HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Lindsey Hartman, one of the survivors of the Highland Park shooting that unfolded on July 4, said although her and her family escaped physically unharmed, they remain mentally scarred.
"It just doesn't go away just because the camera crews and the headlines go away," she told"Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pitts."I mean, it's something that sticks with you forever."
The mass shooting that Hartman and her family survived at Highland Park is one the more than 600 mass shootings that have unfolded in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. On average, more than 100 people die each day from gun violence yet more than 200 people sustain a nonfatal injury, according to data analyzed by Everytown for Gun Safety.
The relationships she has formed through the Everytown Survivor Network are"powerful," Burgest said,"because you really don't have to explain yourself."
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