Hi friends and welcome to the Robcast. This is Robcast 59 if you can believe it.

And this episode is called Politics in Guns Part 6.

This is the last part, the final episode of a series on politics and guns where I'm going to wrap it up.

And this episode is called We Can Do This.

Although I never really wrap it up, right? You know there'll be a part 7 down the road somewhere.

But this is Politics in Guns Part 6. We can do this.

And I was only going to do five episodes, but man, at this whole like...

You know when you get into something and the more you get into it, the more passionate you get,

and the more research you do, and the more you just get fired up, and you want everybody to see what you've seen.

Which is kind of how I feel about all my work.

But I want to show you at the end, I want to show you one stat, I'll show you a bunch of stats,

but I want to show you one stat, and that to me changes the game.

And I think you'll agree. And then I want to tell you a story at the end as well.

I actually want to tell you lots of stories.

So we have so much ground to cover in this, but a couple of other details about things I have going on.

And by the way, it's just been one of those weeks. Do you ever have one of those weeks?

Just found out that one of my closest friends has cancer, and he had to go in for surgery right away.

And they... Apparently he's going to be okay, but I'm going to record this episode and then go down to his house

because those sorts of things, they just remind you again, as if we needed reminders, that the whole thing is so fragile.

And then yesterday we had our dog, our beloved Finley, our Australian cattle dog, came to the end of his life.

And so we had to take him into the vet and they put him down because he was at the end.

And it was those of you who have been through this experience, the family dog.

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