National News Roundup: Umpqua College Shooting, Guns and Our Society

(photo by Mateusz Atroszko via www.freeimages.com/photo/gun-1623761)October 5, 2015 – Segment 1

We host a conversation about guns and our society, focusing on the shooting last week at Umpqua Community College. With: Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Morgan State University; Dr. Firmin DeBrabander, Professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art and author of Do Guns Make us Free: Democracy and the Armed Society; and Jamelle Bouie, Slate‘s chief political correspondent, who wrote the article “Mass Shootings Are Not The Real Problem.”

 

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