These were comments sent to the Web site of the sponsors of the Million Mom March, to be held Sunday in Washington and several dozen other cities across the country. The most important thing a parent can do is to protect our children from harm or death. They count on us for that. Another Coloradan, Lori Martin of Lafayette, told a more personal story. This shouldn't have happened.
Life is too unstable anyway, without having to worry about guns being in the wrong hands.
Let's get safer gun laws, now. Our participation is not only an effort to demand sensible gun laws but to remember those moms and children that have been indelibly scarred by the use of guns in the wrong hands. I am a registered nurse. I have worked closely with children that have been traumatized . . . We ask that these children be kept in mind, as well as the staggering statistics.