To get specific, if SC had the same gun-safety culture as NY, we could save several hundred lives per year. Now, the reason SC has our particular gun-safety cu

To get specific, if SC had the same gun-safety culture as NY, we could save several hundred lives per year. Now, the reason SC has our particular gun-safety culture has a lot to do with the civil war, which is history. It’s hard to disentangle what is culture vs what is history. But the bottom line is that real people die of preventable gunshot wounds because we don’t have the political will to do anything about it. Does that make SC worse than NY? In general I don’t know, but we certainly have a worse tolerance for violence, which is something I grieve as a South Carolinian.