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Where Killing is a Human Right

On December 14th 2012 Newtown, Connecticut- a small town with just 27,000 residents- became the scene of one of the most horrific mass-murders in modern US history.  A lone gunman first took…

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Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny. A reckless, right-wing Supreme Court has agreed with them. As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture. But, instead of protection of freedom, Americans nowadays are getting massive bloodshed and fear.

— Jeff D. Sachs

Economist & Director of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network