by Lucie Levine 
On Saturday, April 7th, local politicians, policy advocates and community members gathered at MS 50 (183 South 3rd Street) for a Townhall meeting on gun violence. The event, hosted by Congresswomen Carolyn Maloney and Nydia M. Velázquez, took place on National Day of Action, following the March for Our Lives Protests, and included a panel of community advocates from New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
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The cure for our cultural gun sickness is simple, the implementation of it is extremely difficult.
Legality, regulation, responsibility and non promotion of the vice or dangerous object in this case guns is the answer.
Any successful campaign in the past like cig. smoking, drunk driving etc. employed this formula.
The problem is that almost all Americans, left, right, black, white, male, female have a vested interest in not employing the formula from the extreme right who believe everybody should be armed to the extreme left who believe guns should be banned and everybody in the middle.