Talking About Not Talking About Mass Shootings

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 13, 2013

A year after the mass shooting in Newtown, executive editor of The New Atlantis, Ari Schulman, asks what we've learned from these types of crimes that could make them less frequent. In his piece, he considers whether it might help to "deprive the killer of an audience."

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