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Diana Garlington fondly recalls the last Thanksgiving she spent with her daughter, Esscence T. Christal. "We laughed, danced, reminisced & ended with taking our family photo. She clung tightly to my arm and insisted on sitting on my lap for what would be unreadily our last time.” 
The following day, Esscence was killed in a drive-by shooting, leaving behind a young son. She was just 21. The pain of Esscence’s death is worsened by the fact that her case remains unsolved. “Since her demise, she has been left in a file and given a number,” Diana said.
In the 3,431 days that Diana has gone without answers about Esscence’s killing, she has worked with organizations such as RI Coalition Against Gun Violence, One Gun Gone, and Moms Demand Action to support gun violence survivors.
NEW: Coinciding with National Gun Violence Survivors Week, @Everytown has released a report revealing millions of unaccessed dollars of funding available to support organizations helping survivors of gun violence. Read the full report: everytownresearch.org/voca
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With the number of survivors of gun violence continuously growing, the need for funding to support them is more important than ever. #MomentsThatSurvive
This National Gun Violence Survivors Week, lift up the stories of survivors who are paying a high price due to senseless and preventable gun violence. Find their stories on @Everytown’s #MomentsThatSurvive Story Wall. momentsthatsurvive.org
Amid National Gun Violence Survivors Week — Feb. 1-8 — gun violence survivors have been invited by gun sense champions in the House and Senate to have a presence at tonight’s #SOTU address. #MomentsThatSurvive
Andrea Chamblee’s husband, John McNamara, was shot and killed the Capital Gazette newspaper building in 2018. Andrea is a guest of Sen. @ChrisVanHollen at tonight’s #SOTU address. Read her #MomentsThatSurvive story. everytown.org/tribute/andrea…
@ChrisVanHollen Mary Miller-Strobel, a #SOTU guest of @RepAndyLevin, believes a red flag law could have saved her brother, Ben, who took his life with a gun. Trump promised to support red flag laws that temporarily disarm people in crisis, but has abandoned the idea.
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My State of the Union guest, M’kiyah Martin, is a 14-year-old gun violence prevention advocate and student from South Philadelphia who, like many young Americans, has experienced the effects of gun violence in her community as her teenage cousin was shot and killed in 2018. #sotu
We often hear about the lives that gun violence takes each day, but it’s less often we hear about the survivors – the injured, the traumatized, and the families – like M’kiyah – friends and communities who are left to deal with the physical and emotional costs of gun violence.
This week is also the second National Gun Violence Survivors Week. I am hopeful that M’kiyah’s attendance and her story will remind others in Washington of the grave task we have at hand to prevent gun violence in our communities. #MomentsThatSurvive
Many guests at tonight's #SOTU are survivors of gun violence. So even if Trump refuses to address gun violence — an epidemic that's killed 120k people since he took office — its presence in the room will be felt deeply.
Here’s who’s in attendance. (THREAD) #MomentsThatSurvive
Here’s who’s in attendance. (THREAD) #MomentsThatSurvive
A guest of @RepTomSuozzi, Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son Scott was murdered 2 years ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Linda stands with Rep. Suozzi in urging Trump to pass universal background checks. #MomentsThatSurvive #SOTU
Linda stands with Rep. Suozzi in urging Trump to pass universal background checks. #MomentsThatSurvive #SOTU
A guest of @SpeakerPelosi, @Brady_CA’s Mattie Scott. Mattie's been fighting for gun reform ever since her son, George, was shot and killed in 1996.
Mattie is tireless. This is the 4th year she's joined Speaker Pelosi as a #SOTU guest. #MomentsThatSurvive
Mattie is tireless. This is the 4th year she's joined Speaker Pelosi as a #SOTU guest. #MomentsThatSurvive
1) This week, we are proud to join @Everytown & other GVP groups to lift up the voices of survivors on National Gun Violence Survivor Week. Many of these stories were shared at the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence. #MomentsThatSurvive newtownfoundation.org/nationalgunvio…
2) My son Terrell was just 18 years old when he was shot and killed on 4/4/06, in the city of Chicago, while on the grounds of a church. At church. A place that should have been safe. But as we learn every day, there is no such thing as a safe place! newtownfoundation.org/pamela-boseley
3) “My son Akilah Dasilva was 23 years old when he was murdered on April 22, 2018 with three others at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. Akilah was a musician whose music spoke against guns and violence.”
-Shaundelle Brooks newtownfoundation.org/shaundelle-bro…
-Shaundelle Brooks newtownfoundation.org/shaundelle-bro…
I don’t remember my mom, Joyce, at all. I was only 20 months old when she shot & killed herself.
So, my #MomentsThatSurvive are...
So, my #MomentsThatSurvive are...
#MomentsThatSurvive
My friend @ELaffGarb. There are few people in my life that I know who would legit drop everything and come running to help me. Erica is one of those people. She called me on what would’ve been my mom’s 63rd birthday. Erica say on the phone
My friend @ELaffGarb. There are few people in my life that I know who would legit drop everything and come running to help me. Erica is one of those people. She called me on what would’ve been my mom’s 63rd birthday. Erica say on the phone
With me for 30 minutes and I hardly said a word. I could barely breathe. But E knew how I felt without me having to verbalize it. She kept reminding me to breathe. She helped me get through that shitty moment.
40 years ago, she left a note … drove on the freeway … pulled over and sat in the car by herself. She put the black revolver to her head and pulled the trigger. My mom, Joyce, was only 27 years old. everytown.org/tribute/khary-…
She was pronounced dead at 8:34 a.m. “Bullet wound of head … shot self with revolver” is what the death certificate says. 40 years … I have a lifetime of memories clouded with pain rather than a lifetime of memories of her and I. everytown.org/tribute/khary-…
She, like far too many others, was consumed with a debilitating amount of depression that lied to her. Depression made her think the world, my world, would be better off without her. She was wrong about that. I intimately know what those dark moments are like;
