The stories are played out daily in newspapers and TV news shows: a teenager in a big-city slum whips out a gun and starts firing; a group of kids go on a shooting spree; two boys fight, and suddenly one of them is shot dead. As more kids acquire guns, the stats on violence grow, but rarely do we learn much about the person who pulled the trigger -- or why and how he got the gun in the first place.
Nation editor Steve Koepp set out to deepen our understanding of the teen gun culture and, together with Chicago bureau...
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