In Beverly Gage's article, Things Can Change, she contends that inspite of the violence people experience in their lives, they can use proven methods from the past to solve their problems today: Passing federal laws that outlaw certain physical violence would make most people think twice about attacking one-another; creating campaigns aimed at influencing public opinion would make it socially wrong to fight another person; and more enforcement on certain laws would definitely cut down on most violence with weapons.
When things seem like they won't change, they often do so slowly; It took this nation years to create a better process for managing labor-employer relations, and it took people more than one-hundred years to abolish lynching, one of the most gruesome forms of violence in the U.S. The most influencial thing that could be done about these violences it to combat the idea that these crimes can't be stoped, that they are part of this nation. This can be done by passing federal legislation to stop these events, as well as change the publics view to make violence, any kind, sociably unacceptable.
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