What Next: The School Shooting Down the Street

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🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Michigan state Senator Rosemary Bayer has been fighting for years to get safe storage laws on the books in her home state. In the wake of the shooting at Oxford High School, a school that sits in her district, her mission has become that much more urgent. Guest: Rosemary Bayer is a state senator in Michigan. She represents the northern suburbs of Detroit. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. Rosemary Bayer is a state senator in Michigan.
0:25.0	She represents a suburban district, just north of Detroit.
0:32.0	Most days, she gets in her car and she drives west to Lansing.
0:38.0	That's where her office is in the State Capitol Building.
0:41.2	Except for this week.
0:43.6	This morning, I got in my car and immediately started driving north.
0:48.2	Rosemary was driving north because that's how she gets to the town of Oxford. She used to live down the street from
0:54.9	Oxford High School. It's still in her district. Just was automatic, just
1:00.3	going there. So, of course I've been there every day so that's there's that.
1:05.6	Last Tuesday Oxford became the latest school in the US to experience a mass shooting.
1:11.7	11 people got shot. Four were killed and all of those were teenagers.
1:16.9	When I spoke to Rosemary, the funerals had started. I've gone to two and it's just it's just horrific that's all there is to it.
1:28.4	I keep having these episodes of you know just just flat out crying crying in the shower crying you know just it seems like as
1:35.4	soon as I'm alone and I can actually breathe I start to cry you know.
1:40.0	So I'm sure you all know why I'm standing here today. It is a terrible day.
1:50.0	You spoke really movingly on the Senate floor the day after the shooting.
1:55.0	You asked for a moment of silence in honor of the victims.
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