On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson marched up the aisle of a crowded, evening rush hour Long Island Railroad car, shooting the passengers as the train pulled into the Merillion Avenue station. When he was finished, six were dead and 19 were injured. Ferguson was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences - about 200 years of prison time. The families of those who died and were wounded never had an answer why it happened. Gun violence like this, claims the lives of an estimated 34,000 Americans each year.
More people own guns in the United States than in any other country in the world. …
