it requires participation. it requires commitment. it requires being informed. if you go back to the 19th century when we were having a debate in this country about whether we should have mandatory public education, the purpose for mandatory public education was to teach good citizens. create good citizens. and so politicians who say, for example, we can't talk about this moment of connection between insane or evil person and high-capacity automatic or semiautomatic weapon. it's just stupid. and when people get voted out of office and on the supply and demand curve, that balance changes, you'll see some changes to, you know, to the gun laws. and i think the other thing, too, is that there's always been places that are profoundly violent in the country. inner city baltimore, chicago, but i think middle-class white people as a general proposition were insulated from it. i think back to when i was a little kid, the summer of sam.