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In our latest interview on the election, I spoke to Professor Drew McKevitt about guns. The gun problem feels insurmountable—in just one example, a new report from Everytown found that “the number of gun violence incidents on school grounds in 2024 so far has outpaced the total number of incidents in all of 2023.”

But as Drew recounts, the feeling that g…