Sad, tired and angry: America’s endless gun debate

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, an 18-year-old in Uvalde, Tex., killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. The massacre came less than two weeks after a white supremacist killed 10 people at a supermarket in a majority-Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y. We’ve been here before. This happens all the time in America. And it feels like we have the same reactions, the same conversations, read the same tweets. Which is why instead of a normal show this week, we’re revisiting a conversation from 2018 about gun control. In the aftermath of a shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., we brought on Patrick Blanchfield, who writes about gun violence in the United States. We discussed what gets missed in our gun control conversations, the familiar debate over “thoughts and prayers” and how violence in American schools and on our streets is connected to American violence abroad. Links from the show: Catholic leaders react to Texas school massacre: ‘Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem.’ Cardinal Cupich: The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai How the Catholic Church in Uvalde is helping a devastated community grieve and heal Sad, tired and angry: A prayer in the face of gun violence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.6	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:07.3	Hey Ashley it's good to be with you even though we're in the middle of a pretty terrible week.
1:12.4	Yeah yeah so as everyone listened to this probably knows,
1:16.8	this week an 18 year old killed 19 children and two teachers
1:21.2	at an elementary school in Texas. This comes just a week after a
1:26.4	white supremacist killed 10 people at a supermarket in a majority black
1:31.0	neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
1:33.7	We've been here before.
1:35.2	This happens all the time in America
1:38.0	and it feels like we have the same reactions,
1:40.8	the same conversations, we read and post the same tweets yeah and that's why this
1:45.4	week instead of doing our normal show with signs of the times in a new interview we're
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