Ep. 778 - An honest conversation on why it's so hard to stop school shootings in America

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It happened again. Yet another school shooting in America. Over and over and over again. We keep seeing them. They rips schools and communities apart. And as always, nothing substantive gets done about it. Today I want to push the conversation forward some and try to expound on WHY nothing gets done on this issue. It's not as simple as we make it out to be. It's not just the NRA. It's much deeper. Let me unpack and explain it. To listen to today’s FULL EPISODE of The Breakdown go now to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and search for “The Breakdown with Shaun King.” Subscribe there for FREE and listen to the whole podcast. If you are already on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please subscribe, listen, share, leave reviews, and listen daily to the entire episode. The more of it you listen to, the better it is for us. Love and appreciate you all. Shaun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I would dream first home, probably a doer upper, put a runs damp on it.
0:03.4	Sounds like a nightmare, which is why I keep saying we should look at new builds.
0:06.4	But they're all so watertight, asshole free.
0:08.4	Boring, just white boxes.
0:10.2	Well, we can decorate an old liquor painted in there.
0:12.4	Hmm.
0:13.4	Like a nice shade of grey.
0:15.4	We are not having grey walls.
0:16.8	Why not?
0:17.6	Why not?
0:18.6	Whatever stage of the process you're at,
0:20.2	Halifax's online first-time buyer events are full of useful tips and guidance.
0:24.8	Halifax, it's a people thing.
0:26.8	For more information, search Halifax first-time buyer events.
0:30.6	You've probably seen by now that there was yet another school shooting yesterday.
0:36.8	We have hundreds and hundreds of school shootings in this country.
0:41.2	It is consistent.
0:43.6	In fact, one of the only good things about the pandemic and the shutdown
0:48.4	was that temporarily the United States had no school shootings.
0:52.8	And so yesterday we had yet another.
0:55.8	And of course, the shooter again had an AR-15.
0:59.6	It appears multiple AR-15s and handguns and blew the doors down and the doors were locked.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The North Star, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The North Star and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.