VIDEO. Father wears every day jacket of his murdered son and he explains why

A U.s. representative from Colorado, has a catchy speech explained why he still every day the jacket of his murdered son wears when he goes to work. Alex Sullivan was one of the 12 fatalities that are a crazy shooter made when he on July 20, 2012, opened fire in a cinema in the town of Aurora, near Denver.

It was just after midnight when the 24-year-old James Holmes with four weapons and a gas mask on his face in room 9 of the Century 16 cinema came in and started shooting. At that time, was the premiere working of the new Batmanfilm ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. 12 people their lives and 70 others were wounded. In the fatalities, Alex Sullivan, the son of Tom Sullivan. He was fourth that day, just his 27th birthday.

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After the death of his son, the man started a true crusade for a tougher weapons law. At the end of last year he decided to be a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives in the state of Colorado, and he took it. Yesterday was a milestone in his budding career, when a bill was launched that the wapengebruik in the state of tyres. the


The new law would make the police easier to create temporary weapons seized from people who are a danger to themselves or others. A similar bill was last year, not yet approved in the Democratic House of Representatives, but collided when at a not in the Senate, where Republicans have the majority. Today the Democrats however say in both House and Senate, so the cards are different. (read on below)