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Mothers of Dead Children
Posted July 23rd, 2013 by Valerie Young
Mothers are driven to protect their children. It’s innate. When the very laws we live by allow our children to die, with bullets buried in the bodies we birthed and love, our hearts explode in rage and pain that transforms us and makes of us something distinctly other than that which we were before. This is a story of the parents of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary and how it propelled them into the world of gun control legislation and political action. It could be the story of anyone who tries to make sense of a child’s death by publicly advocating for changes to the legal culture in which gun violence occurred. It is becoming the story of Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin.
The story is told by Matt Bennett in
The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety. He is a gun policy expert and Washington DC-based advisor to Sandy Hook Promise (SHP), a group of victims’ family members, friends and neighbors. Advocating for common sense gun laws, and aiming to improve the intersection of school safety, mental health and gun control, SHP quickly succ
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