A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Comedian, social critic and longtime supporter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Lewis Black will honor those lost to gun violence by lighting a candle on January 8, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the shootings in Tucson, AZ.
I always knew a gun would alter my life. I have no idea how I knew, but I did. One of the most vivid dreams I ever had was when I was just 18 or 19 years old. I saw myself, clearly older, sitting in a chair, rocking a child, and I was staring into [...]
Alma Washington, was murdered February 1989 in Los Angeles. She was sitting in her wheelchair looking out the window when a shot was fired at a boy running past her window. She was fatally struck by the bullets. Two boys were arrested; the 14 year-old juvenile was released early and other is served an unknown [...]
Jan was a beautiful, loving wife of 27 years, wonderful Mother, and an incredible life force. A cowardly monster armed with a 9mm semi automatic handgun with a 15 round clip, mercilessly shot Jan twice in the back as she was trying to get away. The killer was at the home of my best Friend, [...]
In the 1960′s I was a teacher at a school in Prince Georges County, Maryland. One Election Day when school was out, children from the neighborhood gathered at the home of one of the youngsters and they were playing in the basement without adult supervision. One child produced a handgun and the children handed it [...]
My son was shot and killed on March 14th of 2012, he was 13 years old. We live in a small town and he walked to school on a regular basics, as he told me by that day I never thought that would be the last time that I would see him, but it was. [...]
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