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— Newtown tragedy: Keep guns out of the wrong hands — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial ... A gun without a madman will not destroy an entire classroom of innocent children. A madman without a gun would be unable to cause anywhere near the level of horror that occurred Friday at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. It is at the intersection of those pathologies — a nation led by politicians forever fearful of the powerful gun lobby and a society that shuns all aspects of mental illness into perpetual shadow — that America too often finds itself standing.
— Again, a tragedy leaves us mystified — Deseret News Editorial ... What people can do is resolve not to let the evil win. They can respond with a resolve to spread hope to a far greater degree than the killers spread bullets. They can choose to make comfort, compassion and faith the weapons of choice....
— The real cause of violence — Provo Daily Herald ... the fundamental issue is not the presence of guns; it is our fractured culture, the underlying accumulation of influences that lead a person to see killing as an acceptable act — to mentally cross a boundary of humanity into a zone where it's OK to murder kindergarten children. It is in the growing tendency of society to isolate rather to embrace, to divide into subgroups — in Adam Lanza's case, goth counterculture — that develop twisted moralities of their own. ...
— Horrifying has become normal — Denver Post Editorial ... America's latest mass shooting is a reminder that stricter laws on guns and ammunition are long overdue.
— The time is now to discuss preventing mass tragedies — St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial
— Newtown tragedy inspires calls for stricter gun laws — San Jose Mercury-News Editorial
— Stricter gun laws could be effective, if Congress would pass them — Los Angeles Times Editorial
— It is a time to grieve. And to talk about firearms policy — Los Angeles Daily News Editorial
— America's gun nightmare gets worse — San Francisco Chronicle Editorial
— Child abuse and intervention — Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial
— This time, a shift is coming — Arizona Republic Editorial
— What will it take to enact gun control? — Prescott (Ariz.) Daily Courier Editorial
— When little hands go lifeless, it's time to reconsider everything — Len Reed | The Oregonian
— When words cannot explain the unexplainable — Kevin Richert | The Idaho Statesman ... Usually, in this space, we try to explain things that can be explained. We try to analyze policies and trends, politics and science. We write about schools as a place of learning, not as the scene of massacre. We write about concepts and controversies that, at least, have some clarity to them. We can and do debate them, but debate them from some basic starting point of understanding. When the concepts are more clear, the words come more readily. There is nothing clear about what happened Friday in Newtown, Conn. ...