I thought I was going to die, . I fell to the ground."
Doctors expect Sarah to make a full recovery, but the circumstances of the shooting are disturbingly familiar. Over the weekend, New York City witnessed 25 shootings, resulting in six fatalities. On Sunday alone, three people were killed and eight others wounded by gunfire from Brooklyn to the Bronx.
The rash of weekend shootings comes against a backdrop of major gun control efforts by both New York City and state officials. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has emerged as one of the nations strongest advocates for stricter firearm regulations, and has long touted the citys strict gun control rules as helping to bring about a significant drop in crime over the last decade. (The mayors office declined to comment on the weekends shootings.)
New York recently became the first state to pass major gun control legislation since the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn. The bill that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law in January both strengthens the states existing assault weapons ban and introduces new mental health regulations for potential gun owners.
None of that did much to help Sarah, a seventh-grader at Middle School 302 in the Bronx and one of three girls to be caught in the line of fire over the last few weeks.
On May 18, Daja Robinson, 14, was shot and killed on her way to a Sweet 16 party when a gunman fired off nine rounds into the side of a Queens bus.
Last Friday, 11-year-old Tayloni Mazyck was shot by a stray bullet outside her apartment in Brooklyns Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when a teenage boy opened fire on rival gang members. Tayloni, who survived the gunshot, lost feeling in her legs and may never walk again.
We should have more gun control, Sarahs mother, Jacqueline Franco, told the Daily News. I wish they could just make guns extinct, period.
While the weekends heinous gun violence might suggest the ineffectiveness of such measures, this years numbers are notably better than the last. , the 440 shootings so far this year represent a 23 percent drop from the 574 victims in 2012.
And while some have described this weekends figures asthe Windy City still leads the Big Apple in gun violence. Chicago, a city with just one-third of New Yorks population, witnessed over 500 homicides last year compared with New Yorks 414. This weekend, Chicago saw 12 people wounded by shootings and one fatality.
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