[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23447]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Ms. MIKULSKI. 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 19, 1999:
  Jerry G. Bowens, 25, Memphis, TN;
  Nathaniel Bryan, 20, Washington, DC;
  Wayne Butts, 43, Atlanta, GA;
  Arnold Handy, 19, Baltimore, MD;
  Paul Johnson, 31, New Orleans, LA;
  Russell Manning, 52, Dallas, TX;
  Rebecca Rando, 25, Houston, TX;
  Mark Smith, 31, Dallas, TX;
  Kirk Tucker, 32, Chicago, IL;
  Jermaine Wallace, 22, Baltimore, MD; and
  George Williams, 19, Pittsburgh, PA.
  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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