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Fred Guttenberg Profile picture
@fred_guttenberg
Jun 17, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Dear America,
Today I will begin Father’s Day by going to the cemetery to visit my forever 14 year old daughter Jaime. It is just over 4 months since she was murdered at school. Today, I am too sad to focus on myself and so no need for Father’s Day messages for me. Instead,
I first want to say how thankful I am to have Jesse as my son. I will reverse the meaning of this day and instead honor my son who makes me proud every day and who has shown such amazing strength and resilience. I also want to say how thankful I am that I still have my dad and.
my father in law who have been here for me every minute of every day. I am thankful for my wife and my extended family as we have gone through this brutal hell together. I am also thankful for my amazing community which has stood by our family and given us strength.
For me this year, Father’s Day will simply be a day that reminds me of my loss. Jaime is not here with us because she was a victim of gun violence and I cannot ignore that. On this day, please do not send me Father’s Day messages as I do not intend to focus on myself. Instead,
everyone please post or tweet a very simply message that simply say’s “I commit to vote orange in November #OrangeWaveInNovember.” For all of my dad friends, please do your videos showing your commitment to voting orange in November. Dad’s join me in making Fathers’ Day about
our families and not about us. Father’s Day is a day for us dads to remember our main purpose, and that is our commitment to the safety of our families. Trust me, the fun times stop when you lose one of your children. Do not let your family become the next to suffer like this.

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Sep 13, 2018
It appears Kavanaugh replied in writing regarding the handshake, I wish he would have said this last week when Senator Lindsey Graham asked about it. I was still there and would have been happy to have spoken with him. That said, regarding his response, not accurate.
Attached is a photo that I took from my seat to show how close I was to him all morning. I was not with protesters. Behind me were rows of other invited guests and behind the invited guests were tables for all of the press. Behind that were individual protersters escorted in
and out by police. Where I was located, no protesters could get close to. At the time of handshake, I was talking to someone else in this area. Yes, when he got up, I touched him and he turned and I extended my arm to say "Hello, my name is Fred Guttenber, father of
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Sep 11, 2018
This is a picture of my entire extended family taken August 2017 at the Freedom Tower. This morning I will be back at the Freedom Tower at 8:46am for the 17 year rememberance event. When this picture was taken, my brother Michael Guttenberg was still alive.
Unfortunately he passed away last October as a result of the cancer that resulted from his heroic service as a physician who was at the WTC when the buildings collapsed and who then spent 16 days at ground zero. This photo also includes my daughter Jaime Guttenberg
who was murdered at her Parkland school on February 14th. I lost my brother and daughter this past year to American tragedies. In one, America did take action and this building and the memorial are a sign of American greatness and how America can respond to difficult issues.
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Sep 10, 2018
As I sit here looking out my hotel window at the Statue Of Liberty, I am thinking about what it means to be American. This statue is a symbol of our freedom. This statue belongs to everyone. For those who disagree with me, and think the concept of freedom only belongs to them,
it does not. I am free to pursue the founding ideals of this country as well without fear of gun violence. I am free to defend the 2nd amendment in doing so, which I do defend. I do not mind those who disagree, but why is it that the side that disagrees with me feels they must do
so with anger, vitriol, cursing and a general lack of understanding of what this statue and our democracy and constitution mean? Go ahead and disagree, but do so without the cursing and nastiness. It may be reality if they remove the cursing and insults, there is not much to say.
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Sep 6, 2018
As I sit here for my final morning this week in DC, I want to reflect on the past couple of days. Since Jaime was murdered on February 14th, I have dedicated my life to advocacy on the cause of gun safety. Anyone who has followed me knows that I try to talk to everyone.
I go up to everyone and I introduce myself the same way which is "Hi, my name is Fred Guttenberg and I am the father of Jaime Guttenberg who was murdered in Parkland." I introduce myself that way every time intentionally so that when people do speak to me, they know up front
that it will be part of the discussion. It is my way of being honest from the start. What happened this week was quite simple. I was invited as a guest to the hearing. I was sitting 3 rows behind Kavanaugh and to his right. I was introduced. I was not one of the circus hecklers
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Aug 28, 2018
If any friends still have accounts with Wells Fargo, my advice is to switch. Based upon this article, and treatment of @nikkifried last week in her political campaign, I have decided to go public about my interactions with the @WellsFargo CEO Tim Sloan.
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As most know, I have spent the months since Jaime's murder reaching out to businesses and banks to change their business model. For example, we did communicate with Bank Of America and as a bank they did the right thing. Back on April 11th,
I began communicating directly with CEO Tim Sloan via email. I kept my interactions private with hope that Wells would eventually do the right thing. The result of this communication was that Tim Sloan put me in touch with other executives from his team who I did speak with over
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Aug 5, 2018
I have been thinking about the school security decisions taking place and conversations that are taking place amongst parents. I am concerned by some of the nastiness between parents. We do not all need to agree, but we can be respectful and supportive of each others opinions.
I have been accused by some of not saying enough and only caring about guns. That is not true. It is correct to say that I believe firmly that if the killer could not have legally purchased his weapon, my daughter and 16 others would be alive.
As a reminder, he was not an enrolled student any longer. I also believe that if he was blocked from entering the school, his determination to kill would have forced him to do so in the parking lot as students were exiting in a mass crowd of kids as they did every day.
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