AS189: Paris and Beirut Attacks

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Well, I wasn’t about to ignore this major event that everyone is talking about. I offer my opinion on some of the reactions people are having, from the far right to the far left. As usual, find out why everyone is wrong! (Maybe.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 189 and I'm your host
0:35.6	Thomas Smith. Okay well we're back to our regular our new regular schedule and it's
0:41.6	good timing because well I had a lot of stuff to talk
0:44.4	about but that has been preempted by the of course horrendous attack in Paris and I suppose
0:52.3	I should say the horrendous attack in Beirut too just to make sure we're covering all bases.
0:58.6	Similar death count, very eerie.
1:01.3	Well, let's just go ahead and get right to the commentary.
1:05.0	Might as well make it official and play the music. I simply cannot believe that there are still still the kinds of reactions that there are especially among Republicans like Trump and others who prominent Republicans talking about the fact that gun control, you know, well, if they could have guns in the dark concert hall, you know, like in the
1:35.9	dark loud chaotic concert hall, if everyone had guns, I'm sure, I'm sure it would have been great.
1:41.0	It would have been, you know, just a paradise. You just instantly
1:46.0	identify who the terrorists were in the dark, chaotic, loud concert hall and then you just shoot them and then it would be fine everybody would be happy
1:54.8	I can't I refuse to believe there are people who still take that idea seriously but it seems as though
2:01.6	there are I thought I'd get right out of the gates with a freebie, you know, just a very easy response.
2:07.0	I have, so let's talk about it. I mean, obviously terrible, obviously, what can you say? I mean, terrible obviously what what can you say I mean I feel so awful I would
2:16.1	be curious if there's any of my listeners who live in Paris but please let me know
2:20.3	maybe maybe we can get you on to talk about it just how it's affected you and
2:27.8	or what the climate is like and etc that would be really fascinating fascinating I know I have French listeners so yeah
2:35.3	just horrendous stuff I mean I I the scariest thing about this attack is that I don't know why this doesn't happen every day.
2:45.0	It does not seem that hard to do.
2:48.0	That's the scariest thing to me.
2:50.0	It seems easy to do.
2:51.0	And maybe, and I mean, that's the's the issue I mean this is the constant
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