http://www.startribune.com/our-society- ... 559404492/
Thankfully, the events that unfolded on Labor Day were not another mass-casualty shooting. But that’s not permission to move on. Three people still got shot. The State Fair shooting is instead a timely reminder that there is not one gun violence problem but several, and that each deserves our focused attention.
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Alas, we have faced the prospect of a supposedly unpredictable and intractable violence before, only to find that murder is predictable, therefore preventable. As we continue to process what feels like a new normal of violence, let us not forget this. We can do more than just run, hide, fight. We must stop the contagion.
I'd truly like our nation to switch the conversation from "someone with a gun killed people, let's ban the guns" to "someone killed people, let's find out why and fix what caused it".
It's not the easier path but it is the only path that would actually impact the cause of violence.