Social issues

FIGHTING BAN--Scoutmaster Ann Perrone poses for a photograph in Drexel Hill, Pa. Perrone said she's spent the past 13 years fighting the Boy...

15-YEAR-OLD SLAIN--This undated family photo provided by Damon Stewart shows 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton of Chicago. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Damon Stewart)   (NewsOne)--As the...

ELDER STATESMAN--In this Oct. 22, 2011 photo, U.S singer Harry Belafonte speaks at a press conference at Viennale, the Vienna international film...

APOLOGIZES FOR ANTI-GAY COMMENTS--San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver talks with teammates during a media availability Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in New...

CHILDREN WITNESS SIGNING--From left to right: Hinna Zeejah, 8, Taejah Goode, 10, Julia Stokes, 11, and Grant Fritz, 8, who wrote letters to...

CIVIL RIGHTS ICON--This 1984 photo shows Eugene Patterson in St. Petersburg, Fla. Newspaper editor and columnist Eugene Patterson, who helped fellow Southern whites...

PARDONED--This Jan. 21, 1976 file photo shows the Wilmington Ten at a news conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. From left, front row, they...

STABBING VICTIM--Tameria Greene who would have turned 9 years old Jan. 2 was stabbed to death in her Detroit home.   by Corey...

by Paul J. WeberAssociated Press Writer BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Adam Lanza's mother was among the tens of millions of U.S. gun owners. She legally had a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle and a pair of handguns, which her 20-year-old son used to kill 20 children and six adults in 10 minutes inside a Connecticut school. GUN LOVER-- In this Dec. 19 photo, gun store owner Dave Burdett talks about gun rights as he displays a hand gun in his store in College Station, Texas. Burdett, who owns an outdoors and adventure shop across the street from the sprawling Texas A&M University campus in College Station, says his affinity for guns is rooted in history, not sport. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

BACK AT HOME--This May 16, 2011 photo supplied by the South African Government Communications and Information Services, GCIS, shows former South African President Nelson...