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This isn't your typical political podcast. Brought to you by one of the oldest gun violence prevention organizations, Red, Blue, and Brady discusses current events and shares personal narratives in its exploration of America's epidemic of firearm woundings and deaths. In these episodes, you'll hear our hosts JJ and Kelly talk with survivors, activists, academics, politicians, and more as they join together for insightful — and, despite the grim subject matter, at times humorous — dialogs about the country's long-standing love for guns, the positive and negative effects of that love, and the political, educational, and cultural efforts of Brady and its allies as we work together to end gun violence.
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On May 29, 1994, the Dix family's life was irrevocably altered when Kenzo, a beloved and vibrant fifteen-year-old, was tragically shot and killed by a friend playing with an unsecured firearm. In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ delve into this heart-wrenching story with Griffin Dix, Kenzo's father, through excerpts from his poignant book, "Who Killed Kenzo: The Loss of a Son and the Ongoing Battle for Gun Safety." Griffin paints a vivid picture of the emotional turmoil and profound impact Kenzo's death had on both his family and the shooter's family.
Griffin's narrative transcends the pain of loss, highlighting his relentless journey towards advocacy and justice. We explore the family's legal battle against Beretta USA, scrutinizing the firearm's features, and the broader systemic failures that enabled such a tragedy. Griffin also shares how he found solace and strength through the support of activists and the community, and the enduring legacy of Kenzo.
Further reading:Long Battle Against Guns Began With a Son's Death (the New York Times)
After son's fatal accident, father fights to make weapons safer (the Times Herald)
Dix v. Beretta (Brady)
COVID-19, gun sales and guns in homes (the Hill)
The gun industry's six deadly lies (the Seattle Times)
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Join us for an insightful discussion uncovering the impactful efforts of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. RBB hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady President Kris Brown, along with Deputy Directors Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox. Together, we analyze the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, delve into challenges surrounding victim compensation and legislative gaps, and highlight strides in firearm law reforms. Our dialogue showcases the collective determination against gun violence, emphasizing the importance of individual action.
As we conclude, we recognize grassroots advocates as the driving force behind change, acknowledging the shift towards community well-being. We invite you to be active participants in this journey towards a future without gun violence, fostering hope, healing, and humanity.
Further reading:Two Men Affected by Gun Violence 'Turn Pain into Purpose' as Leaders in the White House's New Gun Safety Office (People)
White House announces new state-based gun violence initiative (Politico)
Biden Creates Federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention (New York Times)
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Award-winning journalist and author Ioan Grillo brings us face-to-face with the consequences of US gun policies on our southern neighbor in a discussion about his book "Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels." As Grillo unfolds how arms trafficking fuels the fires of gang and cartel violence in Mexico, we come to understand the stark contrast between Mexico's strict gun laws and the ease of obtaining firearms in the US via Grillo's firsthand accounts, including his coverage of the El Chapo trial, and put a human face on the statistics of violence that currently plagues Mexico.
Join us as we discuss our shared responsibility in addressing gun violence that knows no borders, and how easy access to firearms in the US plays a role in not just international violence, but also increases in migration and the US drug market. Together we delve into the ethical quandaries faced by gun sellers, the formidable influence of organizations like the NRA, and what we can all be doing to keep ourselves (and our neighbors) safe.
Further reading:
America’s Complex Relationship With Guns (Pew Research Center)
Much of firearms traffic from the U.S. to Mexico happens illegally (NPR)
How American guns turned Mexico into a war zone (Los Angeles Times)
US-made guns are ripping Central America apart and driving migration north (the Guardian)
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Amid the heavy burden of today's societal pressures – from the lingering effects of the pandemic to the omnipresent weight of social media – our youth are wading through unprecedented mental health challenges. In today's podcast, we sit with Dr. Kurt Michael (Senior Clinical Director) from The Jed Foundation (JED), diving into the urgent topic of youth firearm suicidality. As a former academic dedicated to establishing mental health clinics in rural schools, and a gun owner himself, Dr. Michael brings a wealth of experience to the table, sharing why gun violence prevention is not just a policy issue, but a personal one. Together, we explore the heightened suicide risks for young people, particularly in communities where firearms are more accessible, and Dr. Michael helps us see the resilience and hope in these young fighters, and how simple measures like responsible gun storage can be a lifeline.
Further reading:
It's Okay to Say Suicide (JED)
How to Cope With Safety Threats in Your Community or the World (JED)
What’s the best way to talk about gun violence with kids? (JED)
Asking Saves Kids (Brady)
Preventing Youth Suicide (NASP)
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When Jonathan Brocco, a school administrator, got involved in gun violence prevention, it was after a mass shooting rocked his school community — one of his students had lost a brother in the 2018 Waffle House mass shooting. Sadly, soon Jonathan would be directly impacted, when his father Charlie passed from firearm suicide in February of 2019.
In the wake of that combined trauma, however, Jonathan continues to give of himself, sharing his message of the urgent need for sweeping reform. Together with hosts Kelly and JJ, Jonathan explains not only his own loss (and what he wishes everyone knew about firearm suicide) but also the emotional and practical challenges educators and administrators face as they grapple with the repercussions of school shootings. Jonathan then details how the toll of gun violence extends beyond the immediate tragedy; it's a public health crisis that leaves a ripple effect across entire communities — and what you can do to help stop it.
Further reading:Is Arming Teachers a Solution? (This is Nashville)
How to Support Survivors and People Impacted by Gun Violence (Brady)
"Forget about Making a Hashtag, Let's Throw All the Guns in a Trash Bag" (Natrix Dream/Akilah DaSilva Foundation)
'Oh my God, not again': Mom of Waffle House shooting victim deals with other son shot(Nashville 5)
'Help Us Stop the Attacks': Educators Urge Action on Gun Violence(National Education Association)
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Uncover the hidden layers of New York City's youth gun culture with the Center for Justice Innovations' Basaime Spate (a Community Based Research Coordinator), Javonte Alexander (a Senior Research Associate), and Elise White (Interim Senior Director of Research and Policy), who, along with Rachel Swaner (Research Director), created the groundbreaking report, "Two Battlefields: Ops, Cops, and NYC Youth Gun Culture." This report takes us into the heart of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to understand the struggle young people face amid peer opposition and police interactions. Through a fusion of lived experience and participatory research, their research — and therefore our conversation — reveals the fear driving gun carrying amongst young people and the importance of actionable outcomes to combat gun violence.
Together, Basaime, Elise, and Javonte break down for hosts JJ and Kelly how fear and safety form the crux of the narrative that prompts youths to arm themselves, a tale that spans personal protection to unpredictable police encounters — and how we can all be contributing to lowering that fear and firearm carrying.
Further reading:"Two Battlefields: Ops, Cops, and NYC Youth Gun Culture." (Center for Justice Innovation)
Community Researchers Connect with Young Gun-Carriers for Groundbreaking New Report (Center for Justice Innovation)
Safety fears prompt more Brooklyn youths to carry guns, report finds (NY daily news)
The psychology of guns: risk, fear, and motivated reasoning (Palgrave Commun 5)
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In his latest book, Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment, Dr. Noah Shusterman posits how the question isn't the existence of the right to bear arms, but rather, about determining the specific individuals or groups entitled to bear arms. With host JJ, Dr. Shusterman details how, during the American Revolution, Americans needed to, and did, depict their conflict as a battle between civilians and trained soldiers. As such, the framers of the Constitution placed their confidence in citizen soldiers and a "well-regulated militia," a concept that endures in contemporary times (though often erroneously understood). If you've ever wondered "how can I combine the Roman Empire and conversations about gun violence," this is a podcast episode you won't want to miss.
Further reading:
A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control (Fordham Law Review)
The Supreme Court Gets a 'Well Regulated Militia' Wrong (Time Magazine)
What Do Guns Mean to Far-Right Extremists? (the Trace)
Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism (Scientific American)
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What if we told you that the key to preventing gun violence in youth lies not just in legislation, but also in acknowledging and addressing the root causes of trauma? Kelly and JJ sit down with Dr. Sonali Rajan , President of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms (and also, as you'll learn, about a million other things!). Our conversation orbits around the interconnection between a child's environment, school health, and gun violence, with Dr. Rajan casting light on the findings from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the associated risk factors of gun carriage. Dr. Rajan unpacks how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have a profound impact on a child's development, and how we — even if you're childfree, and don't work with children — can be helping kids still reach positive outcomes.
Further reading: Youth exposure to violence involving a gun: evidence for adverse childhood experience classification (Journal of Behavior Medicine)
Fast Facts: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (CDC)
Shots that Echo for a Lifetime (Teacher's College Columbia University)
Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health, education, and earnings of American youth (SIEPR)
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Kelly and JJ tackle the harsh realities of gun violence, health inequity, and trauma surgery with our extraordinary guest, Dr. Brian Williams. Dr. Williams offers a unique perspective on these gripping matters, drawn from his personal experiences as a trauma surgeon in safety net hospitals. Together we discuss what led to Dr. William's writing his book " The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" following experiencing the aftermath of a mass shooting, the profound role of racism and public health in the fight against gun violence, and how storytelling breathes life into these multifaceted issues.
Further reading:
After A Mass Shooting Shook Dallas, Dr. Brian Williams Took a Stand (D Magazine)
Trauma Surgeon Who Treated Dallas Cops: 'This Killing, It Has to Stop' (NBC)
Gun Violence is a Racial Justice Issue (Brady)
Healing a toxic brew of hate, racism, and gun violence in America (AAMC)
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When it comes to talking about "gun culture" in the US, it's time challenge our understanding and reshape the discourse. This week. hosts Kelly and JJ sat down with with David Joy, a North Carolina native, award-winning novelist, and gun owner. This episode is a deep dive into how some folks form a collective relationship with firearms, a connection rooted in hunting traditions yet challenged by the shifting landscape of gun laws and culture.
Together, we go beyond the polarizing narratives, confronting the militarization of gun culture, and the differing perspectives shaped by socio-economic backgrounds and geographical location. We shed light on how legal loopholes have allowed controversial weapons like ghost guns into the market, while also debunking myths surrounding gun laws and the NRA's role in gun reform, revealing the power of money in this debate. Lastly, we delve into the uncomfortable intersection of gun culture, gun reform, and white supremacy.
Further reading:Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become (New York Times)
Guns in America (Time)
Many gun owners support gun control. So why don't they speak out? (NPR)
Guns, Lies, and Fear (Center for American Progress)
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Scott Charles, a trauma outreach manager at Temple University Hospital, joins hosts Kelly and JJ to share about his own experiences with gun violence and the impact it's had on his role in preventative care. We delve into the importance of personal narratives and the power they hold in humanizing statistics related to firearm injuries, while also uncovering the raw reality of the trauma bay, revealing its stark contrast to the dramatized portrayal often seen in mainstream media. Scott introduces us to the Cradle to Grave program, an initiative designed to educate young people about the harsh medical realities of firearm injuries.
Need a gun lock? Request one from Scott here.Further reading: ‘Where is the outrage ... from everyone?’ The story behind this Temple trauma surgeon’s tweet. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Dying is Easy: Cradle 2 Grave (the Philadelphia Citizen)
These 11 Temple University violence reduction programs are enhancing safety in Philadelphia (Temple University)
Temple University Hospital's trauma advocates work to expand program to help gun violence victims (ABC)'
One man's mission to prevent gun deaths – one lock at a time (Metro) Further reading:‘Where is the outrage ... from everyone?’ The story behind this Temple trauma surgeon’s tweet. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Dying is Easy: Cradle 2 Grave (the Philadelphia Citizen)
These 11 Temple University violence reduction programs are enhancing safety in Philadelphia (Temple University)
Temple University Hospital's tra
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After his mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, was killed in the Mother Emanuel AME church shooting in 2015, Chris Singleton became a beacon of resilience and unity in the face of unthinkable tragedy. His story of losing his mother in a horrific hate crime and then transforming that unimaginable pain into a life dedicated to combating gun violence and racism is both heartbreaking and awe-inspiring. As he takes us on his journey from a grieving teenager to an impassioned advocate, Chris’s reflections on his mother’s unyielding support during his baseball games and his desire emphasizing love over hate and recognizing our shared humanity above our differences is marked with humor and kindness.
You can find Chris' books, including his most recent "Stories Behind Stances," here.
Further reading:
5 Years After Charleston Church Massacre, What Have We Learned? (NPR)
'Hate Crime': A Mass Killing at a Historic Church (the Atlantic)
What Forgiveness Means Nearly 5 Years After Emanuel AME Church Mass Shooting (WBUR)
Buffalo slayings hit close to home for former baseball player 900 miles away (NPR)
Chris Singleton ‘Changed His Mission’ When A White Supremacist Killed His Mother In Charleston Church Shooting (the Village Celebration)
Remembering the Mother Emanuel Nine eight years later (WLTX)
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Are you ready to challenge long-held beliefs? Brace yourself as we take a hard look at the deeply ingrained myths of gun violence, with Devin Hughes, the founder and president of GVPedia, a nonprofit that specializes in gun violence research. Together we unpack and challenge the notion that defensive gun use is widespread and beneficial to society, trace back the origins of the myth "an armed society is a polite society" to the science fiction from which it came, and we dissect the inherent lethality of guns and the dangers of using this flawed narrative to shape public opinion and policy.
You can find GVPedia's substack here.
Further reading:
The NRA’s Biggest Back-to-School Sale: The Safety of Our Children (Armed with Reason)
GVPedia explains...Defensive Gun Use (GVPedia)
Debunking Myths the Gun Lobby Perpetuates Following Mass Shootings (CAP)
Guns in the Home Don't Make Us Safer (Colorado Ceasefire)
Countering the gun lobby's firehose of falsehood (the Hill)
The Defensive Gun Use Lie and the Gun Lobby’s Firehose of Falsehood (Armed with Reason)
Is an Armed Society a Polite Society? (Armed with Reason)
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Gun violence takes a massive toll on the US healthcare system and medical professionals. To discuss how, hosts Kelly and JJ were joined by Dr. Christine Petrin and Dr. Babak Sarani, who shed light on this pressing issue. Together, we delve into the emotional and physical ramifications, illustrating the stark reality through a heartbreaking story of a patient who suffered gunshot wounds on multiple occasions.
We also underline the cruciality of discussing safe gun storage and usage, proving that advocating for gun control isn't the only answer. Shifting the narrative, Dr. Petrin and Dr. Sarani open up about their journey to create a firearm curriculum for medical professionals, and how important it is for health care providers and patients to be able to speak about firearms and firearm safety.
Further reading:Gun Violence Prevention strives to create a safer and healthier community by reducing the incidence of gun violence and its impact on individuals, families, and society as a whole. (Doctors for America)
Stop filling our Trauma Centers with your thoughts and prayers. (#ThisIsOurLane)
ThisIsOurLane — Firearm Safety as Health Care’s Highway (the New England Journal of Medicine)
This Is Our Lane: Mobilizing the Medical Community (Brady)
Doctors and hospitals can help prevent gun deaths. (Association of American Medical Colleges)
How Doctors Suffer from America's Gun Violence Problem (Time)
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Actress and activist Piper Parabo joins to highlight the unique power of storytelling and narrative as a tool for organizing and bringing about change. Together, we discuss Piper's passion for promoting safe storage on film and television sets, as well as how fighting for gun violence prevention is itself an intersectional act. From sharing safety concerns with families to sparking conversations around firearm safety, join Piper and hosts Kelly and JJ as we explore the influence of media, the importance of safety consciousness, and the potential for positive change.
Further reading:Hollywood Actors, Directors, Creators Discuss Gun Safety (Brady)
Gun Guidelines for the Media (Hollywood Health and Society)
'Yellowstone' and Hollywood's Quiet Pivot to Showing Gun Safety Onscreen (the Ankler)
Adam Brody, Piper Perabo and More Call for Less Gun Violence on Screen at White House Roundtable: ‘Hollywood Has Been Due for a Reckoning’ (Variety)
Wrap Roundtable: Adam Brody Calls Out Onscreen Gun Violence as Big Part of the Problem – ‘American as Apple Pie’ (the Wrap)
Law & Order: SVU Changed the TV Landscape. It Also Changed How People Think About Sexual Assault (Time)
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Are you ready for a thought-provoking conversation about an initiative that can possibly reshape perceptions and curb gun violence? Join us as we host the talented Matt Nix, known for masterpieces like 'Burn Notice' and 'The Gifted'. Matt shares his unique perspective on the 'Show Your Safety' campaign - a bold initiative leveraging media narratives to foster a culture of gun safety. His insights on this campaign are as gripping as the TV series he's known for.
Ever wondered how you can change behavior through visual associations? We reflect on this intriguing concept by drawing parallels with how smoking was once glamorized and how the same approach can be used to normalize safe gun handling. We chat about characters being portrayed as proficient in using gun safes and trigger locks. Prepare to be intrigued as we discuss how Hollywood can be a change-driver by encapsulating messages of responsible gun ownership within captivating storylines.
Finally, we ponder the power of media in shaping perceptions around firearms. As we weave through narratives on responsible gun ownership and gun safety messages, we highlight how media can foster a sense of community and self-policing among gun owners. We wrap up our conversation with Matt Nix by encouraging you to get involved in the fight against gun violence. Get ready for an insightful journey into the intersection of storytelling and gun safety. Tune in and let's start the dialogue.Support the showFor more information on Brady, follow us on social media @Bradybuzz or visit our website at bradyunited.org.
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Meet Caitlin McEuth-Damos, the vibrant host of the podcast 'How Can I Help,' who firmly believes that if you've got a platform, you've got the ability to change the world. Join our conversation as Caitlin passionately shares her journey into advocacy and activism, all sparked by a keen desire to tackle the issue of gun violence. She highlights the importance of responsible gun laws and dives into the mixed responses she's received. Yet, Caitlin bravely stands tall, believing that it's her duty to contribute positively to the world.
Ever thought about the potent power that entertainment wields for social change? Well, we dissect that very topic in this episode. We chat about how Hollywood can contribute, shedding light on important issues like seatbelt safety, taxation, and responsible gun laws, and we touch on how the White House has even entered the conversation. With the ability to normalize positive behaviors and ignite significant discussions, we explore how entertainment is a formidable tool for change.
