Gregory Orr: When I was 12 years old, I killed a younger brother in a hunting accident near our home in upstate New York. I returned to that memory this week, when I read about what happened to the young New Jersey girl who lost control of a submachine gun at a shooting range outside Las Vegas, killing her instructor. ... I do find myself wondering whether what I went through so many years ago can tell me anything about what she is going through or will go through. She and so many other children who suddenly find themselves living out the consequences of a fatal accident and trying to comprehend their part in it. The first thing I'd say is: They can't.
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