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Heartbreaking ‘Dear Daddy’ Messages In Funeral Program from Clementa Pinckney’s Daughters
Source: PoliticusUSA
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Everyone in this nation should be forced to read “Dear Daddy, I know you were shot at the Church and you went to Heaven” before allowing the NRA to silence any discussion on reasonable gun safety legislation. The same NRA that blamed the Democratic state Senator for his own death and the death of the other eight innocents in church.
Conservatives will claim that to read these programs is to “politicize” this horror, but these programs contain the truth that must not be denied any longer. Guns take the lives of good people, stealing parents and children from their loved ones. This truth must be faced squarely as we deal with gun legislation, instead of allowing the NRA to hijack every discussion with fear-mongering and lies.
Clementa Pinckney was a great man. A man of public service who used his faith for good. He was taken too soon by an act of terrorism based on racial hatred.
This needs to end. We must be better than this.
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Everyone in this nation should be forced to read “Dear Daddy, I know you were shot at the Church and you went to Heaven” before allowing the NRA to silence any discussion on reasonable gun safety legislation. The same NRA that blamed the Democratic state Senator for his own death and the death of the other eight innocents in church.
Conservatives will claim that to read these programs is to “politicize” this horror, but these programs contain the truth that must not be denied any longer. Guns take the lives of good people, stealing parents and children from their loved ones. This truth must be faced squarely as we deal with gun legislation, instead of allowing the NRA to hijack every discussion with fear-mongering and lies.
Clementa Pinckney was a great man. A man of public service who used his faith for good. He was taken too soon by an act of terrorism based on racial hatred.
This needs to end. We must be better than this.
Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/26/heartbreaking-dear-daddy-messages-clementa-pinckneys-daughters.html
Heartbreaking.
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Not a god damn fucking thing will be done to prevent future tragedies like this from happening. Not one. If anything the gun lobby will get stronger, the NRA will recruit more members and make it easier to get guns in the hands of terrorists like Dylann Roof. 
So, so sad.
May these lovely girls grow up always carrying the memory of their father in their hearts, and may that inspire them to be everything he would have wanted them to be. Nothing would honor him more.