Lastly, we turn our attention to the burgeoning role of mothers in the gun violence prevention movement. Hear about the transformation from passive participants to more active roles in politics, and how language has become a key instrument in bridging diverse viewpoints. Caitlin emphasizes that while victims and survivors of gun violence often spearhead this fight, it's critical that those of us who haven't been directly affected step up to prevent further tragedies. So, let's get involved, get passionate, and start making change.
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Why does a renowned writer and director like Matt Nex care about reshaping the portrayal of firearms in the media? That's what we explore as I sit down with Matt to discuss his involvement in the Show Your Safety campaign from the Brady organization. We delve into his creative journey, from his work on the hit show Burn Notice to his current efforts to promote responsible gun ownership on-screen.
Together, we put the spotlight on how media can effectively demonstrate that responsible firearm enthusiasts are indeed cool people who use gun safes and trigger locks appropriately. We chew over the idea that portraying characters who lack firearms knowledge not only adds a layer of authenticity to the narrative but can also encourage viewers to rethink their gun storage practices. But the conversation isn’t just about guns. We also draw parallels between responsible gun ownership and owning a bow and arrow, highlighting the shared requirements of skill, commitment, and respect for these powerful tools.
In the final segment, Matt and I contemplate the Show Your Safety campaign's potential to influence a broad spectrum of shows and spark a 'thousand flowers to bloom'. We explore the idea of embodying responsible gun ownership in an anti-hero show without preaching about it, and discuss the importance of the approach being bespoke to the universe of the show. This engaging conversation with Matt Nex is a thoughtful reflection on the power of media to influence societal perspectives on gun ownership. We hope it inspires creators and viewers alike to think critically about the portrayals they see and create.
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How can storytellers in media play a critical role in preventing gun violence? Actor Adam Brody joins us to share his insights on Hollywood's influence on gun culture and the power of storytelling to change hearts and minds. As an actor, Adam recognizes the impact that the stories we tell can have on shaping people's perceptions and the importance of having a higher level of conversation about gun violence, similar to the conversations we're finally having about gender and minority representation.
We discuss the needs to challenge cultural myths and present the risks and consequences of gun violence in a way that isn't threatening, and the potential of storytellers to make a difference in the fight against gun violence.
Hollywood Actors, Directors, Creators Discuss Gun Safety (Brady)
Gun Guidelines for the Media (Hollywood Health and Society)
'Yellowstone' and Hollywood's Quiet Pivot to Showing Gun Safety Onscreen (the Ankler)
Adam Brody, Piper Perabo and More Call for Less Gun Violence on Screen at White House Roundtable: ‘Hollywood Has Been Due for a Reckoning’ (Variety)
Wrap Roundtable: Adam Brody Calls Out Onscreen Gun Violence as Big Part of the Problem – ‘American as Apple Pie’ (the Wrap)
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Ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes world of prop masters and armorers in Hollywood? Join us as we chat with Dutch Merrick, founder of Prop Gun Safety and a veteran propmaster with 25 years of experience. As the man maintaining the guns on set, Dutch occupies a unique position within film — setting up actors to look their best, while also keeping them safe. As we kick off the beginning of our podcast series on how Hollywood can fight back about gun violence, Dutch shares his insights on the differences between on-set firearm safety and firearms in the "real world," how the tragedy on the Rust set sent shockwaves throughout the film industry, and the role that folks behind the camera can have in changing unsafe or irresponsible gun culture and behavior.
Further reading:Hollywood Armorer Reacts to ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Charges: ‘There Is So Much Fault to Go Around (Variety)
How the entertainment industry changed after the fatal 'Rust' shooting (CBS)
Top Showrunners and Producers Make Gun Safety Pledge in Wake of Uvalde, Buffalo Mass Shootings (Variety)
USC’s Norman Lear Center Report Urges Hollywood To Re-Examine Gun Violence In Films & TV Shows (Deadline)
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The modern legal debate around the Second Amendment often presupposes a straight line from the flintlock musket to the AR-15...a presupposition that discounts that, since the mid-1800s, firearm lethality has dramatically increased. As a result, "a gun is a gun is a gun" no longer holds true. To discuss how that lethality increased, how "historically" based legal decisions around firearms have been fundamentally flawed, and how we need an improved vocabulary for discussing guns in the US, Kelly and JJ were joined by Dr. Jennifer Tucker (Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University).
Further reading:
Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question (CNN)
Theoretical Lethality Index (TLI)
In the Gun Law Fights of 2023, a Need for Experts on the Weapons of 1791 (the New York Times)
Common Use, Lineage, and Lethality (UC Davis Law Review)
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Today, 38 states have some variation of a Stand Your Ground law, which typically permits an individual to protect themselves with reasonable force —including deadly force — to prevent death or great bodily harm. Increasingly, however, many states' Stand Your Ground laws allow an individual to use deadly force without a duty to retreat.
While proponents of these policies claim they're vital to the public's protection, states lacking a duty to retreat have seen a rise in homicides of 10% or more — leading critics to claim that unfettered Stand Your Ground laws should really be called "shoot first" laws.
To discuss how these laws developed, how they have been used to embolden individuals to use unnecessary and disproportionate force (especially against marginalized communities), and the many impacts of an over-armed society, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Kami N. Chavis, R. Hugh and Nolie Haynes Professor of Law and Director of the William and Mary Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Reform. Professor Chavis shares not just the implications and effects of these laws, but also what everyone can be doing to best protect themselves and their neighbors.
Further reading:What are “Stand Your Ground Laws?” (Brady)
What Are 'Stand Your Ground' Laws, and When Do They Apply? (The New York Times)
Can a doorbell ring justify a ‘stand your ground’ shooting? (AP)
In two recent cases, homeowners have been charged with shooting people on their property. Here’s what the law says (CNN)
‘Stand your ground’: the US laws linked to rising deaths and racist violence (the Guardian)
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Are you worried about the presence of firearms in college classrooms, dorms, libraries, and sporting events? You're not alone. For over seven years, the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus has been working to push back against a concerning trend: the allowance and, in many cases, encouragement, of firearms on college campuses.
The Campaign is dedicated to educating, organizing, and promoting legislation to fight against the gun lobby's push to prohibit colleges and universities from regulating guns on campus.
In this episode, Kelly and JJ speak with Andy Pelosi, the co-founder and executive director of the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus, about how the trend of guns on campus has developed, what people can do to push back, and why it's essential to keep guns off campus even for those who aren't connected to higher education.
Further reading:
States Where Campus Carry Bills are Moving (Keep Guns Off Campus)
What to Know About Gun Policies on College Campuses (US News)
Lawmakers push to allow guns on US university campuses (Times Higher Education)
Should Guns Be Permitted on College Campuses? (New York Times)
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In 1994 the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed, in which Congress restricted certain people subject to final protection orders (issued after a hearing at which the respondent has an opportunity to appear) from possessing, receiving, shipping, or transporting firearms. That law held firm until February of 2023, when the Fifth Circuit ruled in USA v. Rahimi that the federal law prohibiting possession of firearms by people subject to domestic violence protection orders was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
In our previous episode we discussed the the long legal history that led to this decision (from Heller, to Bruen, to Rahimi), but today hosts Kelly and JJ sat down with Ruth Glenn (CEO and President of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, author of the book Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence) and Rachel Graber (Director of Public Policy of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence) to talk about the practical implications (and effects) of this Rahimi decision.
Together, we tackle what this ruling means for survivors of intimate partner violence, for folks currently being harmed, and what it signals for us all, as we move forward into 2023? Moreover, vitally, we cover what can you be doing to fight back against decisions that cause harm.
Sign up to attend the NCADV Webinar, "United States v. Rahimi: Implications for Advocates in Supporting Survivors Experiencing Gun Violence," by clicking here.
Further reading:
Domestic Violence and Firearms (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence)
NCADV Appalled by 5th Circuit Ruling and Demands Better for Survivors (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence)
The Fifth Circuit Court Decides to Protect Abusers' Guns (John Hopkins)
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Domestic-Violence Prohibitor in United States v. Rahimi (the Duke Center for Firearms Law)
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) ruled on February 2, 2023 that the federal prohibition on gun possession for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. This decision is especially egregious as very month, an average of 57 women are killed with a firearm by an intimate partner, countless more are shot, and hundreds are menaced with a gun. Furthermore, in America, firearms are the weapons of choice for domestic violence homicides, with female intimate partners more likely to be murdered with a gun than by all other means combined.
But how did this decision come about? What impact does this Fifth Circuit decision have on federal law? To find out, host JJ sat down with Shira Feldman, litigation counsel at Brady, who carried us through the long legal history that brought us to today (and shared possibilities of where we may be going).
Further reading:Gun Laws, Loopholes, and Violence (Brady)
Beyond Bullet Wounds: Guns in the Hands of Domestic Abusers (Brady)
Guns and Violence Against Women (Center for American Progress)
NCADV Appalled by 5th Circuit Ruling and Demands Better for Survivors (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence)
DOJ asks SCOTUS to review ruling that overturned firearm ban for those with domestic violence restraining orders (the Hill)
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Have you come across news headlines about incidents of road rage where a driver brandished a gun? It's a distressing thought, but how frequently do these incidents take place and should you be concerned? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Megan O'Toole, Deputy Director of Research at Everytown, who breaks down the facts and sheds light on this issue. Additionally, Dr. O'Toole shares her latest research on the growing trend of gun thefts from cars, an escalating pattern that too often fuels gun violence in the US — and what you can be doing, whether you're a gun owner or not, to help stop the spread of gun violence.
Further reading:Gun Thefts from Cars: The Largest Source of Stolen Guns (Everytown)
Reports of Road Rage Shootings are on the Rise (Everytown)
Gun Thefts Are Rising and Leading to More Crime (the Wall Street Journal)
Guns Are Stolen in America Up to Once Every Minute (the Trace)
More Guns In Cars Mean More Guns Stolen From Cars (NPR)
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In the five years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, many activists have stood up to fight back against gun violence, and gun lobby disinformation. One of those tireless advocates is Fred Guttenberg, whose two children were there that day. While his son, Jesse, survived, Fred's beautiful 14-year-old daughter Jamie was killed. Since then, Fred has dedicated countless hours to understanding gun violence in America and advocating for prevention. In this episode, we're joined by fellow gun violence survivors Christian Heyne and Liz Dunning of Brady, as we discuss Fred’s latest book, "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence." Together, we explore what it takes to break through the barrier of misinformation, debunk myths, and find a path to meaningful action in the fight to end gun violence.
Further reading:Fred Guttenberg: There are common sense things we can do to reduce gun violence (Morning Joe)
Support Fred Guttenberg This Father's Day (Brady)
At 26, a daughter lost her mother to a serial killer. In her memory, she ran 26 miles. (the Washington Post)
Guns make hate lethal (Los Angeles Times)
5 Years Later: Honoring Parkland Victims & Survivors With Action (Brady)
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Recent studies have shown that firearm suicidality rates are rising among Black youth. But why? And is this trend truly new? And, what can we all be doing to prevent this loss of life? Dr. Alfiee Breland Noble, founder of the AAKOMA Project which specializes in servicing the mental health needs of youth of color, and Aalayah Eastmond, Team ENOUGH founding member, and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, join us to talk about the importance of prioritizing mental health in communities of color and how stigma and a lack of culturally competent resources can often make seeking help more difficult. We also break down the ways in which we all — no matter who we are — can better listen, and help, the young people in our lives. Further reading:How Often Are Guns Involved in Accidental Deaths? (the Trace)
State of Mental Health for Youth of Color 2022 (the AAKOMA Project)
Why Are More Black Children Dying by Suicide? (the New York Times)
Firearm Deaths Grow, Disparities Widen (the CDC)
Black Youth Suicide Rates Rising, Defying Historic Trends (New York University)
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In the United States, over 90% of mass shootings are committed by men and boys. They're also predominantly the victims of gun violence. But why are men so tied to the vast majority of America's gun violence? Psychologist and authorDr. Ronald F. Levant, who specializes in the psychology of masculinity and gender (and who has a great new book out,The Tough Standard: The Hard Truths About Masculinity and Violence), sat down with Kelly and JJ to talk about whether or not masculinity and gun violence are intrinsically connected, how advertisers and manufacturers have leaned into societal pressures about masculinity to sell firearms, and how we all (whether we identify as male or not) can combat violence. Further reading:Ending gun violence isn't an "either/or" question: It must be a "both/and" (Salon)
Masculinity, mental illness and guns: A lethal equation? (CNN)
Guns, Terror, and Hegemonic Masculinity (Harvard)
Media Coverage Misses the Gender Issues at the Heart of Mass Shootings (Ms. Magazine)
Bushmaster Rifle Ad Reminds Us To Ask More About Masculinity And Gun Violence (Huffpost)
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The gun lobby has been working for decades to drown out reputable research on guns and gun violence by funding disinformation. Devin L. Hughes, the co-founder and president of GVPedia, a non-profit organization that provides access to the largest publicly available gun study database and actively fights against misinformation about gun violence, knows this better than anyone. This week, Devin joins JJ and Kelly to discuss the “firehose of falsehood” — how groups like the NRA have effectively used disinformation to flood the research landscape with inaccuracies to change the narrative and ultimately achieve success in the courts and legislatures — and the outsized impact that flood of disinformation continues to have. Devin also shares strategies for promoting truth in effort to prevent gun violence, as well as how to separate reality from disinformation. Further reading:
Facts About Firearms Policy Initiative(GVPedia)
MYTH: 98% of Mass Shootings Occur in Gun-Free Zones (GVPedia)
MYTH: Gun bans always increase the murder rate (GVPedia)
How Often Are Guns Used For Self-Defense? (the Trace)
Defensive Gun Use: Gary Kleck Misfires Again (Armed with Reason)
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: gun violence is a public health crisis. It's an ongoing emergency that impacts more than just our physical safety, it also impacts our mental and emotional health. Even if you haven't experienced gun violence firsthand, folks across America are struggling to deal with the trauma of being constantly under fire. So what to do with those feelings? Well, there are lot of ways to cope with your trauma — and one of them is to reach out and speak with someone who understands. Today, hosts Kelly and JJ sat down with Courtney Hunter, Vice President Public Policy and Advocacy at Crisis Text Line.
Courtney breaks down why meeting folks where they are, culturally aware communication, and trauma informed care is so important.
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Further reading:How To Cope With Gun Violence (Crisis Text Line)
On Trauma, Racism, and How We Show Up for Each Other (Crisis Text Line)
Mental Health, Gun Violence, And Why America Connects Them (NPR)
What Gun Violence Does to Our Mental Health (NY Times)
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Donny Kashh is a lot of things — a creative director, a motivational speaker, a mental health advocate, an amputee — and a survivor of gun violence. On October 19, 2019, Donny survived being shot six times by an unknown man. The attack left Donny in a coma, and led to the removal of his left leg. In the aftermath (and while attempting to heal during a global pandemic), Donny struggled with his mental health and in finding his way forward. He joined hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how he now devotes himself to helping other amputees and survivors of gun violence, who may also be feeling lost after such a dramatic life change.
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Further reading:Amputee Donny Kashh marks three years since being shot (Toronto Sun)
Bravery After Six Bullets (Toronto Sun)
Shooting survivors describe life after gun violence (CBS)
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"More guns equal less crime" is perhaps one of the most pervasive myths in the United States; the reality is, firearms simply don't make us safer. This false data has since been used as justification in any number of laws, and is frequency referenced in gun lobby rhetoric. It's also been used as the basis for other false (yet popular) claims, like the myth that shooters choose "gun free zones" to commit their crimes.
Hosts Kelly and JJ were joined by Dr. John Donohue (C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Standford Law) and Erin Davis (Senior Counsel, Trial & Appellate Litigation at Brady) to: break down where these myths, pervasive as they are, came from; what gave them their power, and their stickiness; and how can you, as listeners, fight back against disinformation?
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Further reading:Will a Gun Keep Your Family Safe?(the Trace)
Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States (AJPH)
MYTH: Mass Shooters Target Gun-free Zones (GVPedia)
Why John Lott Is the Right's Favorite Gun Researcher (the Trace)
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Dr. Doreen Marshall of AFSP — the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention — is back in studio with hosts Kelly and JJ, this time answering your listener questions. Doreen brilliantly broke down how best to handle complicated situations like the following:
- "I've recently lost my partner — how can I possibly handle the holidays?"
- "My child lost a friend to firearm suicide; how should I talk to her about this?"
- "My parents are gun owners, but also elderly and experiencing health issues and mental decline. How can I bring up a conversation about possibly removing their guns?"
and
- "I lost a friend a few years ago, and still want to know why he felt like he couldn’t come to me...Why didn’t he? And what can I do to feel better?”
If you're a survivor of suicide loss, have a survivor in your life, are struggling, or are concerned about suicide prevention (and truly, who among us doesn't fit into at least one of these categories?), this is an essential episode for you.
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Further reading:AFSP chapters and their work (AFSP)
I've lost someone (AFSP)
What Survivors of Suicide Want You to Know (Maryland SPIN)
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Firearm suicides account for more than half of all suicide deaths in the United States. We've talked at length on RBB about those losses, and how we can help prevent them, from storing firearms locked and unloaded to reaching out for help. But folks who have lost loved ones to suicide may also be reeling with being a survivor of suicide loss. To talk about how to talk about suicide, how to best support one another, and how survivors of suicide loss have built committees of healing, hosts Kelly and JJ were joined by Dr. Doreen Marshall of AFSP — the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, also known as Survivor Day, takes place each year on the Saturday before American Thanksgiving, with virtual and in-person events in communities everywhere. Learn more and find an event near you.
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Further reading:AFSP chapters and their work (AFSP)
I've lost someone (AFSP)
What Survivors of Suicide Want You to Know (Maryland SPIN)
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Akilah DaSilva was only 23 when he was shot and killed during the April 22, 2018 Waffle House shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Akilah was at the Waffle House with his girlfriend Tia Waggoner and brother, Abede DaSilva. In the aftermath of the shooting, Akilah's family learned that the AR-15 used to kill him and three others had been unlawfully given to the shooter.
