'Nobody is safe': Teens write obituaries to memorialize children killed by guns since Parkland
by Kate Thayer, Chicago Tribune
Feb 13, 2019
4 minutes
Some hadn't yet celebrated their first birthday; others were on the cusp of adulthood. Some died by accident; others were killed by someone they knew; still others were murdered by a stranger as they stood in the wrong place at the wrong time.
All are children dead from a gun.
Over the past few months, more than 200 teens across the country, including some in the Chicago area, are naming those children, writing obituaries for every minor who has died from a gunshot in the year since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead and sparked a
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