Club No One Wants to Join

A Message From the Club No One Wants to Join

By GREGORY GIBSON
New York Times Sunday Review
FEB. 17, 2018

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — My sister Wendy died by suicide with a gun and my son, Galen, was killed in a school shooting. Lately, I’ve been working with fellow survivors to pass sensible gun laws, volunteering for Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. We survivors have had children, spouses and relatives shot and killed by strangers, partners, or by their own hand.

If we wanted it to stop, Himes said, we’d do something about it.

Gregory Gibson is the author of “Gone Boy: A Father’s Search for the Truth in His Son’s Murder” and “Hubert’s Freaks."

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