"I do not want this cycle to repeat itself from sister to daughter now to grandkids, so I'm fighting not only for my generation but the next generation,"
Philip Deitch A traveling exhibit created by Moms Demand Action s Missouri chapter uses T-shirts to embody the Missouri kids lost to gun homicides in 2020.
For Leslie Washington and Tonya McCaw, the fight for increased gun restrictions is personal.
Washington, a survivor of domestic violence, was threatened by her ex-husband with a firearm one reason she fled St. Louis for Cape Girardeau, where she lives today. She also lost one relative to suicide and another to murder. In both cases, the weapon was a gun.
As for McCaw, her husband was speaking to his sister outside their mother’s home last year in north St. Louis when they were confronted with a hail of bullets. “All of a sudden, gunfire,” McCaw recalled on Tuesday’s