Ep. 596 - America is a Deeply Violent Place
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I'll unpack and explain what we know so far and put it into context with what it means to live in one of the most violent countries in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Canada is a country home to incredibly welcoming and friendly people. |
| 0:05.0 | But did you know that when you expand your business to Canada, |
| 0:08.0 | you're expanding to the country with the most educated workforce in the world. |
| 0:13.0 | That means highly skilled talent for your business. |
| 0:16.0 | So no matter where you're located, we make it easy for you to expand to the best country in the G20 for doing business. |
| 0:23.0 | Invest in Canada. |
| 0:25.0 | Your second home, learn more at investcanada.ca slash talent. |
| 0:32.0 | Early this morning, there was a horrible shooting where at least five people were shot. |
| 0:37.0 | So far, we don't know if there were any casualties, but five people were shot. |
| 0:41.0 | A dozen people injured on a subway train in Brooklyn. |
| 0:45.0 | I want to tell you what we know, tell you why in a country with now nearly 400 million guns. |
| 0:54.0 | It's amazing something like this doesn't happen more often. |
| 0:57.0 | When an unpacking explains what we know and talk about the bigger issue of gun violence in America. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Sean King. You are listening to? |
| 1:06.0 | The Break Down. |
| 1:08.0 | The Break Down. |
| 1:25.0 | For a very limited time, maybe you recall, there was this short window where gun violence was down |
| 1:36.0 | while everybody was locked in their homes. |
| 1:39.0 | Everybody was afraid to go outside because of the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:44.0 | And there was this moment and my dear friend and brother Lee Merritt and I, we laughed at this, but we laughed to keep from crying really. |
| 1:53.0 | Where we both thought like, what if police brutality goes down? |
| 1:57.0 | It didn't. |
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