turner. in delaware, damire chambers. in florida, ernst bug riggs, junior. in illinois brenda barnes, greg barnes senior and daniel kenny. in indiana chanelle neil. in kentucky kenya renee cunningham. demontre rhodes and katherine brian. in missouri johnny jones. in ohio, alonso lewis. in tennessee, we have vin nibeezy. in virginia eddie jenkins. in wisconsin kevin kloth and kevin scheider. those are just 20 names out of the thousands lost every year, an nch of a hundred -- an average of a hundred each day. that's three classrooms of children. we also know the communities where mass shootings occur will never be the same. atlanta, georgia, boulder, colorado, and now the ever growing list of cities and towns forever altered but never forgotten. midland, virginia beach, pittsburgh, parkland, las vegas, orlando, charleston, newtown to name a few. i'm gladly saddened that my home state of minnesota also has communities on that list. on average someone is killed with a gun every 21 hours in my state. that is 422 people each year. tonight i'm going to focus on the loss of two women from minnesota, both of whom were heal