ms. kerwin: hello.ing to have to cheat a little -- my name is erin ke rwin and i'm the mother of two children. i have the honor of introducing hillary clinton today. like many people, i live in manchester in a home three miles away from where we are. ands a beautiful community, in another time, we could have post in a norman rockwell painting. for me, the devastating consequences of gun violence have always been a concern. in what feels like a past life, i was a social worker, and i handled mostly t domestic violence and sexual assault. what struck me over and over was the immediacy of gun violence. when guns injure a conflict there is no chance to reconsider, it is just over. watching the assault weapon ban expire in 2004, i could not understand why we couldn't make progress or enact policies to prevent gun violence and death from guns. last month, everything changed for our family. a woman not so different from myself or anyone else in our neighborhood was shot and killed on my street. it was a sunday