Akilah's family has since fought for gun violence prevention, as well as for his legacy as a brilliant musician, engineer, and friend, with their organization the Akilah DaSilva Foundation. Hosts Kelly and JJ were joined by Akilah's brother Abede and his mother Shaundelle Brooks, both now survivors and advocates, to discuss the reality of life "after" a mass shooting, gun violence in Tennessee, and how to do what Akilah had once written — to "forget about making a hashtag, Let's throw all the guns in a trash bag."
You can listen to Akilah's music, under the name NatrixDream, here.
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Further reading:23-Year-Old Waffle House Shooting Victim Akilah Dasilva Will Live On Through His Music (Blavity)Waffle House Shooting Suspect Once Had His Guns Taken Away. He Then Got Them Back (New York Times)
Pleas for common sense gun reform raised after Waffle House Shooting (NC Reporter)
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Gun violence in schools is a hard topic for parents and guardians to handle — but not talking about the reality of gun violence in the US isn't a solution. You, the listeners, have been writing in with your concerns, which included things like the following:
- "If I bring up gun violence to my kids, aren’t I just making them more afraid?”
- "Should I play the news in front of my child?"
- "My kindergartener is obsessed with “keeping us safe from the bad guys." What should I do?"
- "My teenager is constantly anxious without her phone, how do I handle that?"
and
- "I’m 15. I’m scared all the time, not just at school. How do I talk to my parents?"
Nancy Kislin, LCSW, an expert on school lockdowns and children's anxiety related to gun violence, joined hosts Kelly and JJ to answer those questions. Listen in to learn concrete ways to handle these tough conversations.
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Further reading:School Shootings Are Raising Anxiety and Panic in U.S. Children (Time)
Many children are regularly exposed to gun violence (NPR)
The Impact of Gun Violence on Children and Adolescents (KFF)
How Can I Help My Anxious Child Feel Safe After Mass Tragedies in the News? (Parents)
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Does experiencing racism or discrimination make you more likely to buy a gun? Does being worried about being a target of hate make you more likely to carry a firearm with you? Evidence seems to suggest yes, as increased rates of hate crimes against members of the AAPI community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented rise in Asian American gun ownership.
To examine how firearm behaviors (how guns were stored, carried, and thought about) were impacted by racism and discrimination experiences, Dr. Hsing-Fang Hsieh (University of Michigan) and Dr. Tsu-Yin Wu (Eastern Michigan University) launched a new, landmark study, which they joined the podcast to share with hosts Kelly and JJ.
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Further reading:Asian Americans are buying guns in record numbers. What's Caused This Surge? (the Guardian)
'I've Never Seen This Level of Fear.' Why Asian Americans Are Joining the Rush to Buy Guns (Time)
Gun Industry Targets Asian Americans as First-Time Gun Owners and Future Pro-Gun Advocates (Violence Policy Center)
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The gun lobby is fond of a particular view of American history, one where firearms reigned supreme (and unregulated). However, that view of America's past is deeply distorted, as Dr. Robert Spitzer details in his new book The Gun Dilemma: How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights.
Dr. Spitzer joined host JJ to detail the ways in which courts — especially the Supreme Court — have been using a mix of originalist theory and misunderstood history to rule on gun issues including but not limited to assault weapons, open carry, permit less carry, and the so-called Second Amendment sanctuary movement.
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Further reading:What Are So-Called “Second Amendment Sanctuaries?" (Brady)US tragedies from guns have often – but not always – spurred political responses (the Conversation)
SUNY Cortland professor on why gun violence is on the rise (Spectrum News)
The Renegade Sheriffs (the New York Times)
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On the surface, the name Merchant Category Code (MCC) seems pretty dry. But a new MCC may be a powerful tool in preventing mass shootings, as well as other forms of gun violence. An MCC is an identifier used by banks to identify purchases made from candy stores to snowmobile retailers, and is used to spot transaction patterns and possible fraud. But as of this month, there is a new code that can be used to report suspicious purchasing patterns of firearms and ammunition to law enforcement.
This reporting is key in preventing mass shootings, as in 8 out of the 13 mass shootings that killed 10 or more people between 2007 and 2018, killers financed their attacks with credit card purchases —many made only weeks before the shootings.
To discuss the ins and outs of this code, and what you can be doing to make sure it's implemented, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by three folks involved in the fight to make the new MCC happen: Igor Volsky, Founder and Executive Director of Guns Down America; Josh Scharff, Brady Senior Counsel and Director of Programs; and Heather Sallan, co-president of the Brady Northern Nevada chapter and a survivor of the Route 91 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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Mentioned in this podcast:How a new credit card code could help stop mass shootings (ABC News)
Brady Calls For Wide Use of New MCC (Brady)
How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings (New York Times)
Credit Card Issuers Join the Fight to Limit Mass Shootings (New York Times)
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Many myths about youth suicide exist — from the belief that just talking about suicide will encourage harm, to there is no way to "stop" someone experiencing suicidality, to means not mattering, and beyond. Allowing these myths to be perpetuated is hazardous to young people, as over the past decade, youth firearm suicide has reached its highest rate. And in particular, the firearm suicide rate among children and teens has increased faster than among any other age group. How can we all better serve the young people in our lives? Hosts Kelly and JJ sat down with Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, Chief Medical Officer at The Jed Foundation to discuss what we get wrong, and how we can get it right.
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Mentioned in this podcast:It's Okay to Say Suicide (Jed)
What You Need to Know About Youth Suicide (NAMI)
How easy access to guns at home contributes to America’s youth suicide problem (the Conversation)
Locking up guns could reduce teen and childhood firearm deaths by a third (CNN)
Preventing Youth Suicide: Tips for Parents & Educators (NASP）
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More police officers die by suicide than are killed in the line of duty. This high rate is concerning, especially as reported suicide rates of first responders are thought to be much lower than the reality. And when it comes to means, firearms are overwhelmingly used. Why are these rates so high? To find out, our three guests (who happen to have served over a combined 80 years in law enforcement, in addition to being experts on suicide) joined host JJ. Dennis Harris (founder of smart gun lock company T-Lock, and father of TaLeah), Dr. Steve Albrecht (author of Stay Safe At Work: Your Ultimate Guide to Workplace Security, The Police Professional: 60 Ways to Lead, and more) and Steve Hough (Chief Operating Officer of First H.E.L.P., a organization devoted to reducing mental health stigma for First Responders through education, advocacy, and training), all share their personal, and professional, thoughts on what first responders — and the people that care about them —can do to help protect those in their lives that took an oath to "protect and serve."
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Mentioned in this podcast:Police face dilemma over when to take a suicidal officer’s gun (Los Angeles Times)
Police Stress and Police Suicide (Crime Time)
Death Behind the Badge: The Silent Epidemic of Police Suicides (Psychology Today)
Where Are You Hiding (First Help)
Police Stress and the Suicide Link (Department of Justice)
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Today, Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a non-partisan non-profit organization, but in the 90s he was at the helm of the organization that would one day become known as Brady: Handgun Control Inc. His presidency saw vital changes in gun violence prevention — during his time from 1992 to 1996, the Brady Bill, the assault weapons ban, and the large-capacity ammunition magazine ban all passed. In this episode, Richard joins hosts Kelly and JJ to share the critical lessons learned in passing that legislation, what it was like to see the assault weapons ban sunset in 1994, and why reinstating the ban (and getting new legislation passed) is so imperative.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Battle Over the Brady Bill and the Future of Gun Control Advocacy (DOJ)
It’s been 20 years since the Brady bill passed. Here are 11 ways gun politics have changed. (Washington Post)
When the gun lobby lost and America won: 25 years later, the Brady Bill is a case study in courage and common sense (Clinton Foundation)
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In 1994, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, commonly called the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which banned 19 assault weapons (and their copies) as well as other semi-automatic firearms with two or more specified features. That federal ban, however, expired on September 13, 2004.
When it expired, assault weapons and high-capacity magazines were suddenly legalized, unless banned by state or local laws. Activists in 2004 fought tirelessly to try to keep the ban in place — and they haven't stopped yet. Two of those original organizers — Donna Dees-Thomases, founder of the Million Mom March and Shikha Hamilton, Vice President of Organizing at Brady, joined hosts Kelly and JJ to detail what it was like when the ban first lapsed, why the fight for a new assault weapons ban has continued, and how our listeners can join the fight.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Democrats Failed to Extend Assault Weapons Ban in 2004. They Regret It. (the New York Times)
I’ve spent 18 years fighting for gun control. Here’s how we win. (Fast Company)
The 2022 Assault Weapons Ban Could Help Solve the Gun Violence Epidemic (Teen Vogue)
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CEO, documentarian, activist, father...and survivor. Oronde McClain was only ten when he was shot in the back of the head. In the decades that have followed, Oronde has dedicated himself to ending gun violence in his native Philadelphia. He joined hosts Kelly and JJ to detail the role that forgiveness has played in his healing, why he continues to be a gun violence prevention advocate, and why survivors (and their struggles) need to be at the forefront of the gun violence prevention movement.
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Mentioned in this podcast:How one Philly survivor overcame gun violence and PTSD (PBS)
Oronde McClain, shot at 10 in Philly, is now a VA psych (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Child shooting victim: City must focus efforts on survivors (KYW News Radio)
I was shot in the head as a child. It took 20 years, and other survivors, to heal (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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TaLeah Christine Harris was only 15 when she died. A vibrant young woman, she enjoyed art and fashion, but suffered from anxiety and depression. On April 30th, 1998, she gained access to an unsecured firearm — her father, law enforcement officer, Dennis Harris' duty weapon —and died of suicide.
Since then Dennis and the whole Harris family have fought for suicide prevention and for responsible firearm storage. Now retired after 41 years in law enforcement, Dennis runs T-Lock, a company that produces smart gun locks with motion sensor alarms. In part two of this episode, Dennis joins hosts Kelly and JJ to share how his family created their company T-Lock, why he feels every gun should be sold with a lock, and how safe storage needs to be normalized.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Retired lieutenant creates advanced gun lock after his daughter died by suicide (Fox)
Firearm Access is a Risk Factor for Suicide (Harvard School of Public Health)
How easy access to guns at home contributes to America’s youth suicide problem (the Conversation)
Locking up guns could reduce teen and childhood firearm deaths by a third (CNN)
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TaLeah Christine Harris was only 15 when she died. A vibrant young woman, she enjoyed art and fashion, but suffered from anxiety and depression. On April 30th, 1998, she gained access to an unsecured firearm — her father, law enforcement officer, Dennis Harris' duty weapon —and died of suicide.
In the years that followed, Dennis and the whole Harris family became committed advocates for suicide prevention and for safe storage. Now retired after 41 years in law enforcement, Dennis runs T-Lock, a company that produces smart gun locks with motion sensor alarms. In this episode, Dennis joins hosts Kelly and JJ to share TaLeah's story, his experiences as an advocate, and his hopes that T-Lock (and products like it) will prevent other families from experiencing the suffering that he has.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Retired lieutenant creates advanced gun lock after his daughter died by suicide (Fox)
Firearm Access is a Risk Factor for Suicide (Harvard School of Public Health)
How easy access to guns at home contributes to America’s youth suicide problem (the Conversation)
Locking up guns could reduce teen and childhood firearm deaths by a third (CNN)
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been in the news again, this time as he sits in court for the first of three defamation damages cases against him. The cases have been brought by some families who lost children and loved ones in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.
On December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, 26 people were killed including 20 students who were between six and seven years old, and 6 staff members. Within hours of that shooting, Jones had gone on-air and declared the shooting a hoax, a "false flag" meant to attack the Second Amendment, and more. These lies then led to survivors and victims families suffering additional trauma, from folks showing up at their home, to online harassment, to death threats.
In this minisode, hosts Kelly and JJ break down why this case matters so much to gun violence prevention, and where we go from here with conspiracy theorists and misinformation.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook attack was '100% real' (AP News)
A jury tags Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages for 2 Sandy Hook parents (NPR)
A Sandy Hook Mother Confronts Alex Jones (New York Times)
Mom who confronted Alex Jones says he slipped her a note at trial (CNN)
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This summer has been one marked by mass shootings. Since Memorial Day of this year alone there have been 178 mass shootings, which have killed 165 people and injured 764 others. And as public fear increases, so too does misinformation and myth about mass murderers and mass shootings. To cut through the noise, and learn what may drive shooters, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. P Shavaun Scott. Dr. Scott is a clinically licensed psychotherapist who has spent the last 30 years studying, and working with, victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Together they discuss Dr. Scott's most recent book, The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence, the pathways people follow to violence, and how we can all combat shootings before they happen.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Bullies and black trench coats: The Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths (the Washington Post)
Cold Methodical Killers: The Psychology of Mass Shooters (Medium)
Who's Responsible For a Mass Shootings (Radio Health Network)
'No Notoriety': the campaign to focus on shooting victims, not killers (the Guardian)
Can we avert the next mass shooting? Yes, and here’s how (CU Boulder Today)
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On average, 2 million American workers become the victims of workplace violence every year, and that includes gun violence. But what sets workplace gun violence apart from other forms of gun violence? And, what can employers and employees do, to help keep one another safe?
To find out, "Red, Blue, and Brady" is launching a 4-part series on gun violence in the workplace. To begin, host JJ is joined by violence expert Dr. Steve Albrecht. The author of 21 books, including the seminal text on workplace shootings, Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace. Together, they discuss what encourages – and discourages – workplace shooters, as well as how businesses can build safer spaces for their clients and employees.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Number of victims of workplace shootings in the United States between 1982 and June 2022 (Statista)
We're Seeing A Spike In Workplace Shootings. Here's Why (NPR)
How Mass Shootings Are Putting Workplace Safety in the Spotlight (HR Exchange)
Surging Gun Sales Could Soon Become a Workplace Concern (Society for Human Resource Management)
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After a mass shooting at a school, we tend to hear some of the same "solutions" tossed around:
- schools should just have one door;
- buy bulletproof backpacks;
- arm teachers; and
- harden schools more broadly.
While we know those "solutions" aren't, in fact, solutions to gun violence, they all point to a very serious question: "what can we do to make kids safe, while we fight for gun violence prevention?"
To help answer that question, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego and the interim executive director for the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. She is also the author of books like the upcoming Lockdown Drills: Connecting Research and Best Practices for School Administrators, Teachers, and Parents and Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities. Together we detail how lockdown drills should be used, how proper training can save lives, and what we can all be doing to make a future for kids where lockdown drills won't be needed.
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Mentioned in this podcast:The Company Behind America's Scariest School Shooter Drills (the Trace)
More schools develop clear backpack policies to combat school shootings. Do they work? (ABC 7 Denver)
Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy (Praeger)
Effects of Lockdown Drills on Students’ Fear, Perceived Risk, and Use of Avoidance Behaviors: A Quasi-Experimental Study (Criminal Justice Policy Review)
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Many gun owners across the US report that they store their guns safely. But what does safely, or responsibly storing, a firearm look like? In a study conducted by John Hopkins and Dr. Cassandra Crifasi, Deputy Director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy, it was found that less than half of the U.S. gun owners store all their guns safely. So, how can gun violence prevention advocates — who know the risk of unsecured firearms — change this public health crisis? How can we all better craft messaging that reaches gun owners, and gun owning communities? To find out, host JJ sat down with Dr. Crifasi to discuss what programs work, what systems don't, and the importance of credible messengers.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Hundreds of Gun Control Bills Have Been Introduced Since Sandy Hook. Why Has Nothing Changed? (Fortune)
Dismantling the Narrative: Gun owner and researcher Cassandra Crifasi aims to change the conversation. (Hopkins Bloomberg)
Study: More than half of all U.S. gun owners fail to store their firearms safely (Minn Post)
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We lose over 40,000 Americans every year to gun violence, and their loss is felt by thousands more. Millions more are injured, or living, with gun violence injuries. Folks who have been thus inducted into this terrible US club of gun violence survivorship have taken up the mantle of fighting for gun violence prevention, hoping to protect others from experiencing the pain they live with. No survivor knows this more than Rachael Joseph, who came to gun violence prevention work after the horrific murder of her beloved aunt, Shelley. In 2018 she founded Survivors Lead, an organization devoted to putting survivors – and trauma informed care – at the front of the gun violence movement. She joined hosts Kelly and JJ to share Shelley’s life, what life is like for survivors in the movement, and what we all can do to build a more equitable movement (and, of course, end gun violence).
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When it comes to intimate partner violence, the presence of firearms is deadly. Horrifically, more than one in four homicides in the United States are related to domestic violence. The passing of the bipartisan Safer Communities Act is a massive step forward in addressing gun violence within intimate partner violence, but as guest Rachel Graber (Director of Public Policy, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence) broke down forhosts Kelly and JJ, we're not at the finish line yet. This bill partially closes the so-called "dating loophole," in that domestic partners convicted of domestic abuse will no longer be able to purchase firearms, rather than just spouses or former spouses (though there are time limits and other provisions). Rachel explains what the bill does (and doesn't do), what impact recent Supreme Court decisions may have on gun laws, and how to address intimate partner violence better.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Reauthorize VAWA (Brady)
NCADV Commends Senate Negotiators for Partially Closing Dating Loophole in Legislative GVP Package (NCADV)
Why Closing the ‘Boyfriend Loophole’ Would Be a Huge Deal (New York Magazine)
SCOTUS Says People Have a Right to Carry Guns in Public (the Trace)
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Last week the Supreme Court, in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, struck down New York's previously existing restrictive firearms licensing law. In his decision, Justice Clarence Thomas made the case that Americans have a two-part right to “keep” guns in their homes and “bear” them in public. This decision has left many Americans with a lot of questions, including but not limited to: "how was this case decided?"; " what does the ruling mean for existing, and future, gun laws?"; "what implications does this ruling have for public health?"; and, of course, "where do we go from here?".
To answer these questions and more, a panel of researchers and activists join to unpack the recent Supreme Court decision. Together, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by: Dr. Alex McCourt (John Hopkins' Center for Law & the Public's Health), Dr. Gerald E. Harmon (physician, Board of Trustees member and former President of the American Medical Association), Jonathan Lowy (Chief Counsel and Vice President of Legal, Brady), and Aalayah Eastmond (gun violence survivor and Executive Council Member, Team ENOUGH).
