How a Gloucester author and the man who killed his son teamed up on gun reform

GLOUCESTER — One day last spring, Greg Gibson went to visit the man who murdered his son.

It was the second time Gibson had made the 90-minute drive from his home in Gloucester to MCI Norfolk to see Wayne Lo, who is serving two life sentences for the 1992 shooting spree at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

Seven years before Columbine started a stream of mass shootings so steady that they are now terrifyingly commonplace, Lo stormed onto the campus in Great Barrington and killed Galen Gibson and a teacher, Ñacuñán Sáez, and wounded four others.