Gun Violence
Can Americans talk about guns? These students in Austin and Knoxville showed how to do it.
Brave young people on college campuses showed us what it means to debate with compassion and dignity in an era of cynicism and disdain.
John Wood Jr.USA TODAY
It's one thing to debate issues academically. Passions can boil even when questions of life and death are only hypothetical in the moment. But sometimes debates become real in real time, which happens far too often with gun violence in America.
And that's exactly what happened Monday for two brave groups of students in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Austin, Texas.