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Mentioned in this podcast:Supreme Court strikes down N.Y. law that restricts concealed carrying of guns (NPR)
U.S. Supreme Court expands gun rights, strikes down New York law (Reuters)
SCOTUS Says People Have a Right to Carry Guns in Public (the Trace)
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It had been almost 30 years since the Senate has passed gun safety legislation, until Thursday night, when the U.S. Senate passed the Safer Communities Act. The bill addresses issues like the so-called “boyfriend loophole," creates new requirements for FFLs (federal firearm licensee) designations, a mechanism to ensure that individuals who exhibited signs of dangerousness as minors are appropriately evaluated when seeking to purchase a firearm, and more. While Brady endorses some of the legislation, and has concerns about other aspects of it (you can read more about that here), this bill's passage is a great first step toward a new era of gun violence prevention.
Long time advocates Senator Chris Murphy, Christian Heyne (Vice President of Policy at Brady) and Martina Leinz (President of the Northern Virginia (NOVA) Brady Chapter), and Brady board member) joined hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss what it means that the final bipartisan vote was 65 to 33, why this bill was historic, and what we all must do next to keep fighting for gun violence prevention.
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Mentioned in this podcast:House passes first major federal gun safety legislation in decades, bill will next go to Biden for signature. (CNN)
We celebrate the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Brady)
U.S. Senate passes gun safety bill as Supreme Court knocks down handgun limits (Reuters)
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On the 12th, 20 Senators announced a bipartisan proposal to pass lifesaving gun violence prevention policies. This proposed framework is a historic achievement and leaves the Senate with a roadmap to pass the most comprehensive gun violence prevention policies in almost 30 years, since the Brady Bill established the Brady background check system.
The proposed bill contains points like closing the “boyfriend” loophole, funding extreme risk protection orders, strengthening requirements for federally licensed firearm dealers to sell firearms, and more. To discuss some of what the framework is stated to include, what it means for gun violence in the US, and what work gun violence prevention advocates need to do moving forward, host JJ is joined by Christian Heyne, Vice President of Policy at Brady.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Today, we laid out 2,280 notebooks (Brady)
Brady Urges Action on Senate Bipartisan Gun Violence Bill (Brady)
Senators strike bipartisan gun safety agreement (Politico)
How Bipartisan Gun-Control Talks Actually Succeeded (Atlantic)
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The day before we gathered to lay out 2,280 schoolbooks and broken pencils* before the U.S. Capitol (each one representing the 2,280 children that have been killed by gun violence since the Senate refused to bring a vote on background checks), and two days prior to the 2022 March for Our Lives, host JJ was joined in the Brady offices by Christian Heyne (Vice President of Policy at Brady) and Founders of Change the Ref (and parents of Joaquin "Guac" Oliver), Manuel and Patricia Oliver. Together, as the night turned late, they discussed why continuing to march and maintaining pressure on elected leaders is so important in the ongoing fight against gun violence. ..and what it's like to be marching, once again, in 2022.
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Mentioned in this podcast:How Change The Ref Is Demanding We Bring Back Lockdown To Spark A Conversation Around Gun Safety (Forbes)
Guac: My Son, My Hero (NBC Charlotte)
Fight For Our Future Rally (Brady)
*these notebooks were then donated, following the event
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Our youth-led Team ENOUGH Lobbying Collective program trains students and young people (ages 13-26) on how to lobby legislators in their state capitols. We host a series of webinars and leadership trainings to equip members with the skills to effectively lobby for life-saving legislation to prevent gun violence. And then, together, we take our fight to the halls of power!
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Like a lot of folks, Matt Gordon began his Tiktok account "usmcangryveteran" during Covid-19 lockdowns. He quickly became known for his witty yet detailed explanations of current events, and as his popularity grew, so too did his commitment to fighting for social justice by educating his audience and uplifting other creators from impacted communities. Particularly striking, and viral, were his videos breaking down myths about guns, the reality of firearms ownership, how to be a good ally, and how to fight gun violence. And Matt would know, as a Marine veteran and former rifle and pistol coach. In this episode he joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how to build a community online, how credible messengers can get involved in gun violence prevention, and how we all must get involved.
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Mentioned in this podcast:We've got to do something (Tiktok)
Listen to veterans about the weapons of war (the Washington Post)
Veterans for gun reform (Bradyy)
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As we’ve seen another week pass in the US, that mass shootings have continued – from grocery stores, to schools, to hospitals, to even cemeteries. After these mass shootings that gain national attention, a lot of questions come up in public conversation. Some of those questions posit that gun violence prevention methods aren’t the answer – that gun violence is a product of poor mental health, or video games, or just plain evil. How do we best answer those questions? In this very special episode, we bring you 12 very common questions that are raised after a mass shooting, and the answers that we – 12 different staffers at Brady – give in response.
We respond to the often-used arguments that:
- “We have a mental health problem, not a gun problem.”
- “Criminals don’t follow laws, so more gun laws won’t help.”
- “We need to use the laws we have on the books!”
- “Guns are overall better for the US; more guns equal less crime.”
- “We need to talk about the real cause: social media, video games, and rap music.”
- “It's "too soon" and disrespectful to talk about gun laws after an attack.”
- “A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun, so we should just arm folks.”
- “It’s my 2A right to own a gun, any attempt at regulation is going to lead to a destruction of my rights, my American way of life, and a spread of tyranny.”
- “It’s all about a lack of security; we just need to harden schools, grocery stores, and other targets.”
- “It's not about guns, it's about law enforcement being "soft" on crime --we should be tougher on crime and crack down on would-be attackers.”
- “This is a social issue, and you can’t legislate evil.”
- “Nothing ever gets done, we never pass legislation, so why should I bother trying?”
Learn how we here at Brady respond to these questions -- and how you can respond yourself.
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Mentioned in this podcast:5 Ways You Can Act Now (Brady)
Again and Again and Again (the New York Times)
16 Facts About Gun Violence And School Shootings (Sandy Hook Promise)
A Mass Shooting in Texas and False Arguments Against Gun Control (the New Yorker)
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A church. A grocery store. A school.
In the last 14 days, the nation has seen a number of high-profile shootings, all the while "every day" gun violence continued in communities across the US. If you're scared, angry, frustrated, or even just numb, hosts Kelly and JJ understand — they feel the same way. To discuss the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and ways to respond, they're joined by Dr. Steve Albrecht, Nancy Kislin, and Robert Schentrup. Dr. Steve Albrecht is an author and expert in workplace and school violence prevention and library safety and security; Nancy Kislin is anauthor and expert in helping parents, educators and communities cultivate resilience in kids; and Robert Schentrup is a gun violence survivor and the organizing manager for Team Enough.
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Mentioned in this podcast:Parkland Family Reflects On A Year Of Anguish And Activism (NPR)
Trauma Response Toolkit (Psych Hub)
Talking to Your Kids About School Violence (Help Starts Here)
Workplace violence strategies must account for the 'Age of Rage' (Security Info Watch)
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Mike and Kristin Song's beloved son, Ethan, was only 15 when he was killed with a friend's father's unsecured firearm. Since that terrible day in 2018, Mike and Kristin have been fighting to protect other children like Ethan from gun violence with their organization Song Strong. They've been successful in spreading the passage of Ethan's Law, a bill that requires firearms on residential premises to be safely stored if a minor is likely to gain access without permission, or if a resident is ineligible to possess a firearm.
Together they re-joined host JJ to discuss Ethan's life, the importance of safe storage, how legislation like Ethan's law could save lives, and why safe storage is just another norm that parents need to participate in to keep kids safe.
Mentioned in this podcast:Safe Gun Storage is a Bipartisan Issue: See Florida, Texas, and Maine Laws (Song Strong)Ethan's Law (Song Strong)
‘Ethan Song Film' Tells Story of Teen's Final Days Before Deadly Accidental Shooting (NBC)
Mother of Guilford’s Ethan Song testifies before Congress on gun storage law (CT Post)
Keep Your Family Safe and End Family Fire (Brady)
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More than 81.4 million Americans own guns, and while we hope that those firearms are all stored securely locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition, we sadly know that isn't the case. But how can gun violence prevention originations —and ordinary people— best talk to those in their lives about mental health and safe storage? Today, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by an expert in that area, Michael Sodini. Mike is a 3rd generation firearm industry professional, a podcaster, and the President of Walk the Talk America, a nonprofit that sits at the intersection of mental health awareness and firearms. He sat down with us to talk all about Walk the Talk America, safe and responsible gun storage, the importance of credible messengers, and why we all need to be more open in our discussions of mental health.
Mentioned in this podcast:Proposition Paper 72 (Mental Health America)
At the Intersection of Guns and Mental Health: The Introductory Course (Walk the Talk America)
Guns and suicide: A fatal link (Harvard School of Public Health)
The Truth About Suicide and Guns (Brady)
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In a brand new study in the Washington Post, the paper found that at least 41 American children lose at least one biological parent to gun violence a day. Pulitzer-finalist journalist and author John Woodrow Cox did a deep dive into the lives of some of those children left behind, including siblings Kaleigh (7) and Kavon (11), in his latest piece, "Orphaned by gun violence: Two kids, two shootings, two parents gone." John joined hosts Kelly and JJ to detail how this study came about, what life is like after losing a parent to gun violence, and what it means to know that "there [were] only 11 days in 2020 when The Post did not find a child whose parent had been shot and killed."
Mentioned in this podcast:Children Under Fire: An American Crisis (Harper Collins)
"Four years ago, I met two extraordinary children" (John Woodrow Cox, Twitter)
Unequal Burdens of Loss: Examining the Frequency and Timing of Homicide Deaths Experienced by Young Black Men Across the Life Course (American Journal of Public Health)
Children in Baltimore facing harsh reality of losing a parent to gun violence (Fox)
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38 states in the US now have "Stand Your Ground Laws," statutes that allow anyone who believes their life to be in danger to use lethal force in an act of self-defense, removing the duty to retreat in a public space. For example, since 2005, in 57% of Florida Stand Your Ground cases there was “clear evidence that the person who claimed that Stand-Your Ground could have safely retreated to avoid the confrontation," but didn't.
Yet those who get to use that Stand Your Ground defense in the US judicial system is very different from who the law is used against, a lethal disparity that is built on our nation's history of racism, the country's weak gun laws, and the rhetoric of gun lobby groups.
To break down how these laws work — or rather, don't — hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Kami Chavis, Vice Provost, Professor of Law, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest Law.
Mentioned in this podcast:The Dangerous Expansion of Stand-Your-Ground Laws and its Racial Implications (the Duke Center for Firearms Law)
Race, Justifiable Homicide, and Stand Your Ground Laws: Analysis of FBI Supplementary Homicide Report Data (US Department of Justice)
What you need to know about 'stand your ground' laws (CNN)
Stand your ground laws spread after Trayvon Martin spotlight (Los Angeles Times)
It Took 74 days for Suspects to be Charged in the Death of a Black Jogger (Washington Post)
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One thing we all have in common: we're afraid. And that fear can keep us from talking about hard, important things, as if not speaking on it will somehow protect us. Sadly, that's not the case, especially when it comes to gun violence.
A possible solution to gun violence may be coming at the issue from a harm reduction perspective, which requires meeting people where they are, and having some very honest conversations. To discuss how harm reduction may help in gun violence prevention, we're joined by Stephanie Wittels Wachs. Stephanie is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Lemonada Media, a podcast network that aims to make life suck less. She also co-created and hosts Last Day,a podcast devoted to talking about massive epidemics, that is now tackling America's epidemic of gun violence in it's third season.
Mentioned in this podcast:They lost their brothers to addiction. Now they’re tackling deadly stigmas head on, with humor (Los Angeles Times)
Lemonada Media Announces New Season of Award-Winning Podcast Series, Last Day, A Show Devoted to Tackling Massive Epidemics with Humanity and Finding Solutions (Lemonada)
America's gun culture - in seven charts (CNN)
Gun Violence Is an Epidemic. Better Data Can Help (The Washington Post)
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We know that gun violence truly is intersectional, touching every part of American life. And in turn, so much of the world impacts gun violence. Included in that reciprocal relationship is climate, or more specifically, climate change and global warming. Studies suggest that climate change can worsen gun violence rates, yet initiatives to fight gun violence via fighting climate change are scarce on the ground. This is troubling, as rising global temperatures seem to be leading to rising incidents of gun violence, especially in communities already hit hardest by every day gun violence. To discuss all the ways that climate change could worsen gun violence rates, and how we all can help combat that rise, we’re joined by Dr. Daniel Semenza, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
Mentioned in this podcast:How Climate Change Could Worsen Gun Violence (the Trace)
A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us (New York Times)
When Ice Cream Sales Rise, So Do Homicides. Coincidence, or Will Your Next Cone Murder You? (Slate)
Dire forecast: A theoretical model of the impact of climate change on crime (Theoretical Criminology)
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This March, one man was accused of shooting five unhoused men in Washington DC and New York city over the course of a month. While the suspect in that case is now in custody, the national attention from the case led many – us included – to ask a question: “how does gun violence specifically impact unhoused people?” The answer: "in many varied, and terrible, ways."
To discuss how gun violence both leads to individuals being unhoused, how people experiencing homelessness are further victimized by gun violence, and what you can do to help, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by: Mr. Donald Whitehead, Executive Director of National Coalition for the Homeless; Dr. Hsun-Ta Hsu, Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri ; and advocate Isabella D'Alacio, who is a member of both Brady’s Team Enough Executive Council and serves as the federal policy associate at March For Our Lives.
Mentioned in this podcast:Serial murders, beatings and beheadings: Violence against the homeless is increasing, advocates say (Washington Post)
The true story behind the ‘welfare queen’ stereotype (PBS)
Firearm Violence Exposure and Suicidal Ideation Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness (Journal of Adolescent Health )
Homelessness and housing experiences among LGBTQ young adults in seven US cities (Cityscape)
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush Camps Outside Capitol to Protest End of Eviction Moratorium Amid Pandemic (People)
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Daniel “Bud” Williams was only 16 when he was shot outside his home in Buffalo, NY, in August of 2003. The handgun used to severely wound the high school basketball star was traced to a gunrunner, who had purchased over 250 guns at a Dayton, Ohio gun show in a mere 6 months. Almost 100 of those weapons – mostly “Saturday night special” handguns – had been purchased from a single dealer, via straw purchases, paid for in cash. The gun runner then brought those guns to Buffalo, where they were sold on the street for two to three times the purchase price.
Bud, and his family, along with Brady Legal and outside counsel, brought a lawsuit against the gun companies that had allowed these illegal sales to take place. That suit, Williams v. Beemiller, led to a landmark decision: for the first time since the passage of PLCAA, a court ruled that a gun manufacturer and distributor can be held liable for supplying guns to traffickers.
To discuss how the Williams family brought this case, and what it meant for gun violence more broadly, two men who worked on the case -- Jonathan Lowy, Senior Counsel and VP of Brady Legal, and James W. Grable, Jr, Partner at Connors LLC and co-counsel in this case -- joined hosts Kelly and JJ.
Mentioned in this podcast:The damage done (the Buffalo News)
Firearms industry's immunity may not be bulletproof (the Buffalo News)
Real gun reform without Congress: Lawsuits demolish the "good guy with a gun" (Salon)
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On November 6th, 2015, a gun was acquired illegally via straw purchase.
On November 7th, 2015, Donald Rice (75) and his wife Ladonna (71), were shot and killed with that gun, during a home robbery. The assailants then set fire to the Rices' home in an attempt to cover up their crime.
Miles away from Midway, Arkansas, Judy and Bill Miller, got a terrifying call. Judy, Don's sister, was left waiting to hear what had happened to her beloved older brother. In the days that followed the shooters were apprehended, but questions were raised: how did they get access to the gun?
In the days, weeks, months, and years that followed, Bill and Judy, along with Brady legal and outside council, joined together to bring a suit against the seller who allowed this straw purchase – all to help prevent such a tragedy from happening to other families. Today, they joined hosts Kelly and JJ, as well as Erin Davis (Senior Counsel with Brady Legal) who worked on the case, to discuss Don and Ladonna, what the case was like, and what fighting for gun violence prevention means for them.
Mentioned in this podcast:US Supreme Court Upholds Law Prohibiting Straw Purchase of Guns (Brady)
Amid Dearth of Federal Action on Straw Buyers, States Forge Ahead on Their Own (the Trace)
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In 2002, two shooters killed 17 people and injured 9 during a nine-month rampage across the country. Ten of those killings, and three woundings, occurred over just three weeks in areas around Washington, DC, which is why these horrific events have since been called the Beltway Sniper or DC Sniper attacks.
After the shooters were caught, law enforcement discovered that the perpetrators had obtained their gun, a Bushmaster XM-15 E2S .223 caliber semi-automatic assault rifle, from a gun store that had no record of selling the weapon. The store was found to have run itself in a grossly negligent manner; in the three years before the attacks, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had found that over 200 firearms had vanished from the merchant's inventory. Brady, in cooperation with outside counsel, survivors, and victims' families, then brought a lawsuit against the dealer and Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the rifle used.
In this episode, host JJ is joined by Jonathan Lowy, Senior Counsel and VP of Brady Legal, to discuss that lawsuit — Johnson v. Bullseye — which alleged that the store was responsible for the attacks due to its grossly negligent sales practices having allowed the shooters to acquire the weapon used. The suit also ventured that Bushmaster should be held accountable for continuing to supply the store despite years of ATF audits documenting myriad egregious violations. Lastly, the suit claimed that the defendants created a public nuisance by distributing and selling guns in such a grossly negligent manner.
Mentioned in this podcast:The case of Johnson v. Bullseye (Brady)
D.C. sniper case settlement said to be reached (NBC News)
Sniper Victims Join Lawsuit to Fight Gun Use (Washington Post)
Brady Publishes Largest Searchable Database of ATF Inspection Reports (Brady)
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Rachel Renee Duncan was a kindhearted, talented 25-year-old. Close with her family and beloved by her friends, her death in March of 2018 devastated her loved ones and community. Her murder, at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, should have never happened. Rachel had filed for, and received, a personal protection order that prohibited the shooter from purchasing or possessing firearms.
