This will be the second Christmas Manuel and Patricia Oliver won't spend with their son Joaquin who was murdered in the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The Olivers are currently baking 1,700 cookies in the shape of a small person that is filled with holes. They say the holes are meant to represent bullet holes and each cookie stands for one of the 1,700 children killed by gun violence every year. The holiday season message was inspired by a recent NRA social media post showing a picture of Santa Claus reading a Christmas list requesting Ammo.
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Photos: NRA's Wayne LaPierre through the years
National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre is shown April 30, 1995 on "Meet the Press" in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
National Rifle Associaiton executive vice President Wayne LaPierre is interviewed by the Associated Press in Washington Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004. LaPierre discussed the gun lobby's plans for fall election, upcoming repeal of the assault weapons ban, and other political issues. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, before speaking at the National Rifle Association of America annual meeting Friday, May 16, 2008, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, right, listens to an audience member's question after speaking at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. The nation's largest gun-rights lobby is calling for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as supporters and opponents of stricter gun control measures faced off on what lawmakers should do to curb gun violence in the wake of last month's shooting rampage at that killed 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
National Rifle Associations (NRA) Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Trump met with a group to discuss the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, setting up a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America's legal landscape for decades to come. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump stands with National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, right, and Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action as he arrives for the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum, Friday, April 28, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
President Donald Trump shakes hands with NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre, has he arrives to speak to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Friday, April 26, 2019, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA Annual Meeting of Members in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019. On Saturday, retired Lt. Col. Oliver North has announced that he will not serve a second term as president of the NRA amid inner turmoil in the gun-rights group. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
