"No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools"

Virginia has carried out the first change in policy to result from the deadly shooting of 32 people at Virginia Tech more than three weeks ago. Virginia governor Timothy Kaine has issued an executive order requiring anyone forced to seek treatment for mental health to be added to a police database of people barred from buying guns. We talk to Princeton professor Katherine Newman. [includes rush transcript]

The order comes amidst the news state judicial and mental health officials failed to follow up on a ruling ordering Cho to get mental health treatment. The Washington Post reported a judge had found Cho "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization" in December 2005. But no action was taken to ensure Cho received the ordered care.

My first guest is a Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Katherine Newman is also the lead author of a landmark study published as the book "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.” Katherine Newman joins me in the firehouse studio.

* Katherine Newman, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She has previously taught at Columbia, Berkeley, and Harvard where she founded the doctoral program in sociology and social policy. She is the author of several books including "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings" (Basic Books).

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