And yet, two weeks later the shooter nevertheless gained access to a gun at a gun store/shooting range, where he rented a firearm and then simply walked out the front door with it. Within an hour of leaving the range, the shooter went to Rachel’s work, and killed her.
Since then, Rachel’s mother, Gail Duncan, has fought to raise awareness of domestic violence and gun violence. In 2020, Gail joined Brady Legal and co-counsel Sommers Schwartz, P.C., to file a first-of-its-kind wrongful death lawsuit against the range that allowed the shooter to leave with a gun. In doing so, Gail hoped to be a voice for her daughter — and to save other families from experiencing the same pain.
Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Gail, as well as Jonathan Lowy (Senior Counsel and VP of Brady Legal) and Erin Davis (Senior Counsel with Brady Legal) who worked on the case, to discuss what happened to Rachel, what loopholes exist within gun laws, and what it’s like to pursue legal relief after a shooting.
Mentioned in this podcast:Michigan Mother Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit (Brady) Beyond Bullet Wounds: Guns in the Hands of Domestic Abusers (Brady)Police: Man stole gun from shooting range before killing ex-girlfriend (Lansing State Journal)
Firearms and domestic violence: the intersections (Office of Violence Against Women)
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Like other forms of intimate partner violence, teen dating violence encompasses a wide range of abusive behavior, from physical violence to emotional abuse to sexual coercion. A 2019 study found that nearly 1.5 million young adults and teens in the US – that's one out of three young people – have experienced an abusive relationship before reaching adulthood. Access to firearms only increases the risk for teenagers, as intimate partner violence involving a firearm is twelve times more likely to result in a fatality than any other weapon.
But while we know that in domestic violence situations involving adults that when an abusive partner has access to a firearm a domestic violence victim is five times more likely to be killed, we don't have statistics on the risk to young people, due in large part to a 1995 provision called the Dickey Amendment, which prohibited the use of federal funds to advocate or promote "gun control."
To honor Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and to bring attention to how we can all make one another safer, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Annah Bender, assistant professor at University of Missouri–St. Louis’, who is an expert on intimate partner violence, firearms access, and dealing with trauma.
To get help specifically targeted to teens, you can contact the national teen domestic violence support hotline at 1-866-331-9474 by texting LOVEIS to 22522 or by going online at https://www.loveisrespect.org/ .
You can also contact the national domestic violence hotline at 1-800-799-7233 by texting START to 88788 or by going online at https://www.thehotline.org/.
Mentioned in this podcast: Teen Dating Violence Prevention Resources for 2022 (NSVRC)
Preventing Teen Dating Violence (CDC)
Guns and Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescents: a Scoping Review (Journal of Family Violence)
Teen Dating Violence Is an Indicator of Gun Violence (Teen Vogue)
What Are Extreme Risk Laws (Brady)
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As a young man growing up in rural Kansas, Ryan Busse grew up with guns. An avid hunter and environmentalist, he was thrilled when he got a position with the firearms manufacturer Kimber America — which for him, "was like a kid who loved baseball getting called up into the majors."
Yet, decades later, he would leave the business he once loved after becoming disillusioned with the industry's response to mass shootings and increasing violence. In his new book Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America, Busse lays out the ways in which the gun lobby slowly changed the way gun manufacturers did business, the rise of dangerous rhetoric, and the increasing role fear played in decision making (and sales). Busse joined hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how those changes happened, how the gun industry abandoned traditional gun owners, and what we all can do to fight back against a growing divide.
Mentioned in this podcast:With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes On a Community That Was Once His Own (New York Times)
Blowing the Whistle on the Gun Industry (the Daily Show)
The New West: Ryan Busse’s ‘Gunfight’ among most important books written about guns (Explore Big Sky)
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Why do folks support things that go against their best interests, or sometimes even harm them? For example, we know that most firearm suicides in the US are white men living in rural communities; and yet, that demographic votes against many polices that may help curb the number of gun suicide deaths. Why is there that disconnect? What factors into that decision making?
To try to find answers to that very large question, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Metzl is also the author of books like Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, the Protest Psychosis, and Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality.
Mentioned in this podcast:'Dying of whiteness': why racism is at the heart of America's gun inaction (the Guardian)
How race permeates the politics of gun control (CNN)
Guns and race: The different worlds of black and white Americans (Brookings)
Gun crazy: For too many Americans, guns are tied to masculinity, patriotism and white power (Salon)
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What is a firearm? Is a gun just a weapon, or is it also a symbol of freedom? A mark of masculinity? A token of white supremacy? Just a tool? Or can a gun be all that and more, depending on the wielder?
Anthropologist Brandon Hunter-Pazzara joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how guns can have "social lives"— how they can be transformed into a multitude of identities and uses, and how understanding that transformation (and it's many contexts) can better help us fight back against gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:The possessive investment in guns: towards a material, social, and racial analysis of guns
(Palgrave Communications)
What guns mean: the symbolic lives of firearms (Palgrave Communications)
Gun that killed Trayvon Martin 'makes $250,000 for Zimmerman' (BBC)
Gun Control: It's Really About Guns As Symbols, Not Weapons (Psychology Today)
Men, Dogs, Guns, and Cars--The Semiotics of Rugged Individualism (Journal of Advertising)
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While discussions of white supremacy (the belief that the United States was, and should, remain a mostly white country) have been increasingly discussed, there has been a part of the equation we haven't really touched on: the role white women have played in protecting and perpetuating white supremacist hatred.
While white nationalist groups may be dominated by hypermasculine, misogynist rhetoric, they nevertheless hold many women in their ranks, from the Ku Klux Klan to the Aryan Nation to the alt right. But role do these women play, and what made them join these hate groups? What made them so vulnerable, and then so supportive, of hateful propaganda? And disturbingly, how do people get radicalized into committing violence?
To find out, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by journalist and author Seyward Darby, author of the book Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism . Together, we discuss: how through profiling three prominent women in the white nationalist movement*, Darby traces out what propelled these women (and many like them) into white nationalism; how insidious this rhetoric is; and what we all can do to combat hate-based violence.
*One woman profiled, Corinna, has left the alt right - you can learn about her journey in episode 97 of this podcast
Mentioned in this podcast:Origin of an Insurrection(Brady)
Finding the Women of the White Nationalist Movement (CNN)
How Do Women Become White Supremacists (Rolling Stone)
The Women Behind the Alt-Right (The Atlantic)
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This week, an armed man, making anti-Semitic statements, entered the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, while members celebrated Shabbat morning services. What followed was a ten-hour hostage crisis that thankfully ended when Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the gunman, and the congregants were able to run to safety.
But this terrifying attack isn't the first act of violence based in antisemitism; and, as many experts warn, it might not be the last. To discuss what happened in Colleyville, how anti-Jewish prejudice has become mixed with gun violence, hate crimes, and how we can all push back against this violence, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Shira Goodman, Director of Campaigns and Outreach at the Anti-Defamation League.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Rep. Lauren Boebert Asked A Group Of Jewish Capitol Visitors If They Were Doing "Reconnaissance" (Buzzfeed News)
Kevin McCarthy Leads House GOP In Blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust Remarks (NPR)
The world has moved on from Colleyville. American Jews can't. (Vox)
Extremists Respond to Colleyville Hostage Crisis with Antisemitism, Islamophobia (ADL)
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For the last few years, the term "QAnon" has been trending , and for a frightening reason: the conspiracy theory has been tied to increasingly violent acts. As we've seen in the news, QAnon tears apart families, impacts governmental processes, and is a danger to public safety. While those in gun violence prevention may be familiar with QAnon due to its adherents belief in so-called "false flags," QAnon's attachment to violent extremism and firearms goes far deeper.
To break it all down, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by journalist Mike Rothschild, a writer and researcher who explores the intersections between Internet culture and politics through the lens of conspiracy theories. Mike has literally written the book on QAnon, entitled The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything. Together, we work through not only how QAnon garnered such popularity and why believers are so hard to dissuade, but also why you should still be concerned about this often violent movement that may even be taking hold in your local community.
Mentioned in this podcast:
How Conspiracy Theorists Forced the Cancellation of a School Fundraiser (Daily Dot)
Qanon and the BITE model - behavior, information, thoughts & emotions (Freedom of Mind)
7 ways to talk to QAnon-obsessed loved ones, according to a former white nationalist (Fast Company)
The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making? (West Point)
Prosecutors Say Man With QAnon Ties Fired Gun at Portland Courthouse to “Get Himself in Front of a Federal Judge” to Express Political Views (Willamette Week)
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The first month and a half of 2021 was heartbreaking for Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district.. On December 31st, 2020, his son Tommy Raskin tragically died by suicide after a long battle with depression. Only seven days later, Tommy's father arrived at the Capitol to play his part in certifying the results of the recent presidential election; with him came his daughter, Tabitha, and her husband, Hank. Instead of witnessing a testament to democratic ideals, however, the Representative and his family watched in horror as insurrectionists raged up Pennsylvania Avenue, angry and wild and hell-bent on attempting the unthinkable: a coup in the halls of Congress.
Later, with the wreckage cleared away and the doors back on their hinges, Representative Raskin set aside his grief and returned to the Capitol to lead the impeachment of President Donald Trump -- an undertaking the Representative recounts in Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, his new book on the public madness of January 6 as it collided with the private sorrow of a grieving family. Today, our hosts Kelly and JJ , together with Brady President Kris Brown, welcome Representative Raskin to the podcast for a discussion on the root causes of January 6, the national sickness it continues to feed, the test our democracy sweated through -- and how one father's love for his son stood quietly at the center of it all.
Mentioned in this podcast:Origin of an Insurrection (Brady)
The Attack at the Capitol Did Not Come Out of the Blue (Brady)
Jamie Raskin’s Year of Tragedy and Trump (New York Times)
Rep. Jamie Raskin searches for answers in 'Unthinkable' journey of trauma and grief (NPR)
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On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by supporters of Donald Trump, who sought to overturn his loss in the 2020 American presidential election. The mob assaulted police officers, vandalized property, and looted the building. But to think that the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack was just an one-off peculiarity would be a grave mistake. The forces that gave rise to January 6 are still here, and are still dangerous. To discuss what truly led to the insurrection, what the 1/6 attack meant, and where America stands today, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by: Brady President Kris Brown; President and Chief Executive Officer of the Truman National Security Project and the Truman Center for National Policy, Jenna Ben-Yehuda; and Director of Campaigns and Outreach at the Anti-Defamation League, Shira Goodman.
Mentioned in this podcast:Origin of an Insurrection (Brady)
From Charlottesville to the Capitol (the Truman Project)
Fighting Hate from Home (the Anti-Defamation League)
Jan. 6 Insurrection: One Year Later (Anti-Defamation League)
A look back at the Jan. 6 insurrection (NPR)
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Senator Chris Murphy and Team Enough Executive Council member Simone Paradis have very different lives: To start with, she's a college student, and he's a member of one of the most powerful bodies in the United States. What they have in common, though, is that both were drafted into the gun violence prevention movement on December 14, 2012, when an armed gunman killed 26 students and staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Today, Chris and Simone use their platforms and activism to raise awareness of -- and help prevent -- these tragedies, which have long plagued communities of all types and sizes in every corner of the country. Together, they join hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss their activism, how to fight the filibuster, and how gun violence prevention is too important to give up on.
Mentioned in this podcast:The Filibuster is Killing Us (Brady)
Nine Years Since Sandy Hook, Murphy, Blumenthal, Advocates Honor Victims of Gun Violence, Call for Federal Action (Chris Murphy)
The Mental Impact of Mass Shootings (Brady)
Sandy Hook survivors are speaking out nine years later (Upworthy)
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Senator Chris Murphy and Team Enough Executive Council member Simone Paradis have very different lives: To start with, she's a college student, and he's a member of one of the most powerful bodies in the United States. What they have in common, though, is that both were drafted into the gun violence prevention movement on December 14, 2012, when an armed gunman killed 26 students and staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Today, Chris and Simone use their platforms and activism to raise awareness of -- and help prevent -- these tragedies, which have long plagued communities of all types and sizes in every corner of the country. Together, they join hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss their activism, how to fight the filibuster, and how gun violence prevention is too important to give up on.
Mentioned in this podcast:The Filibuster is Killing Us (Brady)
Nine Years Since Sandy Hook, Murphy, Blumenthal, Advocates Honor Victims of Gun Violence, Call for Federal Action (Chris Murphy)
The Mental Impact of Mass Shootings (Brady)
Sandy Hook survivors are speaking out nine years later (Upworthy)
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On November 30, 2021, four students at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan, were shot and killed by a classmate. Their names were Tate Myre, 16; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Hana St Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17. 8 additional students, teachers, and staff members were injured. Horrifically, it was just one of the 676 mass shootings in 2021.
In the days that followed the Oxford shooting, the shooter's parents were also charged with involuntary manslaughter for failing to secure the handgun used in the shooting. To discuss what those charges mean, what responsibility parents and guardians take on when they bring a firearm into the home, and what we all can do to help make our homes and our communities safer, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by: Kris Brown, President of Brady; Jonathan Lowy, Vice President of Legal and Chief Counsel at Brady; and Darcel Clark, the 13th District Attorney for Bronx County, New York, and co-chair of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:Statement from Prosecutors Against Gun Violence Co-Chairs on the 9th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting (Prosecutors Against Gun Violence)
Prosecutor lays out disturbing timeline in explaining why school shooting suspect's parents were charged (CNN)
Brady applauds Oakland County prosecutor (Brady)
Since Oxford Shooting, At Least 519 Schools Have Closed Nationwide Due to Threats (Newsweek)
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Every day in the US, about 17 veterans die by suicide, and 12 of those 17 veterans (68%) die from a self-inflicted firearm injury. These veterans leave behind a large community of family, friends, and colleagues who are left with big, painful questions.
To discuss how to better understand this loss, how to help the bereaved with their grief, and to prevent other suicides, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Carla Stumpf Patton (Ed.D., LMHC, NCC, FT, CCTP). Dr. Carla Stumpf Patton is the Director of Suicide Postvention Programs of TAPS, the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, an organization which provides comfort, care and resources to all those grieving the death of a military loved one.
Mentioned in this podcast:Firearm Suicide Risk Among Veterans and Military Service Members (Brady)
Postvention is key to suicide prevention (Vantage Point)
Coping During the Holidays (TAPS)
Healing Your Grieving Heart: Embrace Self-Care this Holiday Season (TAPS)
Survivors Helping Survivors Heal (TAPS)
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Ethan Song was 15. He had just had his braces removed, and had plans for the future that he outlined to his mother: to go to college, to join the army, to get married, and to have seven children. His family and friends knew of other plans of Ethan's -- from eating the best sushi in the world with his dad to continuing to rescue abandoned dogs.
But Ethan never got to see those plans to fruition, as on Jan. 31, 2018, he was killed with an unsecured gun while at a friends house. Today, Ethan's parents Mike and Kristin Song fight to protect children like Ethan from gun violence with their organization Song Strong and through their amazing legislation efforts to make Ethan's Law (which requires safe storage of guns in Connecticut) national policy.
Together they join hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss Ethan's life, what family relationships are like after such a traumatic loss, the importance of safe storage, and how legislation like Ethan's law could save lives.
Mentioned in this podcast:Ethan's Law (Song Strong)
‘Ethan Song Film' Tells Story of Teen's Final Days Before Deadly Accidental Shooting (NBC)
Mother of Guilford’s Ethan Song testifies before Congress on gun storage law (CT Post)
Keep Your Family Safe and End Family Fire (Brady)
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Every day, 316 people are shot in the United States. Of those, 106 are killed. But Americans aren't great at dealing with grief. As a result, major questions survivors of gun violence have -- "what is the "right" way to grieve after a shooting?"; "how can I best give support to those I love after a shooting?"; "how are communities supposed to put themselves back together after such a loss?" -- aren't even discussed, let alone answered. And because we don't talk about grief, we get trapped. As best-selling author, psychotherapist, and grief advocate Megan Devine puts it, "so we’re stuck: friends and family want to help, grieving people want to feel supported, but no one gets what they want."
To learn how to better have these conversations, and truly support the survivors in our lives, Megan joins Kelly and JJ for an illuminating discussion.
Mentioned in this podcast:Refuge in Grief
There is no “right” way to grieve (Speaking Grief)
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Megan Devine)How do you help a grieving friend during the holidays? 10 tips to help you help someone you love (Refuge in Grief)
How to Provide Emotional Support for Survivors and People Impacted By Gun Violence (Brady)
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Grief is complex, and personal -- but sadly for many who have lost loved ones to gun violence, their loss is made public. How do you deal with grief when your loss is national news? When the reason you are in mourning is trending on twitter? Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by survivors Andy Parker and Simone Paradis to discuss their own experiences with grief, how to deal with your grief when your loss is all over social media, and how to manage your pain when you're continuously re-traumatized with legal battles and conspiracy theorists.
Andy Parker is the father of Emmy Award-winning reporter Alison Parker, who was only 24 years old when she and her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward, were murdered on live television on August 26, 2015. The video of that shooting remains online and often monetized, despite Andy's continued fight to have it removed. Simone Paradis' is from Newtown, Connecticut, and her then 3rd grader sister survived the December 14, 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 students and 6 staff members dead. In the years following the shooting, conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones claimed that the massacre was faked, and in part was "orchestrated by the U.S. government as part of an elaborate plot to promote stricter gun control laws."
Mentioned in this podcast:Now the world knows about Gray Television (Change.org)
Facebook and Google profit from video of my daughter being murdered (USA Today)
For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety (Amazon)
In a win for victims and facts, Alex Jones is being held accountable for misinformation (USA Today)
Complicated Grief: Why We Mourn People We've Never Met (Talkspace)
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100 people a day die from gun violence in the US. They leave behind hundreds of family, friends, and community members, who then have to try to answer terrible questions like: "how do I go on without my loved one?"; "what is life going to be like now?"; and "how do I support the folks in my life who are hurting?". To discuss how the answers to these questions can be very different, how to manage grief and mourning, and how every loss is different, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by J. Nicole Jones, the Grief Bully. J. Nicole, an author, podcast host, and grief expert, has spent years making sure others grievers know that they are not alone in their experiences.
