
   Grams, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Campbell, Ms. 
 Mikulski, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Heflin, Mrs. Frahm, Mr. Exon, Mr. Abraham, 
    Mr. Ford, Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. 
  Hatfield, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Kerrey, Mr. Santorum, Mr. 
 Nunn, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Warner, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Helms, Mr. 
 Breaux, Mr. Bryan, and Mr. Pell) submitted the following resolution; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 To designate October 10, 1996, as the ``Day of National Concern About 
                    Young People and Gun Violence''.

Whereas violent crime among juveniles in American society has dramatically 
        escalated in recent years;
Whereas between 1989 and 1994, juvenile arrest rates for murder in this country 
        skyrocketed 42 percent;
Whereas in 1993, more than 10 children were murdered each day in America;
Whereas America's young people are this country's most important resource, and 
        Americans have a vested interest in helping children survive, free from 
        fear and violence, to become healthy adults;
Whereas America's young people can, by taking individual and collective 
        responsibility for their own decisions and actions, help chart a new and 
        less violent direction for the entire country;
Whereas American school children will be invited to participate in a national 
        observance involving millions of their fellow students and will thereby 
        be empowered to see themselves as the agents of positive social change; 
        and
Whereas this observance will give American school children the opportunity to 
        make a solemn decision about their future and control their destiny by 
        voluntarily signing a pledge promising that they will never take a gun 
        to school, will never use a gun to resolve a dispute, and will use their 
        influence to prevent friends from using guns to settle disputes: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates October 10, 1996, as the ``Day 
of National Concern About Young People and Gun Violence''. The 
President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling 
upon the school children of the United States to observe such day with 
appropriate activities.
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