Reporting on Guns from Texas
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🗓️ 31 May 2022
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Summary
Following the shooting in Uvalde, we talked to a Texas reporter who has covered mass shootings for five years. The Lone Star state remains a GOP strong-hold, which means Texas Republicans tailor their messaging and legislation to avoid being primaried from the right. This impacts how gun laws are written and how mental health is instead elevated, leaving both underserved.
Guest: Lauren McGaughy, investigative reporter, the Dallas Morning News.
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| 1:04.8 | Talking to Lauren McGahi, made me realize exactly where we are with the epidemic of gun violence |
| 1:11.4 | in this country. Lauren reports for the Dallas Morning News. I caught up with her as she was |
| 1:16.6 | preparing to cover the National Rifle Association Convention in Houston last week. |
| 1:22.1 | Before that, she'd been covering Yuval Day school shooting. And when I asked her exactly how |
| 1:27.0 | many math shootings should report it on in the last few years, she had a list. There was the one |
| 1:33.2 | at a Southern Lynn Springs Church in 2017. There was the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting. |
| 1:39.7 | And then I was in a shooting, a math shooting in New Orleans in 2013. |
| 1:44.8 | And I ended up writing something more personal off of that. But I wasn't I was there. So it |
| 1:56.2 | wasn't really like I was meant to be covering it. I feel like just the fact that you have covered |
| 2:03.0 | two or three bin and one. It just seems to I don't know. To me, it just points out how how common |
| 2:11.7 | these have become. Yeah, I think sometimes here in Texas, it feels |
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