Before a bullet severed her spine on the Near East Side last May, Alix Reese hoped to teach preschool. She was "always on the go," as one friend put it. Now, she moves at a mechanical crawl in a motorized wheelchair that she maneuvers with her mouth, changing directions with puffs and sips of air. She hasn't given up on teaching, but a more-pressing goal is to breathe without the help of a machine. Reese is 26, the innocent victim of an unsolved gang shootout at... (GunPolicy.org)