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1325: Mass shooter society / Seamus McGraw

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🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Journalist Seamus McGraw on his new book "From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter" from University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/mcgraw-from-a-taller-tower

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Then I went to sleep in Shreveport woke up in Abilene

0:05.4

wondering why the hell I'm wanted at some town halfway between

0:10.4

wanted man out of Turkey one it man. 20, Man in Baton Rouge. This is hell.

0:34.0

Hell.

0:38.0

Your eyewitness to grief.

0:42.0

This is hell, by the way another side effect of getting the second

0:46.6

dose of the vaccine appears to be intense exhaustion and area wide internet outage so sorry for not being able to do a show yesterday

0:56.7

unfortunately the internet was out in our area for a few hours so our apologies

1:02.4

as of Saturday a few hours so our apologies.

1:03.0

As of Saturday following the most recent mass killing in Indianapolis

1:08.0

that city's third this year alone

1:12.0

CNN was reporting that the United States had experienced 147 mass shootings

1:16.9

this year. They were citing the Gun Violence Archive and not-for-profit that tracks mass shootings

1:21.9

in the United States.

1:23.0

Since that report four days ago, there have been eight more mass shootings, at least,

1:30.0

and I think there have been more.

1:32.0

None of those shootings are considered mass murders by the gun violence archive as they define

1:36.2

mass murder as four or more people being killed.

1:39.7

And in the recent shooting in Kenosha on Sunday,

1:42.4

three died while in another stabbing in Houston, two died, or sorry shooting.

1:48.0

So far the GVA, the gun violence archive, says there has been, there have been 11 mass murders in the US this year that means that we are

1:56.0

averaging over one mass shooting a day and every 10 days in the United States we are witnessing another mass murder.

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