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The Language Around Guns in America

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to AC Valdez, editor of GunsAndAmerica.org and former Trumpcast producer, about the way we talk about guns in the US, how mass shootings are defined in media, strategies for de-escalating gun violence in gang situations vs. terrorism, united toxic male weirdness, and more. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think we can have some really meaningful background checks.

0:04.4

We don't want people that are mentally ill, people that are sick.

0:09.4

We don't want them having guns. Who got it?

0:14.4

No wonder law-biting Americans all over this country

0:19.2

revered their second amendment freedom to protect themselves more than ever.

0:25.2

If the slaughter of children in Newtown Connecticut

0:28.2

it wasn't enough to move the Senate and move the Congress to do something, nothing will.

0:38.2

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:41.4

When the ruling party of a nation-state and its major sponsor, the NRA,

0:46.2

generously supplies terrorists with both ideology and arms,

0:50.9

is it time yet to talk about those terrorists as being state-sponsored?

0:55.8

I don't know. This show I talk to former Trumpcast producer AC Valdes,

1:01.9

the editor of gunsandamerica.org about his work on gun violence,

1:05.8

mass shootings, white nationalist terrorism, and the so-called Boston miracle.

1:10.6

It is a meticulous and fascinating project, gunsandamerica.org.

1:15.4

I'll be back with AC in just a minute, but first, the tweets.

1:19.8

Would Chris Cuomo be given a red flag for his recent red filthy language and a total loss of control?

1:29.0

He shouldn't be allowed to have any weapon, his nuts.

1:32.4

Kurt Schilling, a great picture and patriot is considering a run for Congress in Arizona,

1:39.5

terrific at Fox and Friends.

1:42.6

The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia.

1:49.0

We have similar, though, more advanced technology,

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