One month to the day after the Sandy Hook massacre, its grieving families announced the creation of an anti-violence initiative. But there are signs they may have their hard work cut out for them. First and most mind-bogglingly, the NRA has just released a new smart-phone shooter game for ages four and up. Do you need to hear more? Okay: GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn said on the tee vee that hatchets, hammers, video games, cars and “psychotropic drugs” for the mentally ill are behind our national bloodshed, not guns, silly. And a record crowd of over 10,000 turned out at a California gun show to get "ready for the next revolution."

Some joker in Japan responsible for a series of online threats is leading embarrassed police on a chase around the country, with the hacker's latest clue leading them to a small island to find a cat - who did have a memory card on his collar. Police apprehended the feline, their first victory in a months-long, glitch-filled effort. Some see the saga as a protest against new anti-piracy laws. The cat has yet to turn state's evidence.

To mark the 11th shameful year of Guantánamo, filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the journey home to Yemen of Adnan Latif, who was once called "the human face of indefinite detention." Held for ten years without charges and cleared at least three times for release, he was found dead in his cell in September. The film is largely silent, heart-rending, rage-inducing. From one of Latif's poems: "Where is the world?"