Jonathan Metzl
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Apr
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But in the United States, we've habituated just the daily flow of, I mean, you hardly even hear about it on the news anymore.
And so the other story is what does it mean for our country that we've normalized this kind of violence?
And I explore a bunch of different avenues in the book that have to do with politics and race and finance and region, and really try to lay out a plan for how we can do better as a country.
And I feel like if we fix the gun problem,
It'll make it easier to fix the democracy problem.
You know, in the book I study, you know, Australia is often used as an example.
I've done a lot of research in the Middle East where there are a lot of guns.
I've looked at Scotland.
I think the kind of the common through line is that country, there's no one policy, especially in the United States right now.
I mean, we've got about 330 million people
probably about 450 million civilian-owned guns.
So we're not going to fix this with any one policy.
But I think the common through line of countries that have in the past addressed this directly is that they've had, first of all, a political process where people will get together and make compromise and say, look, we're going to lock ourselves in the room.
Like even Australia, for example, it wasn't like it was like, OK, we're just going to have gun control tomorrow.
There was a lot of contested feelings on all sides.
But people said, look, we're going to put the country first.
And so it's a sign of a healthy political process that people are willing to compromise.
So that's part of it.
But in the book, I actually I come to, for me, some unexpected conclusions, which is that, again, I'm a policy person, but I it's not like I've given up on policy.
But I think given the number of guns we have and the incredible
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