Hey everyone, welcome to the Krebscast. This is the second intro I'm recording this week because

shortly after I recorded the first intro, there was another elementary school mass shooting

in the United States. It was done by another person who somehow had access to guns. He should have

had access to. That's the same access to guns all of us enjoy, but none of us were there

to protect those kids and teachers that died. That should be noted as well. I don't have a

political statement here. I think this is a systemic issue that's going to require a lot to fix

everything from more gun control to access to mental health care to a bunch of stuff. This

is a very large conversation. I don't think spouting off recycled political rhetoric or whatever

is anywhere near the solution here. But I got to be honest, I don't know what the solution is.

Nothing changed after Sandy Hook and the political climate has only gotten worse since.

Yeah, I don't know the solution, but I do know this. If someone were to suggest a solution that

I wasn't comfortable with, I'd at least hear them out. I'd at least listen. It doesn't

really matter who has the idea. I'd at least listen. Listening is not going to cause any harm,

because the last time in elementary school got shot up, people weren't really listening to

each other. I don't know that anyone's done much listening since. We've tried not listening for a

long, long, very long time, and now more kids are dead in another elementary school mass shooting.

There's no point in virtue signaling here trying to show morals of some sort. I don't really

think any of us are proud of our morals right now. We just had Buffalo happen. That was last

week and then the day before Buffalo was Milwaukee, which nobody even remembers because nobody died.

There were not a few people shot there. There's probably been more shootings between

then and now that I don't even know about because they didn't make the news or they didn't make a

big splash in the news. How is that the case? It's just not. We all participate in a society that

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