On May 10, 2007, 16 year old BLAIR HOLT, lost his life due to a senseless act of gun violence, while traveling from school on a public bus. Four other students were violently shot and injured during the same horrific incident. All were the unintended targets of another youth’s violent approach to, rather than, communicating verbal mediation towards conflict resoluti...

To: Governor Rod Blagojevich and Members of the Illinois General Assembly: Please Support The Common Sense Gun Legislation For Illinois As residents of Illinois, we have signed our names below to express serious concerns about the damaging impacts of gun violence to our families, friends and neighborhoods, and most of all, to our youth.   We strongly urge you to support common sense gun legislation and make sure these bills are enacted into law in 2008. We cannot wait any long...