Post by: AngelOfThyNight on April 15, 2022, 04:23:17 AM
A 1993 shooting on a moving Long Island Rail Road commuter train in the New York suburbs left Carolyn McCarthy's husband dead and her son gravely wounded. The tragedy transformed McCarthy, a nurse, into a nationally recognized force for gun reform on Capitol Hill, where she represented a suburban congressional district for nine terms.
Source: America's 'Gun Lady' relives the tragedy of another mass shooting (https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/opinions/brooklyn-subway-lirr-shooting-mccarthy-griffith/index.html)