U.S. president James Garfield was shot to death just across the street from where Schamel stood. Even the Canadian embassy is where it is because Pennsylvania Avenue was refurbished in tribute to president John F. Kennedy after he was shot. Alluding to fellow Beatle John Lennon, McCartney told CNN: “One of my best friends was killed in gun violence. So it’s important to me.”Back in Washington, just outside the Canadian embassy, Nicole Rafanello recalled working with the man who shot Reagan. It provides funding to update background-check systems with missing data on criminal and mental-health history, and restores permission for federal health researchers to study gun violence.

Source: National Post March 24, 2018 22:35 UTC