[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1474]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 HOMICIDES BY GUNSHOT IN NEW YORK CITY

 Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I rise to announce to the Senate 
that during the past week, 17 people were killed with firearms in New 
York City, bringing this year's total to 44.
  I should point out to my colleagues that the average age of those 
murdered with firearms in New York City so far this year is 
approximately 25. Some have been as young as 16 years old. 
Consistently, those between the ages 15-24 comprise the largest 
percentage of those murdered with firearms, according to mortality 
statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
In 1993, according to the F.B.I.'s Uniform Crime Report, 6,244 of the 
16,189 people murdered with firearms were between the ages of 15-24. 
That is nearly 40 percent. A similar percentage of murder offenders in 
1993 were between the ages of 15-24. These are, in many cases, children 
killing children.
  Mr. President, as I have often reminded the Senate, we must begin to 
recognize the epidemic nature of gun violence in America. Homicide is 
the second leading cause of death among our youth and the leading cause 
of death among our black youth. A disproportionate number of these 
murders are carried out with firearms.


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