Mary Johnson Research Paper

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On an icy morning in February 1993 Mary Johnson was jolted awake by the shrill cry of a telephone. As she sleepily plodded towards the phone a shiver ran down her back and she was suddenly aware of the utter, empty silence that now occupied the confines of her home. When she picked up the receiver and heard the ensuing words, waves of fear, anger, and anguish swept over her very being. She had just begun a waking nightmare that could have sent her life on a trajectory towards a cataclysmic wreck of anger, bitterness, and despair. Her son was dead, and he had been killed by another over a matter hardly worth a life. Thousands, if not millions of lives are ruined by violence on our streets that could and should be prevented. However, by