“What kills people with guns is usually descriptions — in the minds of people with guns. This is as true of police or soldiers as it is of psychotic gunmen. So, really, if you want to reduce gun violence, perhaps we could start by teaching a single tenet of cognitive activism; namely, that descriptions of people or situations are in every case fundamentally inconsistent with their targets, and this is especially true of the narrow, static descriptions that commonly generate violence and offense. If you could teach people and governments to doubt and defuse the descriptions that evolve into or insist upon violence, I suspect you would end the lion’s share of it — gun violence in particular.”

— a anonymous informant