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    The ‘Unfortunate Family’ of American Shooting Survivors

    Many people affected by gun violence find solace in the friendship of others who’ve been in their shoes.
    by Julie Beck Oct 04, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: David McNew / Reuters

    Sandy Phillips is getting ready to go to Las Vegas. As long as the funds come through, she and her husband, Lonnie, along with several other volunteers, will be on a plane to Nevada by the end of the week.

    After her daughter, Jessica, was killed in 2012 during the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, that took 12 lives, Phillips said she and her husband sold their house and lived out of a camper for the duration of the shooter’s trial. Since then she’s been living on the road and has traveled to several cities in the wake ofmass shootings: Newtown, also in 2012; Isla Vista in 2014; San Bernardino in 2015; Orlando in 2016. As soon as the news broke of the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night,

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