We Need Hope to Combat Violence. That Won’t Arrive Without Action

June 9, 2022  

By Rachel Louise Snyder

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/opinion/shootings-domestic-violence.html

To suggest the solution does not start with guns — raising the minimum age for purchase; lowering the number of guns allowed per household; keeping guns from convicted abusers; instituting mandatory training, licensing and waiting periods; barring the ownership of assault rifles; enacting safe storage laws; eradicating immunity for manufacturers — is to willfully disregard the life and future of every person in this country. When Second Amendment freedoms mean imprisoning someone else (in a classroom, in a hospital, in a home), then freedom is nothing more than a bully with a pulpit.

Ms. Snyder is the author of “No Visible Bruises,” a book on domestic violence.