It’s the Guns (with Shannon Watts)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a bipartisan group of senators agreed on a narrow proposal for gun safety legislation, the first sign of congressional movement on the issue in decades. But is it enough? Shannon Watts, the gun safety activist and founder of the grassroots organization Moms Demand Action, joins Preet to talk about how to stop gun violence in America, and her theory of incremental change. Plus, Preet explains the purpose of plea bargains. In the bonus for CAFE Insiders, Watts discusses her goal to get more women into politics. To listen, try the membership for just $1 for one month: cafe.com/insider. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/its-the-guns-with-shannon-watts/ Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:05.0	I'm Pete Barara.
0:07.0	If more guns and fewer gun laws made us safer, we'd be the safest country in the world.
0:14.0	We have over 400 million guns in the hands of civilians.
0:17.0	Instead, we have a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation.
0:22.0	It's a guns.
0:23.0	That's Shannon Watts.
0:28.0	She's the founder of Mom's Demand Action, a massive nationwide grassroots organization dedicated to gun violence prevention.
0:37.0	Watts started Mom's Demand Action as a Facebook group after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
0:43.0	The group quickly became one of the loudest voices for common sense gun safety legislation in the country.
0:48.0	It now has over 8 million supporters and a chapter in every single state.
0:53.0	Recently, a bipartisan group of 20 senators announced the framework of a deal on gun legislation in the aftermath of the horrible shooting in Evalida, Texas.
1:03.0	The proposal introduces a few key measures that promote gun safety, but is it good enough?
1:09.0	And can it pass a deadlocked Senate?
1:11.0	Watts joins me to discuss the proposal, the importance of local organizing, and her thoughts on incremental change.
1:18.0	That's coming up.
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