Posted on 11/07/2021 12:27:35 PM PST by algore
A campaigner credited with helping found the modern gun control movement has killed himself in jail while being held on a DUI charge.
Mark Glaze died last month while being held at Lackawanna County Prison in Pennsylvania, with the 51 year-old's death announced in a New York Times story published Sunday.
Glaze, a father-of-one, is said to have been suffering from addiction and severe depression in the period leading up to his arrest and death.
'As we celebrate the life of our beloved Mark, we would be remiss not to mention his harrowing struggle with alcohol, depression, and anxiety,'
'In the last years of his life, Mark actively sought help. He completed several treatment programs, with the hope of finding peace and breaking free of the addictive cycle that caused him to feel so desperately alone and in pain. … We pray that by being open about Mark's cause of death, something positive may emerge from our devastating loss.'
Glaze was being held at Lackawanna County Prison after his arrest on September 9th for fleeing the scene of a car accident in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. Police charged him with DUI, accidents involving deaths or personal injury, abandoning a vehicle on the highway and careless driving.
Glaze grew up in Colorado - with his father a hunter who was a member of the National Rifle Association. He qualified as a lawyer, and joined campaign group Mayors Against Guns in 2011 as a consultant, working alongside luminaries including Michael Bloomberg.
His campaigning intensified in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre, which saw 20 kids and six adults shot dead at a Connecticut elementary school. The gun safety advocate was gay, and drew inspiration for the battle to overturn the Supreme Court's ban on same-sex marriage during his gun safety efforts.
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As if we really needed more proof that people who support the democrat taliban party are mentally disturbed.
Say gay gun-controller gone, three times fast!
Gee...that’s a shame.
One less. Good.
Once again proof that liberalism truly is a mental disorder
This guy was stone nuts.
My eyes are dry.
Gee.
How very unfortunate.
Satan called another home..
Shucks. Well, I’m over it.
How has that worked out... in Chicago? In Baltimore? In Newark? In DC? In Philadelphia?
His name is completely unfamiliar to me, but apparently, he was quite well known for his activism.
When I saw the headline “Poster Boy for US gun control” I thought something must have happened to David Hogg.
Then I saw the age of 51.
knew too much
Or... What did he know, and about whom?
/tinhat
Why is he wearing Lipstick ?
I just looks weird when men do that.
Gay but a father of one? How did he do that? Sounds like he had a whole lotta issues.... I'm sorry he was so down he took his own life but apparently he started down the road to ... whatever you want to call it ... a long time ago.
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