Does owning a gun change your behavior?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Back in the 1990s, Congress effectively banned the scientific study of gun violence. Still, a handful of researchers plugged on and produced a small body of work about the effect of the presence of guns on the human psyche. Chuck and Josh look at the evid

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.5	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:49.4	Yeah, you want to give it like just a general COA out of the gate?
0:57.3	Yes, this is a hot button issue.
0:59.6	Guns right now in this country in the United States.
1:02.2	It's a very tough topic and we are here to talk about to guns change your behavior and
1:10.8	studies that they've done on that.
1:12.7	We are not advocating for guns or advocating for gun control.
1:16.8	We are just presenting evidence that some people have presented.
1:20.8	Yeah, how's that?
1:22.6	Well we should say also that I think especially people who are pro-gun, your sensitivity
1:32.8	might be a little high right now.
1:36.1	Yeah, but I'm saying this particular podcast may strike you as biased even though it's
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