Education chief Duncan calls for tougher gun laws after Newtown, Conn.

It’s time for school leaders, politicians, Second Amendment advocates and others to come together and find real solutions to reduce gun violence in America, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday morning.
“I ask and I beg and I plead — let us make real and rapid progress on that front,” Mr. Duncan said in a speech at Washington, D.C.'s Neval Thomas Elementary School. “We all need to make this personal.”
In his first public remarks since the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., last week, Mr. Duncan, a member...