As a toddler, Calderon lived in Cambridge, Mass., for two years. As a teenager, he spent a summer in Seattle, where he stayed with an American family and two of their children on an exchange program. He visits the United States frequently. Part of the problem with gun violence in America is the panache attached to pistoleros north of the border. Take any Rambo movie, for instance.
American audiences cheer at each bit of gunplay, each stomach-turning exercise of brute force.
It's hard to see how gun violence could end as long as that attitude prevails. But Americans could take a cue from their own zealous antismoking campaign. For many years, advertisements and educational programs have attacked the idea that it's macho, sexy, and cool to smoke cigarettes. He and his family lived for six years in Ridgewood, N.J., a suburb of New York City. They made several car trips in the Northeast and one as far west as California.