This doleful ritual
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A horrific massacre; outrage, sadness; calls for reform; and then: nothing. This is our nation’s “doleful ritual” in the wake of yet another mass shooting. In the wake of the mass murder in Atlanta, another community is now in mourning, and an aggrieved and bewildered nation again begins a conversation about possible legislative answers.
In this episode, Mayor Sam Weaver of Boulder speaks with Michael Isikoff, Dan Klaidman, and Victoria Bassetti about what his city has gone through, and how it will be part of the gun control conversation to come. Then, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D, Michigan) joins to talk about the politicization of gun reform, about whether we need new laws or agencies to tackle domestic terrorism, and about a close election in Iowa.
GUEST:
- Mayor Sam Weaver (@sampweaver), Mayor of Boulder, Colorado
- Rep. Elissa Slotkin (@RepSlotkin), U.S. Congressman (D, MI-8), Chair of House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice
RESOURCES:
- “President Joe Biden Calls Boulder Mayor Sam Weaver To Offer Condolences, Support After Deadly Shooting” by Jennifer McRae, CBS Denver (Mar. 24, 2021)
- “NRA Celebrated Block of Boulder’s Assault Weapons Ban Just Days Ago” by Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone (Mar. 23, 2021)
- “House Homeland Security Holds Hearing on State and Local Responses to Domestic Terrorism” by Tia Sewell, Lawfare (Mar. 24, 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps, |
| 0:07.0 | I'll save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. |
| 0:13.0 | We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. |
| 0:20.0 | A little after 2.30 Monday afternoon, a gunman armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon entered a King Super supermarket |
| 0:29.0 | in Boulder, Colorado, and opened fire. |
| 0:32.0 | In the ensuing chaos, 10 people laid dead, shoppers and shop clerks, a local businessman, |
| 0:38.0 | a yoga store manager there to pick up her prescription medicine, a police officer who tried to save lives. |
| 0:45.0 | It was that most depressing and familiar events in modern America, another mass casualty shooting, |
| 0:51.0 | coming just days after an equally horrific massacre in Atlanta. |
| 0:56.0 | But will this latest eruption of gun violence move Congress to finally pass legislation that would clamp down on the easy access that Americans still have to weapons of mass destruction? |
| 1:08.0 | President Biden says he'll try, but the obstacles seem as politically steep as ever. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll talk to Sam Weaver, the mayor of Boulder, about how his city had actually imposed an assault weapons ban that would have covered one of the firearms this week's shooter used |
| 1:24.0 | only to have the law struck down just this month by a Colorado state judge. |
| 1:29.0 | And then we'll talk to Michigan Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin, one of the leading house democratic moderates, |
| 1:35.0 | who was raised in a gun owning family, but why she backs tougher gun laws, as well as her efforts to examine the roots of domestic terrorism on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:47.0 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. |
| 1:56.0 | And will to the best of my building. |
| 1:58.0 | Reserve, protect and defend. |
| 2:00.0 | Constitution of the United States. |
| 2:02.0 | So help me God. |
| 2:04.0 | So help you God. |
| 2:05.0 | So help me God. |
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