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Leah Libresco
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I was all for banning silencers, assault weapons, etc. until I researched gun deaths for @FiveThirtyEight
wapo.st/2wvgMw3
Now, I'm better informed and frustrated at how politicians sold me soundbitable solutions that are (at best) not backed by data, & at worst
are incoherent and could only be written by people ignorant about basic gun mechanics. There are better solutions to tout, but they're not
simple bans, but sustained, intense work to find potential victims + shooters & intervene
cf my colleague @maggiekb1 fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-…
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"To look into the eyes of a vulnerable person is to see yourself as you might be. It’s a more harrowing experience than one might readily admit. There is a version of yourself made powerless, status diminished, reliant upon the goodwill of others."
"One response is denial: If you refuse to believe you could ever be in such a position—perhaps by blaming the frail for their frailty or ascribing their vulnerability to moral failure—You come away disgusted with the weak, but content in the certainty you aren’t among them."
The alternative? To welcome the weak, to know that we are already weak (even if we find it easier to pass). For each of us can echo Paul, "For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do."

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A short rope for one to hang self with. Dems should just allow the slow drip of poison to do it’s work here.
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China and India have 70 million more men than women, and the consequences are far-reaching.

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For too long, opponents of gun reform have said nothing can be done to stem the violence. That's demonstrably wrong.

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Leah McElrath 🗽
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STOP explaining why arming teachers won’t work.

EVERY explanation reinforces the idea as a possibility.

IT IS NOT A POSSIBILITY.

The idea is NOT MEANT as a viable solution. It never was.

The idea is meant as a distraction to weaken the push for BANNING ASSAULT WEAPONS, etc.
NO stake-holding group supports this insanity:

Teachers don’t.
Law enforcement doesn’t.
Parents don’t.
Children don’t.

While Donald Trump, Betsy DeVos, Erik Prince, and Wayne La Pierre might dream of this as part of their not-here-yet dystopia, IT IS NOT ACTUALLY A THING.
Every time we REPEAT their false narrative - even in explaining a refutation of it - we are HELPING MAKE IT A THING.

WE must define the terms of this debate, NOT engage in THEIR terms.

✅ BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS
✅ DEMAND UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS
✅ CLOSE LOOPHOLES

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