“Opening the Door” is a musical composition by Gabriel Gould, a friend and former classmate of Galen Gibson, who was killed during a school shooting at Simon's Rock college. The music accompanies a poem of the same title, written by Galen while at Simon’s Rock. You can visit Gabriel’s website here: http://www.gabrielgould.com/index.html.

Opening the Door

Full audio of the entire roundtable discussion for PBS Need to Know on March 29, 2013. Guests include Jared Bernstein, former Chief Economic Adviser to Vice President Biden, Rana Foroohar of Time Magazine and John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute.

March 29, 2013: Economic inequality and mobility

With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know examines the history of the Second Amendment and how it shapes the discussion today. 

Ray Suarez anchors a panel including: George Mason Law School professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, former New York Times foreign correspondent and editor Craig Whitney, and Fordham University history professor Saul Cornell.

Beth Ponsot