To: The New Mexico State House, The New Mexico State Senate, and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Divest from the gun industry
Divest our state's pension fund from companies that profit from the sale or manufacturing of guns
Why is this important?
I am starting a petition to request our state pension to divest from the gun industry In honor of the students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Today is the one year anniversary of their untimely deaths. I am advocating for less gun violence on a grassroots local level to respect the Newtown families' wishes that citizens wishing to pay tribute to their children and loved ones do an act of kindness in their own communities.
On a personal level, I was mugged and robbed in July in Santa Fe, NM. The young assailant crashed into me, knocked out a tooth, gave me a concussion and bruised my face, chest and ribs with the force of his body. Luckily he did not have a weapon other than his body. Had he had a gun at such close range, my injuries would have been severe, perhaps fatal.
On a personal level, I was mugged and robbed in July in Santa Fe, NM. The young assailant crashed into me, knocked out a tooth, gave me a concussion and bruised my face, chest and ribs with the force of his body. Luckily he did not have a weapon other than his body. Had he had a gun at such close range, my injuries would have been severe, perhaps fatal.