Mass shootings: This is America
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
2021 is on track to be America's deadliest year for gun violence in two decades. With record numbers of mass shootings across the country, is the US finally ready to confront the problem?
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- Sarah Baxter, The Sunday Times.
- Patricia and Manuel Oliver, Founders of Change The Ref campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School |
| 0:07.7 | Cabin at Warehouse in Texas |
| 0:09.6 | Tandy Hook Elementary School |
| 0:11.0 | At Rosary Store in Boulder, Colorado |
| 0:14.6 | Spot shooting at Landa |
| 0:16.2 | Pulse a game nightclub downtown Orlando |
| 0:18.4 | Movie theater outside Denver, Colorado |
| 0:22.2 | Washington, Arizona, Atlanta, Michigan |
| 0:26.6 | America is battling another epidemic |
| 0:29.7 | and it's one without a vaccine. |
| 0:32.4 | We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence. |
| 0:36.6 | 2021 is now on track to be America's |
| 0:39.6 | deadliest year for gun deaths in two decades. |
| 0:43.8 | More people are dying of gun violence than of COVID. |
| 0:48.1 | It's so bad. |
| 0:49.9 | For many Americans, shootings have become a regular part |
| 0:54.0 | of everyday life. |
| 0:55.4 | A lovely armed guard called Officer Wilson, |
| 0:58.4 | who used to greet my children every morning. |
| 1:01.0 | He was like the lollipop man. |
| 1:03.2 | He went berserk and killed a first grade teacher at school. |
| 1:08.5 | You're listening to stories of our times |
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