First lady Michelle Obama urged parents across the United States on Thursday to talk to their children about the Arizona shootings and use the event to teach them a lesson about American values, Reuters reports. Mrs. Obama joined her husband, President Barack Obama, at a memorial service in Tucson on Wednesday for the victims of Saturday’s attack outside a supermarket, where a gunman killed six people and critically wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
Obama said children would struggle with questions about what such an event says about the world…
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