The Gun Violence Memorial Project showcases the lives of the thousands killed by guns each year: mass shootings, community violence, suicide.
The idea of the kids were what undid Karin Engstrand, 69, whose emotions built and built as she moved from one house to the next. When she’d first seen the name of the exhibit, she hadn’t wanted to go in. The news of the past two weeks had just been too much. All those children, killed in just one day. And now here she was looking at mementos about others. Babies. Toddlers. Teens.
Engstrand hadn’t personally been touched by gun violence, but she’d always been willing to help. She donated money. She signed petitions. But walking through the memorial, she felt helpless.House number two. The call to action, the volume of loss, the fact that guns are legal — it all felt bizarre to Yichao Su, 25, and Aviva Wang, 26, who grew up in China. Su is a film student in London. Wang is earning her master’s degree in education, with a dream of teaching elementary students.
They’d come for the weekend from Pennsylvania, not planning to find a gun violence exhibit at a museum about buildings. But they were learning so much.They knew how often guns kill people in mass shootings and in crimes. But they hadn’t realized just how many people were killed by guns through suicide: nearly two-thirds.A compass for Phillip, 26, who ended his own life with a hunting gun — a gift from his grandfather. Pom poms for Alexis, a cheer coach killed by her ex-boyfriend.
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