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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve spent a significant amount of time thinking about and talking with folks who come out on different sides of how to best respond to the gun violence problem in the city (so tangentially related). I think that there can be agreements on a few fronts in that space, but rather than focusing on what we can agree on, there’s a lot of focus on division.

But a few area where I can see agreement on all sides:
1. We have a problem and what we’re doing right now isn’t working. 
2. We need to give the problem the weight it deserves and put a high priority (meaning $$) on addressing it. 
3. There is no single simple solution.

If you actually get traction on #2 and there’s more money in the budget, then it doesn’t have to be a discussion about defunding one tactic to fund another, we can start talking about holistically what are the various approaches (because just using one isn’t going to work) we should try and how do we best achieve the outcome (reducing gun violence) which we actually all want and agree on. We need to advocate to get the city to admit to #1 and commit to #2. Then have the discussion on solutions AFTER (keeping #3 in mind).

Again, I’ve spent some effort on this and frankly I think we won’t even get to #1.  [/quote]

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