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Diane Rehm: On My Mind

What We Know About Preventing Gun Violence In The U.S.

Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week an assailant entered a church school in Nashville and shot and killed six people. This is just one of more than 130 mass shootings recorded in this country so far this year.

Meanwhile, the response in Washington has been predictable -- Democrats have called for an assault weapons ban, Republicans say we need more police.

Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions has been studying the issue for more than 30 years. He joined Diane for a conversation that moves beyond the gridlock to talk about what a public health approach to the issue might look like.

Diane also talks to Christina Caron, reporter for the Well section at The New York Times, covering mental health and the intersection of culture and health care. They discuss her project on how the prevalence of gun violence has changed us.

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0:00.0

My It's Diane, on my mind, record-breaking gun violence in the US.

0:12.5

This weekend, as Haaland entered a church school in Nashville and shot and killed six people,

0:20.7

three children, three adults.

0:23.4

This is just one of more than 130 mass shootings recorded in the country so far this year.

0:33.0

Meet my, it responds in Washington has been pretty much what you'd expect.

0:39.1

Democrats calling for an assault weapons ban, Republicans saying we need more police.

0:46.0

Daniel Webster, a Johns Hopkins Center for gun violence solutions.

0:51.5

Join me for a conversation that moves beyond the gridlock to talk about what real solutions to the issue might look like.

1:01.5

But first, a conversation with New York Times reporter Christina Carone about her project on how the prevalence of gun violence has changed us.

1:16.6

Christina, tell me about your recent project at the New York Times about gun violence.

1:23.8

You posted it just hours before the shooting in Nashville.

1:29.8

That's correct and we couldn't have anticipated that timing.

1:34.6

But I guess I can't say I'm surprised at this point.

1:39.8

When we were preparing to work on this piece, we knew that the next episode of Mass Violence was just around the corner, unfortunately.

1:50.5

So what we had done was asked New York Times readers to tell us how the threat of gun violence is affecting their life, if at all.

2:02.8

And if so, how? We also wanted to know how it affects their mental well-being.

2:08.6

And we had gotten over 600 responses.

2:13.7

This is not representative of the country because we weren't doing a formal research study.

2:20.6

But among the people who did respond, we heard a lot of variation.

2:28.0

So there were people who on one hand said that they were feeling numb and resigned.

2:33.7

One woman said, ever since Sandy Hook, she's not proud of it, but she's become numb.

2:39.8

And she feels that if we couldn't change anything to help our children, then nothing is going to change.

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