Can We Reduce Gun Violence?
By Richard Stengel Monday, Jan. 28, 2013
Our iconic 1968 "the gun in America" cover (with its striking illustration by
artist Roy Lichtenstein) lamented the fact that while there were more than
20,000 local weapons laws on the books, there were only two federal
statutes--one of which merely taxed interstate shipments of gangster-style
weapons like machine guns. Gun laws, including the original one, the Second
Amendment, have never been easy to pass, and they are rarely passed without
controversy. The difference this time is that the massacre of 20 first-graders
in Newtown, Conn., was so heinous and so shocking that it shifted the
conversation about guns--and did so...
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