An Overlooked Tool to Stop School Shootings
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A school with armed teachers and every door locked sounds a lot more like a prison than a nourishing educational environment. How does the discussion around school shootings change when you change your starting point from “how can we stop this?” to “what kind of world do we want to live in?”
Guest: Ron Avi Astor, professor of public affairs, social work, and education at UCLA.
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| 0:32.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:33.0 | This episode talks about gun violence, bullying and references suicide contagion. |
| 0:38.8 | At the end of the show, we'll give you a couple of resources. |
| 0:41.6 | That's in case you or someone you love needs some support. |
| 0:51.2 | In the US these days, the horrible and the tragic feel inevitable. |
| 0:57.2 | CNN and the gun violence archive define a mass shooting as one that injures or kills four or more people. |
| 1:03.6 | These are the places where they've happened in 2022. |
| 1:06.6 | Buffalo, twice, Milwaukee, four times. |
| 1:11.2 | Frequent mass shootings have become a predictable if horrific part of American life. |
| 1:17.4 | Detroit, Tuscaloosa, Clarkson, Georgia, Lexington, Kentucky, Garland, Texas, Miami, five times. |
| 1:25.6 | Congress appears to be on the verge of discussing new gun reform measures. |
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