A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
On Sept. 21, 1979 at only 19-years-old, you were taken from us. All you did was come home from work, look out the window, and then a shot rang out and caught you in the head. I will never forget the look on mom’s face as she held you in her arms wailing. What a devasting blow to our family. Things were never the same and time hasn’t healed our wounds. We love and miss you dearly and you definately will never be forgotten. Rest in peace, my brother.
My community hungers for peace and justice and this has been congruent within my spiritual life journey. I am reminded of gun violence daily as my workplace has a sign that states our agency name “bans guns from these premises.” When I was invited by our youth ministry coordinator, Paul, to the 10th Anniversary Columbine Gun Violence [...]
As a chaplain who has ministered to six families who lost children to gun violence, I know that it is time to do absolutely whatever it takes to stop gun violence in America. This is for the sake of our children!
Alma Washington, was murdered February 1989 in Los Angeles. She was sitting in her wheelchair looking out the window when a shot was fired at a boy running past her window. She was fatally struck by the bullets. Two boys were arrested; the 14 year-old juvenile was released early and other is served an unknown [...]
My sister was murdered in 1991. The gunman who killed her in her own home was never apprehended. She never had the opportunity to meet her five grandchildren and they never knew the talented woman who could have taught them so much. Her younger daughter died of leukemia three years ago on the night before [...]
Nancy Bishop Langert, 25, along with her husband, Richard, and their unborn child, were murdered on April 7, 1990. They were shot with a .357 magnum by a “thrill-seeking” 16-year-old whose motive was that he “wanted to see what it would feel like to shoot someone.” Nancy and Richard were at the happiest time of [...]
OMG can’t even think of living with this pain it has been 2months since my baby boy Alfonso Enciso Jr was taken from us TOO SOON………..
—So sorry for your GREAT loss.
I Mourn with you.
Life will never be the same.
My siser was murdered on May 26, 2010.
Our world Darkened. Forever & Ever…
Love Love Love.
Little did I know when i dropped my son , Christopher Williamson, off at a friend’s house Friday morning March 24, 2006 that it would be the last time i saw him alive. Trying to help two young ladies find a way home he ended at a house of friends where a mad man was planning to kill. On a sunny Sat. morning he was shoot and killed along with five other innocent victims. My life changed forever. At 21 he had his life planned. Marriage, children, wonderful future. I miss him more today then five years ago. What a terrible lost we all endured that morning.