Biden: “How Much Carnage Are We Willing To Accept?”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Biden addressed the nation calling on Congress to act after the recent round of mass shootings in the country. “How much carnage are we willing to accept?” Biden asked. He called for raising the age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to 21 if lawmakers can’t agree on an outright ban of those firearms. Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. She’s also the CEO of Sandy Hook Promise which aims to protect children from gun violence. She tells Anderson Cooper she believes both sides can come together and make a difference. Plus, the gunman who killed his surgeon, Dr. Preston Phillips, three others and himself in Tulsa, Oklahoma was found with a letter blaming his doctor for ongoing pain after his surgery. Dr. Ryan Parker is the Associate Medical Director at St. Francis Health System and just had lunch with Dr. Phillips on Tuesday. She joins AC360 to remember her friend and says he was a “consummate physician.” To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	As you look at the White House, where the President just addressed the nation, consider
0:04.6	this.
0:05.6	We are 153 days into the calendar year, and there have already been 234 mass shootings.
0:11.0	Here they are in a map.
0:12.3	234.
0:14.0	More mass shootings than days of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines
0:18.1	mass shootings as shootings involving at least four people who are shot.
0:22.7	That's a pace of 1.5 mass shootings a day.
0:25.7	Three every two days, upwards of 10 every week.
0:28.4	And just minutes ago, after two weeks that have seen three, especially deadly acts of gun
0:32.6	violence and buffalo, you have all the Texas until so-Clajoma.
0:36.4	And with Congress debating what, if anything, to do, President Biden spoke to the country.
0:41.0	Call for a restoration of the ban on assault weapons or failing that, raising the age for
0:45.5	purchasing such weapons.
0:47.6	Also banning high-capacity magazines, instituting tighter red flag laws and the repeal of a liability
0:53.3	shield, protecting gun manufacturers from prosecution, and ripping sued following mass shootings.
1:00.7	It must end.
1:01.7	It must end.
1:03.9	Let there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leads behind.
1:09.9	Imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in your valley, who spared blood
1:14.8	off her murder friend's body on her own face.
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