Should We See the Damage Done By Assault Weapons?
<p>Should the gun-safety movement have its own Mamie Till? She showed the world the horror of the 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett, for whistling at a white woman.</p>
<p>The Chicago boy visiting relatives in Mississippi was tortured, shot, wrapped in barbed wire attached to a 75-pound fan, and then thrown in a river. His body was so beaten, torn, and bloated that the only thing that identified him was a ring.</p>
<p>Mamie Till, an educator and community activist, insisted on an open casket for the 50,000 funeral mourners and the media. “I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy,” she said.</p>
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