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Curse the Media in Newtown for Doing Too Little, Too Late on Guns

Dereliction of Duty

Michael Daly on how the media’s collective shrug at daily gun violence helped lead us to tragedy.

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Yes, curse the media for swarming grief-struck Newtown, but our real sin lies in not having covered other shootings enough, in not doing all we could to keep murderous firepower out of such easy reach.

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Why didn’t we pour into Newtown last year, when the National Shooting Sports Foundation, headquartered there,...

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