Can Threat Assessment Stop Mass Shootings?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After mass shootings, one refrain becomes, “We don’t need gun control to treat a mental health problem.” But in a case like the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, there were mental health interventions and red flags raised by the military and the shooter’s family. Why didn’t it work—and what’s a better way forward?
Guest: Mark Follman, national affairs editor at Mother Jones and the author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America.
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| 0:46.8 | How many mass shootings have you covered in your career? |
| 0:49.6 | Far too many. |
| 0:51.6 | And you know when I started out more than a decade ago. |
| 0:54.8 | If you're like me and you heard the details of last week's mass shootings |
| 0:58.4 | in Lewiston, Maine and thought, not again. |
| 1:02.7 | That goes double for Mark Fulman over at Mother Jones. |
| 1:07.4 | Mark has been covering mass shootings for a decade now. |
| 1:10.8 | He's built a whole database to chronicle how alarmingly common they've become. |
| 1:15.5 | He started with that movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado back in 2012. |
| 1:20.9 | It was only six months later that we saw the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. |
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