Gun control crusader and former US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy has died
Former American representative Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully presented himself at Congress in 1996 as a cross for the control of firearms after a mass shooting on a suburban train from New York who left her dead husband and her seriously injured son, died. She was 81 years old.
The news of her death was shared Thursday by several elected officials from his long native Island and by Jay Jacobs, president of the New York State Democratic Committee. The details on his death were not immediately available.
McCarthy went from the political novice to one of the main defenders of the country for the legislation on the control of firearms following the Long Island Road 1993 massacre. However, the suburban democrat of New York was a limited success against the National Rifle Association and other defenders of the second amendment.
McCarthy announced in June 2013 that it underwent treatment for lung cancer. She announced her retirement in January 2014.
“Mom devoted her life to the transformation of personal tragedy into a powerful public service mission,” said her son, Kevin McCarthy, who survived the shooting. “As a tireless defender, a dedicated mother, proud grandmother and courageous chief, she changed countless lives for the best. His inheritance of compassion, strength and goal will never be forgotten. ”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered flags from all buildings of the state government that were transported by plane in honor of the deputy on Friday.
“Representative Carolyn McCarthy was an ardent defender of firearms control and an even more fierce leader,” said Hochul.
The Democrat representative of the United States Tom Suozzi said that the nation had “lost a fierce champion”.
“Carolyn channeled his sorrow and his loss in plea for change, becoming one of the defenders of the prevention of the most dedicated armed violence,” said Suozzi on X.
She has become an essential guest in national national television shows after each massacre of firearms, whether in Columbine High School or Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Known as the “Gun Lady” by Capitol Hill, McCarthy said that she could not stop crying after learning that her former colleague, representative Gabrielle Giffords, was seriously injured in a January 2011 shooting in Arizona.
“It’s like cancer in our society,” she said about armed violence. “And if we continue to do nothing to stop it, it will only spread.”
During a particularly rancid debate on the gaps of the Fire Fair Fair in 1999, McCarthy was in tears at 1 a.m. on the floor of the room.
“I am Irish and I am not supposed to cry before anyone. But I made a promise a long time ago. I made a promise to my son and my husband. If there was something I could do to prevent a family from following what I experienced, I did my job, “she said.
“Let me go home.” Let me go home, ”she pleaded.
McCarthy was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island. She became a nurse and later married Dennis McCarthy after meeting a beach of Long Island. They had a son, Kevin, at a tumultuous marriage in which they divorced but reconciled and remarried.
McCarthy was a republican when, on December 7, 1993, a shooter opened fire on a wagon that left New York. As the passengers approached the shooter, six people died and 19 injured.
She jumped into politics after her member of the GOP Congress voted to repeal a ban on assault weapons.
His surprise victory inspired a film made for television produced by Barbra Streisand. Since this first victory in 1996, McCarthy has never been seriously challenged for re -election in a strongly republican district just east of New York.
Some criticisms have described McCarthy as a single legislator, an assertion of which she bristles, highlighting interests to improve health care and education. But it was realistic as to its inheritance on the control of firearms, once saying to an interviewer:
“I came in peace with the fact that it will be in my British.”
