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New Trajectory: Survivor Story: Khary Penebaker
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Monday, August 10, 2015. Survivor Story: Khary Penebaker. Today we have a guest post by Khary Penebaker, whose mother, while Khary was still an infant, committed suicide with a gun that had been given to her as a gift despite battling depression. As Khary mentions, he now works to try to prevent similar tragedies as the Survivor Outreach Leader for Moms Demand Action. And Everytown for Gun Safety. In Wisconsin, where he has a family with three children. The second conversation was in 2000 with my grandmo...
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New Trajectory: If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself. Oh, Wait.... (Another Gun Shop Owner)
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Monday, August 3, 2015. If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself. Oh, Wait. (Another Gun Shop Owner). 61-year-old Scott Maxie was in the gun shop that he owned in Indianapolis, Indiana, called. When three men entered. Despite being surrounded by his lethal weapons, Mr. Maxie was shot to death by the men. The suspects were arrested in connection to the slaying of 61-year-old Scott Maxie, Shepherd said. Maxie was found shot in the head Sunday night at his gun shop near the. How is this possible? Labels: if...
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New Trajectory: Remembering Guy Parsons, and National Suicide Prevention Week
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Saturday, September 15, 2012. Remembering Guy Parsons, and National Suicide Prevention Week. This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. It is a time for us to reflect on the tragedy of people who feel so desperate and depressed that they feel life isn't worth continuing. Maybe they feel bullied. Maybe they are chronically ill. Maybe they have lost a loved one. Whatever the cause, the end of their suffering, sadly, is the extension of pain to those who survive them. According to the CDC. Guy was a ram...
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New Trajectory: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Poem: Let Us Explain How This Happened In Your School. The poem and collage, below, and preamble, are by Cynthia Jacobi, a volunteer for Ceasefire Oregon). After Newtown, people asked what could you say to those parents who lost children? I ask what could we say to the children who we failed to Protect? What could we possibly give as explanation? Collage by Cynthia Jacobi). Let Us Explain How This Happened In Your School. It happened because the mother was odd. We once knew by...
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New Trajectory: December 2014
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Sunday, December 14, 2014. The Newtown Shooting: Two Years Later. A message from Ceasefire Oregon:. Two years ago today, twenty first-graders were shot to death at their school in Newtown, Connecticut. Six extraordinarily brave women put their bodies in front of bullets and died attempting to save those little children. Ceasefire Oregon honors those 26 souls and our thoughts and hearts are with their families and the Newtown community. Requiring background checks for all guns sales,. It's a tough fight&#...
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New Trajectory: Oregon Law Requiring Background Checks for Private Firearm Sales In Force Starting Sunday
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Friday, August 7, 2015. Oregon Law Requiring Background Checks for Private Firearm Sales In Force Starting Sunday. The following is a statement released by Ceasefire Oregon. On Sunday, August 9. The new law from the Oregon Firearms Safety Act (OFSA) requiring background checks for almost all private firearm sales will take effect. Ceasefire Oregon welcomes the new law and looks forward to a reduction in firearms-related crime. Michael DeLong, who leads Ceasefire Oregon’s Workgroup on Suicide Preven...
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New Trajectory: If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself.... Oh, Wait.... (Open Carry Idiot)
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Monday, August 3, 2015. If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself. Oh, Wait. (Open Carry Idiot). William Coleman III had just purchased his brand new Walder P22 handgun and was walking down the street in Gresham, Oregon, proudly exercising his "Second Amendment right" to openly-carry the gun on his hip. That's when he was approached by a man who said he wanted a cigarette, but when he saw Coleman's gun, he said, "I like your gun. Give it to me," and flashed a concealed handgun of his own. Labels: if only ...
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New Trajectory: The Problem Of Guns And Suicide
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Thursday, October 11, 2012. The Problem Of Guns And Suicide. This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. What better time than now to focus on the problem of suicide, which is usually the result of depression or PTSD. In my last post, guest blogger Erin Neathery described the effect that suicide had on her. After her husband ended his own life. In mid-September, during National Suicide Prevention Week, I also posted about the suicide of a friend of mine. Some important statistics to keep in mind:. The "w...
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New Trajectory: If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself. Oh, wait... (gun shop owner)
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Thursday, January 2, 2014. If Only He'd Had A Gun To Defend Himself. Oh, wait. (gun shop owner). The gun crowd is always saying, “If only the victim had had a gun, they could have defended themselves.” After all, according to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre. In his unhinged call to arm all schools. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.". But that philosophy certainly didn't help Frank Petro, owner of Frank's Gun Shop and Taxidermy, in. What could be safer? Edmundson confronted...
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