It's Friday, January 15th, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Injavis Gontas.

And I'm Kishar Hari.

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at 10 p.m. Last year, we spent a few episodes talking about the epidemic of mass shootings in the U.S.

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