[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 22569-22570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. DURBIN. 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 the names of some of 
those who have 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.
  October 12, 1999:
  Michael S. Chambers, 43, Seattle, WA;
  Rueben M. Clark, 22, Memphis, TN;
  Kenneth Ditter, 30, Philadelphia, PA;
  Charles Guerra, 28, Houston, TX;
  Joel Holbrook, 33, Kansas City, MO;
  Walton Jerry Holmes, 68, Euless, TX;
  J.C. Jones, 48, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Gregory Mabrey, 27, Baltimore, MD;
  Khidetra S. McBride, 22, Memphis, TN;
  Jorge Millan, 40, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  John Ray, 23, Fort Wayne, IN;
  Michael Shelby, 34, Detroit, MI;

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  Nicholas Singleton, 19, New Orleans, LA;
  Honore Sissoko, 46, Philadelphia, PA;
  George Thomas, 19, St. Louis, MO; and
  Duane G. Weigelt, 69, St. Paul, MN.
  One of the victims of gun violence I mentioned, 19-year-old Nicholas 
Singleton of New Orleans, was shot and killed one year ago today by a 
19-year-old friend while the two were having an argument.
  We cannot sit back and allow such senseless gun violence to continue. 
The deaths of these people are a reminder to all of us that we need to 
enact sensible gun legislation now.

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