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#283 — Gun Violence in America

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Do We Keep Guns Out of Our Hands?

If we're thinking about how to keep guns out of the hands of people who are going to use them in homicidal ways, then you have to reckon with it with the actual who were doing this. And so this raisesthe issue of red flag policies, and just what sort of intervention is possible when, you know, even somebody's mom is terrified that they are going to commit some harm on the basis of their delusions? There seems to be very little to do. Writis like you can't to incarcerate somebody in a some kind of mental hospital and hold them there for long periods of until you're convinced that they pose no risk to society. I don't know where

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