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Right, the hidden part of this story is that LOTS of gun deaths are of a couple variants that we either can't or won't really resolve to care about:
-inner city, mostly drug-related, mostly black-on-black gun violence that is mostly perceived as contained to certain areas where we just don't go
-suicides, seemingly disproportionately among veterans, where the presence of a gun just magnifies the likelihood that a bout of depression or grief becomes fatal
Both sad, both also related to the ubiquitous guns-everywhere culture.
But the only button that you can press to get anywhere on this is dead kids. So, press the F out of that button, and don't let up after it's been out of the headlines for a week or so.
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