Joseph O’Sullivan of The Seattle Times writes:

Before they began calls Monday night urging people to vote for Initiative 594, the volunteers sitting around a folding table in a St. Mark’s Cathedral campus building took turns saying why they had come.

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After they finished, the dozen or so people applauded the woman standing at the head of the table: Nicole Hockley, mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the December 2012 Newtown, Conn., school shootings.

Hockley had come to speak to the volunteers working for I-594, the measure on the November ballot to expand the requirements for gun-purchase background checks to include private sales and transfers.

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The camaraderie and chaos of making calls at a crowded table creates a kinship among those who’ve lost someone to a shooting, or survived one themselves.

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