Congratulations to Valparaiso’s Aidan Gutierrez, the 2024 recipient of the Fred A. Keesling Mental Attitude Award for Boys Golf, presented by Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance! 🎓⛳️🏌️♂️@AthleticsValpo@INFarmBureau
Looks like a 2nd place finish for Aidan Gutierrez at the @IHSAA1 golf state finals!! Congrats on a great career at @AthleticsValpo
4x all state never been done
4x top 10 never been done
Academic all state
Let’s give him some love!! @gut3316@JP8185@ValpoHS411@injrgolf
It was an 11th place finish at State! Aidan Gutierrez was 2nd place medalist. Liam Utesch & Aidan Gutierrez were both Academic All State winners. And to top it all off, Aidan was the Mental Attitude Winner! Pretty amazing day! @ValpoHS411@Valpo_Schools@IHSAA1@indianahsgolf
Congratulations to Chesterton High School student athlete Tate Wilcox on signing to continue her academic and athletic careers at Morehead State University!
@ChestertonHS | @CHS__Trojans
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.
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