Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida on 14 February 2018, the issue of gun control and the meaning of mass shootings in America has come to the fore once more. This session from Battle of Ideas 2013, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting and Boston Marathon bombing, took a step back to examine these issues in a wider context.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">SPEAKERS</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nancy McDermott </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">writer; advisor to Park Slope Parents, NYC's most notorious parents' organization</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Christine Rosen </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">fellow, New America Foundation; senior editor, New Atlantis</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Tim Stanley </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">leader writer and columnist, Daily Telegraph</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Kevin Yuill </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">senior lecturer, history, University of Sunderland; author, Assisted Suicide: the liberal, humanist case against legalization</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chair:</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jean Smith </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">specialist development consultant; co-founder and director, NY Salon</span></p>
