Jim Kessler

Third Way

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Senior Vice President for Policy and a co-founder of Third Way, a think-tank that advocates for tighter gun control

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At a vigil last night in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama put last Friday's massacre of first-graders in the context of a year when multiple killings have become all too…

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As the funerals of 20 murdered first-graders are under way, calls are increasing for President Obama's "leadership" on gun control.

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