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"This is not normal."
"This is not normal."
If we want to reduce gun violence🔫 in our country, we should increase foot patrols of police in high crime neighborhoods,👮 install brighter street lights,💡 spruce up bus stops and parks,🚏🚍 plant more trees and flowers,🌳🌻 reduce speed limits and lanes,🚗🚙🚕 encourage gardens and backyard chickens,🐔🐔 host more street fairs and block parties,👪👬 and encourage wealthier people to move to the troubled neighborhoods👷🙋👴 to rehabilite old houses and generally gentrify them.🏡
Gentrification of bad neighborhoods is the only proven way to end gun violence.🏠🏦🏫 All other methods have little to no evidence of their effectiveness.
"Scarborough’s exceptionally narrow definition of Heller — possess handguns at home for the purpose of protection – might be convenient for a political argument, it’s misleading. The Heller decision found that the Second Amendment was an individual right to keep and bear arms for any “lawful purpose,” not merely home protection. It found that the Second Amendment “guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.” (Italics mine.) And it specifically struck down a portion of a DC law that required rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock.”