How to Reduce American Gun Violence with Brady's President Kris Brown
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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As President of Brady, Kris Brown combines a lifelong background in policy, law, and grassroots activism with considerable strategic management expertise to help forge the direction of the organization’s programs and ensure the successful impact of its national and field assets. A veteran of gun violence prevention work, Ms. Brown started her career on Capitol Hill working for Rep. Jim Moran, advocating for the bill that would eventually become the groundbreaking Brady Bill requiring background checks on federally licensed gun sales. Ms. Brown has also served as the Chief Legal Officer to a publicly traded company based in Switzerland and as a lawyer practicing at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She lives in Arlington, VA, with her two teenage daughters.
At Brady, she has helped shape the conversation on gun violence as a national health care crisis, launched the organization’s groundbreaking safe storage campaign to End Family Fire, and formed Brady’s Team Enough youth initiative after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, FL.
A noted speaker and media commentator, Ms. Brown was featured in the November 2018 TIME magazine cover article, “Guns in America,” in which she noted that Brady is working to move the discussion of gun violence beyond the polarizing politics in American life. “There’s a huge amount of common ground on this issue in this country and I hope we’re finally at a tipping point where we can move forward with legislation and [programs] that actually protect people, and are entirely consistent with the Second Amendment.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of Can You Talk real quick? |
| 0:04.8 | My short, efficiently bruised conversation with somebody who knows stuff about things |
| 0:09.1 | that are happening and who will let me record a quick chat to help us all better understand |
| 0:13.2 | an issue in the news or lives as well as connect with each other around something that might |
| 0:16.7 | be unfolding in real time today, it's gun violence. |
| 0:20.6 | My guest is the great Chris Brady of BradyUnited.org, which works every day to strike at the root |
| 0:28.1 | causes of gun violence in America. |
| 0:31.3 | I always love my conversations with Chris, I've got to know her really well, and she's |
| 0:34.9 | a passionate, brilliant person who has been leading this organization for several years now, |
| 0:40.6 | and today's conversation though was different, it was certainly more personal, I got vulnerable |
| 0:45.2 | with my own challenges in life and talked a little bit about why I think it's not great |
| 0:51.3 | for people who are struggling to have guns sitting on the table next to them in a bottle |
| 0:55.4 | of whiskey. |
| 0:56.4 | And of course we talked about all of the other really important issues that they are working |
| 1:00.8 | on, including the end family fire program, which is a really important initiative that |
| 1:06.9 | they've got, as well as how they're using the entertainment industry to create more awareness |
| 1:10.8 | and change social norms about guns, gun violence, and so much more. |
| 1:15.0 | This is a really good one, I'm very happy about this conversation with Chris Brady, she's |
| 1:19.2 | real smart, she makes amazing points, I do a pretty good job asking the right questions, |
| 1:23.7 | I think you're going to love it. |
| 1:24.8 | Check out BradyUnited.org, follow Chris on Twitter, and for more, check the show notes. |
| 1:30.3 | But it is, can you talk real quick, so I want to get to my guest in under, under two minutes |
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