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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 672 - The murder of PnB Rock and the exhausting cycle of gun violence in America

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Listen to me. Stop thinking of the Wild Wild West as something that took place in the 1800s. We are living in it RIGHT NOW. And day after day, week after week, month after month, we can reasonably assume that men, women, boys, and girls are going to get slaughtered by guns in America.

Experts say that 316 people PER DAY are shot in America. PER DAY!!! This is not OK.

Many developed nations don't have 316 people shot PER YEAR. Some don't even have that many per DECADE.

And in this country, doubly so in our own communities, gun violence is chewing us up and spitting us out. I don't believe we have any easy answers or solutions, but what I do know is that what we are doing right now simply is not enough.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He sat there doing all this financial mumbling, working out, is everything gonna be okay?

0:04.8

It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around.

0:09.8

Sage empowers finance professionals like Kat to feel more rewarded with helpful business tools

0:15.2

and advice from real experts. Sage, helping business flow.

0:20.4

Yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, beloved Philadelphia rapper PNB Rock

0:27.0

was brutally shot and killed in broad daylight at the world famous

0:31.7

Roscoe's chicken and waffles in Los Angeles. My family and I've been there a dozen times.

0:38.0

Somebody literally came in and shot and killed this man while he was eating at Roscoe's.

0:44.7

And I hadn't heard about it until my son sent me a message.

0:50.3

And this must be the tenth rapper that he loved who's been shot and killed.

0:59.3

My son is 16 years old and this is happening over and over and over again.

1:06.0

To say that it's exhausting is an understatement but the violence has pushed all of us

1:16.8

to a place where we are incredibly frustrated, obviously traumatized.

1:24.0

But we've got to do something about this. I want to unpack and explain what we know.

1:30.3

Not just about this case but about really what is an epidemic of gun violence in America.

1:38.4

It's not just a black problem but it is a black problem.

1:41.6

Let's talk about it. This is Sean King and you're listening to

1:46.0

The Breakdown.

2:05.2

I am hurt and devastated for

2:10.1

P&B Rock himself, for his lady, for his family, his children, for his friends and colleagues,

2:23.0

for the community that he came from in Philadelphia.

2:26.0

Literally a lot of ways left Philadelphia to escape the struggles of gun violence and the stress

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