An opinion piece by Emory’s Drew Westen was featured in the New York Times on Monday.

Westen said political leaders fail to address American ambivalence about guns.

From the NY Times:

In so many cases, it’s a failure of our leaders — Republicans, who prey on the fears of their constituents and don’t even bother anymore to hide the puppet strings pulled by large corporations, and Democrats, who too frequently forget that humans are supposed to be vertebrates (and hence to have a spine) — to speak to Americans’ ambivalence about guns.

Read the full story on the New York Times Blog.

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