Article snippet: MILWAUKEE — When the bullet bore through her bedroom window, Stacey Hodges Harmon rolled off her bed and onto the ground, calling out in anguish for her youngest son, William, who had disappeared into the hall seconds before. “I just lost it,” Harmon said. “I was screaming, crying, because I thought that he had gotten shot.” She found her 5-year-old curled up under a table in the front room of her apartment, silent, terrified, but physically unhurt. She called the police while she and William were still lying on the floor on that day this past summer. Two and a half weeks later, with the bullet hole still in the window, back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio shocked the nation, dominating front pages and spurring urgent calls, especially from Democratic presidential candidates, for Congress to end its years of inaction on gun control. But that chorus felt removed and remote from Harmon’s fear of everyday violence in her neighborhood on the north side of Milwaukee, the kind that has taught her four children to distinguish between fireworks and gunshots but rarely draws such wide attention. “It shouldn’t just spike a conversation when it’s a mass shooting,” Harmon, 36, said. “That just makes it seem like the single shootings don’t matter.” Harmon has lived all her life in Milwaukee, a city that Democrats have deemed so important to their chances of reclaiming the White House in 2020 that they will hold their convention here next year. But it is also a place... Link to the full article to read more