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Today, Explained

This Time Could Be Different

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Something changed this week. Teenagers managed to break the deadlock over gun control. Marches, walkouts, and serious policy debates are on the way. To understand what's different about the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sean Rameswaram speaks with Vox reporter German Lopez, Georgetown psychiatry professor Liza Gold, and Elizabeth Love, a Utah teenager who's a bit of a badass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.0

Something was different this week.

0:25.0

Something in our never changing national argument about guns changed.

0:32.0

It started like it always does.

0:34.0

Several people are dead and nearly a dozen injured in the school shooting in Parkland right now, deputies are going to...

0:40.0

17 people are now confirmed dead. We know at least three people still in here.

0:44.0

And then it followed the patterns we're used to.

0:46.0

Powerful AR-15. But I first think we need to do a spray for the people that died and there were...

0:52.0

Someone who's mentally ill like the shooter.

0:54.0

Okay. Our actions as human beings are a reflection of what's spinning around upstairs in our minds.

1:00.0

But then the narrative shifted.

1:03.0

We have a voice. We have a voice. We have a voice. We have a voice. We have a voice. We have a voice. We have a voice.

1:11.0

And continue to shift.

1:13.0

This is about people who are for making a difference to save us and people who are against it and prefer money.

1:19.0

So, Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA?

1:26.0

And then this morning President Donald Trump spoke at CPAC.

1:34.0

I've been watching this stuff go on for 20 years. The President gets up. Everybody's enthusiastic for the first couple of days.

1:42.0

And it fades, fades, fades. Nothing ever gets done. We want to see if we can get it done. Let's get it done right.

1:48.0

We really owe it to our country.

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