Faith March: “we Are Leading The Nation” On Curbing Gun Violence

Hundreds of Seattle-area faith activists returned to Temple de Hirsch Sinai on Sunday, where religious leaders launched the city’s movement to curb gun violence a week after the December, 2012, assassination of 20 first graders at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Cheryl Stumbo, a survivor of the Jewish Federation shootings, has become a leader in the campaign for Initiative 594.  If passed by voters, the initiative will expand background checks to all gun sales.  (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) Out of the movement came Initiative 594, the measure on Washington’s November ballot that would close the “gun show loophole” by requiring criminal background checks for those purchasing firearms at gun shows [...]