The Gun Problem No One Wants to Talk About

Today, Explained

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It was a week of whiplash in the national fight over gun control. First, major retailers like Dick’s and Walmart raised the gun-buying age from 18 to 21, and companies like Delta dropped their NRA discounts. But then pro-gun rights legislatures pushed back. Vox’s German Lopez walks Sean Rameswaram through the many debates. He says the reason the country is stalled is because we haven’t begun to have the right conversation about guns. Sean and Vox’s Dylan Matthews talk about the elephant in the room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.8	This is today explained, I'm Sean Ramosfer.
0:29.8	This week felt like Whiplash.
0:32.4	The country continued its fight over gun control after Parkland, Florida.
0:36.8	And every time someone or some place took a step towards more gun control, it felt like
0:42.6	some other person or some other place took two steps back.
0:47.0	Hermann Lopez writes about guns in America for Vox.
0:50.3	And he's going to walk us through some of the week's major events and help us make sense
0:54.5	of it all.
0:56.3	Last weekend.
0:57.9	GOP lawmakers, including the Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, are threatening to derail
1:01.9	a $40 million tax break for Delta unless the airline reinstates its discount program for
1:07.6	NRA members.
1:09.0	So yeah, Delta, United and several other companies canceled these discounts that they had with
1:14.9	NRA members.
1:16.4	These companies have generally said that they just want to remain neutral in this debate.
1:20.3	So since the NRA is obviously a political organization, they've kind of stepped back.
1:24.7	Monday.
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