Cars Versus Guns
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Which is more destructive? Cars or guns? A recent study showed that guns are now the second-leading killer of children in the U.S. But what does it say about our culture that the press seemed to gloss over the first? (Spoiler alert: It's cars.) In this episode, we discuss the similarities between these two threats to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Plus, what can safe streets advocates learn from gun control advocates, and vice versa?
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SHOW NOTES:
Guns now the second leading killer of kids, after cars. (NBC News)
"Monster" vehicles more likely to cause fatal collisions. (National Post)
Death on Foot: America's love for SUVs is killing pedestrians and federal safety regulators have known for years. (Detroit Free Press)
Charlton Heston's "My cold dead hands" NRA speech. (YouTube)
Dodge needed a spokesman for their muscle cars. They chose the actor Michael C. Hall when he was playing a serial killer on the popular Showtime series "Dexter." (YouTube)
"Buy a little freedom, buy a Yugo!" (YouTube)
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| 0:00.0 | When freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, it's always the patriots who first hear the call. We all have a choice for you can either be sheep or shepherds. |
| 0:20.0 | And then there's a stick that wolf. |
| 0:24.0 | Something that gives the most common man the most uncommon of freedom. |
| 0:32.0 | By your little freedom by a you go. |
| 0:35.0 | When ordinary hands can possess such an extraordinary instrument |
| 0:41.0 | that symbolizes the full measure of human dignity and liberty. |
| 0:47.0 | Here's a couple of things America got right. |
| 0:52.0 | Cars and freedom. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, uh, that's beautiful. |
| 1:01.0 | No, that, but that I heard, yeah, I heard Vin Diesel in there. That was |
| 1:05.0 | that, yeah, I heard Vin Diesel in there and Dexter. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, Dexter. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, that yeah that those were car ads mixed with. |
| 1:10.0 | Wait, that wasn't just an NRA ad? |
| 1:12.0 | No, those were guys talking about freedom actually. with... Wait, that wasn't just an NRA ad? No. |
| 1:13.0 | Those were guys talking about freedom. |
| 1:14.0 | Actually, I don't think Charlton Heston mentioned guns. |
| 1:18.0 | He's talking about the NRA, but didn't mention guns. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't think Vin Diesel mentioned cars either. |
| 1:22.0 | They mentioned freedom. They They mentioned freedom because that's what freedom is made of. |
| 1:27.0 | Guns and cars, right? Actually, did you hear that what's really freedom is a is a Ugo? |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah, by a little freedom. |
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