Posted August 2, 2015 4:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

Sarah Clements is the self-described “Daughter of Sandy Hook survivor, student activist for safer communities, gun violence prevention advocate.” She wrote the following Open Letter to Amy Schumer:

Dear Amy Schumer,

This week, #Aurora and #Lafayette were trending on Twitter at the same time; one tragedy was just closing in court and one was just beginning in a theater. All of this transpired on social media just as we marked the one month anniversary since a mass shooting in #Charleston — yes, that was a hashtag, too . . .

All of this may seem like it’s playing out on your computer — a safe world away from where you live and work in Hollywood. But as a woman, a daughter and sister, a national figure, and a role model, you have a real stake in gun violence happening all around you.

Your movie — which was so well-received, so brilliant, so you — will now forever have this shooting attached to it. You’ve been caught in the middle of our country’s terrifying, unending war with itself, our sick and twisted relationship with the gun lobby, which tells us we need guns for anyone, anywhere, anytime. Search your movie “Trainwreck” on Google and a scroll-down suggestion will …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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