A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Friends and family gathered tonight at the farm in Conowingo, Maryland, to remember Christina Taylor Green, and the other victims of January 8th, 2011 in Tucson. Aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors and friends all stopped by to offer their support to the Green Family. It was a quiet, peaceful evening, and we were honored to have such wonderful people come and share some time tonight. Christina will not be forgotten.
On May 13, 1972, my 20 year old brother Michael was fatally shot following a robbery on a CTA”el” train on the way home from Loyola University. This Mother’s Day weekend, my family observed the 40th anniversary of his death. When I ask my students of Oakton Community College in Chicago how many of them know [...]
Jitka was murdered on April 13, 2011. She was killed by a stalker – a Canadian man who was able to cross into the United States and buy a 40 caliber handgun on a Washington-based gun auction site. The gun was easy to get since no background checks are required for this type of private [...]
Manny was my only son for 17 years. He was 23 yrs old when he was shot in his neck on November 1, 2009. He was another innocent victim as we hear about more and more these days. He was married, had twins boys, and his wife was five-weeks pregnant at the time of the [...]
Kelsey bought a handgun believing that he needed it for self-protection since he lived and worked in a crime-filled area of town. But, tragically, he used the gun against himself March 2010. A gun is far more likely to be used against you or a loved one for self-protection but there is no taking back [...]
I was with my daughter when I got a horrific phone call from my mother. I had heard that there was a shooting in Tucson earlier on the news but it seemed so far away, and I initially thought it was not an area that my brother lived in. How very wrong and how very [...]
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