#1606

Richard Rhodes, noted historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, returns to Listening to America for another discussion reflecting on America as it approaches its 250th birthday. In this poignant conversation, Mr. Rhodes and Clay discuss gun violence in America. Are humans inherently violent? What is the cause of the dramatic rise in mass shootings in the United States? Assuming that the Second Amendment is unshakable, are there things we can do to prevent or bring down the rate of gun violence in American life? Rhodes’ conclusions are simple and stark. We are not different from other developed countries except in one crucial way.
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  • @leannthomas2103
    @leannthomas210314 күн бұрын

    NO SUCH THING AS GUN VIOLENCE !

  • @robbyjohnson6241
    @robbyjohnson624113 күн бұрын

    "we should allow people to sue the ammunition industry and gun industry" what a completely asinine and ridiculously foolish thing to say. Clay you are quite silly in this idea and I don't for one second believe you actually think this.

  • @Greenriver592

    @Greenriver592

    10 күн бұрын

    I agree with Mr. Jenkinson on this. I also think assault weapons should be banned entirely, and all other weapons and ammunition should be strictly regulated.

  • @robbyjohnson6241

    @robbyjohnson6241

    10 күн бұрын

    @@Greenriver592 "assault weapon" is a empty (fictional) term employed to generate a pre-determined response from the fearful and/or ignorant. Literally anything can be used as a weapon in the commission of an assault. There are claims of "verbal assault' for crying out loud. This terminology is not for serious or logical conversation. As for the overreaching regulations you desire, that is just complete ignorance and foolishness. To offer up such a claim is laughable in a world such as this. You wish to empower the criminal element while crippling the innocent out of some self righteous moral superiority that is despicable. This is not a full on socialist nation just yet, and God forbid it ever becomes fully lost.

  • @Greenriver592

    @Greenriver592

    10 күн бұрын

    @@robbyjohnson6241 You are just playing word games. An AR15 can fire at least 45 rounds per minute,. Add a bump stock to that, and you have a fully automatic machine gun. Growing up in the 50s and 60s, no one had these types of weapons, or wanted them. The vets returning from WW2 had seen enough carnage from these weapons, and many never hunted again because they couldn't see causing unnecessary pain and suffering to any creature. Well now, thanks to the gun manufacturers and the NRA , these guns have flooded our streets, and can be purchased by any unstable individual who wants to go out in ablaze of glory, and take half the people at Walmart with him. Many of these weapons make their way down to Mexico (were they are illegal) and have made the cartels almost unstoppable. Is this your idea of a well regulated militia? More than 43,000 people were killed by gun violence last year in the US. Think about how that would feel if a loved one went to the store, or to a concert, and was gunned down in a mass shooting. It is time to fix this problem and stop hiding behind a misinterpretation of the second amendment.

  • @Greenriver592

    @Greenriver592

    10 күн бұрын

    @@robbyjohnson6241 Robby, if you need an AR-15 to defend yourself, you are a damn poor shot!

  • @robbyjohnson6241

    @robbyjohnson6241

    10 күн бұрын

    @@Greenriver592 there is zero data to support anything you've claimed here and the bulk of this diatribe is just fiction. Attempting to sell this argument under the broad term "gun violence" is quite comical. Do a little actual research and look at how the numbers are cooked on that data. As for the tired claim of "misinterpretation", this is the weakest claim of all. People who claim this simply want their way like a petulant child covering their little ears to avoid reality.