Newtown

Is it easier to buy a gun than a kitten in the United States?

Why Obama’s tougher gun laws are likely to get watered down

Newsmakers: Chris Hadfield, Theresa Spence and another Bhutto

Plus, a Kansas couple who take helicopter parenting to new heights

NRA: The world’s foremost child protection agency

Gun-free schools are the most dangerous places on earth, right?

The NRA: if it’s guns or freedom, we’ll have guns, thank you

Paul Wells on the gun lobby’s response to the Newtown shooting

Reading between the lines

Is gun control the right conversation?

Amanda Shendruk looks at the links between legislation and homicides and finds something else worth talking about

Re: The backlash against ‘I am Adam Lanza’s Mother’

Emma Teitel on our need to vilify what we don’t understand

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The Prime Minister at year’s end

From a pair of year-end interviews, the Prime Minister discusses the NHL lockout, Newtown, proroguing Parliament and the auditor general’s language skills.

What I learned about fame in America

Considering the link between mass killings and celebrities

Will Newtown become the 9/11 for gun control?

The deaths of 20 children could spark a change of consciousness

Newtown mourns

A broken community begins to bury its dead

Internet hackers ‘Anonymous’ repost personal information of hate group

And another hacker has hijacked the Twitter account of the WBC’s spokesperson

Bullets, bliss and gun lobby B.S.

Martin Patriquin on the dizzying euphoria of shooting guns and the bloody-mindedness of the NRA