After Newtown

Need to Know’s Jeff Greenfield notes that politicizing tragic events may actually be a good thing.

Gwen Ifill talks with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about preventing more school shootings, the debate over arming teachers, how to counsel children in the wake of tragedy, and what the administration’s plans will be moving forward.

While there is some evidence linking violence in general to risk factors such as age, sex, substance abuse, and personality traits such as anger and impulsiveness, over many years, researchers have established that only a very small subset of people suffering from mental illness are likely to commit violent acts.

Over the last few years, dozens of states have significantly rolled back gun restrictions. Need to Know’s John Larson traveled to Virginia to see what’s known as the “open carry” movement first-hand and to investigate how the gun rights movement had become so effective in easing gun control

Is there a consensus about violent media and violent behavior? How should parents respond to what their children see? An in-depth analysis on the culture of violence in the media.

From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook, school shootings seem to follow an eerily similar pattern. Kip Kinkel did not kill himself and was not killed by the police. Frontline brings us his confession. It is a rare record of what one school shooter claims was his motivation --

An in-depth look at the nation's gun policies and the accessibility of weapons. Why gun owners say gun control is not an answer and a conversation with political leaders who say the Newtown shooting may be a tipping point in the argument over the Second Amendment.

Expanding on the discussions brought forth from the PBS special After Newtown, What Next After Newtown takes a deeper look into teen mental health and the mind of a troubled shooter.

Gwen Ifill sits down with Washington Week regulars to look at how Washington reacted to this crisis and others in the past. Peter Baker of the New York Times, Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair and Alexis Simendinger of RealClearPolitics discuss what may be different this time, for this President and

Can schools be protected? Should they have armed guards? National experts discuss school security and teacher training in the wake of the Newtown tragedy.

An in-depth analysis on public policy and mental illness in young adults: what's being done and what's not.

NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan reports on the insights Newtown offers into the strengths and weaknesses of old media and new media alike.

What we say and how we say it: talking to children and finding a path to healing after the Newtown shooting tragedy.

Larry Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America wrote in USA Today that gun control advocates have “blood on the[eir] hands” for the Connecticut school massacre. Pratt believes that the solution is not fewer guns but more. John Larson sat down with him this week in Virginia.