I think education is key here. I myself don't understand the nuances of sport shooting and whatnot, but I'm all for people doing things that they enjoy. Maybe it's not being taken into consideration that people having those outlets may be reducing stress, that it may be conducive to their mental health and may be helping to keep them from becoming angry people. Education means people working together and understanding each other's position and finding a common ground. Not everybody who wants or owns a gun is a bad person, and not everybody who is not for firearms is a bad person.
What I think is happening here is that there is a lot of political gesturing, where people who may have shared similar experiences don't have the chance to work together and don't have the chance to make a difference together because they're being pulled in one direction or another. What I think would help most is if we took away the partisanship on this one particular issue and focused on the real things that are affecting the majority of people.
For instance, I know Ken and Claire. We've spoken at a lot of different things together. I can definitely relate, especially on a trauma level. Conversations that we've had in the past have been.... They know that I know how they feel, but in their case, this was an anomaly. Ken has admitted that prior to this event, there was no real knowledge or interest in gun violence in Canada, because it wasn't something that affected them. In my case, though, this was something I grew up with and lived with.
For instance, my assistant here—