Do assault weapons bans work?

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville in late March, President Biden once again called for reinstating the federal assault weapons ban. The United States banned new sales of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004, but the law was easy to skirt, and the data we do have about its effectiveness is complicated. Is an assault weapons ban where advocates should spend their political capital? References: America's unique, enduring gun problem, explained The Secret History of Guns Gun Policy in America | RAND Credits: Jonquilyn Hill, host Sofi LaLonde, producer Cristian Ayala, engineer A.M. Hall, editorial director of talk podcasts Help keep this show and all of Vox's journalism free by making a gift to Vox today: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some succession fans got really angry after a big plot development in season 4
0:05.8	episode 3 because articles about the episode spoiled it before they could watch
0:11.2	but what if that's the wrong way to look at it?
0:14.0	Think about the word spoil itself.
0:17.0	Are you actually now ingesting something that will harm you?
0:22.0	Probably not.
0:24.0	While you probably care way too much about spoilers.
0:28.0	This week on Intuit, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.
0:36.0	I'm John Plinhell. This is The Weeds and a quick content warning up top.
0:41.0	Today's episode is about gun violence and mass shootings.
0:45.0	Please listen with care.
0:51.0	I was 8 the first time I remember it happening.
0:54.0	Right now SWAT teams and the bomb squad are inside Columbine High School
0:59.0	making a second sweep of that building.
1:02.0	They found further explosives within the building.
1:04.0	But it turns out it wasn't an anomaly.
1:07.0	It happened again.
1:09.0	At this afternoon hour, at least 30 people believed to be killed on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
1:15.0	And again, to a school shooting at an elementary school in Newtown,
1:19.0	it's roughly two hours.
1:21.0	And then, first 9-1-1 calls came in just before a Marjorie Stoeman Douglas High School led out for the day.
1:27.0	And then again,
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