#1472 Some, but not enough, progress on gun violence in America
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/26/2022
Today we take a look at the slow but important progress that's been made in the last ten years of efforts toward sensible gun control and accountability for gun manufacturers as well as the activists pushing the issue.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Path to the Sandy Hook Settlement - What Next - Air Date 2-22-22
A deft legal strategy led to the largest payout by a gun manufacturer in a mass shooting case. Guest: @NicoleHockley is co-founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
Ch. 2: Sandy Hook families achieve major victory over gun maker - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 2-16-21
Tonight's guests are Joshua Koskoff, attorney representing Sandy Hook families.
Survivors and families of the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, have launched a new online tool called the “Shock Market” to track the occurrence of U.S. gun violence.
Ch. 4: A New Kind of Gun Control Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 2-3-22
San Jose is trying to pioneer a fresh way to address gun violence. Will it survive all the lawsuits? Guest: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California.
Gun violence in America has remained high throughout the pandemic. By some early estimates, 2020 is one of the worst years for homicides in recent times. Amna Nawaz speaks to The Trace's Champe Barton about efforts to change gun laws.
Ch. 6: A New Kind of Gun Control Part 2 - What Next - Air Date 2-3-22
Valentine’s Day is when we’re supposed to give heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and flowers to those we love. For Manuel “Manny” Oliver, Valentine’s Day is something different.
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Ch. 8: Woman Accidentally Fires Purse Gun at Basketball Game - David Pakman Show - Air Date 11-6-21
A woman "accidentally" fires her gun, which was in her purse, during a basketball game
Mayor Adams's new public safety agenda, guests Anthonine Pierre, leader of Communities United for Police Reform, Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of NYC and Elise White, deputy research director at the Center for Court Innovation
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the news from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: A woman walks during the March on Washington for Gun Control in 2013 holding a sign that says "Sandy Hook Chooses LOVE". A red 'no' symbol is over the silhouette of a semi-automatic rifle. Next to this, are two, gray child's hand prints with a red heart between them.
Credit: "March on Washington for Gun Control 032" by Slowking4, Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons License | Changes: Cropped
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the slow but important progress that's been made in the last 10 years of |
| 0:12.1 | efforts towards sensible gun control and accountability for gun manufacturers as well as the activists |
| 0:19.1 | pushing the issue. |
| 0:20.4 | Cups today are from what next? |
| 0:23.1 | The Rachel Maddo Show, Democracy Now, the PBS NewsHour, and Breaking the Sound Barrier |
| 0:29.0 | with additional members only clips from the David Pakman Show and the Brian Lerror Show. |
| 0:40.6 | Nicole had a powerful ally in the White House. |
| 0:44.1 | Then President Obama had decided to make gun control legislation a priority. |
| 0:48.8 | That's how Nicole and other Sandy Hook parents found themselves traveling to DC just weeks |
| 0:54.5 | after their children's deaths to advocate for expanded background checks for gun purchases. |
| 1:00.0 | That was the first time I'd ever been to DC. |
| 1:04.2 | I got to know the halls of Congress fairly intimately. |
| 1:07.7 | I remember I used to run my fingers along the wall as I'd be walking because it was so |
| 1:14.0 | surreal how different life had changed so quickly. |
| 1:18.9 | I wasn't quite sure if this was reality or some horrible nightmare I couldn't wake from. |
| 1:26.9 | Some people might feel, oh my gosh, you're talking to a US Senator. |
| 1:30.4 | I just saw another dad, another mom in front of me. |
| 1:35.6 | That's the same way talking with President Obama and then Vice President Biden. |
| 1:40.5 | These were parents. |
| 1:42.3 | It wasn't the president. |
| 1:43.6 | It wasn't the Vice President. |
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