Trevor Shuts Down Conservatives' Excuses for Gun Violence

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Trevor takes a closer look at the roles that anti-immigrant rhetoric, violent video games, internet hate groups and mental illness play in the U.S.’s gun violence epidemic – and, of course, the guns themselves. And Michael Kosta asks tourists, how do we stop mass shootings in America? For some Republican lawmakers, the solution involves everything but actual gun control. The answer is even; fewer doors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.9	Mass shootings.
0:51.1	Over the past few years, they have become as regular in America as Star Wars movies.
0:56.8	And just like Star Wars movies, people have started paying less
0:59.7	and less attention.
1:00.7	But this weekend, something happened.
1:03.5	The nation mourns the victims of two shooting massacres just 13 hours apart.
1:09.5	The massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, happened in startling proximity for a country
1:15.5	already too familiar with gun violence.
1:18.3	29 people were killed in the two shooting rampages, just 13 hours apart.
1:24.0	Yes, in the span of two days, 13 hours in fact, 84 people were shots, and currently
1:29.6	31 people have been killed in two deadly mass shootings.
1:34.6	And like even though most of America has gotten used to dealing with mass shootings, having
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