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A group of protestors has gathered outside of Matt Gaetz office to protest gun control.
Betsy Dale Adams(Photo: Special to the News Journal)
A Gulf Breeze woman whose brother was brutally murdered traveled to Washington, D.C., this week and joined dozens of other violence survivors to advocate for gun safety reforms.
Betsy Dale Adams, a local nurse, spent the week on Capitol Hill participating in Everytown for Gun Safety's Survivor Fellowship Leadership Program. The program helps build emotional support networks among people who have been victims of gun violence, as well as helps them tell their stories to policy makers.
Dale Adams lost her brother, Patrick Dale, in 1983 when her sibling was shot in the head in Evergeen, Alabama, by a stranger he offered a ride home. The killer had a long history of mental illness, criminal behavior, addiction and propensity toward violence, coupled with easy access to a firearm, Dale Adams said.
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She said she is advocating for laws to keep guns out of the hands of people like Griffin.
"There are plenty of things we can do, and they have nothing to do with taking good, law-abiding citizens' guns away from them."
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Right away, Dale Adams said that a segment of gun owners would immediately dismiss her work as an effort to take away their guns and their Second Amendment rights.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," she said with a degree of exasperation. "... We're just trying to stop this epidemic of violence. We just asking for responsible gun ownership."
Betsy Daly Adams brother, Patrick Dale, was murdered in 1983, and now she
