Gun violence prevention advocates gathered at Grace Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to honor those who have died from handgun violence. We particularly remembered the ten who died in 2011 in Lawrence, with ten candles burning in the memorial we constructed. In the chilly night air people stopped to ask about our vigil and to thank us for this work. Handgun violence remains a serious problem for this Immigrant City in 2012, as we remember and celebrate the centeniary of the Bread and Roses strike, a first in the labor movement in the twentieth century.
News from Lawrence, MA
January 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
Thanks for your witness and for the courage of Grace Episcopal Church to support this witness. It is people like you all whose voices are so much needed to speak for the voices that have been silenced by gun violence. Our 21-year-old son, Jamie, was gunned down in a Friendly’s Restaurant 15 years ago in Richmond, Virginia. We must never give up even as our politicians continue to capitulate to the Gun Lobby as they are doing in a wholesale manner in Virginia as well as across the Land. We join in honoring those 10 souls killed in Lawrence and pray for their families.