AFP, WASHINGTON: The New York Times has published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920, using the rare, prominent placement to urge gun control following the latest mass shooting in the United States.
Entitled “End the Gun Epidemic in America,” it lashes out at politicians and calls for certain types of weapons and ammunition to be outlawed for private citizens.
“It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency,” reads the editorial.
Its publication online late Friday and on page A1 of Saturday’s print copy of the prestigious newspaper, comes just days after a couple went on a gun rampage in California, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others.
The carnage at a year-end office party represents the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since a 2012 Connecticut school massacre and is being investigated as an “act of terrorism,” according to the FBI.