Gun Policy News
Mayors Call for Tougher Gun Laws
27 January 2000
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Calling on Congress to pass more stringent gun laws, the nation's mayors displayed on Thursday a "wall of death," filled with the names of nearly 3,100 Americans fatally shot since the killings at Columbine High School.
"Our hope is the tragic message of this wall will not be missed on Capitol Hill," Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb said, standing before a black, 10-foot board with victims' names recorded in white and the date of their deaths in red.... (GunPolicy.org)