"This is Genocide in America": Mother of Slain Chicago Teenager Condemns Gun Violence Epidemic

http://www.democracynow.org - In the wake of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that left 12 people dead, dozens of gun control activists, many from the Newtown Action Alliance, convened on Capitol Hill Wednesday to try to revive a bill that would expand federal background checks of gun buyers. Speakers included Shundra Robinson, whose 18-year-old son Deno Wooldridge was shot dead on his grandmother's front porch in Chicago nearly three years ago. "We've got to go home to empty rooms because our childrens' lives were taken away by people who should not have had guns anyways," Robinson testified. "It's beyond an epidemic. This is genocide in America." Robinson joins us from Chicago where she serves as an anti-violence activist and an evangelist with Radical End Time Ministries International.