by Hollye Dexter | Dec 19, 2012 | aspergers, assault weapons, ban on assault weapons, gun control, gun regulation, gun violence, mass shootings, mental illness, Sandy Hook shooting
FACTS: FACT: There are more than 58,000 gunshops in this country. There are fewer than 20,000 Starbucks in the whole world. – Kai Rysdall, NPR FACT: The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world — an average of 88 per 100 people. 60...
by Hollye Dexter | Dec 18, 2012 | assault weapons, ban on assault weapons, gun control, gun violence, Sandy Hook shooting, the effects of gun violence, violence against children
In the summer of 1978, my seven-year old brother Christopher was shot in the head by a teenaged neighbor, playing with his father’s gun. Christopher was a first grader, a skinny little tow-headed boy missing his front teeth. I held him, bleeding in my arms, as...