My work focuses on community violence, which can actually be reduced significantly without changes to gun laws or regulations. But with the victims of #MontereyPark and #HalfMoonBay in our minds and hearts, let's not kid ourselves...
... all forms of gun violence - including suicides, accidents, domestic homicides, and mass shootings - would be easier to prevent with commonsense restrictions to accessing deadly firearms on the books.
There is no perfect policy out there, no single solution. But if we made some obvious changes to our laws, we could make it far harder for criminals, terrorists, abusers, and potential mass murderers to access the weapons they want.
Those who fight commonsense gun laws play a rhetorical shell game of sorts, opposing one policy because it doesn't prevent one type of gun violence, then opposing another because it doesn't prevent a different form.
They also display an undemocratic absolutism - they will not consider any changes unless they receive impossible assurances that no more changes will be proposed. Meanwhile we die.
I believe in nonpartisanship, but it is impossible to ignore that one political party represents the possibility of progress in this area, while the other just blocks and blocks. Republicans must look themselves in the mirror and take responsibility.
Glad the @washingtonpost appears to agree - it's not about any one policy: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
It's about a set of policies acting together (although note these have to be revised post-Bruen): vox.com/2018/11/13/176…
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