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Article snippet: This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive more briefings and a guide to the section daily in your inbox. If you are heartbroken about the latest mass shooting and tired of how frequent such shootings have become, don’t let anyone intimidate you from talking about gun safety now. It’s the right time to do so, and it will remain the right time until we’ve made progress in dealing with this problem. It’s entirely possible to do so. Here are five pieces I recommend in the wake of the Las Vegas horror. I’m still trying to fathom the toll — at least 59 dead and 527 wounded. 1. “There is a right way to ‘politicize’ mass shootings, and a wrong way to politicize them,” writes Greg Sargent of The Plum Line. The wrong way is to focus on the shooter’s ideology (and Sargent wrote his piece before almost anything was known about this shooter). The right way is to start “intense arguments over how to prevent” future shootings, Sargent writes. He also urges people to be clear about whether they’re trying to prevent overall gun deaths or mass shootings, which represent just a tiny fraction of gun deaths. 2. My colleague Nick Kristof: “in every other sphere, we at least use safety regulations to try — however imperfectly — to reduce death and injury.” Kristof makes eight specific suggestions that he thinks have the potential to reduce gun deaths by nearly one-third. “Since 1970, more Americans have died from guns (including suicides, mur... Link to the full article to read more