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Safe gun policy doesn’t have to mean no guns—or no safety

ON A RECENT WEEKEND I WAS DOING SOME FALL CLEANING when I uncovered my old T-shirt from the Million Mom March, which took place on Mother’s Day in 2000. I held up that shirt, with its pink and black logo, and remembered walking on the National Mall with my 5-year-old son on my shoulders, full of hope that a group of like-minded mothers and others could make some sense out of what felt like chaos with respect to guns. I believed that

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