Political Quotes

“on the morning of October 13, 1992, Annette Freeman prepared her 7-year-old son Dantrell Davis for first grade. As was her custom, she had planned to walk with him the few blocks to school through the Cabrini-Green Housing Development in which they lived, but as they emerged from their building, Dantrell was killed instantly by an AR-15 assault weapon shot by a sniper. According to the Chicago Tribune, which ran a series of articles on the children killed by gunfire, Dantrell's mother told jurors at the trial that when she heard the shots she ducked and saw sparks coming from a 9th- or 10th-floor window of a nearby building. 'I went crawling to Danny' she said. 'He was laying on the ground. I just was asking him to get up, but he wouldn't get up. He wouldn't get up.' The weapon that enabled the sniper nine floors up at his perch in the adjacent high-rise building, to shoot and kill little Dantrell is a semiautomatic version of the M-16 machineguns used by the military. This weapon was traced by law enforcement agents in crime investigations more than 1,800 times between 1990 and 1993. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for this weapon of war to be available and as easy to purchase as the bookbag that Dantrell carried to school. This is a national disgrace.”