New York Times Responds to San Bernardino Mass Shooting With Rare Front-Page Editorial
A move last invoked in reaction to Republican presidential candidate Warren G. Harding.
It’s been a long time since The New York Times previously felt the need to publish an editorial on the front page. In its Sunday, June 13, 1920 editions, the paper decried “The Nomination of Harding” at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
Today, 95 years later, in the same top-left column location, an event even further away is the spark. In the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting, the paper’s Editorial Board is assailing “The Gun Epidemic:”
Opponents of gun control are saying, as they do after every killing, that no law can unfailingly forestall a specific criminal.
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