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Why I Gave Up On Gun Control
The sad state of affairs in the US.
In 2018, I got a strange meeting request, “Mandatory meeting.”
I was still working in finance, in what would be my final corporate job.
I went to the small room where five other analysts had gathered. People were looking around, unsure of what was going on. My boss was noticeably absent.
An employee stood up and got teary-eyed and started talking. I got nervous, thinking something may have happened to someone. She said our boss had traveled out of town and wouldn’t be back for several weeks.
Our boss’s mother and grandmother had been in the synagogue during the Pittsburg Synagogue shooting. Her grandmother was killed and her mother was shot.
It was the first time I was so closely connected to a shooting.
I should have felt compelled to protest, to advocate for change. But I didn’t.
Gun culture’s corrosive arguments
I was a passionate activist for gun control at one point — especially after Sandy Hook.
I argued at length about the no-brainer approach to restrictions, such as more comprehensive background checks, and eliminating the…
