America's mass shootings are getting deadlier, and Sunday's atrocity in Las Vegas was the deadliest yet; it involved automatic weapons. The numbers are now 59 dead and more than 500 injured by a killer who stockpiled 42 weapons. But despite the initial shock, the aftermath is all too familiar: demand for gun control versus the claim that "control" means limiting access. There's real passion on both sides. Is there anything about the attack on a Country Music event that might alter politics as usual? Are mass shootings the inevitable "price of freedom," or can we find ways to limit gun violence without limiting the right to own guns?
Guns: prayer or politics… or both?
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- Musician Caleb Keeter on guns, Second Amendment
- Chris Richards on country artists, with the ear of American gun culture, needing to speak up
- French on how the Las Vegas shooting differs from recent mass shootings
- Jimmy Kimmel on Las Vegas mass shootings
- French on Jimmy Kimmel clouding the debate on gun-control legislation
- Fallows on dark American truths from Las Vegas, certainty of more shootings
- Schecter on another bloody morning in America, as House prepares to vote on a bill easing access to ammo-piercing bullets, silencers.
Credits
Guests:
- Chris Richards - Washington Post - @Chris__Richards
- David French - Columnist, The Dispatch and Time magazine - @DavidAFrench
- James Fallows - Atlantic - @JamesFallows
- Cliff Schecter - Daily Beast - @cliffschecter