SHATTERED
They had lives and plans and dreams. And in seconds, gunfire changed everything. WHO brought six gun-violence survivors from around the United States to a roundtable discussion in New York to talk about the shootings that forever altered their worlds and made them part of a club that no-one wants to join.
“It’s so important to hear these stories,” says Sara Macaluso, whose father died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1992, “because for every one of them, for every statistic, that’s a family shattered”.
WHO partnered with the non-profit advocacy organisation Everytown for Gun Safety () to sponsor the event, moderated by actress and advocate Julianne Moore in honour of National Gun Violence Survivors Week in February. “People get complacent because they think, ‘Gun violence doesn’t affect me,’ but that’s because it hasn’t hit them yet,” says Carolyn Tuft, who was wounded in a random Salt Lake City mall shooting in 2007 that
