I spend more time than the average person around well-trained, armed marshals, sheriffs and police. They do a good job. I am at least cordial with all of the men and women I see regularly and I would hope I haven't told enough bad jokes they would use me as a barrier.
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Even with those trained professionals around, I don't want to test that hypothetical. Can you say you do? For the vast majority of us the answer is "I'd really rather not be in a place where I get to be the duck in a live action game of duck hunter, even if I'm an armed duck"pic.twitter.com/G0e6E4LW34
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Of course the answer here is the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to help the bad guy either not be a bad guy, or not let the bad guy get a gun. That's the conversation.
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So lets focus our worry, fear, anxiety, political rage, etc on the real conversation instead of some South Park version of "they're taking the guns." It's at least 2 general sets of solutions, we almost all agree on both - hooray!pic.twitter.com/8pBYFHd05b
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Solution set 1 - mental health. We have a real mental health issue in this country. We don't know how to handle it. Right now our solutions have been to mostly ignore it, self-medicate, and criminalize it. Those totally don't work. At all. Not even a bit.
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Without figuring out how to improve this issue we have a whole lot of problems that aren't going away - from violence in society to those "lazy jerks" wanting food stamps who really have undiagnosed and untreated disabilities. Good news! We have a lot we can throw at this one.
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We can... Expand healthcare access Remove barriers to treatment Add universal prek Increase IEP funding Examine how, why, and for how long we jail *insert literally at least dozens of other options here*
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We probably *already have* all or most of the money in the system, we just need to move it around to make it more effective.pic.twitter.com/U1Bdr93v4b
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Solution set 2 - keeping the guns from the bad guys. We have some laws about this. We need to be examining them and figuring out where the cracks are and how to fill those cracks. We also need to have a long, hard conversation with ourselves about the people we cover for.
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A good example of a crack in the system is people accused/convicted of domestic assault who have restraining orders placed against them are supposed to have their weapons removed- turns out, the majority of the time they don't. So a law is in place & not enforced.
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My favorite is the family member who holds them or "buys the gun(s) for $1". I've tweeted about this before. It happens. It's bad. In my experience, they often get their guns back and continue the threatening behavior.
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Like the father who just gave the weapons back to the Waffle House shooter, who had mental health issues & wasn't supposed to have weapons. I hope he's also charged as an accessory to murder.
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