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Lucy's avatar

Since you're actually responding to comments and wrote an article with a clear understanding of the politics at play (I personally worked in professional politics for two decades), here's what I sent to a leading progressive think-tank working on these issues back in 2018 after one of the last tragedies:

GunSense:

1. Firearm Insurance - Every firearm should be insured.

2. National Gun Buyback - The government shouldn't take your guns, it should buy them.

3. Tiered Licensing - If you need a license to drive a car, you should need one to own a gun. Plus, special licensing to own special guns, just like motorcycles and big rigs.

4. Bullet Reform - Guns are cheap, but bullets should be expensive. Ban lead in bullets (it's dangerous and very cheap).

5. Wife Beaters, Child Molesters, and Rapists Gun Violence Prevention - It's obvious."

Let me know if you want the long version. Keep the faith - apparently, little children in schools are depending us to do so.

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Stephen Jones's avatar

It's a good essay & outlines why there's such deadlock over guns in this country. The "passion gap" is real.

However, the "don't worry, gun deaths are rare" mollification at the end isn't at all a comfort when, while it might be true for causes of death for all groups, gun deaths recently became the #1 cause of death for Americans under 20.

Anyway, a thing being "rare" doesn't mean we need to just accept it. Airline crashes are rare compared to car deaths. We still have the FAA and investigate the sh*t out of _every_ crash and actually enforce changes to reduce the chance of the next crash. Imagine if we "black boxed" every mass shooting to the same extent?

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