A Mass of Mass Shootings
The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of the Lionsgate Plus |
| 0:04.8 | original series The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate |
| 0:10.0 | Plus. Follow Catherine the second play by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas |
| 0:14.4 | Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable |
| 0:18.7 | problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending |
| 0:22.6 | legal responsibilities. The Great Season 3 is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively |
| 0:28.2 | on Lionsgate Plus. |
| 0:58.2 | In the next episode, we'll be back with another fatal shooting. |
| 1:02.4 | We need to take the phrase mass shooting and add a mass to accurately describe the age |
| 1:07.4 | we're living in. We're living in an age of mass mass shootings. I'm here to tell you what |
| 1:12.6 | can be done about it. The answer is nothing. I mean, I'm going to follow the advice of an |
| 1:17.9 | expert we had on a few weeks ago. I'm not going to name the shooters in today's interview. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm not going to contribute to their legends. Will that prevent it from happening again? |
| 1:25.4 | Certainly not. Let's be clear. Let's be practical. Let's be real. We have chosen this situation |
| 1:31.8 | that we're in. Or maybe it was chosen by others or thrust upon us by history or powerful lobbyists |
| 1:38.2 | or the realities of our political system or the indifference of your fellow citizens or the |
| 1:42.7 | failings of the human race. After Sandy Hook, there was a bill before the Senate and it died. |
| 1:47.7 | It died after getting a decent majority of votes. 54 votes. It was actually 55 votes because |
| 1:52.7 | Harry Reid had to vote against it for parliamentary reasons. But it was less than the 60 votes it needed. |
| 1:56.9 | So that's politics. But the politics was baked into that bill beforehand. That bill would have been |
| 2:02.4 | at best a tweak of a tweak. It would have allowed for more background checks for online or gun show |
| 2:07.8 | sales of guns. And that's it. It doesn't change much. Another bill to limit magazine size also went |
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