Inside America's latest efforts to curb gun violence
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This year there have been significant legislative efforts to curb gun violence in the U.S. ... including passage of the first federal gun reform bill in three decades. Will it work? Josh Horwitz and Matthew Platkin join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:00.0 | This is on point. I'm Kimberly Atkins' store in for Magna Chakrabardi this week. |
| 0:04.9 | This past June was by any measure a momentous month here in the US. |
| 0:09.6 | On the 23rd, the US Supreme Court made the most significant |
| 0:13.5 | second amendment ruling in more than a decade. |
| 0:16.0 | In a six to three decision, the court struck down New York's law, which places restrictions on concealed handguns. |
| 0:22.4 | That law was enacted more than a century ago. |
| 0:25.4 | The majority of the court ruling the Constitution protects the person's right to carry a gun. |
| 0:29.7 | Outside the home. Seeing in St. Jessica Schneider is live in Washington. |
| 0:37.4 | The ruling didn't just affect New York. |
| 0:39.6 | It impacted five other states, including California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, with similar permitting laws. |
| 0:47.0 | It was a big blow to gun violence prevention advocates. |
| 0:50.4 | And just a day later, another historic ruling. |
| 0:54.4 | This is the first time the Supreme Court has ever granted a constitutional right, |
| 0:59.6 | which did so when Rose decided in 1973, and then took it away in a roughly half the country abortion is as of now or soon will be illegal. |
| 1:11.2 | The court overturned Rose versus weight. |
| 1:13.8 | The 1973 decision guaranteeing a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. |
| 1:19.6 | So much was going on in those few days that something really big got buried in all of this. |
| 1:25.2 | It happened just the very next day on June 25th. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm calling mine to Sandy Hook to Charleston or Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, |
| 1:33.8 | Atlanta, Buffalo, Yvonne. |
| 1:35.8 | The message to us was do something. |
| 1:38.0 | How many times have you heard that? |
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