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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

So much of what we're seeing in the gun issue is theology.

And Dr. Kavina Patel.

Don't have one in your house, no matter what.

Well, welcome to Words Matter from the DSR Network.

Each week, Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country.

As we head into another cycle of elections, and what are leaders and are saying or doing about these issues.

Today, we wanted to tackle a topic that in full disclosure to our listeners has really been something that Norm and I have wanted to talk about.

Unfortunately, all too many an occasion to talk about.

And that's just the most recent state of gun violence that has gotten media attention.

I just want to say that there are so many incidences of what would be considered mass shooting events that get no media attention.

But unfortunate sequence of events that occurred around lunar New Year and hitting hard, especially in the Asian American and Latin American communities in California, that the country, the world is still reeling from.

When talking about this episode, and I'll give Norm a chance to weigh in, when talking about preparing for this episode, all of us, including our producer, kind of thought, well, what can we say?

If we just say government needs to dot that, we're not going to get anywhere. And yet, we felt like we still needed to bring this because it's what we're all talking about.

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