Salon.com > 2nd ammendment http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Celebrities call for gun control http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/celebrities_call_for_gun_control/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/celebrities_call_for_gun_control/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13147362 The nation is still in mourning after Adam Lanza opened fire on Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 26 (20 of whom were children) before taking his own life. Lanza used a lightweight military-style rifle owned by his mother, a gun enthusiast, whom he shot dead before heading to the school on Friday.

Tapping into the nation's collective consciousness, celebrities quickly took to Twitter to express the immediate need for tighter legislation on guns:

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