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...