WTH Do We Do About Guns? National Review's Jim Geraghty Talks Assault Weapons, Reform and Enforcement
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today’s episode is an exploration of the core question gripping our country in the weeks following the Uvalde shooting: how can we prevent such attacks in the future? A terrible pattern repeats again in the recent Uvalde case: a teenager exhibits disturbing behavior before he commits a gun-related crime. With no criminal record, what should have been “tell-tale” signs the shooter was a danger? Jim Geraghty suggests that tougher background checks are not the answer, or at least not the whole answer. In addition, with straw buyers (think grandmothers) purchasing firearms for their teenage grandsons—not to mention the fact that the Pentagon puts more guns in the hands of young adults than anyone else in this country— raising the age restriction may not cut it. It may not even pass legal muster. The challenge isn’t simple, but there are solutions. Marc and Dany explore creative options that could move us forward, and learn why efforts to ban certain kinds of weapons might not with National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
Jim Geraghty is the Senior Political Correspondent of National Review. He writes their Morning Jolt newsletter, and hosts the Three Martini Lunch podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what |
| 0:22.4 | it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Pekka. And I'm Markiesen. Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.3 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:43.3 | What the hell is going on is I'm so sick and tired of these school shootings. |
| 0:47.3 | It's so tragic. This story in Uvalde, all these small children getting killed. |
| 0:52.3 | It seems like we have this epidemic of mass shootings |
| 0:57.6 | and we can't seem to bring people together to do something because everybody wants to |
| 1:03.4 | politicize the situation and everyone wants to take advantage of people suffering in order to push |
| 1:08.8 | their political agendas instead of taking steps that we can do |
| 1:12.3 | in a bipartisan way to improve the situation. |
| 1:16.3 | Americans are frustrated, they're right to be so. |
| 1:19.3 | Okay, so let me ask you a question, |
| 1:21.4 | and I think you and I, like on a couple of other issues, |
| 1:24.3 | don't exactly see eye to eye on this. |
| 1:27.1 | If we had a better set of politicians |
| 1:30.9 | leading this country, if we had more seriousness and less partisanship, what would people do? |
| 1:37.6 | So here's the thing. We need to hold two things in our hand at the same time. One, the school |
| 1:44.0 | shootings are a disgrace. We need to |
| 1:45.5 | protect our kids. And two, Americans have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms that can't |
| 1:51.0 | be infringed. We need to be able to find a way to protect kids and protect schools while also |
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