What Next - How Gun-Makers Are Arming the Culture War
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After a mass shooting, gun manufacturers follow a set playbook—they offer “thoughts and prayers,” go quiet, and wait for the bump in sales driven by fear of new gun restrictions. The company Daniel Defense’s products were used in Uvalde and in the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Do they have a responsibility for how they market their rifles—or how their weapons are used?
Guest: Todd C. Frankel is an enterprise reporter on the Washington Post's Financial desk, covering people and policy.
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| 1:06.4 | In the days since the Uval Day school shooting there's this one video I can't get out of my head. |
| 1:12.0 | It's not the video of desperate parents outside the school building begging police officers |
| 1:16.8 | to rush inside and save their kids and it's not the video of Governor Greg Abbott being |
| 1:21.6 | booed as he laid flowers outside of Rob Elementary School. It's a video from before all that |
| 1:28.3 | made by the manufacturer of one of the weapons the shooter used. |
| 1:34.6 | This is a promotional video. It shows you how the DDM4 semi-automatic rifle made by Daniel |
| 1:40.3 | Defense works. This lightweight modular rifle would make a perfect addition to anybody's gun safe. |
| 1:46.8 | It was striking to me because it scored with this kind of intense rock music. |
| 1:55.4 | A guy comes on and he sort of demonstrates all the features of the gun and then he's |
| 2:00.5 | he's running around shooting as if he was in urban warfare. He's got a gun range. |
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