She is 8 years old.
That’s … what? About third grade? Too young for boyfriends. Too young for R-rated movies. Too young for algebra or a learner’s permit.
But she has already experienced her second shooting.
It happened a little over a week ago in Washington, D.C., outside of Nationals Park where a ballgame was in progress. But you may not have heard about it. The casualties were relatively light three persons wounded, nothing life-threatening and shootings in and of themselves are hardly newsworthy anymore. Still, the danger was very much real, and as gunfire erupted as America’s pastime interrupted a baseball game spectators had to duck and run.
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