If we want to reduce crime, we need to address the root causes, not pump money into for-profit incarceration schemes, and above all, we need to face the gun lobby and implement sensible, meaningful, gun control. I will work to:

• Decrease gun violence by banning military grade firearms, requiring safer handling of guns, and expanding use of our red flag laws.

• Help victims and create accountability by requiring gun-owner insurance and empowering private citizens to enforce gun laws in court through aiding and abetting and other innovative laws when injury or death have occurred.

• Impose taxes and fees on the manufacture and sale of guns set aside in a fund to help victims of gun violence and their families.

• Better enforce safe-storage laws.