Mentioned in this podcast:How to Provide Emotional Support for Survivors and People Impacted By Gun Violence (Brady)What happens when being strong is all you have left? (Youtube)
The Grief Bully: A Guided Journal (Grief Bully)
Examining Grief In The Workplace With J. Nicole Jones (Toxic Leadership Podcast)
Grieve and Grow (Clubhouse)
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mark Glaze.
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America’s deadliest shootings are the ones we rarely talk about: Over half of all gun deaths are suicides. This crisis has an outsized impact on the veteran community, with 63 veterans dying by suicide each day. But veterans from across the country are uniting to address this crisis by practicing and promoting safe firearm storage. This Veteran's Day, to discuss suicide prevention, safe firearm storage, and how their “service never stops” as veterans, host JJ is joined by Charles Tawiah, Chris Jachimiec, Sean McDaniel, Shay DeBarr, and Dr. Ted C. Bonar. Charles is a Navy veteran, Chris is an Air Force veteran, Sean is an Army veteran, and Shay is a Marine Corps veteran. Together, we discuss End Family Fire's newest campaign, “Service Never Stops,” veterans' relationships to their firearms, their views on safe storage, and on how we can keep ourselves and those we love safe.
A live, extended version of this podcast aired on 10/19/2021.
Mentioned in this podcast:Chris' story (End Family Fire)
Charles' story (End Family Fire)
Shay's story (End Family Fire)
Service Never Stops (Ad Council)
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Private planes. Thousand dollar suits. Yachts. Russian spies. And a lie -- that the solution to gun violence was just "a good guy with a gun."
A one time nonprofit group meant to encourage marksmanship and sports shooting, by the new millennium the National Rifle Association (NRA) had become "a powerful lobbyist organization that maintained an iron hold on gun legislation in America." And at the head of that changed organization sits CEO Wayne LaPierre, a man who has remained the NRA's figurehead despite decades of mismanagement and corruption.
In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by journalist Tim Mak, who spent over four years investigating the NRA, including but not limited to the dissolution of their relationship with marketing firm Ackerman-McQueen, the NRA's involvement with Russian spies, and gross money mismanagement by top NRA officials. All is revealed in Mak's new book, Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.
For a chance to win your own copy of Misfire, simply email us at podcast@bradyunited.org, or text/call us on the RBB line at (480) 744-3452 and tell us what you could do with $274,695.03 to fight gun violence -- that's the amount of NRA money LaPierre spent on clothes from one luxury retailer alone from 2004 to 2017.
Mentioned in this podcast:
The NRA Files for Bankruptcy, Says It Plans to Move to Texas (the Trace)
NRA Funded LaPierre’s Search for $6 Million Mansion, Document Shows (the Trace)
Lobbyists Sold Out Your Grandfather’s NRA (Brady)
NRA Not Above the Law (Brady)
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On the 18th of January 1984, Dr. Malcolm H. Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated on campus. The gunmen were never caught.
Now, 37 years later, Dr. Kerr's son -- former award-and-title-winning National Basketball Association (NBA) player, and current head coach of the Golden State Warriors -- Steve Kerr, remains a gun violence prevention advocate. Kerr, who has spoken at length about the need for policies like universal background checks and the need to remember the names of those lost to gun violence, is also deeply concerned with a lack of action by government officials.
Today, Coach Kerr joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how he came to be publicly involved in gun violence prevention efforts, why generation Z may save us all, and how we can all better fight for gun violence prevention.
Mentioned in this podcast:Coach Steve Kerr on Why He Fights to Prevent Gun Violence (Brady)
Steve Kerr calls for tougher gun control measures following Boulder shooting (CNN)
Kerr, touched by gun violence, humanizes mass shooting victims (NBC Sports)
Steve Kerr paints a dark picture of gun violence: 'We're all vulnerable' (SF Gate)
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In the final episode of season two, Brady's VP of Policy, Christian Heyne, joins host JJ, to discuss how policies either prevent gun violence and reduce racial inequities— or exacerbate both—that is why we must reckon with racism’s role in gun violence as we craft solutions today.
Then, JJ is joined by co-host Kelly Sampson and the Pulitzer-prize winning historian Heather Ann Thompson, to discuss Dr. Thompson's book Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy . Listen as Dr. Thompson breaks down the ways in which the Attica prison riot of 1971 (and the resulting massacre) had on prisons and policing in the United States. In particular, it changed how people thought about the rights of currently and formerly incarcerated and firearms.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Blood in the Water (Heather Ann Thompson)
Why Mass Incarceration Matters to our Cities, Economy, and Democracy (Ash Center)
The Ugly History of Racist Policing in America: Interview with Heather Ann Thompson (Vox)
How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America (Atlantic)
Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Atlantic)
A version of this podcast initially ran as "Prisons, Punishment, Policing--and Guns."
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This week, the shooter who killed 17 students and faculty members and injured 17 others in the deadliest shooting at a high school in US history plead guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. The plea comes more than three and a half years after the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As a result of the shooter's plea, attention has once again focused on the perpetrator of a massacre, rather than the lives senselessly taken. Constant coverage and reporting on perpetrators, rather than those impacted, does more harm than good. To discuss why that is, host JJ is joined by Team Enough Executive Council members Stephan Abrams and Aalayah Eastmond, who is also a survivor of the Parkland attack. Together, all three discuss the importance of the No Notoriety Campaign and its mission of shifting attention from shooters to victims and survivors
Then JJ sits down with Tom Teves to discuss how the Teves family created No Notoriety after their eldest son Alex was the Aurora Colorado movie theater shooting in July of 2012 while shielding his girlfriend, Amanda.. That shooting left 12 people dead and 70 injured, but in the long days of media coverage that followed, attention was largely focused on the profile of the shooter -- not on the acts of heroism done by people like Alex or the lives of the taken. Tom goes on to share why the campaign is so important, and how individuals and news organizations can “minimize harm” while reporting on mass shootings.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of the 17 lives taken in Parkland that day:
Aaron Feis, 37;
Alaina Petty, 14;
Alex Schachter, 14;
Alyssa Alhadeff, 14;
Cara Loughran, 14;
Carmen Schentrup, 16;
Chris Hixon, 49;
Gina Montalto, 14;
Helena Ramsay, 17;
Jaime Guttenberg, 14;
Joaquin Oliver, 17;
Luke Hoyer, 15;
Martin Duque, 14;
Meadow Pollack, 18;
Nicholas Dworet, 17;
Peter Wang, 15;
and Scott Beigel, 35.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Brady urges attention to the ongoing needs of survivors and affected families, not shooters (Brady)
FBI to media: Don't name mass shooters (KSAT)
Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (PLOS One)
A call to end the media coverage mass shooters want (Ted)
Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, But Report Everything Else: A Pragma
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In our second special birthday episode, host JJ is joined by Joan Peterson, a longtime Brady chapter member and leader, who became a gun violence prevention and domestic violence activist after her sister, Barbara Lund, was murdered. Barbara and her boyfriend, former Iowa state legislator Kevin Kelly, were killed by Lund's estranged husband. Together, they detail why domestic violence cannot be left invisible.
Then, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Kate Ranta (author of Killing Kate: A Story of Turning Abuse and Tragedy into Transformation and Triumph and gun violence prevention advocate) and American journalist, writer, and professor Rachel Louise Snyder. Snyder's eye-opening book, No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, is an absolutely essential read for those who want to address private violence, and addresses how in the US, 1 in 5 women report experiencing severe physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetime. Terrifyingly, when guns are introduced into that terrorism, the risk of serious death and injury only increases, with the American Journal of Public Health reporting that in domestic violence situations the risk of death is five times greater when a gun is present.
If you or someone you know may be at risk, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), or by text at the same number by texting the word "START." There are also advocates available online 24/7 at thehotline.org.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Warning Signs of Abuse (National Domestic Violence Hotline)
Domestic Violence High Risk Team Model (Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center)
What Are Extreme Risk Laws (Brady)
Pass the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021 (Brady)
A version of this podcast initially ran as "What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence (and Guns) is Deadly."
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In this special birthday episode, Legal Counsel and Director of Programs Joshua Scharff details why he thinks so-called "gun truthers" — hoaxers —are deeply troubling, while reviewing a past episode with Fred Guttenberg and Andy Parker.
In this episode, host JJ is also joined by Fred Guttenberg and Andy Parker, two fathers who, after losing their beloved daughters Jaime and Alison to gun violence, have been repeatedly attacked by these so-called “truthers." So-called "gun truthers" — hoaxers — believe that mass killings such as the one at Sandy Hook are government-run plots designed to gin up support for restrictive gun laws, among other things. Some of these individuals even believe such massacres to be entirely fictitious productions in which no one involved is hurt, let alone killed; actors, they will tell you, masquerade as the victims, friends, and grieving kin the country sees in the news.
A version of this podcast initially ran as "The Danger of Hoaxers and "Alternate Truths": Rep. Greene, Alex Jones, and More."
Mentioned in this podcast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Supported Conspiracy Theory That Parkland Massacre Was 'False Flag Planned Shooting' (Forbes)
'Grow a spine': Parkland father's message to Kevin McCarthy (CNN)
Tell Gray Television to grant a co-copyright to help me fight YouTube (Change.org)
US gun violence spawns a new epidemic: conspiracy theorists harassing victims (the Guardian)
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How can we have better conversations with those we disagree with -- or, at the very least, think we disagree with? How can gun owners and non-gun owners, all of whom support gun violence prevention, bridge the gaps in their understanding? And, at the end of the day, how do we let people know we love them?
To answer all these questions and more, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by hosts of podcast Tactical American Conversations, Remmington Campbell and Chase Williams. Together, we break down common missteps and misconceptions in conversation, as well as how to better communicate with one another.
Mentioned in this podcast:
The TAC Team Story (TAC)
How To Have Civil Conversations (Forbes)
How To Talk Politics Without Letting Things Turn Ugly (NPR)
21 Americans With Opposing Views on Guns Sat Down to Talk to Each Other. Here's What They Discovered (Time)
Cultural Competence Classes (Walk the Talk America)
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Journalist Wendi Winters was only 65 when she was killed when a gunman attacked the offices of the Capital Gazette on June 28, 2018. It was one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in American history. In the days that followed, stories of Wendi's heroism spread -- not just her actions in charging the shooter to protect her colleagues -- but her lifetime of service to her family and community. Wendi left behind four children, the youngest of which is Summerleigh Winters Geimer. Summerleigh has taken her activism to tiktok, where she has posted videos about dealing with grief, the trial, gun violence, and gun violence prevention efforts. In this episode, host JJ was able to sit down with Summerleigh to talk about her mom, common misconceptions about gun violence, and why gun violence is just so unfair.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Capital Gazette journalist Wendi Winters posthumously awarded Carnegie Medal for heroism during newsroom shooting (Capital Gazette)
Survived By: One Year After the Capital Gazette Shooting (WUSA9)
The 'Capital Gazette' Gunman's Trial Began Today. Here's What You Need To Know (NPR)
Wendi Winters, a prolific feature writer for The Capital enjoyed sharing stories about local residents (Baltimore Sun)
A snow globe, a poem, a home: Capital Gazette victims revealed, recalled in the things they left behind(Capital Gazette)
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In the past 50 years, the National Rifle Association (NRA) evolved from being a nonpartisan hunting and sport shooting enthusiasts’ organization to a political and lobbying powerhouse. The NRA's work has had a huge impact on not just American gun culture, but on American policy and legislation related to gun violence prevention. To trace that evolution, and it's impact, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by a beloved friend of the pod, gun violence prevention advocate (and father of Jesse and Jaime) Fred Guttenberg, as well as a new friend -- award-winning director and producer Judd Ehrlich of Flatbush Pictures. Together, we discuss Judd's newest film, the Price of Freedom, which explores the role the NRA and the gun lobby has had in America’s gun violence epidemic.
Listeners can tune into the film this Sunday (9/19) at 9pm ET/6pm PDT on CNN, followed by a roundtable with Fred and other folks in the film, anchored by CNN’s Chris Cuomo. You can find more information about how, and where to watch, here.
Mentioned in this podcast:
‘The Price of Freedom’ Review: Guns Across America (New York Times)
A Potent and Disturbing Documentary Looks at the Rise of the NRA (Variety)
Review: ‘The Price of Freedom’ takes aim at the NRA’s rise to political power (LA Times)
‘Price of Freedom’ Doc Director on Power of the NRA, Collective Action and Assault Weapons (Hollywood Reporter)
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Though only 35, Scott Beigel left a lasting legacy with the thousands of children he directly impacted as a beloved teacher, cross country coach, and camp counselor, one who perpetually "made school fun." Yet, in very "Scott fashion," he had made it clear before his death that he never wanted to be thought of as a hero. Nevertheless, Scott was already a humble hero to many when he was murdered in February 14, 2018 during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Scott had broken protocol and was ushering students in the hall to safety, ultimately getting over 20 students into his room.
To celebrate Scott's life, his family and friends have since worked tirelessly to honor one of the things Scott loved most -- camp! -- and to prevent gun violence with work like the Scott J. Beigel Unfinished Receiver Act . To speak on Scott's amazing life, and all of the efforts in his memory done by the Scott Beigel Memorial Fund, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Scott's mom, the amazing Linda Beigel Schulman.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Parkland teacher Scott Beigel died saving students. He was always a hero, family said. (Miami Herald)
Scott Beigel, Florida school shooting victim: A hero teacher who saved students was among 17 deaths in Parkland (Sun Sentinel)
Cross-Country Coach Scott Beigel Died a Hero in the Parkland Shooting (Runner's World)
Students remember Florida geography teacher Scott Beigel (CBS morning)
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Early in the afternoon on April 16, 2017 -- Easter Sunday -- 74 year old Robert Godwin Sr. went out to collect cans in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Shortly after beginning his routine walk home, Robert was confronted, shot, and murdered by a stranger. Compounding on the senseless horror, the shooter filmed and livestreamed the murder, uploading the footage to Facebook. Robert left behind 10 children, 14 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren, who were left to deal not just with the loss of their loved one, but with the trauma of a media storm.
To discuss the process of surviving after gun violence, the reality of dealing with trauma, and how everyone can be a better support system to those in their lives experiencing grief, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by three of Robert's children -- 911 operator Malisa Godwin, author and nurse Tonya R. Godwin-Baines, and Brady's Director of Human Resources, Brenda Haymon.
Mentioned in this podcast:
From Grief to Grace (Halo Publishing)
Family remembers Robert Godwin Sr. on 3rd anniversary of his murder (WKYC)
The Facebook victim was a granddad walking home after Easter meal (CNN)
Daughter pleads to suspect who shot and killed 74-year-old father: ‘I ask that you please surrender. I forgive you’ (Fox 8)
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Kris West, a firearms instructor and gun safety advocate, returns to the podcast to join hosts Kelly and JJ for a conversation on concealed carry (the practice of carrying a firearm in public in a concealed manner): namely, why some folks might practice concealed carry, and how people, particularly those working to prevent gun violence, can better understand concealed carry and those who practice it.
Mentioned in this podcast:
3 Million Americans Carry Loaded Handguns Every Day, Study Finds (the Trace)
Frequently Asked Questions on Concealed Carry (ATF)
Ghost Guns are Threats to Communities (Brady, Team Enough)
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Black and brown communities impacted by gun violence have been fighting for their own gun violence interventions for decades, with thousands of unknown advocates dedicating themselves to community-focused solutions. These community activists often work tirelessly to end gun violence, despite outsiders often misunderstanding both gun violence at a local level and the communities efforts to end the epidemic. To find out how community activism often works, how to get better involved, and how to better frame conversations about gun violence, more broadly, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by the great Kayla Hicks. Ms. Hicks is the founder, President, and CEO of the Sustain Equity Group, whose aim is to support the development and advancement of Black women as leaders in violence prevention. Together, they discuss how to better empower individuals and communities, how to take on systemic inequality, and how to have better conversations about firearms and gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Why Women Will End Gun Violence (Aspire for Equality)
How Gun Owners Can be Involved in the Fight Against Gun Violence (Brady)
Wear Orange (Hadiya's Promise)
Valuing Black Women Working on The Frontlines and Violence Prevention (Sustain Equity Group)
'The Media Have Neglected Us': Black Parkland Survivors Speak Out (Vice)
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Gun violence in America never takes a vacation, unfortunately, but hosts Kelly and JJ sometimes do -- which is why today's episode is straight from the vault! Consistently ranked as a favorite by our listeners, Kirsten Englund's story did not end with her murder at the hands of a disturbed man wielding an illegally-purchased firearm; Brady's legal team would not allow it. In this rebroadcast, Jon Lowy, our Vice President of Legal, and Erin Davis, our senior counsel, break down the tragedy of Kirsten's death and their efforts to punish the gun dealer whose disregard for the law set her murder into motion.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Justice for Oregon Mother(Brady)
Be a Lighthouse(Brady)
Family of woman killed, burned along Oregon coast suing gun dealer (the Oregonian)
Mom who bought guns for suspected-killer son to pay $400,000(SF Gate)
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Gun ownership in the US has changed, and with it, how that ownership is viewed and studied. One person studying those changes -- and a participant in them -- is sociologist and gun owner Dr. David Yamane. Dr. Yamane, author of the book Concealed Carry Revolution: Expanding the Right to Bear Arms in America and the blogs Gun Culture 2.0 and Gun Curious, joined hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss what he (and Michael Bane) call Gun Culture 2.0 -- namely, the emerging trend where individuals don't enter gun culture through hunting, military service, or family tradition, but out of personal defense concerns.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Gun Culture 2.0, or How a Liberal Professor Became an Armed American (Gun Culture 2.0)
Guns Are Normal, Normal People Use Guns (Gun Culture 2.0)
Gun Culture 2.0: The Sociology of the Great Gun-Buying Spree of 2020 (Policy Punchline)
"The sociology of US gun culture." (Sociology Compass)
Understanding America’s Gun Culture (Lexington Press)
Gun Culture 2.0 (Vice)
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The part firearms have played in the story of the United States is far greater than any mere chronicling of all things Second Amendment could hope to reveal, as historian and author Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz explains in her book "Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment." Together with hosts Kelly and JJ, Dunbar-Ortiz discusses the origins and intents of firearm legislation before and after the Second's codification, plus many of the goals and purposes, mundane and otherwise, that generations of Americans have pursued through the use of the weapons these laws impact -- and, thornily, how those generations have, consciously or not, not only held gun ownership up as a celebrated American right, but enshrined it as an essential, even sacred, element of an American identity awash since its beginnings in the blood and misery of racist acts and expansionist policies.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights (the New Republic)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: “The Second Amendment is Almost a Time Bomb That Was Planted in the Constitution” (Williamette Week)
- The Second Amendment is racist at its root (the Christian Century)
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Many Americans have long regarded the Second Amendment as a particularly bright example of their nation's dedication to the principles of liberty; the right to own and use firearms is often tied closely in our culture to the preservation and enjoyment of other freedoms, such as speech and religion, which are so linked to the very idea of the United States that thinking of one immediately conjures up the other. However, not everyone throughout our history has seen the gun as a symbol of something noble, and today, to discuss how these differing perspectives connect to the Second Amendment and its complex cultural legacy, hosts Kelly and JJ welcome Dr. Carol Anderson, a historian and New York Times best-selling author whose new book -- "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" -- explores the narrative tapestry that Americans past and present have woven around these weapons and their role in our republic.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery (the Guardian)
- The Second Amendment is not about guns -- it's about anti-Blackness, a new book argues (CNN)
- Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment (NPR)
- Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? (New York Times)
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The filibuster has a complex history and an even more complicated present, having become an instrument of partisan gridlock which allows a minority of the Senate's members to halt the chamber's progress -- inaction which often has major implications for gun violence prevention. To discuss what the filibuster is, what it means for Americans and gun violence prevention, and efforts to end or reform it, hosts hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady’s VP of Policy Christian Heyne, Just Democracy’s Stasha Rhodes, and Fix Our Senate’s Eli Zupnick.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 51 is Fair: Why We Must End the Filibuster (Brady)
- The Fight to Fix Our Senate (Brady)
- 51 is Fair: You Might Not Know It, But the Game is Rigged (Brady)
- What's a filibuster? Democrats may finally ax a relic of our racist past (CNN)
- Here’s Why the Filibuster Is a Jim Crow Relic (MSN)
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Patience Murray survived the Pulse nightclub shooting, and her stirring rendition of her poem "the Guilt of Being Alive is Heavy" made her go viral as both a writer and a survivor. In the years that followed, Patience continued to produce work as a survivor activist, writing the book Survive Then Live: The Patience Carter Story, hosting a podcast, being in an Emmy- nominated documentary series about her wedding (Sincerely, Patience). But Patience was still struggling -- not just with the trauma of Pulse, but from pre-existing ordeals she had suffered.
