Santa Fe New Mexican

Regulating guns

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Here is a great solution to stop the gun violence. It is attributed to Gloria Steinem, but evidently she didn’t say it, although she has endorsed its sentiment. Thanks for the inspiratio­n, whatever the source. The solution: “How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion — mandatory 48-hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understand­s what he’s about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence. … Let’s close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.”

Muriel Fariello Galisteo

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