Eric Garcia: Gun violence survivors can have lifelong wounds. We can, and should, do more to support them.
, opened fire on an outlet mall in Allen, Texas. My heart sank when I heard that the shooter had killed eight people. But I also felt for the half-dozen people he wounded.
I know this from personal observation. A few days before Christmas in 1973, my uncles Danny and David, then 15 and 18, were shot in East Los Angeles after being mistaken by gang members as members of a rival gang. Both survived, but Uncle Danny, who was left paralyzed from the waist down, spent more than a year in the hospital learning how to function.
Uncle Danny was the person I first watched"Return of the Jedi" with, the person my sister played Brain Quest with, the person we both relied on to assemble our new bikes. Because he believed he would walk again, Uncle Danny refused variousthat made it impossible to feel pain. For the rest of his short life — he died at 40 partly because of internal damage from being shot — he would let out piercing wails and moans through the night.
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