Political Quotes

“more than 4,100 people have been shot this year in Chicago. And there have been over 700 homicides in the city this year, the vast majority of them due to gun violence. This is unconscionable. The American Medical Association has declared that gun violence is a public health crisis in our nation. And it is. Every day in America, around 300 men, women, and children are shot. And every day about 90 of those shooting victims die. Gun violence touches nearly every community in America. But no community has suffered more than Chicago. The stories of Chicago's shooting victims are heartbreaking. Here is one of them. On November 18, Javon Wilson, the 15-year-old grandson of my friend Congressman Danny Davis was shot and killed in a dispute over a pair of basketball shoes. It is hard to imagine a more senseless and tragic killing. Congressman Davis said of his grandson, ``He was a typical 15- year-old. He liked basketball. If you listened to him he was a basketball star, but he liked basketball and music.'' Congressman Davis went on to say that Javon's grades had improved in school and that ``his father had just told me about how proud of him that he was because he was catching on and realizing that all his life was in front of him.'' The two suspects charged with Javon's murder are a 16-year- old boy and a 17-year-old girl. It was a dispute between kids that turned into a deadly tragedy because of easy access to guns.…”