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We're launching our FIRST ever CROWDFUND!
We've always said, ONE DAY, we will build a brewery in London. We self-funded the business to date & the opening of our first tap room in Peckham.
This man just assaulted me on the central line to Epping. He just got off at Leytonstone after attempting to stab me with a glass bottle. If anyone knows who this mentally Ill man is. Pleas let me know.
My column on the men who simply CANโT handle Mary Earps winning Sports Personality of the Year, and have consequently tried to ruin it for her https://t.co/C6tkOlWI21
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.
By โAustraliaโ it means White Australia.
I canโt tell you how angry this makes me. The Aboriginal ppl, owners of Australia, only got the right to vote 63 years ago. 235yrs since British settlers et al stole, pillaged & committed atrocities against them. If I speak
The Caucacity.
Today, I'm thinking of all those in Israel and Palestine suffering unimaginable pain, trauma and fear.
The horrific attacks on civilians in Israel were deplorable. This cannot justify the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians, who are paying the price for a crime they did not commit.
Half of Gazaโs population are children. Trapped in an open-air prison without food, water, gas or electricity, they are watching their homes turn to rubble with nowhere to go.
We should condemn the use of violence against all civilians, Israeli and Palestinian. And we must renew our calls for an immediate ceasefire to prevent any further loss of life.
In times of war, we need more voices for peace โ and the only way to achieve peace is to end the occupation.
A call for all @Britbeerwriters members to email the Guild secretary on [email protected] about Cask Marqueโs corporate sponsorship of the organisation. Please RT