The Biomac Foundation

Laura Wilcox, daughter of Alice and Nick Wilcox, Legislative Chairs of the California Chapter of The Brady Campaign

It is said that a child in the US is far more likely to catch a bullet than to catch the measles. Every year in our country, about 30,000 people die from gun violence and over 70,000 people are injured by gunfire. Drive-by shootings and firearm homicides are becoming common occurrences in the Sacramento area. Have you had enough? Join the Campaign to keep illegal guns off our streets and help curb gun violence.

My family has been personally touched by gun violence. In 2001, my only daughter, Laura, was murdered while home on winter break from college. Laura was filling in as a receptionist at a Behavioral Health clinic in Nevada County, when, without warning, a patient suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun and shot Laura four times at point blank range. Laura was killed instantly. When the shooting rampage at the clinic and at a nearby restaurant ended, three people lay dead, three were severely injured, a community was shaken, and the world was diminished by the loss of an incredible young woman.