GUN SAFETY

Should We See the Damage Done By Assault Weapons?

Debate ongoing over benefit of an ‘Emmett Till moment’

**Part of a memorial to the 19 students and two teachers killed in a May 24 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Tx.** Photo by Benjamin Applebaum of the Department of Homeland Security on Flickr

Should the gun-safety movement have its own Mamie Till? She showed the world the horror of the 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett, for whistling at a white woman.

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