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“Let’s go to the source, the person and not the object, the gun.”

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Bingo! Nailed it.

She's making a pitch for federal funding.

I agree with her that we need to understand the genesis of the violence, but doing that will require throwing political correctness totally out the window and going wherever the facts lead - something that no federally funded university is going to do.

Teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, single parent households, pop-culture, increasing secularism, politicians using race as a wedge issue, gang culture and the entertainment industry glorifying it, bad schools and ineffective teachers, etc. There are likely multiple factors, but when I've had this discussion with many liberals, their answer is often to blame 'poverty'. Poverty is a chicken or egg factor, and determining which is most contributory will again require following the facts wherever they lead.

To do this right, it would require a non-academic coalition of private bipartisan participants that includes a wide array of professional expertise.

I am the mother of a MURDERED CHILD. The killer was is a SOCIOPATH. NO MORALS, NO CONCIOUS. He Plea Bargained a M1 to a M2, took 2 yrs to get that Plea deal while he sat in jail. M1 became M2, 20 yrs, 10 months later I was fighting the first of 6 parole hearings. He served 1 day for 1 day off for good behavior. Best I could do is make him served every one of those 10.5 yrs. WEAPON, A 2 FT SECTION OF FENCE POST. MY JEREMY WAS BEAT TO DEATH SO SOME POS SOCIOPATH COULD GET HIS JOLLIES TO SEE WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO KILL. BROUGHT HIS FRIENDS ALONG TO SEE THE DEED HE DID. WATCHED THE POLICE INVESTIGATE UNTIL SOMEONE POINTED HIM OUT AND THEN RAN FOR THE WOODS.

THIS WAS LESS THAN A HALF BLOCK FROM OUR HOME. BELOW RR TRACKS BESIDES A DESERTED ICE PLANT, THE HS KIDS USED AS A SHORT CUT. JEREMY WAS DEAD WITH THE FIRST BLOW.