Juan Cole / TruthdigDec 16, 2012
Why do U.S. cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing them from happening again through banning semiautomatic weapons? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Marian Wright EdelmanDec 16, 2012
Once again we are faced with unspeakable horror from gun violence and once again we are reminded that there is no safe harbor for our children. How young do the victims have to be and how many children need to die before we stop the proliferation of guns in our nation and the killing of innocents? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 15, 2012
How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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