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No solution, but here's a step towards one: let's study the problem.
One side says the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Another side says the fewer guns there are around, the less guns get used in crimes of opportunity.
We're stuck in a monotonous argument because neither side can reference an authority that the other side acknowledges.
Let's allow federal money to go to researchers looking at gun violence. Let's start keeping track, on a national level, of gun-related deaths. Let's look at all the possible causes, and all the possible solutions, and fucking do something.
If it turns out that the best way to reduce gun deaths is to require everyone to carry a gun all the time, then, fine. I'm down with that. But convince me with something other than stories that pick at my own fear and insecurity.
Step #1, right? Admit you have a problem?
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