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Under the Gun Examines Why America Hasn�t Addressed Gun Violence
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In Under the Gun, Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig�the team responsible for Fed Up, which looked at the food industry and the alarming spread of childhood obesity�examine why, despite the increase in deaths at the hands of guns and the outpouring of shock and outrage that comes with it, our nation has failed to respond with meaningful action. Through the lens of families impacted by the mass shootings in Newtown, Aurora, Isla Vista and Tucson, as well as daily gun violence in Chicago, the film examines why our national politicians are refusing to act and what is being done at the state and local levels. |
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PP9
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What do you mean we haven't addressed gun violence? 20,000 laws about guns have been put on the books in the name of doing just that. They don't work, of course, but at what point will they concede that the issue has been "addressed?"
If you want to know why the Democrats in particular are refusing to take any action that might break the cycle of generational poverty, dependence, learned helplessness, and despair, the answer is obvious. It suits the Democratic agenda to have a permanent underclass that needs lots of entitlements and commits a lot of violent crime. Actually helping their urban voters escape that environment and join the middle class would deprive them of their most reliable voting bloc. Not gonna happen. |
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dasing
(4/15/2016)
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| There is no such thing as gun violence, a gun can do nothing without a person holding it, so it is people violence, more to the point, outlaw violence that needs to be explored and enforced. |
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