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Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

Sen. Chris Murphy | America's Urgent Gun Crisis and the Rewriting of the Second Amendment: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

NBC

Political Comedy, Politics, After Shows, News, Comedy, Books, Authors, News Commentary, A Closer Look, Seth Myers, Tv & Film, Seth Meyers

4.33.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Seth takes a closer look at the powerful forces and leaders behind the decades-long fraud that convinced people it's their constitutional right to own arsenals of military-grade weaponry.

Sen. Chris Murphy talks about the heartbreaking school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, challenging his colleagues to take action during his speech before the Senate and discussing the progress that still needs to be made for gun control.

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0:00.0

As you know, there was another horrifying school shooting yesterday in the town of Uvalde,

0:07.8

Texas.

0:08.8

21 people were murdered in cold blood for no apparent reason.

0:12.1

Of course, for no reason, how could there be a reason?

0:16.9

You know, when I got the show eight years ago, school shooting had already been a part of

0:20.7

the national landscape for a long time, and I knew I went into a knowing there would be

0:26.4

occasions where I would have to start the show with remarks of some kind, remarks like

0:31.8

this.

0:32.8

And I can remember thinking, man, it's going to be difficult to start a show talking

0:37.4

about a mass shooting and then pivoting to doing jokes and sketches.

0:42.7

That will be so hard.

0:46.3

But in the eight years since I got the show, something changed, which is I had kids.

0:52.3

And today I took them to school and sewed in millions of American parents and that's

0:58.0

harder.

0:59.0

That's harder.

1:00.3

I didn't think about that, but of course, that's harder.

1:03.2

It doesn't have, it doesn't have to be.

1:06.3

What happened in Texas and it's Sandy Hook and it's so many other places it's preventable,

1:10.6

but no one who could help us is helping us.

1:14.5

Some people are trying.

1:15.5

They're trying very hard.

1:18.1

And if you want to help them try, here is their information.

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