In contrast to the smart approach Colorado is taking, Tennessee is considering arming teachers.
A lot of talk in the days since the Newtown massacre about what could and should be done in response, but in Colorado some real, tangible public policy action that is hard to argue with:
Colorado would streamline involuntary mental health commitments and speed that information to gun-sale registries as part of a comprehensive, $18.5 million psychiatric overhaul aimed at preventing future violence and improving care in a package of proposals announced by Gov. John Hickenlooper Tuesday.
Mental health advocates in the state hailed what they say is a desperately-needed bolstering of emergency psychiatric services and laws. They said civil commitments could be simplified while still protecting patient rights, and that the spending package to increase emergency beds and evaluations is the right approach.
Vice President Joe Biden swears in Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate.
Michigan Gov’s approval collapses after ‘right-to-work’ flip flop.
More on the harrowing ambush, kidnapping, and subsequent firefight that NBC’s Richard Engel and his crew endured in Syria.
Reacting to Newtown, Cerberus Capital Management announces plan to divest its ownership interest in major gun manufacturer holding company.
ICYMI over the weekend, this is by far the most interesting, thought-provoking reader email we got from in the wake of the Connecticut massacre.
It is a fact of life that there appears to be no limit to the appetite for or at least the supply of breezy contrarianism. But when it’s about kids getting shredded by in mass killings it’s even less appealing than it normally is. Which brings us to this now much-mocked article by Megan McArdle. After breezily rejecting all possible steps society can take to reduce the growing tide of mass-casualty shootings, Megan McArdle (no longer with The Atlantic, now with the DailyBeast) does have one practical idea: teach the kids to rush the gunman, mid-massacre … Read More