Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.” ~ Jesse Lee Peterson L.A. residentSource: at a press conference on L.A.’s city hall, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1997.