[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15993]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, it has been more than a year since the 
Columbine tragedy, but still this Republican Congress refuses to act on 
sensible gun legislation.
  Since Columbine, thousands of Americans have been killed by gunfire. 
Until we act, Democrats in the Senate will read some of the names of 
those who lost their lives to gun violence in the past year, and we 
will continue to do so every day that the Senate is in session.
  In the name of those who died, we will continue this fight. Following 
are the names of some of the people who were killed by gunfire one year 
ago today.
  Clyde E. Frazier, 40, Chicago, IL; Ernest Jones, 57, Knoxville, TN; 
Jose Lopez, 29, Houston, TX; Elva V. Manjarrez, 35, Chicago, IL; 
Kimberly Meeks-Penniman, 39, Detroit, MI; Anthony L. Moore, 28, 
Memphis, TN; Donald Pinkney, 23, Baltimore, MD; James Riley, 26, New 
Orleans, LA; Void Sampson, 24, Philadelphia, PA; Michael A. Williams, 
35, New Orleans, LA; and Unidentified male, 22, Newark, NJ.
  One of the gun violence victims I mentioned, thirty-five-year-old 
Elva Manjarrez of Chicago, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting 
while she was sitting in a parked car. No motive was ever established 
for her death.
  We cannot sit back and allow such senseless gun violence to continue. 
The deaths of Elva and the others I named are a reminder to all of us 
that we need to enact sensible gun legislation now.

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