The aftermath of the Texas school shooting
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Two weeks on from the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers died, America is still reeling. We look at how the day unfolded, and go inside the National Rifle Association's annual convention to answer the question: why is America still so in love with guns?
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Guests:
- Jacqui Goddard, US Correspondent, The Times.
- David Charter, US Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | It's become an all-too-regular ritual. |
| 0:10.7 | Every time there's a mass shooting, families are plunged into mourning. |
| 0:16.6 | America stops, horrified, a furious debate erupts about gun control, and then nothing. |
| 0:27.5 | Nothing really changes. |
| 0:29.7 | The news moves on. |
| 0:32.4 | Well, it's been 16 days since this moment in Yvalde, Texas. |
| 0:39.4 | The headlines might have changed, but the funerals of children are still taking place. |
| 0:46.3 | Breaking news, another mass shooting in the United States this time at an elementary school |
| 0:50.6 | in a small Texas town. |
| 0:52.4 | Sadly now we can confirm to you what has now been the worst and deadliest school shooting |
| 0:59.2 | in ten years. |
| 1:02.2 | This is another dark day for this nation. |
| 1:07.6 | More than two weeks on, we're learning more and more about what went wrong in Yvalde. |
| 1:14.4 | Yesterday, the families of victims testified before Congress. |
| 1:19.2 | I left my daughter at that school and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life. |
| 1:24.8 | Somewhere out there, there is a mom listening to our testimony. |
| 1:30.0 | Not knowing that our reality will one day be hers, unless we act now. |
| 1:37.3 | Could more have been done to help those children? |
| 1:40.9 | Will gun laws in America ever change? |
| 1:44.7 | My oath as a doctor means that I signed up to save lives. |
| 1:48.6 | I do my job. |
| 1:50.3 | In this case, you are the doctors and our country is a patient. |
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