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I'm Adam Johnson.

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do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes when the news

requires it and where we're seeing a lot of tropes that we really want to dissect that

happens of course all the time kind of the basis of our show in general Adam this week

the United States has seen yet another mass shooting at a school this time in Evalida

Texas I am beyond furious at the country that we live in and so this this has been kind

of all consuming lately the media has been covering this consistently we wanted to talk

about how the media covers these but also namely what we are seeing in terms of excuses

for the impossibility of course the political infeasibility of doing anything about the

fact that this happens all the fucking time and that children's lives in this country

are apparently not important enough to actually try and protect with reasonable policy what

we're seeing from the right wing echo chamber in terms of their own solutions.

Yeah so I mean look it is legitimately complicated question I think there are basic bottom floor

things any country can do in any society can do and that every society but ours does.

Right yeah vast majority of them though which is things like basic background checks we've

had an episode on the show before where we argue against carceral solutions specifically

the liberal tendency after school shootings to pass laws on a local and state level that

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