UPDATE: See Statement of Ms. Magazine in Response to Alleged Pro-Gun Bullying My hands are shaking; my adrenaline is surging. No, it’s not from the latte I just inhaled or because this is the first time in two years I’ve been in a Starbucks since declaring a boycott on its open-carry gun policy. What’s got […]
Author: Heidi Yewman
Heidi Yewman is a Vancouver author whose 2009 book Beyond the Bullet: Personal Stories of Gun Violence Aftermath profiles 19 people forever altered by the impact of gun violence. Yewman is the Washington state president of the Million Mom March and a board member of the Brady Campaign. She is a 1986 graduate of Columbine High School.
Too Many Victims of Gun Violence Are Women
We don’t need stats to understand how much gun violence affects women; we see it on the evening news — from children killed by stray shots from a handgun left around the house, to women who are victims of domestic violence.