Deadly Weekend In America

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With 13 mass shootings in 9 states over the weekend and at least 246 mass shootings recorded by The Gun Violence Archive in 2022, the country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total. Michael Nutter is the former Mayor of Philadelphia. He joins CNN Tonight to discuss the gun culture in the city, and escalating gun violence against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic.Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner tells Laura about his prosecution and conviction record on gun-related crimes and how he thinks politicians should stand up to the NRA. Plus, a teacher who survived the Uvalde school shooting describes the horror he saw and a former Wisconsin judge is killed in a “Targeted attack” at home.Hosted by Laura Coates 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	I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.
0:03.6	Listen, the numbers they are not good.
0:07.1	Day after day, you're hearing about the reality of gun violence in this country.
0:12.2	Now, it's at least 17 dead.
0:15.0	More than 80 shot and 13 mass shootings all across the nation just since Friday.
0:21.1	You heard me right.
0:22.3	Since Friday, as in today is Monday.
0:25.8	Unbelievably, we're hearing the country is one is on pace for its worst year ever of
0:31.9	mass shooting.
0:32.9	This is according to the gun violence archive.
0:34.7	That means at least 246 since we're getting a year.
0:39.1	The three year uptick began in 2019 where there were 417 mass shootings recorded.
0:45.1	It's bad enough.
0:46.5	In 2020, it jumped to 610.
0:49.9	And then just last year, we were at 692.
0:55.1	But with all those numbers, there's really only one number to keep focusing on.
1:00.8	I mean, that's of America wants to do something about these other horrible numbers.
1:06.4	And that is the number 10, my friends.
1:10.0	What persuade 10 Republicans in the 50-50 split Senate to sign on legislation that could
1:15.3	reduce the number of gun-related deaths in this country?
1:18.6	Now, notice, I didn't say eliminate all gun violence.
1:22.3	The lawyer and me have to manage your expectations and not try to lead you astray about what might
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