Cuomo's speech was interrupted by a state Assemblyman Charles Barron, D - Brooklyn, who shouted, «You're wrong, you're wrong» over and over when Cuomo boasted that there were fewer gunshot victims in New York since the state passed the nation's tough gun control measure, the New York Safe Act, in the wake of the Sandy Hook school schooting in Newtown, Conn.. (syracuse.com)
Nationally, 73 % of the $ 669 million in costs resulted from gunshot victims who were either uninsured or on public insurance like Medicaid. (fortune.com)
In an impassioned speech on Saturday, Emma Gonzalez, a senior at the school, assailed the president's N.R.A. ties and accused him of setting a crass monetary value on the lives of gunshot victims by taking so much money from the gun - rights group. (nytimes.com)