Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Every mass shooting in the United States is inevitably followed by a call for gun control, but major legislation never passes. We look at how the National Rifle Association became a powerful lobbying group. Also, a gun store owner talks about putting military-style weapons into the hands of civilians. Guests: Robert Draper, a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine; John Markell, the owner of a gun store in Roanoke, Va. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.
0:09.0	Today, every mass shooting in the U.S. is inevitably followed by a call for gun control.
0:16.0	But it never happens. The story behind why the legislation always fails. And the NRA always wins.
0:24.0	And a gun shop owner talks about putting military-style weapons into the hands of civilians.
0:33.0	It's Wednesday, October 4.
0:38.0	Robert, take me back to the early decades of the NRA. What role did the National Rifle Association play in American culture?
0:46.0	Well, originally, its role in American culture was purely recreational.
0:56.0	Robert Draper has reported on the NRA for the Times magazine.
1:01.0	It was founded in 1871, basically as a means of teaching former Union soldiers how to be hunters, how to use their firearms to eat and to recreate.
1:12.0	So it's a hunting group, essentially?
1:13.0	It was a hunting group for basically 120 years. It wasn't until the 1960s that that began to change with social unrest that led to the gun control act of 1968.
1:43.0	We're not discouraging us. We're on the move now.
1:46.0	Yes, sir.
1:47.0	Borre, Calinuria.
1:49.0	Borre, Calinuria.
1:51.0	Borre, Calinuria.
1:53.0	Borre, Calinuria.
2:00.0	We have a fight in the King in Benjardt, at the right.
2:04.0	I think he has a Benjardt.
2:07.0	Any doctors in the room, please, we need you immediately. Are there any doctors?
2:10.0	We need ice cubes too.
2:13.0	It's also worth remembering Michael that during that period of the 1960s were the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy.
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