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Saturday's New York Times features a rare A1 editorial, the paper's first since 1920.
In it, the Editorial Board calls for an "End to the Gun Epidemic in America."
The move was done to "to deliver a strong and visible statement of frustration and anguish about our country's inability to come to terms with the scourge of guns," Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger said Friday.
"The front page remains an incredibly strong and powerful way to surface issues that demand attention, and what issue is more important than our nation's failure to protect its citizens?" he said.
The editorial comes after mass shootings occurred in California, Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia and Connecticut as well as other cities nationwide. It goes on to call gun accessibility and power a "moral outrage and a national disgrace."
"The United States is not" trying to effectively curb gun violence as elected officials "reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing," the Editorial Board says.
Click here to read the full piece and click here for more on the editorial announcement.
