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OCR Page 1 of 71May-08-99 09:03A hci/cphv
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STATEMENT OF CATHERINE MURPHY
White House, May 8, 1999
Good afternoon.
Almost exactly a year ago, I stood on the south lawn of the United States
Capitol with Representative Carolyn McCarthy, Mrs. Sarah Brady, and
other mothers who had seen their families crippled or destroyed by gun
violence. I was grateful for the opportunity to speak in favor of
legislation that was being introduced that would keep kids away from
guns. All I wanted was to spare other mothers the anguish I suffered
when I lost my son Christopher to an unintentional shooting.
My son was not killed by a homicidal, depressed, angry child. He was
killed unintentionally by a young next door neighbor whose parents
were not responsible enough to lock their gun away. As a New York
City police officer, I carry a firearm every day, and lock it up every
night when I get home. But that couldn't protect my child in someone
else's house - and every single day, some parent learns the same lesson I
did when their beloved child is dead from an accident that could have
been prevented. Every day, there's a surviving child like my son Justin,
who misses his older brother who will never come back.
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