Ep. 746 - The United States has now had 40 mass shootings in the first 25 days of 2023.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
That's how violent this place is. I know it's our home. But 40 mass shootings in 25 days? How is this sustainable? And what do we do?
Because we are the only nation in the world that has more guns than people. And it's not even close. And as long as we have a staggering 400 million guns (and growing) in circulation, the mass shootings, and all of the other gun violence appears like it will be here to stay.
Let me unpack and explain it.
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| 0:23.4 | Purchase from Samsung.com by the 28th of March 2023. Purchase phone will be blocked if you don't |
| 0:28.0 | send us your trade-in device. Teas and seas apply. The United States has now had 40, |
| 0:34.4 | 40 mass shootings in the first 25 days of the year. We have more mass shootings than we have days. |
| 0:44.0 | Right now, that is the most mass shootings to start a year in American history. |
| 0:51.0 | I feel dumb even saying that that's a thing, but in this country, it damn sure is a thing. |
| 1:00.0 | We've had 40, not counting what might have happened already today that we don't yet know about. |
| 1:06.4 | 40 mass shootings in 25 days. It's brutal. The carnage is devastating. Families are being ripped apart |
| 1:16.4 | and the struggle to do anything at all about it, anything substantive to actually stop it and change it. |
| 1:26.8 | It's maddening. We've got a lot to talk about. Glad you're here. This is Sean King and you're listening to... |
| 1:48.0 | I said this yesterday while we talked about the brutal police beating death of Tyree Nichols |
| 2:01.5 | in Memphis, Tennessee. Those five officers have been fired. We hope and believe that they'll be charged soon. |
| 2:08.6 | America is exhausting. Good God. It's so exhausting. That's an understatement because we say exhausting like... |
| 2:22.5 | A place can be exhausting because of how hard you have to work. Of course, that's true. |
| 2:28.0 | But for a place to be so exhausting because the violence is so deep, so broad, so frequent, so |
| 2:39.2 | immovable, so personal, that every single day, we not only have thousands of people, |
| 2:50.1 | tens of thousands of people shot and killed in this country every year, but we now are having |
| 2:57.2 | more than one mass shooting a day. California had three brutal, horrible mass shootings in a three-day |
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