The Other Gun Deaths
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The numbers are staggering: in 2020, the most recent year with available data, 45,000 people in America were killed by guns. This episode, a few of the people touched by that violence share their stories.
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| 0:00.0 | A heads up that this story is about gun violence in all its forms, including the suicide. |
| 0:06.6 | It may not be appropriate for everyone, so please do take care. |
| 0:11.2 | It starts with the shooting a week ago. |
| 0:13.5 | Not the one you've heard about, the mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. |
| 0:17.0 | This one was a few hours away in Peoria. |
| 0:20.0 | Quentin Scott was shot and killed around 3.30 a.m. on July 4th. |
| 0:24.6 | He was 19 years old. |
| 0:25.6 | I don't really know how to feel except for I feel lost. |
| 0:30.0 | Marcella Somerville runs a community organization called Friendship House in Peoria. |
| 0:34.9 | Quentin Scott was in a career development program there, working toward becoming a carpenter. |
| 0:40.6 | Somerville called him Q and said he was always around. |
| 0:44.0 | I mean it's hard to walk the halls in the building, not yell out Q and come here do this. |
| 0:51.1 | The staff at Friendship House helped Scott work his way through a self-paced high school |
| 0:55.2 | diploma program. |
| 0:57.0 | He just graduated in April. |
| 0:58.0 | We have him like this award. |
| 1:00.0 | It's crazy. |
| 1:01.0 | He's but didn't even take it home. |
| 1:04.6 | But I have it here in my office. |
| 1:06.4 | It says dream, believe, achieve. |
| 1:08.7 | And then he was supposed to put his diploma in there. |
| 1:13.2 | For every mass shooting, there are scores of deaths like Quentin Scott's. |
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