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‘Don’t be numb to this’: Battling despair over gun deaths

FILE - Police block the street to a house where three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooing at a short-term rental home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood on Saturday Jan. 28, 2023. The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. in the Beverly Crest neighborhood. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) FILE - Family of those killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, stand with Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez during a news conference at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Gutierrez says he is filing legislation in the wake of Texas' rising gun violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - FBI officials walk towards the crime scene at Mountain Mushroom Farm, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, after a gunman killed several people at two agricultural businesses in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Officers arrested a suspect in Monday's shootings, 67-year-old Chunli Zhao, after they found him in his car in the parking lot of a sheriff's substation, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said. (AP Photo/Aaron Kehoe, 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) FILE - Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., is seen on Friday Jan. 6, 2023. Police say a 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at the school during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom earlier in the day on Friday. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File) Zeneta Everhart poses for a portrait in her home in Buffalo, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 2023. Everhart's son, Zaire Goodman, survived a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York last May. “You know, we don’t want to hear about this. We don’t want to hear about our children dying by gun violence, and we don’t want to hear about our seniors” who were killed in the California studio attack. “How awful. How heartbreaking.” (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted) A photo of Zaire Goodman is pinned to the refrigerator door of his mother’s house in Buffalo, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 2023. Goodman was injured in May 2022 when a gunman stormed a Tops supermarket aiming to kill as many Black people as he could. Eight months after the Buffalo supermarket attack, doctors have been unable so far to remove all the bullet fragments lodged inside the body of Goodman, some of them dangerously close to vital organs. But his survival motivates his mother, Zeneta Everhart, to keeping pushing the government for change, and she urges others not to give up fighting when they hear about yet another shooting. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted) Zeneta Everhart poses for a portrait outside a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 2023. 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. She is part of an ever-growing network of gun violence survivors looking for ways to stem the violence. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted) FILE - Bullet holes are seen in a window as an investigator works at the scene of a fatal shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022. A white man is accused of shooting several people days earlier at the Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) 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) Zeneta Everhart stands outside a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 2023. 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. “You know, we don’t want to hear about this. We don’t want to hear about our children dying by gun violence, and we don’t want to hear about our seniors” who were killed in the California studio attack. “How awful. How heartbreaking.” (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
‘Don’t be numb to this’: Battling despair over gun deaths