Gun Safety

June 12, 2013

When I speak about the violence that occurred on October 28th, 2002, I do so with the understanding that I am speaking to the future, not the past. Always unsure of who is listening and the impact of my words, I speak these words to all of you that I will never know: you are the person whose life...

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Lisa Kiser

Gun Safety

June 12, 2013

As an educator working in a first grade classroom, I watched in horror on December 14, 2012, as the images of Sandy Hook flashed across my phone, my television screen, my Facebook and Twitter feeds. As someone who grew up in Newtown, I watched in shock, and then enormous sadness, as I saw the...

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Jean Fay

Gun Safety

June 12, 2013

It happened again. This time it was in Santa Monica, where a young man just shy of his 24th Birthday, went on a shooting rampage. He had reportedly been " hospitalized for treatment after allegedly talking about harming someone ," in the past, but because of a Congress that has chosen to do nothing...

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Cliff Schecter

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

Newtown is mostly quiet again now, especially in the tiny business center of Sandy Hook - just around the corner from the site where our shuttered elementary school still stands. You can’t see Sandy Hook School from the road, and the driveway remains closed and guarded. But people all around our...

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Miranda Pacchiana

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

This story originally appeared in Mamiverse . Two months have passed since the Newtown tragedy, and while most of us are able to continue our lives as usual after our initial shock, disbelief and horror, the parents of the 20 children killed that day cannot. The families of the teachers killed that...

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Lorraine C. Ladish

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

On December 14, 2012 innocent children and educators were victims of Adam Lanza, a mentally disturbed man who had easy access to guns and ammunition that should only be accessible to the military; no civilian should have access to this type of artillery. The United States' gun laws are too lax, and...

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Diana Limongi

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

Tallying up kids killed with guns was not how I’d planned to spend my morning. Yet there I was, reading through a Mayors Against Illegal Guns report on mass shootings, counting the number of kids killed in domestic-violence related shootings between January 2009 and January 2013. Part-way through,...

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Lauren Weiss

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

On the morning of December 14, 2012, just 6 months ago, I was rounding on newborn babies in the hospital. Zipping from room to room I checked on swaddled babies sleeping in the crook of their exhausted mothers' arms. For a brief moment I glanced at my twitter feed and stood stunned as news trickled...

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Ricky Y. Choi, MD, MPH

Gun Safety

June 11, 2013

There are days that are seared into our communal memory. The day JFK was shot. September 11, 2001. But horrifically now our collective memories mark anniversaries of mass shootings. We add them to the calendars in our minds and struggle to get past them. June 14 is the six-month anniversary of...

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Gail Yamner

Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

June 11, 2013

When Zina Haughton obtained a restraining order that prohibited her physically abusive husband from purchasing a gun, she thought she was safe. But despite the court order, Mr. Haughton purchased a gun from an online private seller. Not long after, Mr. Haughton shot and murdered Zina and two of her...

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