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A huge part of this requires that we realize that laws are not magical. Another huge part is about concentrating on legislation that will actually help people - as many people as possible, as significantly as possible. Example: Universal healthcare must be a top priority. 5/

If we don’t know where these 320 million firearms are, even if we collectively decided as a society to round *all* of them up and destroy them, actually *doing* that is *impossible*. We should ban bump-stocks, but also understand they’re already out there, and will be. 6/

We should have universal background checks, but in a society without universal healthcare, it’s unlikely we’ll stop many people with mental-health issues from buying guns *legally* because you need a *diagnosis* which costs a lot of money. 7/

And with this many unregistered guns out there, the bigger problem becomes our inability to stop sick people from obtaining these weapons through *illegal* means. We have 98,000 public schools. Doing the math, that’s a minimum of 3,265 *unregistered* guns *per school*. 8/

I’m sorry, but the numbers are the numbers, & they indicate that gun laws will *not* prevent these things from happening. But there *are* things we *can* do to prevent school shootings, & other mass shootings. Universal (inc. mental) healthcare is a great start. 9/

But don't attempt to keep #AR15's from circulating among civilians? Do nothing to curb the circulation of #SemiAutomaticWeapons?

How? Bans only address legality, not availability.

And THAT (availability) is worthy of investigation! Are you against the attempt to ban weapons of mass destruction? I doubt it. The founding fathers used MUSKETS. I'm cool NOT banning those (except from my flights!)