We are divided. Angrily divided. And few issues reflect that divide more than our perspectives on gun laws. In partnership with a non-profit, NY Mag brought together “more than a dozen others on both sides of the gun debate — a hunter; two Baltimore cops; a criminal-court judge from New Orleans; a couple of high-schoolers who grew up in the ganglands of Chicago’s South Side — [who] had agreed to meet face-to-face, tell each other their stories, and try to understand one another’s points of view, in an experiment in radical empathy.” (These days, any empathy is pretty radical.) Those involved listened to each other, and then told each other’s stories in their own voice. The encounter had a huge impact on the participants: An Experiment in Empathy.