Opinion Today: Gun violence doesn’t need to be an intractable problem

There are concrete solutions to this dire situation. 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Those are shootings that have resulted in at least four victims killed or injured. That’s in the first 144 days of 2022. Not all of them have been on the horrific scale of the massacres in Uvalde, Texas, or in Buffalo, N.Y., which together have left at least 31 people dead, 19 of them children. But the deaths and scar tissue add up. More than 240 people have died in mass shootings. And many more have been wounded. [We have been here before](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkcfLsP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8yNS9vcGluaW9uL3JveGFuZS1nYXktdXZhbGRlLXNjaG9vbC1zaG9vdGluZy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjIwNTI2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTYyNDE2Jm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTkzMzk4JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpihuxtj2KGE9EoUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~). We will be here again. The question is: Will this latest blood bath, with its staggering toll, the second most deadly school shooting in U.S. history, change anything? In two guest essays this week, Mary McCord and Nicholas Kristof offer possible approaches to reframe what has become a stale debate over “gun control” that appears to have done little or nothing to change the trajectory of gun violence. As a somber President Biden [asked](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkcfLsP4QeAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LndoaXRlaG91c2UuZ292L2JyaWVmaW5nLXJvb20vc3BlZWNoZXMtcmVtYXJrcy8yMDIyLzA1LzI0L3JlbWFya3MtYnktcHJlc2lkZW50LWJpZGVuLW9uLXRoZS1zY2hvb2wtc2hvb3RpbmctaW4tdXZhbGRlLXRleGFzLz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMDUyNiZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD02MjQxNiZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD05MzM5OCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYobsbY9ihhPRKFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) Tuesday night, “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen?” McCord, a former top national security official in the Justice Department, [frames the issue as one of national security](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkcfLsP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8yNS9vcGluaW9uL3V2YWxkZS1idWZmYWxvLXNlbWlhdXRvbWF0aWMtd2VhcG9ucy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjIwNTI2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTYyNDE2Jm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTkzMzk4JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpihuxtj2KGE9EoUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~). In her piece, she writes that the United States must begin to look at the easy access to firearms — especially semiautomatic weapons — as a threat to national security, from terrorists foreign and domestic. 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Kristof, who as a former columnist at The Times wrote often about gun violence, [suggests other ways to address the gun problem](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkcfLsP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8yNS9vcGluaW9uL3RleGFzLXNob290aW5nLWd1bi1jb250cm9sLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMjA1MjYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NjI0MTYmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9OTMzOTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmKG7G2PYoYT0ShSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). He writes that we should “talk about ‘gun safety’ rather than ‘gun control.’” If teenagers can’t buy beer at 18, he asks, why should they be able to purchase an assault weapon? And since we usually don’t allow people with felony convictions to possess firearms, perhaps, he suggests, people with misdemeanor convictions for drug or alcohol abuse, violence or stalking should be barred from buying firearms as well. 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[[Article Image] Photographs by ACME/AFP, STEPHEN JAFFE, STEFANI REYNOLDS via Getty](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkcfLsP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8yNS9vcGluaW9uL3RleGFzLXNob290aW5nLWd1bi1jb250cm9sLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMjA1MjYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NjI0MTYmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9OTMzOTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmKG7G2PYoYT0ShSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) [Guest Essay These Gun Reforms Could Save 15,000 Lives. We Can Achieve Them. What we’re doing on guns isn’t working. We need new approaches. 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