Jan 22 2013: As much as we need gun control, loading our expectations for a less violent society on gun control is a sure way to fail. Gun control is not going to do it. The problem is social alienation, and the right wing's addiction to fear and alienation that magnifies it. There is a reason why libertarians and wingnuts are able to moan endlessly about government intrusion through one side of their mouthes and invite armed guards into our schools through the other -- they are drifting out of faith in society, back into the feudal habit of trusting only in personal relations. People's lives are becoming narrower and narrower. We need communities that bring people back out into public where they can see we're not all so bad as imagination and worthless media outlets suggest.
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A comment on Conversation: Solving gun violence in the US in today's insane political climate requires a solution that makes it painless for everyone.