Ezra Klein (video) and Colby on Gun Violence, and Need for Progress

https://www.facebook.com/ezraklein/videos/10154000566913410/

Fantastic video. Ezra Klein has great perspective. If all Americans saw this, and could vote, we'd move forward and enact better laws. Even despite the below. The argument against it is that people don't trust our government. That's the only shred of defense that's at all plausible from those that are blocking improvement to our fucked up situation here with our gun problems. The most influential of these people want all people to be able to get a gun - even those who shouldn't be able to. So a mob could overtake the government, or an individual can protect their family and homestead against anyone or the government. It is primitive thinking, but that is where some people are at. (Yes, most of these people of course could qualify to get a permit and pass a background check and get a gun and still defend their family; it is the more primitive people to whom the enablers are appealing.) Shameful that those who know better and support the NRA and this primitivism are sticking the rest of us with the cost and carnage of a gun culture. The screenshot of the slide below is one of the best places to start improvement: let's start ticking off some of those boxes here in America. Thanks for your concern and posting on the issue Aaron, safe travels.