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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
David Lightman

How a suicide in his family pushed a California congressman to fight for gun control

WASHINGTON — Salud Carbajal was 12, in his bedroom with his brother, when he heard a loud pop coming from another room.

His sister had killed herself with her father’s revolver.

“I got up and saw my sister on the ground with a pool of blood around her,” recalled Carbajal, now 57. “That trauma has been with me the rest of my life.”

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