'Here's what we can do to stop the madness of mass shootings like those in Gilroy, Calif; El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.' From columnist LATstevelopez:
“I get so angry at people who say there’s nothing we can do about this,” Lieb said. “We can’t accept that. We’ve tackled difficult problems throughout our nation’s history, and this is a difficult problem that ultimately has to be tackled at the ballot box.”
If you don’t have the time for those things, Lieb said, you can support the cause by donating to the nonprofits working on the issue. If you have limited time, “You can write letters … but just wringing your hands and saying, ‘Oh, my God, this is absolutely terrible,’ does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.”
“We have the strongest gun laws in the country,” she said. “In the ’90s, when gun deaths peaked, we started implementing gun laws and the death rate dropped much faster than in the rest of the country, and now it’s substantially below average.” Lieb said people like to blame mental health and violent movies, TV shows and video games for our gun violence, but we have the most civilian-owned guns of any country and the laxest regulations.
Haters and mass shooters have been around a long time, but we’re living in a particularly toxic and terrifying moment. The darkest corners of social media offer both inspiration and audience to the angry, aggrieved and delusional, and we have a president whose most vile instinct is to turn people against each other for his own political gain.But to Bennett, those are reasons to jump into the fray rather than give up on change. “Not all of Congress is terrible.
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