The Gun Wars
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This week, following the shooting at Pulse in Orlando, the largest massacre by a gunman in U.S. history, Democratic members of Congress staged a twenty-four-hour sit-in to try to force a vote on gun control. Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the NRA, gun manufacturers, and the legislature have made such measures politically impossible. Is the battle between Second Amendment purists and advocates of restrictions entering a new phase?
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| 1:11.2 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.0 | It's Thursday, June 23rd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.0 | Yesterday, Democratic members of Congress staged a sit-in to try to force a vote on gun control. |
| 1:28.3 | House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to bring the House to order. |
| 1:32.3 | The chair wishes to make an announcement regarding the decorum in the House chamber. |
| 1:38.3 | The chair appreciates that members will differ on matters of policy and will seek to express those differences. |
| 1:46.1 | But the chair would hope that the business of the House could be conducted in a fashion that |
| 1:51.6 | respects positively on the dignity and the decorum of this institution to which we all belong. |
| 2:03.3 | Evan Osnose joins me to discuss the possibly changing politics of guns as we enter the |
| 2:09.1 | general election campaign. Evan, welcome. Hi, Dorothy. Sometimes Congress surprises us. So that was kind of an amazing spectacle yesterday, led by the civil rights leader John Lewis, |
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