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A hospital executive in Brooklyn hopes showing kids cadavers and violent videos will encourage keep them absent from guns: ‘I just want to give them a choice’In the basement of a hospital in East Brooklyn,16 middle school students dressed in navy blazers and striped ties stare through a pane of glass at a cadaver wrapped in a white sheet.What we’re trying to prove you is: this is the cessation,” says Khari Edwards, and an executive at Brookdale University hospital and medical center. “We want you to never have to advance down here.” Related: 'They stole my big brother': violence turns child into champion for 'gun sense' Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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