Smegielski from prospect, connecticut. I should not be here tonight. I dont want to be here tonight. I should be home like so Many Americans watching on tv with my mother as we nominate the first woman to be president of the United States. But my mom was murdered. So im here. Im here for the mothers and daughters who are planning weddings so that you get to watch your daughters walk down the aisle. Im here for those lives cut short in a school, in a movie theater, in a church, at work, in their neighborhoods or homes because those voices should never be silenced. Im here alone without my mother while too many politicians cower behind the gun lobby instead of standing with american families. We dont need another charleston or San Bernardino or dallas or countless other acts of everyday gun violence that dont make the headlines. We dont need our teachers and principals going to work in f r fear. What we need is another mother who is willing to do whats right, whose bravery can live up in
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