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Parkland Dad Fred Guttenberg on the Day His Life ‘Shattered’

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My First Experience With Loss - I'm a Dad of Two Kids

I'm just this guy that's a dad of two kids that had the perfectly stable, normal life that people would dream about until february fourteenth, two thousand and 18. My daughter, jamie died, and my son jesse, was on the phone with me as we heard the gunshots on the third floor that were killing my daughter, killing his sister. And i became one of those families in america to be affected by gun violence. And i have not been able to shut up since. Because it's not ok. It's not normal. Every act of gun violence that happens right now is preventable but also predictable because we haven't done anything to change that dynamic

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