Jonathan Metzl
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Apr
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incredibly polarized feelings about guns and the ways that gun sales go up.
After a protester is killed in Minneapolis, all of a sudden liberals are buying guns.
And after George Floyd, black Americans are buying guns.
Guns become a response to feelings of uncertainty.
And so in the book, hopefully people can get through it by the end,
I argue that this isn't just a public health problem.
It isn't just a policy problem.
It's also really a call for us to come together and build structures where people feel structurally safer around one another.
I lay out a kind of 10-point plan for why
Why I think we need to do that because people kind of need to feel safe around their neighbors or else we're just going to keep repeating the cycle, which isn't just a cycle about shootings, which is horrific enough in itself.
But it's also spikes in gun sales targeted to particular audiences after any particular news cycle, which is, you know, also scary in different ways.
Well, I could talk another whole show about that question because I think there are a couple of important points.
First, I make very clear when I write and when I talk that I'm not talking about whiteness as like a biological or a genetic category.
I'm talking about it as a kind of historical category.
of people who feel like they are threatened by the advances of other groups of people.
And so in that sense, I do think that there is hope for, I mean, again, I'm speaking to you from Tennessee this morning.
It's not like whiteness has always meant the same thing in Tennessee.
We've got the Civil War whiteness in Tennessee, but we've also got Al Gore and a state that
came together to build the first public private health system in the 90s.
And so we're all kind of in this cycle right now where I guess the way to summarize this is I do think that there is a common cause center that kind of struggles to get out right now where we say, look, government isn't working for everybody or infrastructure is not working for everybody.
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