Janet Fitch (3)

Eleven year old Rita Martinez was killed by a stray bullet while visiting her Grandmother. Rita's family, teachers and classmates share their loss and memories of one of the ten children who die every day from gun violence in the United States

According to Harvard Inquiry Control Research Center, Matthew Miller, "Journal of Trauma" February, 2002, "Before a child in the U. S. reaches 15, when compared to a child in the rest of the industrialized world, he or she is: 5 times more likely to be murdered, twice as likely to commit suicide, 12 times more likely to be a gun related death." "Gun violence is generally discussed in terms of urban homicide, but startling statistics tell another story. This film reframes the polarized show more conversation of America's gun violence epidemic by shifting the focus from Second Amendment rights to public health prevention. . ." Source: DVD's back cover. show less