Among those who are speaking out in favor of gun
restrictions in the wake of Friday’s tragedy is Stephen Barton, who was shot in
the Aurora theater massacre and who lives just a few minutes from Newtown,
Conn.
Barton, 22, is finding personal ties to the victims of a
second horrific shooting.
"Even now I'm discovering personal connections to
the elementary school, just people I know who either were working there or knew
people who have been killed," he said in an interview with the San Angelo Standard Times in Colorado. "I never would have thought in a thousand
years that this community, this small community right down the road from where
I grew up, would be affected by gun violence in this way."
Barton told CNN over the weekend that he was shot in the
neck and hit in the face with debris in the Aurora shooting, where 12 people
were killed and 58 were injured. He had been participating in a cross-country
bicycle trip with some friends when they decided to make a stop to see the new
Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
After his recovery, Barton did some work for the group
Mayors Against Illegal Guns and he is back at home in Southbury, Conn., about
15 minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 schoolchildren and
five faculty were murdered.
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