1.15 Million Americans Have Been Killed by Guns Since John Lennon’s Death

Staggering. Unreal. Unacceptable: It was shortly before 11 p.m. on December 8th, 1980, when 25-year-old Mark David Chapman fired five shots from a .38 caliber revolver into John Lennon’s back. Police officers rushed Lennon to Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hospital, 12 blocks away, in the back of a police cruiser. Hundreds of mourners gathered in the courtyard […]