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Darlene Richardson WAS a huge success in what had traditionally been a "man's world;" beer salesman for the leading distributor in Hartford, Connecticut. She lived in her home town, Vernon, CT, right near her favorite restaurant, Rein's New York Style Deli. She was liked and respected by both management, her fellow employees, and clients. Life could not have been much better...Until management had to fire someone that Darlene had trained; someone who was carrying something other than his lunch in a red lunch pail.

"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting