[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8430]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    READING THE NAMES OF GUN VICTIMS

  Mr. LAUTENBERG. 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 session.
  These names come from a report prepared by the United States 
Conference of Mayors. The report includes data from 100 U.S. cities 
between April 20, 1999 and March 20, 2000. The 100 cities covered range 
in size from Chicago, Illinois, which has a population of more than 2.7 
million to Bedford Heights, Ohio with a population of about 11,800. But 
the list does not include gun deaths from some major cities like New 
York and Los Angeles.
  The following are the names of some of the people who were killed by 
gunfire one year ago today--on May 18th, 1999: Gregory Babb, 24, 
Philadelphia, PA; Clifford Clark, 54, Detroit, MI; James Courtney, 20, 
Providence, RI; Julius Ford, 32, San Antonio, TX; Derrick Hall, 24, 
Chicago, IL; Jason Horsley, 25, Denver, CO; Keith Mitchell, 21, 
Detroit, MI; Laredo Schetop, 48, Dallas, TX; Jamaar Wynn, 15, 
Nashville, TN.

  In the name of those who died, we will continue the fight to pass gun 
safety measures.

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