Open Thread: Dane Cook and Aurora Shooting Jokes – Is It Too Soon?

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Open Discussion: Dane Cook made a joke about the film, The Dark Knight Rises, in which he says that if people hadn’t been shot, around the same time they would’ve been asking to be shot. Is it too soon for these types of jokes? Will a joke about a massacre ever be okay?

The Evil That Men Do – James Holmes, Aurora Colorado and Mental Illness

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Shawn Maxam on why the Aurora, Colorado shooting shows how we continue to fail individuals living with mental illnesses.

Open Thread: Should Certain Guns be Against the Law?

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Does America’s “Gun Culture” damage men?