text:  Okay, so they're going to declare it a public health emergency. This is obviously terrible. At best, it's a totally meaningless political stunt. And again, we have the optimist and pessimist dichotomy. The optimistic view is that it's merely arbitrary and toothless and pointless to make some kind of declaration about gun violence being a public health issue. Nobody's going to be convinced to refrain from gun violence because of this. There is not going to be a single gang member on a single street corner.