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To the Point

Is it time to make gun control great again?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Even the Wild West had gun control. Most Americans want it now--especially kids afraid of school shootings. But politicians offer “thoughts and prayers,” instead of enacting protections. What about a plan for a safer future with fewer guns?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Kilda, good afternoon. Welcome back to this News Hump, breaking news special.

0:03.5

We are coming on the air at this hour with news of a school shooting in South Florida.

0:08.2

This took place in Parkland, Florida.

0:10.4

Let's get an update now and find out more about the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand.

0:14.3

A massacre at a gay nightclub here in Orlando.

0:16.8

The worst grade school shooting in U.S. history, at least 27 dead. Please, fire a medical.

0:22.6

I'm sorry?

0:24.6

The NRA has got to.

0:27.6

In the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign.

0:33.6

I can pledge to you that I will support any law that will prevent a killer like this getting

0:38.6

a gun.

0:39.6

No, but I'm talking about money.

0:40.8

No, because...

0:41.8

...Masker is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands

0:46.0

on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater

0:53.0

or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind

0:56.3

of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well. It's the 20th anniversary

1:05.5

of the mass killing by gunfire at Columbine High School and everybody knows there are more privately owned firearms

1:13.6

in the United States than there are people. And the death toll is mounting, mostly because

1:19.6

of murder and suicide. But it's that occasional mass shooting always widely reported that

1:25.6

brings politicians out to deplore gun violence.

1:30.1

Why don't they take any action?

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