How Other Countries Have Responded To Mass Shootings
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Since then, there have been at least 33 more mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Mass shootings are far more common in the U.S. than in any other developed nation, but that's not to say they don't happen abroad... just not as often.
We discuss how other developed nations faced mass shootings and what the U.S. could learn from their responses.
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| 0:20.4 | NPR podcasts. Thanks. Hi, this is Karen in Berlin, 10 a month and I'm an Australian citizen who was |
| 0:36.2 | in Australia when the port Arthur massacre occurred in Tasmania in 1996. It was so horrific that |
| 0:44.9 | really change had to happen and new gun restrictions were brought in and since that time people |
| 0:52.4 | don't walk around fearing gun violence, it isn't really there. My kids have been to school, |
| 0:59.9 | both here in America and in Australia and there were really different feelings for them. They |
| 1:05.8 | do not necessarily feel safe in schools. I feel like that's something that we should perhaps focus on. |
| 1:11.9 | There's been a lot of talk about freedom and really I think the ability to move through your |
| 1:19.9 | day for people of all ages without the fear of being killed at any moment is freedom. |
| 1:28.0 | While the US is alone in its sheer number of mass shootings, other countries have also seen |
| 1:33.7 | mass shootings devastate communities. That 1996 shooting spree and it has many in tourist cafe |
| 1:40.0 | that Karen described left 35 people dead. It also prompted a major overhaul of Australia's gun laws. |
| 1:47.2 | After the break we'll take a closer look at how other developed nations, including Australia, |
| 1:51.6 | faced mass shootings, will also ask what lessons the US could learn from their responses. |
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