The Courant described Quint as an advocate for gun control.
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That’s not an advancement from the speed before Sandy Hook, and one new authorities dataset implies that the risk of children dying by gunfire may have increased somewhat since then. Twenty children and six teachers died.
“Every single shooting takes me straight back to the day that I lost my son, knowing how those communities are being affected, and how those families are being affected”.
Ian Hockley and Nicole Hockley, parents of Sandy Hook massacre victim Dylan Hockley, six, shortly after the atrocity.
Multiple organizations attended the event, including the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, and Gun Free UT.”I don’t want to take guns away from legal responsible gun owners”.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”, said NRA president Wayne LaPierre at the time. In New Jersey, the Legislature has yet to override any of Gov. Chris Christie’s numerous vetoes of gun control legislation, despite repeated attempts.
“When I hear of other communities that have been affected by gun violence, there is this connection with compassion”, Crebbin said, “but there’s also this great sorrow that’s still there”. We knew the horror of what happened there, but I’ll never be the same. Life and love are worth more. May those little angels always be remembered. “But yet, it’s nearly like a taboo topic”.
On the day after Thanksgiving this year, USA gun sales approached a single-day record.
“We tried to make it a game and they asked, ‘do we get a prize?” “And there should be more legislative approaches to curb that”.
Five of the shootings were at preschools, 23 at elementary schools, 13 shootings at middle schools, 47 at high schools, and 73 at college and university campuses.
“We have some loopholes for one thing you can go to a gun show or you can go on online and buy a gun without a background check”. Other 2nd amendment rights groups – Central Texas Gun Works and Students for Concealed Carry – denounced the mock mass shooting, which depicted supposed victims wearing Gun Free UT tee shirts. After the speakers finished, the crowd lit candles and paraded around the block.
O’Brien urged participants to have faith that their voices could affect political change.
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“If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that the gun lobby and the marketing arm of the gun lobby sell us fear, because in order to sell guns, they need us to be afraid”, she told the crowd.
