Josh Horwitz is executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He’s co-author of Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea, and he’s co-founder of the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy, a group of mental health and public health experts working at the intersection of guns and mental health.
We talk about the realities and the politics of gun safety, the difficulty of passing national legislation, and what’s happening on the state level, including New Mexico.