Mark Glaze
Mark Glaze was an American lobbyist, who spent his last ten years working for gun control.[2][3] He played key roles in Mayors for Gun Safety and its successor Everytown for Gun Safety, from 2011 until his death in 2021. Glaze is reported to have taken his own life, when in jail, on driving while intoxicated charges.[1]
In June 2013, actress Shannon Richardson, tried to assassinate Glaze with a letter tainted with deadly ricin.[4]
Early life
Glaze grew up in Colorado, where his father, an NRA member, taught him to hunt.[5]
Gun control lobbying
In 2012 Glaze was quoted calling the FBI's records of gun-ownership as being like swiss cheese, because gun owners had to volunteer in order for their guns to be listed.[6]
Personal life
Glaze, a father of one, was a gay man.[2]
After his death friends and family said that, during his gun control campaigning he had experienced anxiety and sought relief in substance use.[5] They said he had sought help with these issues.
Legacy
After the Sandy Hook massacre the Wall Street Journal called Glaze "the face of the gun control movement".[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Was Mark Glaze a boozehound? At the age of 51, the founder of the US gun control movement commits suicide". Techno Trenz. 2021-11-08. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20211109094705/https://technotrenz.com/news/was-mark-glaze-a-boozehound-at-the-age-of-51-the-founder-of-the-us-gun-control-movement-commits-suicide-1285044.html. Retrieved 2021-11-09. "Glaze was born in , on October 21, 1970, to parents Charles Glaze and Nancy Green. He was a Truman Foundation Scholar at Colorado College and a George Washington University Law School honors graduate. He was a member of the Federal Election Reform Commission, which was chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clay Risen (2021-11-06). "Mark Glaze, Influential Gun Control Advocate, Dies at 51". The New York Times: p. D6. Archived from the original on 2021-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20211106224004/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/mark-glaze-influential-gun-control-advocate-dies-at-51.html. Retrieved 2021-11-09. "A decade later, gun violence is a winning issue for many state and local governments, the N.R.A. is in tatters and Congress is increasingly willing to stand up for gun safety — a drastic shift that many attribute to Mr. Glaze’s tireless organizing and brilliant strategizing."
- ↑ "‘A pioneer’: Tributes pour in after death of influential gun control advocate Mark Glaze". The World News. 2021-11-06. https://twnews.ch/gb-news/a-pioneer-tributes-pour-in-after-death-of-influential-gun-control-advocate-mark-glaze. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ↑ Jill Heller (2013-06-28). "'Vampire Diaries' Actress Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson Indicted On 3 Counts For Sending Ricin Letters". International Business Times. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190411172637/https://www.ibtimes.com/vampire-diaries-actress-shannon-rogers-guess-richardson-indicted-3-counts-sending-ricin-letters. Retrieved 2013-06-28. "The statement went on to say that she had allegedly mailed the letters on approximately May 20. She was subsequently arrested on June 7, in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, KLTV reports. Richardson is also suspected of sending a third tainted letter to Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization which Bloomberg founded and co-chaired. Richardson's estranged husband is a gun owner."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Founder of America’s gun control movement kills himself while in prison on DU charge". Australian News Review. 2021-11-08. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20211109141625/https://australiannewsreview.com/founder-of-americas-gun-control-movement-kills-himself-while-in-prison-on-du-charge/. Retrieved 2021-11-09. "‘In the last years of his life, Mark actively sought help. He completed several treatment programs, with the hope of finding peace and breaking free of the addictive cycle that caused him to feel so desperately alone and in pain. … We pray that by being open about Mark’s cause of death, something positive may emerge from our devastating loss.’"
- ↑ Michael S. Schmidt; Charlie Savage (2012-12-20). "Gaps in F.B.I. Data Undercut Background Checks for Guns". The New York Times (Clarksburg, West Virginia): p. A1. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032032/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/us/gaps-in-fbi-data-undercut-background-checks-for-guns.html. Retrieved 2021-11-09. "'Until it has all the records of people out there in the country who have been deemed too dangerous to own a firearm, the background check system still looks like Swiss cheese,' said Mark Glaze, director of the group."
