For those of you who don't know,
I have an alias: Barbara Markley. This is my maiden name and although I've been
married for almost 32 years I still use that name for work and for my activist
alter-ego. Yes, I'm an activist who is passionate about many causes but the one
that takes most of my time is gun safety. When you live in a country where you
are 25 times more likely to die from gun violence than in any other developed
nation, and you live in a state (Florida) where a child is shot every 17 hours
on average, you feel compelled to take action.
I
started a program called Lock it Up!, a non-partisan program to protect
children and teens from unlocked guns. This program is through the Broward
League of Women Voters' Gun Safety Committee, which I chair. I was thrilled
when WLRN, our local NPR station, did a feature story on our project this
week.
Check
it out:
http://www.wlrn.org/post/surprising-allies-address-outsize-role-guns-play-deaths-soldiers-and-kids
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