A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
In this photo, participants for the start of the Too Many Victims Candlelight Vigil in Portland, Maine. The event, held at the front steps of Portland City Hall, was sponsored by Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence. Thank you to the organizers of this successful event and to all those in attendance who supported the goal of putting an end to senseless gun violence.
Chace was loved by family, friends, and neighbors and that was expressed when I flew from NY to Gary, Indiana the morning he was shot. I arrived at the hospital and there were kids lining the walls of the hospital that reminded me of people waiting to get the hottest ticket to the biggest band. [...]
Our first loving son Terrell Marquis’ Bosley was born on January 5, 1988, and was murdered on April 4, 2006 while coming out of a church. Terrell came out of the church to help his friend get drums out of a car when someone came by shooting at a car and shot my innocent son [...]
Frank and Judy were just married. On January 25, 1993 they were on their way to work at the CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia. While they stopped at a red light to turn into the main entrance, a Pakistani illegal foreign national calmly walked out of his car yielding an AK-47 assault riffle and began [...]
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 [...]
May 5th 2009: my 13-year-old son, Draysean, was shot in his head. It was at the end of the school year, right before graduation, and my son and some friends took it upon themselves to have a Jr. High School “ditch day”. So my son was sitting with a group of Jr. High School kids [...]
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