An average of 7 American kids ages 0-19 are killed by guns daily. These are some of the mothers they've left behind.
Oxsana Naumkin's 11-year-old son, Nicholas, was killed when a playmate found his father's loaded semi-automatic weapon in an unlocked drawer.
"We didn’t know that by the time we would arrive at the hospital, all Nicholas's brain activity would be gone. The only things keeping him alive were the machines he was hooked up to. Eventually they disconnected the machines and told us that he would breath for a while on his own and then, whenever he was ready, he’d just go. I sat there for 22 minutes with my head on his heart and I could feel and hear it beating. It was torture. I knew that at any moment it could stop, and at 2:29 a.m. on December 23, 2010, it did. That was it. The love of my life, my pride and joy was gone.
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