These Moms Lost Sons to Gun Violence. The Want Help.
by John L. Micek, June 24, 2021
Tina Ford understands the toll of gun violence like few of us ever will. She lives with it every day.
In April 2019, her, son, Armani Ford, a local high school football legend, was shot and killed in his hometown of Clairton, Pa., a steel town in the Monogahela River Valley, just south of Pittsburgh. He was just 23 years old.
In the wake of her son’s death, Ford helped found a local chapter of Mothers of Murdered Sons, or MOMs. Among other women who had buried children all too soon, she found comfort and solace. To her frustration and sadness, she found its membership kept growing.
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Posted Jan 15, 2021
[Episcopal News Service] Bishops United Against Gun Violence, a network of more than 100 Episcopal bishops, released the following statement about last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and the threat of additional violence next week tied to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Dear People of God in the Episcopal Church,
Last week, those of us in the United States watched in horror as a violent insurrection put both our government and its leaders in peril. This week, our nation sits on edge, waiting to learn if extremists will make good on threats to mount armed protests at all 50 state capitol buildings and in Washington D.C. between now and Inauguration Day.