8/30/2020: Red Flag, Talking to the Past
60 Minutes
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Red Flag gun laws allow temporary confiscation of firearms if a gun owner displays dangerous or threatening behavior. The laws have been adopted in 17 states and the District of Columbia, but in Colorado, there's been fierce controversy. Scott Pelley reports. Holocaust survivors will be able to share their stories after death thanks to a new project. Lesley Stahl tells us more. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:00.0 | We've got an active shooter at Sargutus High School. |
| 0:10.0 | A high school shooting last November renewed the debate over gun legislation. |
| 0:15.0 | 19 states believe one answer is the red flag law. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a temporary intervention to get the guns out of someone's hands |
| 0:23.0 | who's in crisis. |
| 0:24.2 | You may be surprised by those who oppose it. |
| 0:27.9 | There are portions of the lie |
| 0:28.9 | just flat out can't and won't do. |
| 0:31.2 | This is a law that was passed by the legislature. |
| 0:34.2 | It's signed by the governor. |
| 0:35.8 | Nobody asked you. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going to go ahead and get started. |
| 0:40.9 | Tonight, as the world struggles to contain and recover from the novel coronavirus, |
| 0:46.7 | we offer a story we completed just before life changed so dramatically. |
| 0:51.7 | Can you sing me a song from your youth? |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, I don't judge. |
| 0:56.2 | It's a story of history, hope, survival, and resilience, which has its roots in another |
| 1:02.8 | time when the world was convulsed by crisis, World War II. |
| 1:07.6 | Aaron, tell us what your parents did before the war. They owned and operated a butcher shop. |
| 1:14.8 | This interview was unlike any we have ever done. Keep your mentality. Keep your soul. Keep your mind. |
| 1:22.6 | Incredibly, Aaron Elster, a Holocaust survivor, died two years ago. What's the weather like today? |
| 1:30.0 | I'm actually recording. I cannot answer that question. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm |
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