A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Linda Whiting, 50, was attending a dinner party at her friend’s home, on March 13, 2011, in Phoenix, Arizona, when an argument between her friend’s 18-year son, a Detroit man, who was visiting his family, and his step-father became violent.
Linda Whiting was in the house when the shooting began, and tried to run outside to escape the 18-year-old shooter. He shot Linda, who was taken to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead.
My son, Adrian was shot and killed while innocently walking down the street on June 6, 1995. My life has been changed forever. The streets of Trenton, NJ are worse now than I can ever remember. Guns are easily accessible to any and every one. Shootings occur almost daily taking the lives of dear love [...]
My son Brian was shot in the face by the hand of his brother and died instantly. http://Brian-Clark.virtual-memorials.com
I was with my daughter when I got a horrific phone call from my mother. I had heard that there was a shooting in Tucson earlier on the news but it seemed so far away, and I initially thought it was not an area that my brother lived in. How very wrong and how very [...]
It has been over 16 yrs. 16 yrs of pain…16 yrs of tears! I gained strength beyond to keep alive the Memory of Lionel, my Son. Lionel was shot and murdered inside of the car by the so called friends he was riding with. He was murdered on my Father’s 66th Birthday and 12 days [...]
On May 13, 1972, my 20 year old brother Michael was fatally shot following a robbery on a CTA”el” train on the way home from Loyola University. This Mother’s Day weekend, my family observed the 40th anniversary of his death. When I ask my students of Oakton Community College in Chicago how many of them know [...]
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