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US Lawmaker, Victim of Gun Violence Presses Her Gun Control Campaign
15 February 2011
Associated Press
GARDEN CITY PARK, New York - Out of nowhere, a deranged gunman shoots into a crowd of innocent victims, firing until bystanders tackle him as he tries to load a new clip of ammo. Six people are killed and several injured; one person suffers a head wound but survives to face a long period of rehabilitation.
That shooting on a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993 inspired Carolyn McCarthy, who lost her husband and saw her son paralyzed, to run for Congress. And the more... (GunPolicy.org)