Barbara Boxer: “This is very brief. I have been touched reading some of the comments that have come via the Internet on the Million Mom…”

“This is very brief. I have been touched reading some of the comments that have come via the Internet on the Million Mom March web site. I simply read two which I think indicate why the Democratic proposal commending the Million Mom March is so on target. It speaks for so many people across America. A woman from Mount Royal, NJ, writes: I wholeheartedly support the Million Mom March. I lost my 25-year-old son in November of 1999 to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. I firmly believe that he would still be here today if there would not have been a gun available to him. My prayers go out to all those who are marching on Washington. And Elizabeth from North Carolina writes: Five years ago my sister was murdered by her ex-husband in a courthouse that had no metal detectors. She had warned the court of his threats and they took his guns away. But because of the easy access to guns, he just went out and got another. And he used it to kill her in front of their 6-year-old child. She says to the million moms: God bless all of you for walking in this march and raising awareness of the horrible problem we have with gun violence on behalf of my sister and her child. I thank you all for caring.”