GQ/The Guardian has caught a bit of a clue.

[just Warren]

They've managed to be not quite so idiotic on the issue as their side usually is.

I'm impressed.

[zxcvbob]

They've managed to be not quite so idiotic on the issue as their side usually is.

I'm impressed.

It's not that surprising that an article like that got written.  I'm floored by the fact that it was published, and not killed by the editors.

[agricola]

Ever since the Guardian got into financial difficulties, they seem to have to publish one or two articles a month that aren't entirely wrong.  

Usually these rogue pieces are accounts of why Jeremy Corbyn might not actually be Satan, but this month they seem to have picked gun law in the US.  

[MikeB]

I think the answer is in the first paragraph. They assigned someone full time who went and actually committed an act of honest journalism vs. just writing about her feelings. Congratulations to the journalist for asking honest questions and reporting facts vs hyperbole, her feelings, opinions or just listening to the side of the argument he seemed to gravitate to before doing research. It reminds me of how I saw John Stossel grow as a journalist from his beginning to his enlightenment so to speak.

[Hawkmoon]

They still have it wrong.

My job as The Guardian US’s gun reporter is to explore the big questions: Why do we struggle so much to fix America’s gun violence problem? What would it take to save more lives?

We struggle to fix America's "gun violence problem" because the liberal politicians are fixtaed on the guns rather than on the violence. They seem to actually believe that if they can somehow make guns go away, violence will go away. That's not the way human nature works. Guns used in gun crimes are merely tools used by violent, criminal people. If the criminals don't have guns, they'll use other tools.

Case in point: The Petit home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut. Two criminals. Neither had a gun. Dr. Petit, the only survivor, was savagely beaten with a baseball bat. His wife and two daughters were all killed. The wife was strangled. The daughters died of smoke inhalation when the perps torched the house.

And that's the answer to her question: We (present company not included) struggle to fix the "gun vioelnce" problem for the simple reason that it's attempting to "fix" a problem that isn't a problem. The focus needs to be on controlling violent criminals, NOT on controlling lawful,, inanimate objects and the lawful people who own them.