It doesn’t matter whether you love or hate guns; it’s obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren’t thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. “For every great movement around the world, there’s a moment where you can look back and say, ‘That’s when things really started to change,'” Gross says. “For the movement to end gun violence in America, that moment is here.”
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Why gun violence can’t be our new normal | Dan Gross
March 20, 2017
More from this series:
- The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate | Suzanne Barakat
- A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system | Adam Foss
- How we talk about sexual assault online | Ione Wells
- An artist’s unflinching look at racial violence | Sanford Biggers
- It’s time for women to run for office | Halla Tómasdóttir
- America’s forgotten working class | J.D. Vance
- An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
- Why gun violence can’t be our new normal | Dan Gross