Why is America So Violent?

Inside the Hive

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Gun laws in America have barely changed despite hundreds of mass shootings in America over the past decade. Yet when a gunman opened fire in a mosque in New Zealand, the country’s leaders banned assault rifles less than a week later. Shannon Watts, founder of Mom’s Demand Action, joins Nick to explain why America is so obsessed with guns and violence, why the NRA is so vulnerable right now, and how a grassroots movement is trying to change how easy it is to get an assault rifle in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
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0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. So there's a little organization in the United States of America that has a big big impact and some people don't think it is a good impact and that group is called the National Rifle Association.
0:33.0	So the NRA has been in the news a tremendous amount lately.
0:37.0	They're always in the news, but lately it's been bigger because it's caught up in a lot of turmoil.
0:42.0	There's massive investigations. There's
0:45.0	Russian conspiracies. In-fighting, you name it. So I decided that we should have
0:50.5	someone on the show to talk about what's going on at the NRA, what's going on with gun control, with assault weapons, all these different things that impact our lives on a daily basis.
1:00.0	And so I figured we would have the most unlikely person on to talk about this.
1:04.7	Her name is Shannon Watts.
1:06.1	She is the founder of a group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
1:10.4	And her story of how she got here is really fascinating.
1:14.3	So I'm very, very excited to have Shannon on today
1:16.9	and we're gonna get to what is going on inside the NRA.
1:20.6	Shannon, thank you for. NRA.
1:26.0	Shannon, thank you for joining us today. This is very, very, very exciting.
1:28.0	I'm sure your husband's listening and he's more excited than I am.
1:31.0	He is.
1:32.0	He told me I needed to up my game, because you are so clever.
1:35.9	We'll see how that works out.
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