News from Denver, CO

Supporters with the Greater Denver Chapter of Million Mom March and Colorado Ceasefire gathered outside the emergency room of Denver Health Medical Center, home of the Rocky Mountain Regional Level 1 Trauma Center featured in Eugene Richards’ book “The Knife and Gun Club, Scenes from an Emergency Room.” We lit 34 candles in remembrance of the lives lost due to gun violence each day. We read a statement acknowledging the destruction caused by gun violence in Colorado: Participants stories of personal loss and unending grief due deaths from gun violence. And we recounted some tragedies in the news recently: A woman gunned down by her ex-­husband as their children watched her die, a five-year-old girl who killed herself with a loaded, unlocked firearm, a South  Sudanese immigrant who escaped violence in  his home country to be gunned down in front  of his home, a 5 year old boy shot and killed  by a three-year-old just before Christmas, a woman ambushed and killed by her ex-­boyfriend. We called upon our elected officials take action to prevent more deaths from illegal guns.