After Parkland: Kids and Moms Take on the NRA
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Teenaged survivors of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, already have begun to change the terms of debate over gun safety. Adam Gopnik joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how grassroots movements--from Mothers Against Drunk Driving to Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America--force social and political change.
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| 1:11.9 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:18.1 | It's Friday, March 2nd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.6 | Two weeks ago, 17 students and teachers were killed during the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman |
| 1:29.2 | Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. |
| 1:32.2 | It is the 10th mass school shootings since Sandy Hook in 2012. |
| 1:37.2 | Six of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in American history have taken place in the past five |
| 1:42.2 | years. |
| 1:43.8 | This time, though, the political response has been different, |
| 1:46.0 | as grieving students continue to speak out against the NRA |
| 1:50.0 | and members of Congress who oppose gun control. |
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