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...anniversary of the Columbine shootings has come and gone at Harvard, fortunately without any obnoxious student protest on gun laws to profane the memory of the dead. The national forum, however, was not spared the proposals of Vice President Al Gore '69 for more gun control. Gore renewed his call after the shootings in the National Zoo this Monday...
...Advantage held by Gore over Bush in households without a gun...
...there were a recipe for creating a late-blooming activist--take a devoted parent, add a worst nightmare, mix with official intransigence--Carole Price, 37, would be the final product. The Maryland mother of three says she "hadn't organized anything more complicated than a car pool" until gun violence ripped into her family. On Aug. 20, 1998, Price's son John, 13, was accidentally killed by a 9-year-old neighbor boy wielding a 9-mm Luger pistol that he had found in his home. Since that day, Price and her husband John have put themselves on the front...
After her son was killed, Carole Price was stunned to learn that in Maryland it was only a misdemeanor to leave a loaded gun accessible to a child. She started attending gun-control rallies and was host at meetings in her home. After she showed up with a TV news crew at a local Republican fund raiser that was raffling off a 9-mm handgun, Price gained the attention of other local media and legislators...
Since November, Carol Price has been an organizer of the Million Mom March on behalf of "commonsense" gun control, scheduled for Mother's Day on the Mall in Washington. Donna Dees Thomases, the New Jersey publicist and mother of two who launched plans for the march, says that Price's public anguish speaks for thousands of families branded by gun violence--and furious at legislative inaction...