MARK GLAZE
Mark Glaze, a founder of the modern gun-control movement and former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, died October 31 at age 51. “Mark unquestionably was one of the architects of the gun safety movement,” John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, told The New York Times. Glaze, who was gay, took inspiration from grassroots victories for the marriage equality movement and hoped to do the same with gun control. He struggled with alcohol, depression, and anxiety, and died by suicide while jailed in Pennsylvania on a DUI charge. “We pray that by being open about Mark’s cause of death, something positive may emerge from our devastating loss,” his family said.