In part two of this episode, Patience joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss how her faith has helped her to heal, the reality of what survivors deal with, and how she has found healing through her professional and creative work.
You can join Patience every Thursday LIVE on FACEBOOK or on Clubhouse at 7pm ET by clicking here. You can find her new song, Philly Never Seen, here.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Pulse survivor to become chief visionary officer of Gun Violence Survivors Foundation (WFTV)
- Philly Never Seen (Soundcloud)
- There are wounds deeper than my physical ones (WFTV)
- Pulse Nightclub Survivor Shares How She's Coping One Year After The Tragedy (Refinery29)
- Pulse Shooting Survivor on the Healing Power of Music (Teen Vogue)
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On June 12, 2016, young women Patience Murray (then Patience Carter), Tiara Parker, and Akyra Murray went to the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, for a fun girls night. Together the friends danced until the early morning hours, kicking off Patience's first trip outside of her native Philadelphia. Tragically, the joy of that evening was cut short when a gunman attacked the club, ultimately killing 49 people and wounding more than 52. Patience and Tiara were shot and survived, but Akyra (only 18), was killed.
In the days that followed, Patience confronted her struggles -- physically, mentally, and emotionally -- creatively, first reading a poem entitled "The guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy," at a press conference at the hospital following the shooting, then with her book Survive Then Live: The Patience Carter Story.
In part one of this episode, Patience joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss her journey to healing -- from therapy on her legs, to PTSD, to wrestling with survivors guilt, to finding love in her now-husband, Akyra Murray's brother, Alex, to her work with the Gun Violence Survivors Foundation.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Orlando Massacre Survivor: ‘The Guilt Of Being Alive Is Heavy’ (Huffpost)
- How one Pulse shooting survivor found love, learned to live again after tragedy (GMA)
- Survive then Live (the Moth)
- Eagles debut 'Sincerely, Patience,' a mini-doc about Philly survivor of Pulse nightclub shooting (Philly Voice)
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Mass shootings account for only 0.2% of firearm deaths in the US a year -- but their impact is large, deeply traumatizing survivors, their communities, and the country as a whole. How do we, as a nation, try to prevent these mass shootings? And what commonalities exist between not just these shootings, but the shooters themselves? To find out, host JJ is joined by
Dr. Jillian Peterson of Hamline University and Dr. James Densley of Metropolitan State University, both authors of forthcoming book "the Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" and co-founders and co-presidents of a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center of the same name (the Violence Project). Together they all discuss the Violence Projects' mass shooter database, which collates data about mass shooters life histories, psychological profiles, and first person accounts (while also practicing no notoriety) -- and how this data suggests better interventions against violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- the Off-ramp project: the road to violence is long -- let's build more exits (Off-ramp)
- How Many Mass Shootings Have There Been in 2021 So Far? It Depends How You Count (Newsweek)
- Recent Spate Of Mass Shootings Is Among Worst In U.S. History (the Wall Street Journal)
- How Ending Child Abuse And Improving Mental Health Care Could Prevent Mass Shootings (Global News - 13 Hours)
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Most Americans are familiar with the National Rifle Association (NRA), as it is one of the most visible and powerful special interest groups in the US. On this podcast we've discussed numerous times that the NRA -- and NRA backed politicians -- have weakened existing gun laws or trompered over new, life-saving legislation. But how does the NRA manage to run such a powerful group, despite a history of mismanagement? Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Matthew Lacombe, author of the book Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force, to figure out how the NRA gained such influence within national politics. Join us as we discuss Matthew Lacombe's work (which traces the NRA from 1930 to 2020) showing how the NRA has carefully and purposefully created a distinct identity around gun ownership, which in turn has made its followers a potent political force.
Mentioned in this podcast:US gun control: What is the NRA and why is it so powerful (BBC)
The NRA is a powerful political force — but not because of its money (Vox)
How NRA’s true believers converted a marksmanship group into a mighty gun lobby (Washington Post)
The NRA is down, but not out (Brady)
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Darien was a charismatic, kind, 25-year-old athlete who was in the process of getting her master’s degree when she was shot during a home invasion. 51 days after being shot in the hand and leg, Darien died from her injuries. Police quickly recovered the murder weapon, but Darien’s parents Wayne and Judi Richardson were horrified when they found out that the gun could not be traced to the shooter due to a loophole in the law known as the private sale loophole. In Maine and elsewhere, unlicensed private sellers are not required to conduct a background check. This loophole then enables people who are prohibited from owning firearms to buy firearms with no questions asked.
Wayne and Judi then became gun violence prevention advocates, fighting not just to close the private sale loophole but also to support victims of violent crime via their foundation, Remembering Darien. They’ve done this both federally and locally, most recently pushing a bill in the Maine Legislature – L.D. 999, referred to as Darien’s Law.
If you or someone you know has information about Darien’s murder, they can reach out anonymously via (207) 874-8575, on the Portland Maine’s police department’s crime tip line at 207-874-8584, or by texting the keyword “PPDME” plus their message to 847411 (TIP411). There is a reward being offered for information related to her case.
Mentioned in this podcast:Gun loophole cited in unsolved Portland killing (Portland Press Herald)
This Obscure Loophole Lets Domestic Abusers Buy Guns & How It Happens Is Infuriating (Bustle)
Gun laws, loopholes, and and violence (Brady)
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On the 4th, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California overturned California’s over 30 year ban on assault weapons, saying the state’s law was unconstitutional and that prohibiting such firearms for decades was “a failed experiment.” This decision was a huge blow to gun violence prevention advocates, who were shocked when in his ruling Judge Benitez opened by calling AR-15s not dissimilar to swiss army knives. Judge Benitez also claimed that the AR-15 firearm is "a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."
To explain what this decision means, what happens next, and yes, how an AR-15 is not like a swiss army knife, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady President Kris Brown, advocate and father Fred Guttenberg , and veteran activist Timothy "TJ" Ryan.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- California Assault Weapons Ban 'Disrespects' Freedom, Federal Judge Writes (NPR)
- Brady condemns ruling (Brady)
- Federal judge likens AR-15 to Swiss Army knife while overturning assault weapons ban (CNN)
- California officials vow to fight back after federal judge overturns state’s 3-decade old assault weapons ban (KTLA)
- Why have a Swiss Army knife when you could just buy an AR-15? (Washington Post)
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Tom and Caren Teves' eldest son Alex was killed at the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting in July of 2012 while shielding his girlfriend, Amanda. That shooting left 12 people dead and 70 injured, but in the long days of media coverage that followed, attention was largely focused on the profile of the shooter -- not on the acts of heroism done by people like Alex, or the lives of those tragically taken. The Teves' then turned to activism, creating the “No Notoriety” campaign and organization, which is devoted to shifting attention from shooters to victims and survivors. The Teves, along with many gun violence prevention organizations, have been pushing media outlets across the United States to change how they cover mass shootings, citing research that maintains that mass shootings can have a "contagion effect,” that many shooters had modeled their behavior or attacks on previous shootings, and that many shooters seem to appear to desire recognition.
Host JJ is joined by Tom Teves, who shares how No Notoriety came to be, why the campaign is so important, and how individuals and news organizations can “minimize harm” while reporting on mass shootings.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- FBI to media: Don't name mass shooters (KSAT)
- Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (PLOS One)
- A call to end the media coverage mass shooters want (Ted)
- Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, But Report Everything Else: A Pragmatic Proposal for Denying Mass Killers the Attention They Seek and Deterring Future Offenders (American Behavioral Scientist)
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In 2017, Brady took the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to court to obtain inspection reports of gun industry businesses that violated firearms laws. This litigation resulted in the ATF delivering 50,000 pages of reports detailing inspections of over 2,000 gun dealers between July 2015 and June 2017. These documents tell a disturbing story. In this very special episode, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady President Kris Brown and Legal Counsel & Director of Programs at Brady, Josh Scharff to discuss the findings of those reports —namely how dealers with repeated violations have been allowed to remain in business without reform.
A recent USA Today and the Trace investigation examined the ATF’s oversight of the gun industry using over 30,000 pages of these ATF inspection reports, which were provided by Brady and secured via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and litigation.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Brady vs. the ATF (Brady)
- USA TODAY Collaborates with The Trace on Yearlong, Data-Driven Investigation Revealing the ATF Routinely Lets Problem Gun Dealers Off Easy (USA Today)
- The ATF Catches Thousands of Lawbreaking Gun Dealers Every Year. It Shuts Down Very Few (the Trace)
- Gun used in Odessa shooting shows risk when chain of illegal sale starts with home-based hobbyist dealers (USA Today)
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In the US, 1 in 5 women report experiencing severe physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetime. Terrifyingly, when guns are introduced into that terrorism, the risk of serious death and injury only increases, with the American Journal of Public Health reporting that in domestic violence situations the risk of death is five times greater when a gun is present.
Kate Ranta, author of Killing Kate: A Story of Turning Abuse and Tragedy into Transformation and Triumph and gun violence prevention advocate, was one of those women. Thankfully, Ranta survived the violent shooting inflicted against her by her ex-husband, but many women do not--56% of women murdered by an intimate partner from 2010 to 2019 were killed with a firearm. To discuss what we don't know about domestic violence, how this violence continues to occur, and the role guns play in continuing to make individuals vulnerable, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Kate and by American journalist, writer, and professor Rachel Louise Snyder. Snyder's eye-opening book, No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, is an absolutely essential read for those who want to address private violence.
If you or someone you know may be at risk, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), or by text at the same number by texting the word "START." There are also advocates available online 24/7 at thehotline.org.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Warning Signs of Abuse (National Domestic Violence Hotline)
- Domestic Violence High Risk Team Model (Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center)
- What Are Extreme Risk Laws (Brady)
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As we've often detailed on this podcast, while we may not always agree when debating about gun violence and the ways to solve it, having the conversation itself is vital. Preventing that robust discourse is the fact that, despite the work of many activists, a divide exists within the gun violence prevention movement between responsible gun owners and gun violence prevention advocates. Yet, many responsible gun owners are gun violence prevention advocates -- or would like to be more engaged in the conversation. So, how can groups like Brady better bridge this gap in conversation? How can we all better conceptualize gun safety? What parts of the discussion are being left out completely? To kick off what is bound to be a multi-part conversation, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Ted C. Bonar, Psy.D.--a clinical psychologist, the Director of End Family Fire at Brady, and Kris West, a firearms instructor and gun safety advocate.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 5 Gun Safety Basics to Practice and Pass On (Field and Stream)
- Why choose an RFID-enabled safe from Hornady Security (Hornady Security)
- Project ChildSafe 2019 Annual Review (RAND)
- Project 2025 | American Foundation for Suicide (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
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On the 29th of April, 2021, a variety of survivors and members from the Time Is Now Coalition gathered together to hold their own State of the Union address on the national mall in Washington DC, calling out to elected officials to pass gun control legislation in the U.S. Senate. The coalition, made up of over 80 gun violence prevention groups, have all gathered together to collectively fight for comprehensive, common sense gun law reform. Among those there was gun violence survivor -- and Brady's new Vice President of Organizing -- Maisha Fields, who later joined hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss her own personal story, why the time is now, and how individuals can fight for change at both the local and national levels.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 'Get on it Joe!' How a coalition for strengthening gun violence prevention pushed Biden to act (Times Union)
- Gun violence is up. It's been up for more than a year (NBC)
- The Time is Now! (Brady)
- A State of the Union on Gun Violence (Team Enough)
- Gun Violence Survivors Hold Their Own ‘State of the Union’ (Now This)
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Since March 16, a day marked with shootings across Atlanta spas, there have been over 45 mass shootings in the United States. You, our listeners, reached out to Kelly and JJ to ask how to talk to the young people in your lives about these mass shootings, and gun violence more broadly. To best answer your questions, we reached out to the great Nancy Kislin, LCSW, MFT, who has been a therapist specializing in helping adults reach anxious kids for almost 30 years. She is also the author of the book "LOCKDOWN: Talking to Your Kids about School Violence," and frequently educates on how adults can help children navigate a difficult world. In this very special episode, Nancy answers your questions directly, and provides very important guidance that can help us all.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- How to talk to children about shootings: An age-by-age guide (Time)
- How to support survivors and people impacted by gun violence (Brady)
- The End Family Fire toolkit (End Family Fire)
- How to talk to kids about mass shootings and attacks (Psychology Today)
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According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 147 mass shootings in America this year.* These mass shootings account for only a tiny percentage of the United State's gun deaths, but nevertheless tend to dominate our news cycles. Two contradictory situations have developed overtime: while many have argued that Americans have become desensitized to the horror of mass shootings, many media scholars have also pointed out the US fascination with mass shooters themselves.
How have Americans become accustomed to these continued killings? What myths have been built up around these murderers, around firearms, and about ourselves? To attempt to answer those questions, veteran journalist Seamus McGraw joins hosts Kelly and JJ to discuss his newest book, From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter. In his book, Seamus details how mass shooters have developed from the 1966 University of Texas massacre to the 2017 Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas--and how our rhetoric to "explain" them has developed along with them.
*the Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as when four or more people have been shot or killed, not including the shooter.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- From a Taller Tower: the Rise of the American Mass Shooter (University of Texas Press)
- The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting (the Washington Post)
- Here's Why You Can Shut Out the Shock of Mass Shootings (Time)
- What America keeps getting wrong about mass shooters (Slate)
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In Children Under Fire: An American Crisis, John Woodrow Cox lays out the myths surrounding gun violence in the United States as it pertains to children. By exploring the stories of a handful of American children, Cox explains how “children who are killed or maimed dominate headlines, but they represent only a fraction of the problem in the United States, where not thousands, but millions of children are affected every year...the kids who weren’t shot and aren’t considered victims by our legal system but who have, nonetheless, been irreparably harmed by the epidemic.”
Cox details everything from lockdowns to the gun lobby to suicide, underscoring each point with the conceit that children are not “naturally resilient,” and survivors of gun violence need care. To help explore his book, and these myths, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined not just by the Pulitzer-finalist author, but by y Brady President Kris Brown and the Director of End Family Fire , Dr. Ted C. Bonar, Psy.D.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis (Harper Collins)
"Four years ago, I met two extraordinary children" (John Woodrow Cox, Twitter)
Students' Plan to Save Teacher in Wheelchair During School Shooting Goes Viral (Newsweek)
He said he was going to watch cartoons. Instead, he opened his dad’s gun safe (the Washington Post)
Improving Gun Policy Science (RAND)
How Gun Violence Affects American Children (NPR)
What the Threat of Gun Violence Has Taught a Generation of American Children (University of Minnesota)
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In 2010, Christen McGinnes felt she had "hit rock bottom and kept going." On October 22, 2010, she pointed her long-owned .357 revolver at her head, and pulled the trigger. Thankfully, Christen survived, and now is a devoted volunteer and advocate fighting for gun violence prevention. Suicide by gun comprises the largest portion of gun deaths in America: over 23,000 Americans die from firearm suicide each year--which is about 63 a day.
To talk about her story, her advocacy, and what myths around firearm suicide still persist, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined not just by the great Christen McGinnes, but also by Ted C. Bonar, Psy.D.--a clinical psychologist, the Director of End Family Fire at Brady, and the Executive Director of the Clinical Readiness Project. (Also joining--Christen and Ted's dogs!)
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Behind the Bullet (BTB Productions )
- I Shot Myself in the Head and Survived (the Trace)
- Virginia Woman Rebuilds Her Life After Attempted Suicide (WAMU)
- End Family Fire Resources (End Family Fire)
- Gun Suicide Across the States(Brady)
- Suicide Is The Top Kind Of Gun Death. This PSA Wants That To Change (Bustle)
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When is a gun not a gun?
