I'd like to try and see if there is possible agreement

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2. Honestly, I have always been for balance, negotiation, middle ground

But there is a phenomenon in America now that is probably unprecedented. It's a polarization of ideology that seems practically impossible to bridge. Let me make a terribly extreme analogy just for a point... put Gandhi and Stalin in the same room and ask them to find middle ground. There would be no middle ground between these two ideologies; it would never happen. But if you meshed the two mechanically... what do you end up with? Probably something between George Bush and Obama. I think we have tried to find middle ground on issues of race, violence, capitalism, environment, human rights, animal rights, you name it. The problem is, it is like finding middle ground where Grand Canyons of ideology exist.

I wish us all the best in finding the solutions to gun violence and the trauma and mental illness that both precipitates it and follows it. But there is a chasm of understanding between methods that is almost impossible to mesh and therefore reaching that goal of peace probably will not happen without great losses on one side. Only one side.