'Don't be numb to this': Battling despair over gun deaths
TIM SULLIVAN and CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press
It was a very somber mood in Monterey Park, California, as Vice President Kamala Harris showed up and looked at the memorial in front of the Star Ballroom Dance Studio after a mass shooting that took the lives of 11 people.Â
FILE - Women pause at a memorial at a vigil honoring the victims of a shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Monterey Park, Calif. A gunman killed multiple people late Saturday amid Lunar New Year celebrations in the predominantly Asian American community. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Zeneta Everhart stands outside a Tops supermarket on Friday in Buffalo, N.Y. Ten people were killed in the store in May 2022 after a gunman entered targeting Black people. Everhart's then-19-year-old son survived after being shot in the neck.Â
FILE - From left, Zeneta Everhart, whose son Zaire Goodman, 20, was shot in the neck during the Buffalo Tops supermarket mass shooting and survived, Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician from Uvalde, Texas, Miguel Cerrillo, father of Miah Cerrillo fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and Lucretia Hughes, of DC Project, Women for Gun Rights, are sworn in to testify during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The month after the supermarket shooting, she and other victims’ relatives testified before a House committee about the need for gun safety legislation. Two weeks later, Biden signed the gun violence bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)
FILE - Women pause at a memorial at a vigil honoring the victims of a shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Monterey Park, Calif. A gunman killed multiple people late Saturday amid Lunar New Year celebrations in the predominantly Asian American community. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Zeneta Everhart stands outside a Tops supermarket on Friday in Buffalo, N.Y. Ten people were killed in the store in May 2022 after a gunman entered targeting Black people. Everhart's then-19-year-old son survived after being shot in the neck.Â
FILE - From left, Zeneta Everhart, whose son Zaire Goodman, 20, was shot in the neck during the Buffalo Tops supermarket mass shooting and survived, Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician from Uvalde, Texas, Miguel Cerrillo, father of Miah Cerrillo fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and Lucretia Hughes, of DC Project, Women for Gun Rights, are sworn in to testify during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The month after the supermarket shooting, she and other victims’ relatives testified before a House committee about the need for gun safety legislation. Two weeks later, Biden signed the gun violence bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)
