Children Send Anti-Gun Drawings to Obama

[BigBlue]

Lets Us Live

Children send anti-gun drawings to Obama in 'Let us Live' campaign following Conn. shooting | NJ.com

By Meghan D. Hodgin/NJ.com
on December 15, 2012 at 1:30 PM, updated December 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM
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A "Let us Live" drawing submitted by 9-year-old Sia Limaye.Courtesy Neha Pallod Limaye
BRIDGEWATER — For parents struggling to find ways to discuss Friday's tragic events with their children, a campaign kicked off Saturday morning encouraging parents to actually get their children directly involved in an anti-gun movement.
The "Let us Live" Facebook group — which now has almost 1,000 members — asks parents to have their children write to President Barack Obama by drawing pictures of what they think anti-gun violence looks like.

This effort comes one day after a Newtown, Conn., elementary school lost 20 children, six adults and the shooter, during what has been called the second-deadliest shooting in the nation's history.

"Yesterday, like any other parent, I spent most of my day with a broken heart, crying, waiting to hug my kids in the night," wrote "Let us Live" coordinator, Neha Pallod Limaye, a Bridgewater resident.

Limaye is also the organzier behind a group of residents pushing to hold a post-Sandy Q&A session with Jersey Central Power & Light later on in January.

But when it comes to the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, "It's any parent's worst nightmare," Limaye said Saturday morning.

Limaye said the group came about after she struggled to figure out how to talk about the tragedy with her children — she decided to discuss the gravity of the consequences of violence, while being vague with the details

[Bustem' Down]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

Lets Us Live

Children send anti-gun drawings to Obama in 'Let us Live' campaign following Conn. shooting | NJ.com

By Meghan D. Hodgin/NJ.com
on December 15, 2012 at 1:30 PM, updated December 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Print
A "Let us Live" drawing submitted by 9-year-old Sia Limaye.Courtesy Neha Pallod Limaye
BRIDGEWATER — For parents struggling to find ways to discuss Friday's tragic events with their children, a campaign kicked off Saturday morning encouraging parents to actually get their children directly involved in an anti-gun movement.
The "Let us Live" Facebook group — which now has almost 1,000 members — asks parents to have their children write to President Barack Obama by drawing pictures of what they think anti-gun violence looks like.

This effort comes one day after a Newtown, Conn., elementary school lost 20 children, six adults and the shooter, during what has been called the second-deadliest shooting in the nation's history.

"Yesterday, like any other parent, I spent most of my day with a broken heart, crying, waiting to hug my kids in the night," wrote "Let us Live" coordinator, Neha Pallod Limaye, a Bridgewater resident.

Limaye is also the organzier behind a group of residents pushing to hold a post-Sandy Q&A session with Jersey Central Power & Light later on in January.

But when it comes to the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, "It's any parent's worst nightmare," Limaye said Saturday morning.

Limaye said the group came about after she struggled to figure out how to talk about the tragedy with her children — she decided to discuss the gravity of the consequences of violence, while being vague with the details

Why would you want to talk to your kids about something like that? I'm in no way advocating raising a kid completely sheltered to the realities of the real world, but there is just no reason to bring up murder to little kids. You just teach them how to be safe the best you can.

[struggler44]

Originally Posted by Bustem' Down

Why would you want to talk to your kids about something like that? I'm in no way advocating raising a kid completely sheltered to the realities of the real world, but there is just no reason to bring up murder to little kids. You just teach them how to be safe the best you can.

.... Some people have agenda's with no boundaries

[Hessian]

That's ok, I'll have my Honors US Hist class write up articles of impeachment & send them.

The real problem is how many violations must we document?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

If you send him a pro gun drawing, you'd probably get a visit from a gummint agency to...discuss it.

[Vince]

Originally Posted by struggler44

.... Some people have agenda's with no boundaries

Liberals have no problem using their children to further their agenda. Why would you tell your kids about this? Scare them into not wanting to go to school?

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

If you send him a pro gun drawing, you'd probably get a visit from a gummint agency to...discuss it.

What's the sense in sending him anything? He's going to do it his way.

[puggymom]

Originally Posted by Vince

Liberals have no problem using their children to further their agenda. Why would you tell your kids about this? Scare them into not wanting to go to school?

Conservatives do it as well. But I digress...it is disgusting either way.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by puggymom

Conservatives do it as well. But I digress...it is disgusting either way.

Link?

[puggymom]

Originally Posted by bcp

Link?

Nothing specific right now....just that it does happen. And either way it just bugs me (when the kids are young).