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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glaciace. I joined by Ezra Klein and Sarah Clip.

We wanted to start by talking about what's in the news. This is horrific mass shooting and

Las Vegas that's left over 50 dead, 500 injured. Of course, has reignited the debate around guns

and gun legislation in the United States, but not reignited it in a way that

anyone thinks anything would actually happen. It's just kind of a lot of talk.

We wanted to try to find a weedsier angle.

You know, get a little more interesting.

I want to talk about somewhere where they actually had a horrific mass shooting,

did something about the horrific mass shooting and it actually worked.

The American conversation in the aftermath of these events is predictable and it's ineffective

and it's also a bit of kabuki theater. What you tend to have is Democrats saying, hey, listen,

this keeps happening. We should do something about it. And then as a way of showing that Republicans

are completely and utterly unreasonable on this issue, which is true. They propose policies that

would not actually do all that much about the underlying problem, but Republicans still say no

to even those policies. So you have this thing where nothing passes, but also there isn't really

an effort to build support for the kinds of quite aggressive solutions that you would need.

I think to really make a dent in this problem. It's worth saying is as a beginning point here.

America has so much gun violence and it's very important to say that gun violence includes both

homicides and suicides as unbelievable and awful and unique as America's gun homicide problem is.

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