Following the mass shooting of elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, OnPointRadio asks what it will take for us to find the political will to prevent these kinds of events from being a uniquely American experience.
: “Not sure anything I can say will help anybody who's processing this tragedy. But ... give yourself time to process it. And then, there's work to do. And there's a political solution that's in plain sight, which is just to make it a lot harder to get guns. And to ban the assault-style rifles that are so often used in these mass shootings. You know, this is not exactly brain surgery here. We can look across different states in the U.S.
“So it's not just the government that's going to come for you and take away your guns. I think this paranoia and this fear is involved crucially in this for many voters. After all, a third of Americans believe in this replacement theory. And if you believe in it, if you believe people are coming to take your place, to remove you from the electorate, as it were. Well, that's only a dial of paranoia away from, They're coming to kill me.
Since Sandy Hook, little has been done in Congress to curb gun violence. Is there any reason to believe this time could be different?“Well, one thing I want to say, just on your point you just made, that, yes, it's clear that Congress has not acted since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. And yes, since that time, many states have weakened their gun laws.
"There's one reaction that says the only solution to this is more people with guns. To, in essence, shoot it out with someone who wants to carry out an act of violence. And then there's another group who sees the same horrible events and says, We need to do a better job of keeping guns from the hands of people who are too dangerous to have them. So that's what we face. And that's why we see movement in different directions. We see the same problem.
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