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Kind World

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Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in a violent and chaotic home almost pushed Aaron Stark to commit a mass shooting. He says the simple acts of kindness from his friends stopped him from making a horrible mistake.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.
0:05.0	Welcome to Kind World.
0:10.0	I'm Andrea Aswahue.
0:14.3	And I'm Yasminammer.
0:15.5	This past weekend marked 20 years since the deadly mass shooting at Columbine High School.
0:21.0	And ever since that day, we've had countless debates on how to prevent gun
0:25.3	violence. Do we have fewer guns or more guns? What about more background checks? Should we
0:31.3	pay attention to violent video games or toxic masculinity or
0:35.1	should we focus on mental health?
0:37.0	Yeah Andrea unfortunately I don't have the answer to that and as a country
0:41.2	collectively we don't have an answer to that 20 years later.
0:44.7	We're still talking about it and we're still debating about it all the time.
0:48.8	But I spoke to one person who's thought about this issue a lot and it's from a slightly different perspective.
0:55.1	I want you to hear his story.
0:56.7	In February 2018, 2018, Aaron Stark was watching the news with his wife and teenage daughter.
1:07.0	It began as an ordinary school day.
1:09.0	The gunman appears to have pulled the school's fire alarm.
1:12.0	Tonight, as authorities come through the school's fire alarm.
1:12.5	Tonight as authorities come through the school looking for answers,
1:15.6	17 people are dead and many wounded.
1:18.2	A gunman had walked into Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas High School in Florida and killed 17 people.
1:25.4	That's when Aaron found himself having the same conversation with his family that so many of us were
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