![]() ![]() Cindy Schultz / The New York Times / Redux Friends and family attend a candlelight vigil for Kaylin Gillis at Fort Hardy Park in Schuylerville, N.Y., on April 20, 2023. Neither Monahan nor his lawyer have offered a reason for his choice to open fire, but in similar situations, fear more often than malice is the undercurrent. She was pronounced dead several miles away after the group recovered cell phone service and could dial 911. One bullet struck 20-year-old Gillis in the neck. The 65-year-old who actually owned it, Kevin Monahan, fired twice. Kaylin Gillis was sitting in the passenger seat of a friend’s car when they turned into a driveway they thought belonged to a friend in upstate New York. A deadly new virus prompted governments to ask people to stay home and businesses to close down to save lives gun sales climbed higher than ever. Children shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary sparked calls for new regulations gun sales climbed higher still. ![]() President Barack Obama became the first Black man elected president gun sales climbed higher. It is not a coincidence that gun sales have spiked in recent years based on fear that has often been packaged and sold as a product for people like Lester to consume. ![]()
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