The gun violence epidemic in America

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The country is reeling from the shootings of Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis, cheerleaders in Texas and a family in North Carolina, who were all shot for making everyday mistakes. Charles Coleman, Frank Figliuzzi and Ryan Busse join to discuss how gun culture plays into the violence in the U.S., where knocking on the wrong door can be deadly. Ryan Busse, Charles Coleman, Frank Figliuzzi, Robert Gibbs, Charlie Sykes, Katie Benner, and Natalie Fertig join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, one nation over armed, a six-year-old girl shot after her basketball rolled into
0:07.2	her neighbor's yard, the latest in a week of wrong place, wrong time shootings, what is
0:12.6	going on and what can be done to stop this.
0:16.4	Then the presidential campaign losing steam, before it's officially started, Ron DeSantis
0:21.8	already feeling the heat in his own backyard.
0:25.2	And it is one of the few issues the majority of Americans agree on.
0:29.7	What will it take for federal marijuana legislation?
0:33.0	We're breaking it all down on, of course, 420.
0:36.2	As the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night.
0:47.1	Good evening, once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl.
0:49.3	It is a question we ask on this program every time we report on the latest outbreak of
0:54.4	gun violence.
0:55.4	When are we going to do something to solve for this uniquely American problem?
1:00.3	That question has become even more urgent over the last week.
1:03.8	One where we have seen an alarming series of shooting involving people who made simple
1:08.7	mistakes, just doing stuff we do every single day, but they were met with bullets.
1:14.7	The latest in North Carolina, late yesterday, a man allegedly fired at his neighbors after
1:20.0	a basketball rolled into his yard.
1:22.4	Next year, old Kingsley White and her dad were both shot and wounded.
1:26.3	We of course reported on Kansas City teenager Ralph Yarl, who was shot in the head and the
1:31.0	arm last week when he rang the wrong doorbell, picking up his brothers.
1:35.4	He is now recovering at home.
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