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. &ldquo;I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy,&rdquo; she said.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/politically-speaking/should-we-see-the-damage-done-by-assault-weapons-49833f5dd90d"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>