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The conservative philosophy of tragedy: guns don't kill people, people kill people | Jill Filipovic | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The solutions, then, must be multifold: poverty alleviation; better mental health care with a focus on suicide prevention and depression treatment, not the stigmatization of the mentally ill, who are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators; and yes, gun control to make it more difficult for a firearm to be such an easily-accessed weapon.