Political Quotes

“Since 1970, more Americans have been killed from domestic gun violence than all the Americans killed in every war going back to the American Revolution. If all the victims of gun violence since 1970 were put on a wall like the Vietnam Memorial, it would contain 1.5 million names and stretch 2\1/2\ miles, 25 times the length of the Vietnam Memorial. I have had enough of Congress' failure to lead. So each month that we are in session, I am going to speak the name of every person killed in a mass shooting in this country. I will also create my own memorial wall in the hallway outside my office. Here are the stories of some of the victims of the 18 mass shootings in January of this year. There have been so many people last month affected by mass shootings that I don't have the time to list those who were injured, just those who were murdered. David Washington, age 24, Eneida Branch, age 31, and Angelica Guadalupe Castro, age 23, who were shot and killed in a house on January 6 in Lakeland, Florida. Antoine Bell, age 17, was shot and killed while helping a woman with car trouble on January 7 in Memphis, Tennessee. Raymon Blount, age 29, was shot and killed while standing on the street on January 8 in Chicago, Illinois. Ira Brown, age 20, was shot and killed on January 11 during a home robbery in Wilmington, Delaware. Joshua Steven Morrison, age 18, was killed near a house party January 17 in Gloucester County, Virginia.…”