#283 — Gun Violence in America

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Graeme Wood about the problem of gun violence in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:23.7	This is Sam Harris.
0:25.7	Okay, well today I'm speaking with Graham Wood.
0:30.3	Graham is a staff writer at the Atlantic.
0:33.1	He's been on the podcast many times before.
0:36.8	He wrote a great book on the Islamic State titled The Way of the Strangers and Countries
0:42.2	with the Islamic State.
0:44.3	And he's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he also teaches at Yale University.
0:49.2	Anyway, today we talk about guns and gun violence in America.
0:55.2	The unique character of that problem.
0:57.7	We recorded this a couple days after the mass shooting in Yovaldi, Texas.
1:03.6	And we discuss the issue from every side we can think to analyze it from.
1:11.0	No doubt there's more to say.
1:13.7	Those of you who are not used to hearing me get choked up.
1:16.8	We'll hear me scarcely able to talk about Yovaldi at one point.
1:21.4	That story and the specific details are unlike any I can think of at the moment.
1:31.5	And it is a kind of super stimulus morally speaking that I find it very difficult to think
1:40.4	about.
1:41.4	Anyway, Graham and I do our best here.
1:45.2	This seems like an appropriate podcast to release on Memorial Day.
1:49.2	It's also a PSA.
1:50.9	So no paywall.
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