” In 2004, more preschoolers than law enforcement officers were killed by firearms, according to the Children’s Defense Fund. The number of children killed by guns in the United States each year is about three times greater than the number of servicemen and women killed annually in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, more children — children– have been killed by guns in the past 25 years than the total number of American fatalities in all wars of the past five decades. It’s possible that the upcoming election will be decided by the war in Iraq. But what about the far deadlier war at home?”
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A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths (The Atlantic JUL 23, 2012)
Students Aim for Gun Rights on Campus
Group Advocates for Concealed Weapons to Protect Against College Shootings
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Other related readings:
The Secret History of Guns (The Atlantic magazine, SEPTEMBER 2011)
The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there’s no resolution in sight
Substituting Prices for Principles in the Gun Debate (Big Think, Dec 17, 2012)
EDUCATION IN JAPAN COMMUNITY Blog 
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