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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Between the Scenes - The Larger Fallout of a Mass Shooting

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Trevor talks about how a false alarm caused by a backfiring motorcycle in Times Square demonstrates the state of terror that mass shootings have created in the U.S. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

You know, it's interesting how some people miss, I think, the larger fallout of a mass

0:12.2

shooting.

0:13.6

In some of the conversations I've seen online, people seem to be focused more on the numbers

0:17.6

of people who have died as opposed to the total number of people who have been affected.

0:21.3

You know, a lot of people are like, why are we making this such a big issue?

0:24.4

Statistically, it's such a small version or such a small number of how many people actually

0:27.7

lose their lives in America.

0:29.2

Why aren't we paying more attention to it?

0:31.1

But it's like, yes, but the ramifications, the fallout, is actually a lot broader than

0:35.0

you think.

0:36.3

And I don't think I truly realize how intense it was until I watched a video this morning

0:42.2

about something that happened in Times Square last night where people, there was a motorbike

0:47.7

that backfired.

0:48.7

Apparently, I could just backfired over and over again.

0:51.3

And people in Times Square panicked and like ran.

0:56.0

And as you see the footage on like, because there's the earth cam that shows Times Square

1:00.1

and people ran for their lives.

1:02.5

It wasn't even like a shuffle.

1:03.6

It was, you could see people were like, it's happening.

1:07.2

I'm running.

1:08.2

And Times Square is not just Americans, by the way.

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