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06/13/13

My Newtown moment came in 1999 as I sat at the funeral of my former basketball coach, Dave Sanders. He was murdered along with 12 students at Columbine High School. It was an overbearingly sad service as I hugged former teachers, faces red and swollen from days of crying. Just like the teachers at...

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Heidi Yewman

Gun Safety

06/13/13

When I was ten years old, my parents made the decision to start their own business—a bodega (a small Latin grocery store) in Little Havana, FL. After years as an introverted child, this Cuban stomping ground was where I first came out of my shell. I played with neighboring children, went to...

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Jeannina Perez

Gun Safety

06/13/13

I am a mom from Newtown, and my younger daughter is six years old. Before December 14, 2012, I would have described myself differently: political moderate, high school science teacher. But in the six months since that terrible day, when 20 of my daughter’s peers and six of her teacher’s colleagues...

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Katherine Morosky

06/13/13

Family time around the dinner table has always been important to me. Except, of course, when other, non-family adults are present. Until last year, my enthusiasm for let's-all-gather-around-the-table didn't extend to "real" dinner parties with my children present. If I was having guests over for...

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Sarah Smiley

Gun Safety

06/12/13

On November 28, 2012, my life changed forever. I lost my youngest child – a son – to gun violence. He was 26-years-old, married, and had a two-year-old daughter with another little girl on the way. I don’t know all the details surrounding his death, only that he was leaving a corner store in...

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Marilu Garcia

Gun Safety

06/12/13

In the third chapter of Genesis, after the proverbial “Fall” of humanity, two brothers stand in a field. Cain is a farmer—Abel, a herdsman. Both bring offerings from their labor to God, but Abel brings his first fruits, so God looks on Abel’s offering with delight. In a jealous rage Cain rises up...

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Lisa Harper

Gun Safety

06/12/13

We can make America safer. But first, we need an honest conversation about the unacceptable current level of gun violence; and we must acknowledge that reducing firearms injuries and deaths is our shared responsibility. Too often, our values of liberty and safety are pitted against one another...

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Steve Gutow

Gun Safety

06/12/13

I vividly remember the day my son was born, almost 24 years ago. A fleeting, but frightening thought seeped into my hopes and dreams for my beautiful baby boy—“How will I keep you safe from going to war?” The Vietnam War, with images of killing fields and the gruesome draft was the reality of my...

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Ronnie Citron-Fink

Gun Safety

06/12/13

Look at this picture, part of several released by the New Orleans Police Department on May 13. Is that a small child running alone from the shooter ? So young, so small, and already he's had to learn to escape a bullet. The man is aiming a gun into a crowd attending a New Orleans Mother's Day...

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Nordette Adams

Gun Safety

06/12/13

Credit: Demand Action Earlier this year, my company’s blogger network, The Mission List , worked with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s organization, Demand Action , to raise greater awareness about issues of gun violence in America and to urge our friends and representatives to act. Despite the...

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