#gun safety
In memory of the 26 lives senselessly taken by gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School two years ago today, and for the more than 31,000 deaths caused each year by gun violence:
We will not be silent.
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The daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, Erica Lafferty, recalls her last day with her mother:
It was a cold Sunday afternoon at the lake house and Chris and I were packing up to go home. Like she did every weekend when we left, Mom followed us outside to say goodbye. Before I hopped into the truck she gave me one of her famous Dawn hugs and a big Mommy kiss.
As I was closing the door I looked at her and told her I love her for the very last time. She took about four steps from the truck and spun around on her tippy toes, opened the truck door and whispered something that I cannot repeat (as to not ruin the oh-so-proper reputation of Dawn Alyson) and laughed her beautiful Dawn laugh… she said “I love you baby” and closed the door.
As we backed down the driveway she stood at the top waving until the truck was out of view. I had no idea that this was going to be the last time that I saw my beautiful Mommy, my best friend in the entire world…
Read Erica Lafferty’s full story here.
Toddler unintentionally shoots, kills Oklahoma basketball player
“Family members at this residence, they were sighting-in a rifle and while they were sighting-in the rifle they were taking a look at the targets. When one of the children that were in that family came up and actually grabbed that rifle being held by one of the adults, and one of the children actually pulled that trigger that resulted in the death of Eric Brown,”
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John Lennon was assassinated 34 years ago today. Over one million Americans have been shot and killed since then.
Imagine a world without gun violence…
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Jordan Davis’ mother truly knows the importance of uniting against the senseless gun violence that takes so many of our precious children.
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The husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert does not carry a concealed weapon. On the contrary, he shows his piece to underage girls. There’s a family man who wears his heart on his sleeve!
What the Second Amendment really says: “A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Isn’t that the U.S. Army these days?
Beto O'Rourke at Governor Abbott’s press conference: “The spirit grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it.”
(William Shakespeare, As You Like it)
I know how we can get rid of the guns. The Second Amendment guarantees the “right to bear arms”, nothing more.
May America take stock this time - without the barrel.
Robb Elementary School: where children get robbed of their life.
Charlton Heston at the NRA conference: “From my cold, dead hands.”
Did the shooter open a bank account on his 18th birthday?
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
“I don’t want no teenage queen
I just want my M14.”
