Gun Control Activists Are Training To Run For Office

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Following in the footsteps of Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat who won a seat in the House of Representatives after her son was shot and killed, gun control activists across the country are training to run for office at the local, state, and federal level. They face an entrenched political climate that has doomed substantive action on the issue for decades.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, politics correspondent Juana Summers, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Liz Lang from Greenfield, Indiana, and you're listening to the sound of my
0:06.8	20-pound Siamese Cat who is demanding his dinner.
0:11.8	This podcast was recorded at 208 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, December 16th.
0:17.9	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but my cat will have been fed.
0:22.5	Okay, here's the show.
0:25.4	Wow, so that was a hungry cat and not a baby?
0:31.5	I also thought it was a baby there.
0:34.2	It's a very beginning.
0:35.6	20 pounds, that's like baby sized.
0:37.6	That's a big baby.
0:39.0	That's a big baby.
0:40.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Usma Kallor, I cover the White House.
0:45.1	I'm Lana Summers, I cover politics and racial justice.
0:48.1	And I'm Domenico Montanara, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:51.6	To date, this year, more than 42,000 people have died from gun violence in the United States.
0:58.2	That's according to a tally by the nonprofit group Gun Violence Archive.
1:02.6	Last year, the final tally topped 45,000.
1:06.1	That was the highest number in decades.
1:08.4	The gun control group, Every Town for Gun Safety, has launched this new program to train
1:12.5	people who've been personally impacted by the violence to run for political office.
1:17.9	And Lana, I know that you have been doing some reporting on what they are doing.
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