The aftermath of mass shootings infiltrates every corner of survivors’ lives
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Mayah Zamora, second from left, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, poses for a photo with her mom Christina, left, dad Ruben, and brother Zach, right, at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Mayah Zamora, front right, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, poses for a photo with her brother Zach, left, mom Christina, dad Ruben, back right, and her service dog Rocky at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Ruben Zamora hugs his daughter Mayah, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Mayah Zamora, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, avoids a kiss from her service dog Rocky as she poses for a photo with her mom Christina, left, dad Ruben at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)A plaque in memory of Jacquelyn Sundheim, who died in the Highland Park, Ill., July Fourth parade shooting in 2022 is part of a memorial for the seven people who died in the shooting and shown in this photo taken June 30, 2023 outside Highland Park City Hall. Sundheim's daughter, Leah, discussed the tragedy and the impact on her family with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Roger Schneider)A plaque (third from right) in memory of Jacquelyn Sundheim, who died in the Highland Park, Ill., July Fourth parade shooting in 2022 is part of a memorial for the seven people who died in the shooting in this photo taken June 30, 2023 outside Highland Park City Hall. (AP Photo/Roger Schneider)FILE - Ashtin Gamblin, left, who was shot during the massacre at Club Q in November 2022, responds to a question during a news conference after a hearing for the shooting suspect Monday, June 26, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Since 2016, thousands of Americans have been wounded in mass shootings, and tens of thousands by gun violence, and that number continues to grow, according to the Gun Violence Archive. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Mayah Zamora, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, center, talks with her mom, Christina, left, dad, Ruben, at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)This 2012 photo shows Tia Christiansen at a festival in Lawrence, Kansas. Christiansen had worked in the music industry for more than 20 years when a gunman unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history at a Las Vegas music festival she helped organize in October 2017. (Carl Monzo via AP)
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Mayah Zamora, second from left, a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, poses for a photo with her mom Christina, left, dad Ruben, and brother Zach, right, at their home in San Antonio, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Besides medical bills and the weight of trauma and grief, mass shooting survivors and their family members contend with scores of other changes that show how thoroughly their lives have been upended by violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
