Trump Administration Erases School Shooting Victims at ATF Headquarters
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland toured "The Faces of Gun Violence" exhibit with former ATF Director Steve Dettelbach at the brueau's DC headquarters last year.Anna Moneymaker/Getty
Jaime Guttenberg’s family should have been celebrating her college graduation this weekend.
Her family has known that would not be happening ever since Feb. 14, 2018, when 14-year-old Jaime was one of the 17 people killed in the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But what was always going to be a difficult weekend for the Guttenbergs became even harder when they discovered the Trump administration was reportedly eliminating a memorial to victims of gun violence.
Jaime’s father, Fred Guttenberg, an advocate for gun control, worked with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in Washington, DC to help create the memorial, which was unveiled last year. On a phone call Tuesday morning, he told me that the news of the elimination of the memorial, first reported by the Washington Post on Sunday, is more proof that the Trump administration “doesn’t actually care about violence in America.”
The memorial consisted of about 120 rotating photographs of victims of school shootings, domestic violence homicides,........
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