There are some areas of your piece, Michael, that I wholeheartedly agree with. Unfortunately, even more that I don’t. I don’t like your appeal to partisanship. And you cite mental-health studies that are entirely flawed because they’re based on diagnoses. 1/
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The only useful data is to isolate the potentially violent mental illnesses, and combinations of mental illnesses, not lump everybody together. I have ADHD. I’m not dangerous as a result. And of course Republicans don’t want to fix things. Neither party does. 5/
Which *should* be an indicator when one party is pushing gun control and *ignoring* things like Universal Healthcare, that perhaps what they’re proposing is *also* not a legitimate way to address the problem. Because that’s not what they do. 6/
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Laws aren’t magic. Alinsky said we must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it were. As it is, there are far, far too many guns to hope that regulation would curb gun violence. (People who *are* problems, unlike you, will get guns. Period.) 7/
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We can’t treat the symptom very well, if at all, but we *can* cure the disease. We can address wealth inequality, poverty, healthcare, criminal justice, the war on drugs, etc. It’s not simple or glamorous, but it’s the right answer. 8/8 finishpic.twitter.com/ak5Xbyx15N
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