Recent Incidents
- 12/24/2008
- 12/21/2008
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Every week in Washington, 2 young people under the age of 24 die of gun violence. . .
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Out of the Darkness
A comment on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Blog on the DC Gun Ban Case reads, “12 years ago my 16 year old brother discovered a gun at a friend's home which was unlocked, loaded and barely hidden. Later he stole that gun and used it to end his own life.”
Not Just One Life Lost
I got an email recently from the father of a young man whose life was tragically cut short by gun violence last year. He is making an effort to send updates about the trial of the young man accused of killing his son. The father wrote of how incredibly de-sensitized we are to gun violence. A person in the pool of prospective jurors who heard of his son's story explained that he had given the story passing attention -- just another shooting. The father wrote that he had felt the same way, too, until it was his son.