Kevin Bohlin, ASL Family Trainer (through interpreter):
For many, many years, the word access has been a huge issue. So, with that initial reaction about the tragedy in Lewiston that Wednesday night, some of the deaf community did not understand what was going on, because captioning was not clear on the televisions.
That next morning, some of us woke up, and, honestly, we made this connection that there was a possibility that members of our deaf community had been there in Lewiston and had been a part of this situation.
At that point, the news recordings were not clear. Information had been cut off. The interpreter was not on screen. Later on that day, on Thursday, there was a deaf interpreter on the television, and that was very powerful. That gave us a lot of access and information. We finally could see what was going on.
Our local representatives are asking questions. The White House is asking questions. A lot of local organizations are banding together to have healthy conversations, and so, yes, tragic. At the same time, it is raising the awareness.
Rev. Frank Strasburger (Ret.), Episcopal Priest: If we don't do anything about guns, how do we have any confidence that what happened here two weeks ago won't happen again and again and again? Do we really care more about our guns than we do our neighbors and our kids?
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