A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
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!
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 [...]
Like some many others, my best friend had a moment of utter despair. Had he not had a gun, he would never have killed himself.
On October 31, 2009, after attending a family party at home and taking his young cousins trick-or-treating, Frankie went to a Halloween party with a friend—a party where he knew no one other than the person with whom he attended. Just minutes after arriving he was shot multiple times—an inexplicable act of violence that ended [...]
My son Jose was an amazing child. On September 15, 2011, ten days after his sixteen birthday, he was gunned down. He was shot from the back. He loved animals, he watched biography and history channel. Enjoy rap music, and believed that family came first. I love him very much and I miss him. May [...]
Members of Beth Shir Shalom and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence held a vigil in Santa Monica at the corner of 20th & Wilshire where supporters carried signs and photos of their loved ones.
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