When gun laws fail to stop a mass shooting

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

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Summary

How Indiana gun laws failed to prevent a mass shooting last week. And conflicting views on Brexit spur violence in Northern Ireland.

Police say existing gun laws should have prevented a mass shooting in Indiana last week. Instead, the shooter was able to legally purchase firearms. Paulina Firozi reports.

In Northern Ireland, Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists have faced off in riots fueled by anger over Brexit trade deals. Amanda Ferguson reports from Belfast on some of the worst violence in Northern Ireland in more than a decade.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:10.2	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:11.2	Hi, this is Alahia Zladi with the Washington Post.
0:14.9	This is Post Reports.
0:16.7	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.6	It's Monday, April 19th.
0:25.3	Today, how an Indiana Red Flag law failed to stop a mass shooting, and the violent fall
0:31.2	out from Brexit in Northern Ireland.
0:37.8	Late last Thursday, an Indianapolis gunman, a 19-year-old former employee shot and killed
0:46.3	eight people in a FedEx sorting facility.
0:53.4	Paulina Farozy is a breaking news reporter for the Post.
0:56.8	To my fellow Hoosiers, we've come together today in a moment of unspeakable tragedy for
1:06.0	our community.
1:08.0	We've lost eight of our neighbors to a senseless act of violence.
1:14.2	I want to thank the family, the friends, and the loved ones who showed up today.
1:20.2	As we grieve together, we send our deepest sympathies to everyone affected.
1:28.4	What we know about the eight people killed in Thursday's shooting is that they ranged
1:33.5	an age from 19 to 74 years old and four of those killed were members of the sick community.
1:54.0	And I want to avoid getting into too much detail about the shooter.
1:59.7	But what do we know about how this person obtained a gun and some of the circumstances that
2:04.6	led up to the shooting?
2:06.2	So what we know is that the suspect had legally purchased two assault rifles.
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