Today's Question Blog

Should places where mass shootings occur be returned to their former use?

After last month's massacre, townspeople in Newtown, Conn., are debating whether to return Sandy Hook Elementary School to service. Family members of some shooting victims are angry about the reopening of the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. Columbine High School in Colorado was partly rebuilt after the 1999 shootings there, and Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis is back in business after a massacre there last September. Today's Question: Should places where mass shootings occur be returned to their former use?

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