I want the same gun safety legislation every progressive Dem wants, but it’s still an area where we’re talking about symptoms and need to talk about cause. As a society, we will continue to have a problem with violence until we look in the mirror and face how violent we are.

Our environmental policies violent toward the earth. Our foreign policies violent toward Yemen etc. Our economic policies violent toward the poor. Our criminal justice system in many ways as violent as the violent offenders it seeks to punish. And our hearts are too often violent