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Has the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut sounded the alarm that as a country we need to think long and hard about our relationship with guns and our culture of violence?
Our guest, Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin , says that as horrific as this recent mass shooting is, we also need to remember the nearly 12,000 single-victim murders that happen in the US every year. Murders that are perpetrated with handguns.
Jack Levin, in the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shooting, wrote a piece for the Huffington Post, Can We Prevent the Next Mass Murder? Levin joins us to try to answer that question.
