America’s gun violence and the incalculable toll of empty seats
You will probably find yourself at least once, if not repeatedly, I tell my students, talking with a person about the newly empty seat at their table.. It seems almost a cliche image. But if you talk to people who have experienced an unexpected loss, they will tell you about the very real pain of looking at that tangible reminder of once-occupied space.
Empty desk. Empty office cubicle. Empty chair. Between domestic shootings, street shootings and mass shootings, we areEach year, journalists write stories that tabulate annual homicides regionally and nationally. You will start seeing some of those pieces published soon. Many of those numbers come from counts by local and federal law enforcement agencies.
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