One year ago, in the wake of the horrific school
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the
Obama White House released its agenda for
“protect[ing] our children and communities by reducing gun
violence.” It was a report marked by a tone of grim urgency from
its title onward: “Now Is the Time” to tighten background checks
for guns, ban “military-style assault weapons,” and fortify our
schools. But a year later, notes Gene Healy, Newtown’s legislative
legacy is far less dramatic than it might have been.
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/14/gene-healy-on-newtown-the-moral-panic-th
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