Caren Teves was on vacation when she heard her son Alex was gunned down in a Colorado cinema. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A button bearing the likeness of Alex Teves. Some TV segments simply cancelled their interviews with the Teves family over their request that the perpetrator’s photograph not be displayed during an interview with them. Sensationalism sells.”Today, she worries that the sheer horror of mass shootings is a barrier to Americans endorsing political change. “A lot of people don’t want to grasp it, because it’s that awful.” But if, after mass shootings 20 years ago, “we all stood up and said, ‘enough is enough,’ Alex would still be alive.

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2017 11:26 UTC