If 20 children in Sandy Hook weren't enough, do you think

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16. If we put as much energy and work into demanding gun laws

as we did in enshrining presidential candidates and discussing their every burp and belch, we might get somewhere. The problem is that we (I include myself) get incensed for a few days after each of these incidents and then go straight back to normal.

I have attended gun-control rallies outdoors in the bitter cold of a Chicago winter, I have donated money to the Brady campaign, I have written legislators. I also, at some point over the past few years, began to give it all up as hopeless. My bad.

We need to expend as much energy and effort in discussing and gathering together publicly about gun control as we did in promoting the candidacies of either Clinton or Sanders. Shame on all of us.

I hope Hillary Clinton makes it a central issue of her campaign. We must not be afraid to say how much we hate the culture of guns in which we live.