Control: Exposing The Truth About Guns - Plot & Excerpts
We must do something. —SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D-CT), December 20, 2012 We must act, we must act, we must act. —ARNE DUNCAN, U.S. secretary of education, January 26, 2013 Last December a man was pushed onto the subway tracks in midtown Manhattan. He was hit by a train as he struggled to pull himself back up onto the platform. Fifty-five people were killed by New York City subway trains in 2012, but this incident stood out for one major reason: a freelance photographer who’d been standing on the platform snapped a photo of the man just seconds before he was struck. The next morning the photo appeared on the front page of the New York Post. With the horrific image in hand, the media had a story. This was now an epidemic. Every time someone got hit, the incident was treated as though it were another example of just how lethal the New York City subway had become. And, of course, politicians demanded action. “We cannot have incident after incident take place like this without saying we are going to act,”
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