Posted on 12/14/2021 3:21:13 PM PST by MAGA2017
Earlier this year, the gun control group Everytown launched a new program to train its volunteers to run for office. More than 100 people are participating in Demand A Seat this year.
Among them is Mia Livas Porter, who is running for a California Assembly seat, and whose brother, Junior, took his own life with a gun after battling mental illness. She said that for years she felt powerless — but that changed when she joined Moms Demand Action, an arm of Everytown.
"I felt empowered to use my voice as a survivor. And I saw how it could make legislative change," Livas Porter said.
2021 has been an incredibly deadly year for gun violence, with more than 42,000 people killed in the United States so far, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. In big cities and small towns, in grocery stores, schools and homes, lives have been cut short by gunfire. And like Livas Porter, some people whose lives have been changed by gun violence are taking the step of running for public office.
"Running for office can be very isolating. So for me it was like coming home to be sharing this experience with fellow moms and Everytown volunteers and some survivors as well and so it was truly bringing me back to my base," said Livas Porter.
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Come and get’ em. We’re done.
Has Hoggboy announced his candidacy for some office yet?
You know it’s coming
That caught my eye, too. It’s ridiculous to refer to oneself as a survivor and victim of [ooga booga] gun violence when the perpetrator was the brother WHO WAS MENTALLY ILL. If it wasn’t guns, it would have been pills, a car and a wall, tall building, whatever.
Would Mia Porter feel better if her brother jumped out a window or shut the garage doors?
Unfortunately, I’ve known far too many that have taken their own life
Most were garages, then intentional overdoses, a couple of hangings and last on the list were a gun
Simple, people who’s lives were saved by guns need to run for office.
That's about as far from an ambiguous statement as one can get.
Damn guns are running around committing murder just like that SUV was killing people in a Christmas paradein WAUKESHA, Wis.
From the Alliance for Gun Responsibility’s agenda:
“Prohibiting sales of magazines that carry more than 10 rounds will help save lives by keeping these lethal accessories out of dangerous hands”
How have bans on such magazine capacities saved lives? Usually the criminal has had enough time to exact a death toll because they went into an area that banned guns to begin with and that the police will have taken minutes to arrive at that scene. A single action rifle or shotgun or even knife would have been all that was needed to exact a death toll in many instances.
THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY YOU MIGHT NEED A MAGAZINE THAT HOLDS MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS
But they did not define what they meant by that....../s
The attacks on Kyle Rittenhouse demonstrate clearly why you need 30 round magazines.
The answer is still NO!
It will always be NO!
I still think this should be the name for an organization of cougars.
Well put!
10 rnd mag ban reduces suicides for those who would need to shoot themselves in the head 11 or more times
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