New Yorker: We ask babies to have more courage facing guns than politicians facing gun lobby [View all]

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Last edited Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/12/the-newtown-shooting-kindergarteners-and-courage.html


Some of the info is wrong here as to the father being shot, but Amy Davidson asks an important question:

"The contrast here is not only between the civility of the children and the cruelty of the shooter, but between what was asked of them at this moment and how little the public and elected officials ask of themselves when it comes to doing something about gun violence. *snip* How do we find ourselves asking kindergarteners to be more courageous in the face of a gunman than politicians are in the face of the gun lobby?"

From Reuters Michelle McLoughlin




Young Children wait outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown.












Amy Davidson: you hit the nail on the head.