Kids' Leading Cause Of Death? Guns.
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
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Nearly one-in-five Americans have seen someone injured in a shooting. Four percent of adults have been injured themselves. A recent KFF poll documents the sizable reach of a uniquely American gun violence epidemic.
This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, and science correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the MBR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:09.6 | And Health Policy Correspondence, Selena Simmons-Duffin joins us today. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, Selena. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi. |
| 0:14.4 | You've heard this before. |
| 0:15.4 | Gun Violence is one of the most intractable issues in American politics, but recent data |
| 0:20.2 | shows that it's even more widespread than you might think. |
| 0:23.7 | A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, now known as KFF, showed that |
| 0:28.4 | a majority of US adults have been personally impacted by a gun-related incident. |
| 0:34.3 | Selena, you reported on the survey, what are the major findings? |
| 0:37.9 | Well, they broke it down by different kinds of impact, personal impact, that people have |
| 0:42.6 | experienced with guns. |
| 0:43.6 | So, one in five have had a family member killed by a gun. |
| 0:48.3 | One in five have been threatened by a gun themselves, and nearly one in five have |
| 0:52.8 | personally witnessed a shooting. |
| 0:55.3 | So those were really direct impacts. |
| 0:58.0 | And I talked to Ashley Kerzinger from KFF, who worked on this survey, they called more |
| 1:02.5 | than 1,200 people. |
| 1:03.9 | You put it all together, and it's like more than half. |
| 1:07.2 | So a majority of adults in this country have either personally experienced or had a family |
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