Gun violence in America: required reading

Jason Kottke is doing a great job collecting some of the best journalism on gun violence in America. Here’s (almost) everything he’s posted since Friday, Dec. 14:

Mayor Bloomberg demands action from DC on guns
What of gun control when guns are 3-D printable?
Gun violence in the US since Friday
An armed society is the opposite of a civil society
The results of tougher gun laws in Australia
What is our national threshold for shame?
Ten pro-gun arguments and why they are wrong
We’re sacrificing America’s children to “our great god Gun”
How to make gun control happen
Living the gun life
Obama’s poor record on gun control
The best reporting on guns in America
Remnick to Obama: take action on gun control
Mayor Bloomberg: we need political leadership regarding gun violence
Roger Ebert on the media’s coverage of school shootings
Kids and guns in the USA
The NRA is winning the war on guns
The Onion, often the most emotionally honest media source
The blueprint for media coverage of mass killings
Facts about guns and mass shootings in the US
It’s a Smith and Wesson Christmas
How do we prevent school massacres?
The United States of Guns
The right day to talk about guns
Japan is a land without guns (and shooting deaths)
Six facts about guns and gun control
Studies: more guns, more homicide

Read them here: kottke.org/tag/guns

Also, this was a particularly good find: Mr. Rogers on helping kids deal with tragic news events

December 17, 2012