Thanks so much for this David. I’m sending it on to my own list, although I suppose we are “preaching to the choir”. One can only hope that someone is actually doing something, especially Congress.
Del
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Hi all.
On Nov 7, 2017, John Epps wrote:
7. Opposition from the firearms industry could be ineffective, like opposition from the tobacco industry adapted to the no-smoking movement.
8. Highlight root causes, e.g., an imaginal presentation in today's New York Times about the inescapable correlation between the prevelence of guns and the death rate from mass shootings in America and across the world. Conclusion: it’s not a mental health problem, it’s the image, enshrined in the constitution and Americans’ minds, that citizens have a RIGHT to own guns. Not new information, but dramatically articulated and presented.
Good article. Striking graphic data.
David
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