Why Gary, Indiana's decades-old lawsuit against gun industry may soon be over
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 30 years ago Gary Indiana was declared the murder capital of the US. Following |
| 0:07.1 | the example of other cities, Gary sued gunmakers and sellers for their part |
| 0:12.2 | in fueling the city's violence. |
| 0:14.3 | As Jeffrey Brown reports, Gary's case is now the last one still active |
| 0:19.1 | as this industrial city works to get a handle on gun violence. |
| 0:23.0 | At Daniel Hale Williams Elementary in Gary, Indiana, graduating fifth graders were receiving |
| 0:29.7 | end of the year awards. |
| 0:31.1 | Amid the celebration, the ceremony's guest speaker offered a warning of sorts, |
| 0:38.0 | one with echoes of her own experience growing up here. |
| 0:41.0 | Being excited for middle school is a very important thing. |
| 0:44.0 | But a couple of things happen as you get older. |
| 0:46.0 | You change, you meet new people. |
| 0:49.0 | By the time Alya Stewart was the age of these kids, |
| 0:52.0 | she had already experienced the horrific toll of gun violence. |
| 0:55.7 | With Anthony, I was seven, and my brother was like, |
| 1:00.4 | our world. |
| 1:01.2 | His smile would light up in entire room and a fight broke out and the story goes that he got out to break up the fight and was shot in the head. |
| 1:08.0 | So gun miles is something that you really don't pay attention to until it becomes like a reality |
| 1:13.9 | at your door. |
| 1:14.9 | And then happened again. |
| 1:16.5 | Yes. |
| 1:17.7 | Almost seven years later my brother James was killed. |
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