Kansas City Mayor Condemns Gun Culture After Ralph Yarl Shooting.

The shooting of a Black teen by a white man in Kansas City, Missouri, highlights the country's "fetishization of guns," according to the city's mayor. The shooter, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. The mayor believes the shooting is a result of a culture of paranoia and fear being drummed up by politicians and some in the media, as well as the fetishization of guns. While there is a racial component to the shooting, the prosecutor declined to charge Lester with a hate crime, attempted murder, or civil rights violations.