Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Toddcast.

So there have been more mass shootings in the US than days so far discounted under you.

165 mass shootings since the start of 2023.

That's an incident where four or more victims are shot or killed in sort of one incident.

And this month alone 34 incidents and almost an average of two mass shootings a day.

This month alone.

Despite the prevalence of gun violence, Americans still really can't agree on a legislative path forward.

Despite 63% of Americans expressing dissatisfaction with the current state of the nation's gun laws

and how pulling this year 54% of Republicans in that same post said they were satisfied with US gun laws.

So there's a there's a true political divide here that puts us sort of at what I call legislative paralysis.

Last week Republican presidential hopefuls tended the NRA's annual meeting held on the heels of a mass shooting at a bank of local Kentucky.

Another shooting a Nashville week before that and all the speakers challenged the idea that the country has a quote gun problem.

And called for fewer not more restrictions on gun ownership.

And then we've had this really uncomfortable phenomenon this week where it feels as if doing everyday things.

Going to a grocery store pulling into a driveway trying to visit somebody and getting to the wrong house or knocking on the wrong door can get you shot.

I'm breaking this down with two guests today West Tyler.

He's a commoners for outside magazine.

He notably authored an article in 2018 with this headline.

It's time for hunters to leave the NRA and David Yamani.

He's a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University and he's been focused on studying and talking about guns for more than a decade.

He hosts the YouTube channel light over heat with professor David Yamani.

Wes and David welcome to the podcast appreciate this.

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