CNN: America Doesn’t Know How to Keep its Children Safe

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Townhall:

Cortney O'Brien

Dec 16, 2013

 

Last week we marked the somber one year anniversary of the fatal mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in which we lost 26 precious lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

 

Can America learn something? asked CNNs Fareed Zakaria in response to this tragedy. In the special "Global Lessons on Guns" that aired Sunday, the host of Global Public Square lectured Americans on our firearm culture.

 

Its a year since the tragedy at Newtown, yet remarkably little has changed. Despite the loss of 26 lives in the Sandy Hook School shooting that day, including 20 children, Washington has failed to coalesce around any really substantive changes to Americas gun laws. Sadly, that means it is only a matter of time before the next mass shooting.

Our failure to limit gun rights, according to Zakaria, means we as a country are failing our children.

 

Here's how I think about it. One of the most important tasks for a government is to keep its citizens especially its children safe, on the streets and in their schools. Every other developed country in the world is able to fulfill this basic mandate. America is not. And the greatest tragedy is that we know how to do it.

 

 

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