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After Newtown

After Newtown: Guns in America

PBS brings together its news and public affairs teams from across the country to analyze and illuminate the issues surrounding the Newtown, Connecticut, school tragedy. The questions of how to respond face us all: government at all levels, educators, mental health professionals, the media, and individual Americans.

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After Newtown: Guns in America

Season 1 Episode 3 | 55m 7s | CC

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years. Americans have relied on guns to sustain communities, challenge authority

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