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Morning, noon and night: Names and lives behind gunshot stats trace a single deadly day in US

Article by: DAVID CRARY and ADAM GELLER , Associated Press
Updated: March 9, 2013 - 6:13 PM

It was just past 1 a.m. when they found Christopher Cotton's body, slumped in the driver's seat at a Buffalo, N.Y., intersection, shot dead by an assailant who left all the car's windows up, the doors locked. Little more than an hour earlier, the pharmaceutical technician had joined family for drinks and YouTube videos, then went to meet his girlfriend. He never made it.

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callmeronMar. 10, 13 1:43 AM

The higher the Democrat vote in an area, the higher the gun violence and rapes, murders, and all other types of crime and violence. It's universal truth. And I don't know why the author of this piece is including suicide victims. If guns were regulated more tightly, is the author insinuating that people intent on suicide would not commit suicide, when there are other methods of suicide other than self-inflicted gunshots?

voiceofreasonMar. 10, 13 8:55 PM

I'm not surprised that gun enthusiasts are avoiding commentary on this article. The huge number of guns, whether legally or illegally held, assures that some will find their way into the wrong hands, intentional and impulsive uses and accidents will continue to keep the coroners busy.