Qué grandes imágenes de la #Barcelona preolímpica han encontrado l@s compañer@s de TV3 para ilustrar la entrevista sobre mi novela, 'El año que desapareció la arena'. Moltes gràcies! #barceloneta#chiringuitos (pequeña corrección: llegué en 1988, no en el 98😊)
Onze B/C-keus wint met een geblesseerde middenvelder op goal en 11 minuten blessure tijd tegen nog steeds van de nummer 2 van de KKD. Met je competitievervalsing en #stopdebeloften. #jAZrod
El CSD denuncia irregularidades de la Lucha Antidopaje y pide la dimisión de su presidente https://t.co/oZ9BarOkJm Het is weer een ouderwets zooitje hier,@thijszonneveld .
My name is Kristin Song.
On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months.
At the hospital, the ER doctor slid down the wall, put his head in his hands, and whispered, "Your son is gone." At that instant, all I knew, loved and trusted was imploded into a million tiny pieces.
I begged to say goodbye to my beautiful boy. I wanted to kiss his forehead, tell him how cherished he was, and tuck him in one last time. But the doctor begged me to remember Ethan as he was, you see, he was unrecognizable even to my eyes.
The day before Thanksgiving in 2018, the prosecutor told me she would not charge the negligent gun owner, and if I wanted negligent gun owners to be held accountable, I would have to change the law.
So I did.
6 months later, Connecticut passed Ethan's Law, which requires gun owners to secure their weapons if children can gain access.
Then, I learned that so many states stood silent on this issue, so in 2019, I turned my attention to passing Ethan's Law nationally. I met with over 400 congressional offices, 130 of them Republican.
In 2022, Ethan's Law was passed in the House of Representatives as part of the Safer Communities Act. Sadly, it was not picked up in the final package.
When the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 2023, I pivoted to passing safe gun storage laws in the States. As a result, Michigan, New Mexico, and Maryland passed safe storage laws.
Currently, I am working with 5 states to pass Ethan's Law.
I am emotionally and mentally exhausted, but I will not stop until there is a cultural shift in this country where it becomes second nature to secure your weapons around unsupervised children.
If you believe in protecting children from gun violence, please follow and repost.
In September 1992, Pearl Jam threw a free concert in Seattle's Magnusson Park with more than 70,000 in attendance.
During the show, Eddie Vedder performed a death-defying feat.
He climbed the stage scaffolding with 100 feet of microphone cable trailing behind him, looped it over the top, rappelled down, and swung out over the audience.
Reflecting on the moment later, Eddie said:
"I was channeling something different. I reached that place you hear about where a mother lifts a car off her two-year-old child. It was that kind of adventure. At that point in my life, finally having the opportunity to perform for larger crowds, I genuinely felt like I had nothing to lose. I wasn't thinking about what might await me in the future. It was all about the present moment. This mindset aligned with the message we, as a group, wanted to convey to the audience at that particular time. Risking my safety to evoke such emotions became part of the performance."