USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文双语Français
Home / Comment

Farewell to arms no easy task

By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2012-12-21 07:05

Just a few hours after the tragic shooting last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 children and six adults, my colleague suggested that we should discuss gun control in our weekly Across America Talk video program.

But the question we immediately asked ourselves was what we could discuss about gun control. We had just extensively discussed the subject in July right after the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, which took 12 lives.

In between, there was a shooting in August at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in which seven people died, and then the shooting just days before the Newtown rampage in a shopping mall in Oregon, which killed three.

Farewell to arms no easy task

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US