News from Seattle, WA

January 11, 2012 By brady Leave a Comment

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott speaks at the Washington CeaseFire "Too Many Victims" vigil in Seattle. Due to the vagaries of Pacific Northwest weather in January, Washington CeaseFire held its vigil at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in a public plaza in downtown Seattle. The featured speaker was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, a Democratic colleague of Gabby Giffords’ in Congress. McDermott spoke about his connection to the Tucson shooting via Rep. Giffords and her aide, Gabe Zimmerman, who was killed at the event. He addressed the need for sensible national gun laws, and specifically for a limitation on magazine size. Also speaking was WA CeaseFire board president Ralph Fascitelli. The event attracted nearly 50 people as well as reporters from all four local TV stations and the Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly newspapers. The stations broadcast coverage of the event Sunday, in conjunction with national stories about other vigils and Giffords’ return to the scene of the shooting. The newspapers’ coverage appeared in print and/or online. The event was highly effective in terms of communicating to the public on the issues of firearms safety.

Click here to watch news coverage of the Seattle vigil.

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