Turn of Phrase - An Open Coffin in Newtown

Noah Pozner, age 6
Died, Sandy Hook, CT

"If there is ever a piece of legislation that comes across his desk, I needed it to be real for him."

- From Veronique Pozner, who escorted the governor of Connecticut to view her six year-old son Noah's casket, which she insisted remain open at his funeral. 

Noah was riddled with 11 bullets during the Sandy Hook school shooting in December. Inside his coffin, the boy's face was covered with a cloth. "There's was no mouth left," his mother said. "His jaw was blown away."

What a devastating reminder of all that is truly at stake behind the gun rights' argument. A mother's love is a powerful tool.