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The Gist

A Mass of Mass Shootings

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Gist, criminologist and homicide researcher Adam Lankford explains why some mass shooters seem so drawn to extreme ideologies. Then we speak with 11-year-old author Audrey Hinsdale about how her debut novel The Trigger is a metaphor for growing up. For the Spiel, Mike weighs the cultural impact of driverless cars. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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