Does Gun Violence Need an Emmett Till Moment?
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
To the people who deal with the reality of bullet wounds, the aftermath of shootings aren’t so abstract. If politicians and the public had to see what military weaponry actually does to the body, would that change the conversation around gun control?
Guest: Dr. Amy Goldberg, interim dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief at the Temple University Health System.
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| 0:38.4 | Welcome everybody to today's hybrid hearing. Last week on Capitol Hill, there was a five hour hearing |
| 0:45.5 | about gun violence. Parents of kids who died in the Uval day school shooting testified, |
| 0:50.0 | so did the president of the National Education Association. But the part of this hearing that I |
| 0:55.6 | couldn't shake was testimony from a woman named Zanetta Everhart. Please testify, Ms. Everhart. |
| 1:03.6 | Thank you, sir woman. Zanetta Everhart was there to talk about her son, Zaire. Zaire was injured |
| 1:12.1 | in the top grocery store shooting in Buffalo. His mother was calm and persistent and extremely vivid. |
| 1:22.5 | To the lawmakers who feel that we do not need stricter gun laws, let me paint a picture for you. |
| 1:28.6 | My son, Zaire has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg. |
| 1:48.0 | Caused by an exploding bullet from an AR-15. As I clean his wounds, I can feel pieces of that |
| 1:54.7 | bullet in his back. Shrap know will be left inside of his body for the rest of his life. |
| 2:00.2 | Now I want you to picture that exact scenario for one of your children. |
| 2:05.7 | This should not be your story or mind. She practically dared these lawmakers to feel her pain. |
| 2:14.7 | If after hearing from me and the other people testifying here today does not move you to act on |
| 2:20.3 | gun laws, I invite you to my home to help me clean Zaire's wounds so that you may see up close |
| 2:27.3 | the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. |
| 2:31.9 | I wondered if this kind of candor could work. So I called up someone intimately familiar |
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