February 11, 2013 KARE 11
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Leading up to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, a coalition of gun control advocates presented their own version of the national report card Monday at the State Capitol.
“The state of our union is bereaved, shocked and horrified by the problem of gun violence,” Rabbi Amy Eilberg told reporters.
Eilberg, a consultant at the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at the University of St. Thomas, said that the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut stirred her to be more vocal on this issue.
“As a rabbi, an American and a mother, the death of so many children in what should be absolutely safe place — their school –was unbearable.”
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