The Science of Climate Change and Gun Violence

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This is happening at quite a large extent. We don't know the full extent yet. It's happened to scientists am who talk about climate change, who talk about vaccines,. Who talk about gun violence. So it makes them retreat from discussion. And what's more. Sometimes it derails the discussion, and people talk about the abuse more than they talk about the issue in the first exactly, exactly.

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