Does Gun Control Have a Future?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2008
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The US Supreme Court says governments cannot ban guns, that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to self defense. So what happens to gun control? Also, the fragile truce between Hamas and Israel, and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe at the African Union Summit.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | Does gun control have a future? |
| 0:13.7 | Hello again, I'm on Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:17.7 | A daily look at the issues. Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.2 | The U.S. Supreme Court |
| 0:21.1 | has settled an issue as old as the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment says individuals must be |
| 0:25.7 | allowed to own guns. But a lot of other questions remain. If they can't ban guns, what kinds of |
| 0:31.4 | regulations can governments impose? On to the point, we'll ask about background checks, registration, |
| 0:36.8 | assault weapons, trigger locks, and carrying concealed weapons. |
| 0:40.5 | What about gun crime and public safety? |
| 0:42.8 | How long will it take to sort it all out? |
| 0:45.2 | City by city, and state by state. |
| 0:48.0 | On reporter's notebook later on, will the African Union do anything about Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe? |
| 0:54.1 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.7 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:05.4 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John |
| 1:10.1 | D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. |
| 1:12.4 | Hello again, Mormon. I'll knee back with To the Point. The U.S. Supreme Court says governments |
| 1:15.8 | cannot ban guns. The Second Amendment protects an individual's right to self-defense. So what happens |
| 1:21.5 | to gun control? On To the Point, will gun sales go up? Will gun owners be safer at home? What regulations might be |
| 1:28.7 | permitted in the interests of public safety? On reporter's notebook later on Zimbabwe's Robert |
| 1:33.7 | Mugabe at the African Union summit. First, this news update, Israel has closed its border |
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