Here are commonsense steps to address it. I know I'm a sitting duck until commonsense gun laws are on the books.Ĭommon sense: Gun violence is the No. We’ll need to ask ourselves what is effective and what is doable in America. Taking this issue seriously will require Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, gun owners and gun control advocates to work together. Marsha Blackburn’s school safety bill, which would provide federal grants to help public and private schools be protected by police officers?Īnd might the media be part of the solution? Are journalists willing to call attention to the daily violence in communities around the country, often in cities that boast of stringent gun laws but where other causes of crime are sometimes ignored by left-wing prosecutors? So are they willing to vote for protective measures such as Tennessee Republican Sen. We have a Second Amendment that isn’t going anywhere. Bill Lee has urged his fellow Republicans in the state legislature to follow suit.ĭemocrats might acknowledge what is possible. A few Republicans in the Senate supported red flag legislation last year and 19 states, including conservative states such as Indiana and Florida, have red flag laws. Republicans should ask themselves what measures they could offer that might create more friction between guns and the people intent on committing acts of murder. Andy Beshear must show leadership: Kentucky governor lost his friend in a mass shooting but has said little about guns. We're a Democrat and a Republican: Here's how both parties can start on gun reform – together
I’m a conservative, but I recognize that this multi-layered, complicated epidemic will require both political parties to work together. The exception was the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, which resulted in bipartisan federal legislation that included funding for mental health, funding for state red flag laws, tightening laws on gun trafficking, funding for existing school safety programs and a few other laws tightening gun purchases.īut clearly, we have more work to do to reduce incidents of violence and to make our communities safe. Unfortunately, after every mass shooting there is a predictable cycle where Democrats and Republicans blame each other, scoring quick rhetorical points that offer political catharsis but few solutions. Political blame game follows gun violence but doesn't offer solutions What we're doing now on gun violence isn't working. I survived a mass shooting and found Americans aren't all that divided on gun safety Just read this haunting profile of the victims of the Sulphur Springs, Texas shooting from five years ago. For every shooting, there are survivors whose lives will never be the same. It’s hard to comprehend the depravity that motivates someone to gun down people in cold blood. And my wife was part of a prayer group of moms that included the Covenant pastor’s wife. A colleague at Texas Baptist College, affiliated with the seminary where I work, lost a nephew. A dear friend’s children attend Covenant School. We lived in Nashville for 10 years and love that growing metro with a small-town heart. The Covenant School shooting in Nashville was personal for our family.
In cities across the country, citizens live in fear of their lives, besieged by violence on the streets and in homes, workplaces, schools and churches. And those are only crimes that have captured national attention. On Monday afternoon, police found seven people dead, including two missing teenage girls, at a home in the small town of Henryetta, Oklahoma.Īs a nation, we are only weeks removed from the shooting at a church school in Nashville, Tennessee and the shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky. “Generally, when the industry talks about an ad product scaling, it’s less about, can it actually scale and more about can we dumb it down enough to fit into existing media plans without introducing more creative development.On Friday night near Cleveland, Texas, police say, a man with an AR-15 shot to death five of his neighbors, including a 9-year-old boy. “The future of ad creative is building into platforms, in ways that consumers will appreciate,” said Schafer. millennial males. It has already started growing its ad business with a team that works with brands like Old Spice and eBay to craft long Imgur posts. Imgur claims it has 150 million monthly users and is second only to Facebook in daily visits from U.S. Its ad products are not materially different than the consumer product.” That requires an understanding of this particular platform that not every brand or agency or individual has,” said Ian Schafer, founder of Deep Focus, which was among the agencies Imgur visited in the past month on its roadshow. “Grasping Imgur first means having the ability to be empathetic to the way people use a particular platform.
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