Ghost guns are unserialized and untraceable firearms that can be bought online and assembled at home. They are often sold through "ghost gun kits," which include all of the parts and often the equipment necessary to build these weapons at home. These kits are widely available and can be purchased by anyone, including prohibited purchasers, domestic abusers, and gun traffickers — without a background check. As these kits and guns are sold at gun shows and online every day throughout the country, they undermine all of the life-saving policies that state legislatures have fought so hard to put in place. Yet getting legislation passed to prevent the spread of these ghost guns has been incredibly difficult. To discuss why, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by three amazing Brady and Team Enough ghost gun experts--Stephan Abrams, Steve Lindley, and Tanya Schardt.
Mentioned in this podcast:
What are ghost guns? (Brady)
Executive actions to prevent gun violence (Brady)
Loophole lets criminals buy untraceable 'ghost guns' online (NBC)
Do-It-Yourself 'ghost guns' bypass background checks and firearm registration (NPR)
What makes a gun a ghost gun? (the Trace)
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Armed extremists in so-called “militia” groups (from the organized Three Percenters to the more decentralized Boogaloo Bois movement) have gained increasing media attention in 2021, as they used firearms as tools of intimidation and violence in events across the US. And who better to comment on those who participate in these militias than those who served in the US military? As such, Brady is joined by a panel of veterans to comment on: what it’s like to see weapons of war in US streets and government buildings; the militarization of civilians; how they feel about the rise of veterans in these so-called “militias”; and what those concerned about the rise of “militia” groups can do to push back. To cover all this and more, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by veterans Timothy "TJ" Ryan, Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, and Congressman Jason Crow.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Letter from Jason Crow and Robin Kelly on weapons of war (Jason Crow)
We Are Not Done Yet(HBO)
Addressing the threats of armed militias and white vigilantism in America (Brady)
The 2nd amendment and public safety after Heller (Brady)
Armed intimidation isn’t peaceful protest (Brady)
What are so-called “second amendment” sanctuaries? (Brady)
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Is a gun a tool, or is it something more?
Documentarian Sue Hilderbrand addresses the national gun debate not by tackling statistics and talking points, but instead through compassionate and detailed dialogue with diverse communities of gun rights advocates, researchers, gunshot violence survivors, and gun violence prevention activists. Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady President, Kris Brown and Sue to discuss everything from what guns mean to people emotionally to how the role of guns in American culture has been modified over time.
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Mentioned in this podcast:
American Totem (the Real Issue Productions)
Stream American Totem (Show and Tell)
Gun Company’s Marketing is Unfair & Deceptive (Brady)
Supreme Court Allows Sandy Hook Families' Case Against Remington Arms To Proceed (NPR)
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On March 11th, the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446, two bills designed to expand and strengthen Brady Background Checks. H.R. 8 specifically addresses the selling and transferring of firearms and private sales, whereas H.R. 1446 provides the background check system with additional time to make a final determination on a potential firearms purchaser before a licensed dealer can transfer a gun, addressing the often-called “Charleston loophole.” To discuss how these bills came to be, and where they'll go from here, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by: Brady President, Kris Brown; survivor and activist, Colin Goddard; Vice President of Policy at Brady, Christian Heyne; and Team Enough Executive Council member and national chapter coordinator, Stephan Abrams.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Brady Celebrates the Passage of H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 in the US House of Representatives (Brady)
What Are Ghost Guns? (Brady)
Living for 32 (Living for 32)
Colin Debates for Gun Violence Prevention (Brady)
Gun Violence Survivors Speak Out (CNN)
Why Background Checks Work (Brady)
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As gun violence has risen across the US, so too has art dedicated to ending gun violence. In this space are art-activists, who combine the creative power of artistic expression (be it dance, music, theater, painting, etc.) with the strategic planning of activism that is necessary to spark, and then shepherd, social change. Today, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by two art-activists that detail just how important that intersection of art and activism is: Farooq Al- Said and Jason Sole. Farooq is the Director of Operations and an emcee at 1HOOD; Jason is an abolitionist and the co-founder of the Humanize My Hoodie Movement. And more than that, both men are tireless advocates nationally and in their communities for racial justice, the rights of marginalized communities, and to end violence.
Together, all four of us discuss everything from performative allyship to code switching, to police violence being gun violence to restorative justice, to the role of art in revolutionary spaces and the risk of white supremacy.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Why the NRA Stands Up for Some Black Gun Owners, But Not Others (the Trace)
This Week In White Supremacy: the Clear and Present Danger of The Capitol Riots (1Hood)
Born in St. Paul, Humanize My Hoodie takes fashion activism to New York Fashion Week (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
Antwon Rose's* Case Is Bigger Than East Pittsburgh (Bloomberg)
N-word: The troubled history of the racial slur (BBC)
*Antwon's full name was Antwon Rose the 2nd, and that is how his family prefers him be referred to.
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What roles should survivors play in gun violence prevention? What is it like to fight for justice, when justice has been denied to you? To find out, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Mattie Scott and Suzanne Kelley. Mattie and Suzanne both lost multiple family members to firearm homicide, and the murders that got them involved remain unsolved years later. Nevertheless, both of these women have worked tirelessly for gun violence prevention for years. No person should have to experience what Mattie and Suzanne have, and both of them continue to work to make sure that in the future, no one will.
Mentioned in this podcast:
How to Provide Emotional Support to Survivors of Gun Violence (Brady)
ExtraORdinary People: Suzanne Kelley (Observer Reporter)
Seeking the murderer of Vincent Kelley (FBI)
Mother Who Lost Son To Gun Violence Will Cast San Francisco’s Electoral College Vote (CBS)
Gun violence survivors, victims' families call for action at SF vigil (San Francisco Chronicle)
John Lewis at Comic Con (Roll Call)
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Three years ago, on February 14th 2018, a gunman armed with an AR-15 attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 14 children and three staff members. In the aftermath, survivors of that shooting have stood up for gun violence prevention, fighting daily for common-sense gun violence prevention laws. But what is it like for those survivors? What do they wish all people knew about the daily struggles of these survivors-turned-activists? And, what can we all be doing better to support them?
To find out, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Ivy Schamis and Aalayah Eastmond, survivors from class 1214. Ivy was an almost 20-year veteran social studies teacher, and Aalayah was her junior student. Today, Ivy has relocated to DC where she works in school administration, and Aalayah is an executive council member of Team Enough, co-founder of Concerned Citizens D.C., an intern with PayOurInterns, and a full time college student at Trinity Washington University. Join them, and learn about the person behind that title of "survivor."
Mentioned in this podcast:
Parkland survivor wants a different kind of gun reform movement: One that centers Black lives (Mashable) Parkland, One Year Later: Ivy Schamis, a Teacher of Hope (Rolling Stone)
Devastating Emotional Toll of Shooting Drove Some Teachers Away From MSD (ABC 6)
How to support survivors and people impacted by gun violence (Brady)
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Wholesalers, big box retail chains, and local gun shops conduct the overwhelming majority of firearm sales in the U.S. each year, but collectors and enthusiasts know that wandering from this beaten path has its rewards. In cities and towns across the country, merchants of a more eclectic bent work the fringes of the firearms business, buying and selling everything from today's most modern handguns and rifles to the breech-loading Civil War rifles and Wild West six shooters of American myth and history. But how does the buying, selling, and pawning of guns actually work?
In today's episode, hosts Kelly and JJ talk with Davron Harris of Max Pawn Las Vegas, a firearms expert and aficionado from Las Vegas, Nevada who also, it just so happens, is a seasoned vet of the pawn shop trade. Just how do dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts buy, sell, and trade firearms when pawning is involved? How do pawnbrokers handle first-time gun owners who might know nothing of safe storage? What other roles do these hands-on historians and purveyors of the world's arcana play every time they come into work?
Mentioned in this podcast:
Tips on Firearm Safety During Self-Isolation (Max Pawn)
Tools to Help End Family Fire in Your Community (Brady)
Ending Family Fire During Coronavirus (Brady)
What is the Enhanced Inspections Initiative? (Brady)
Sandy Hook Survivor Speaks Out For The First Time (NowThis)
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So-called "gun truthers" — hoaxers — believe that mass killings such as the one at Sandy Hook are government-run plots designed to gin up support for restrictive gun laws, among other things. Some of these individuals even believe such massacres to be entirely fictitious productions in which no one involved is hurt, let alone killed; actors, they will tell you, masquerade as the victims, friends, and grieving kin the country sees in the news.
This behavior is not only reprehensible, but somehow — in defiance of all reason — increasingly common as well. More and more, the families of gun violence victims, already reeling from a loss no one should ever know, are subjected to the rants and tirades of the far right's cynical fringe in both the media and the streets of their home towns. Today, Fred Guttenberg and Andy Parker, two fathers who, after losing their beloved daughters Jaime and Alison to gun violence, have been repeatedly attacked by these so-called “truthers,” join hosts Kelly and JJ , and Brady President Kris Brown to discuss what the normalization of such misconduct means to them — and to our troubled country.
Mentioned in this podcast:Marjorie Taylor Greene Supported Conspiracy Theory That Parkland Massacre Was 'False Flag Planned Shooting' (Forbes)
'Grow a spine': Parkland father's message to Kevin McCarthy (CNN)
Tell Gray Television to grant a co-copyright to help me fight YouTube (Change.org)
US gun violence spawns a new epidemic: conspiracy theorists harassing victims (the Guardian)
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How do you teach a child about gun safety? About hunting? And how young is too young? In today's episode, you'll find out. Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by David and Karin Holder of Raised Hunting, Raised At Full Draw, and Raised Outdoors. Together, they run Raised Hunting, a television show all about how American families can use hunting as a platform to teach ethics and values to their family. They also are devoted to teaching adults and children about archery, hunting, and outdoor education in a way that is safe and sustainable. With Kelly and JJ, the Holders discuss how adults can safely introduce children to storing, handling, and hunting with firearms -- and the quiet but tremendous role that hunters and hunting traditions can play both in reducing gun violence and bolstering the ethical foundations of people young and old.
Mentioned in this podcast:Hunting with kids (Raised Hunting)
Ultimate Hunter's Handbook (Raised Hunting)
Raised Hunting True Stories of Faith, Family & Hunting Series (Raised Hunting)
Raised Outdoors App (Google Play)
Pop Smoke's family release PSA (Revolt)
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Gun rights groups, headed by the National Rifle Association, have argued since the early 1990s that the spread of firearms is essential to maintaining freedom in America, making a very wide interpretation of the Second Amendment necessary to protect all other rights . But is this argument true? Do guns indeed make us free? To find out, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady President Kris Brown and political philosopher Dr. Firmin DeBrabander. Together, they discuss the myth that guns equal freedom from tyranny, the role the NRA has (and continues to play) in sharing that rhetoric, and how myth is being played out in current legislation, like Stand Your Ground laws.
Mentioned in this podcast:Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society (Yale University Press)
The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams (Atlantic)
Freedom of an Armed Society (TedX)
Dissolve the NRA (Brady)
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Before there was Parkland or even Columbine, there was Cleveland Elementary School. But for many, the name of the Stockton, California school is unfamiliar.
On January 17, 1989, a former student opened fire on the playground of Cleveland Elementary School. Within 3 minutes the gunman fired 106 rounds from his recently-purchased AK-47, killing 5 students and injuring another 31. The youngest student victim was 6; the oldest, 9. Today, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Julie Schardt, a founding member of Cleveland Remembers, a Brady California chapter member, and a former teacher at Cleveland Elementary School who was there that day. Julie shares with us her memories of what happened, the students who were lost, and what drives her to still be engaged in gun violence prevention work to this day.
Mentioned in this podcast:Trigger Effect (Sactown Magazine)
Not One More (Cleveland School Remembers)
A Decade Before Columbine There Was Cleveland Elementary School (Brady)
Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 (Los Angeles Times)
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady)
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More than 37 states in the US allow a person to use deadly force against an intruder or attacker under the guise that they are defending themselves or their property. This is due to what are called “Stand Your Ground'' laws-- but those laws are highly controversial. In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by three amazing guests: Alyssa Ackbar, the legislative coordinator for Team ENOUGH’s Florida Lobbying Collective and a state director with March For Our Lives, as well as part of their “Youth Congress''; Dr. Caroline Light, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard -- who also wrote the book Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense; and Dr. John Roman, a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice and Society Group at NORC at the University of Chicago who has extensive experience on the effect race plays in “Stand Your Ground'' defenses. Together, we are discussing the recent development with Stand Your Ground laws and how these laws have the potential to cause more harm than good.
Mentioned in this podcast:Is There Racial Bias in “Stand Your Ground” Laws? (PBS)
Why Do People Buy Guns (Roman)
Race, justifiable homicide, and stand your ground laws: Analysis of FBI supplementary homicide report data (Urban Institute)
Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press)
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Season two of "Red, Blue, and Brady" kicks off with an in-depth discussion of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, when insurrectionists illegally entered the US Capitol building while violently objecting to the certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' electoral victory as the incumbent President and Vice President of the United States. In doing so, this mob directly attacked not just the Capitol and those inside, but the democratic process itself. Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by the Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Joshua Horwitz, Brady President Kris Brown, and Executive Council member and National chapter coordinator for Team ENOUGH Stephan Abrams to discuss the urgent steps we must immediately enact to guard against further violent attacks — and how gun safety underlies all of them.
Mentioned in this podcast:Insurrection in America (CSGV)
Episode 70: 2020, Guns, and the Insurrectionist Idea (Brady)
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea (University of Michigan Press)
President Trump's Private Insurrection Army (NY Daily News)
The Insurrectionism Timeline (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
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With COVID-19, many schools are still offering--or requiring-- virtual instruction. But what many people don't realize is, even remote students are participating in active shooter drills. Why? Well, at least 40 states require schools to hold them, even if they’re using blended or hybrid instruction. How should parents be speaking to their children about these drills? And, what do these drills even do--virtual or otherwise? To tackle these questions, and many more, host JJ is joined by psychotherapist Nancy Kislin, author of the book LOCKDOWN: Talking to Your Kids About School Violence, and an expert on childhood mental health and lockdown drills.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Let’s Talk About Your Child’s Technology Health (Psychology Today)
- When COVID-19 Hits Too Close to Home (Psychology Today)
- Schools Continue Holding Active-Shooter Drills As Students Learn Remotely (Spokane News Radio)
- Active-shooter drills look pretty weird over ZOOM (the Verge)
- Two largest teachers unions call for schools to revise or end active shooter drills (ABC News)
- the Impact of Active Shooter Drills in School (Everytown)
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So, what exactly is a crime gun anyway? In this episode, host JJ chats with some members of the Brady crime gun initiative team on what everyone needs to know about crime guns, what a supply-side approach to ending gun violence is, and why gun dealers need to be involved in the conversation. Joining JJ is Josh Scharff, Erica Rice, Anneliese Dickman, and Steve Lindley of the Brady combating crime guns team, and Stephan Abrams of Team Enough; together, we break down statistics like why only 5% of gun dealers are responsible for 90% of recovered crime guns, yet how crime guns persist in the US.
Mentioned in this podcast:The coronavirus pandemic is raging. But so is another deadly public health crisis in Milwaukee: gun violence (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Combating Crime Guns (Brady)
Combating Crime Guns: A Supply-Side Approach (Brady)
Brady files suit against 'ghost gun' manufacturers (Fox)
How criminals get guns (PBS)
When Guns Are Sold Illegally, A.T.F. Is Lenient on Punishment (the Washington Post)
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We're sure you've heard this false claim before--that video games are linked to gun violence. But how did video games become scapegoats for gun violence? To help hosts Kelly and JJ navigate these confusing waters, they're joined by Stephen Machuga (Founder and CEO of the nonprofit StackUp.Org, which supports the mental health of military and veteran communities through the power of gaming), and TJ Arch, the Creative Director at Juniper Park/TBWA, who helped create the computer game “League of Legislators.”
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Mentioned in this podcast:Why video games? (Stack Up)
The problem is gun laws, not games (Brady)This Satirical Video Game Takes Aim at Gun Lobbyists (Adweek)
Fact check: Are violent video games connected to mass shootings? (CNN)
Blame Game: Violent Video Games Do Not Cause Violence (Psychology Today)
Gaming well: links between videogames and flourishing mental health (Frontiers in Psychology)
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In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ take on another number of firearm suicide myths--including the one that states that suicide rates increase during the holiday season. To do so, they're joined by three great experts--who also happen to be great friends—Sarah Brady Fellow Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, PsychArmor's Dr. Heidi Kraft, and clinical psychologist Dr. Ted Bonar. Together, they talk about how to handle tough topics like the heightened risk of suicide that may come with people being physically isolated, increased gun sales, how to reach out to people that you love, and to ways to store firearms safely.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- You just might protect your loved ones from the deadliest method of suicide (Brady)
- Critical resources to Americans: free courses (PsychArmor)
- Veteran suicide prevention (Veteran's Affairs)
- How did we not know? (New York Times)
- How The CDC's Reluctance To Use The 'F-Word' — Firearms — Hinders Suicide Prevention (NPR)
- Evidence-based trainings (Clinical Readiness Project)
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On the evening of 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed in the front entrance of his home in NYC. His murderer was a one-time Beatles fan who had traveled from Hawaii to New York with a .38 special revolver that he had purchased six weeks prior from a shop in Honolulu, Hawaii for 169 dollars.
However, the shooter had planned the killing over several months, and had shared his plans with his wife. Had an Extreme Risk Law (sometimes called a “red flag” law) been in place at that time, the shooter may not have been able to maintain his access to this firearm.
Recently, Hawaii joined 18 other states and the District of Columbia in codifying an Extreme Risk Law that would enable family members, co-workers or police to obtain court orders blocking access to firearms for people who show signs they could pose a danger to themselves or others.
To discuss John Lennon's life and death, and what gun violence prevention is like 40 years later, hosts Kelly and JJ are speaking with Senator Karl Rhoads of Hawaii, President of Brady Kris Brown, Academy Award-nominated documentary producer and podcaster Michael Epstein, and founder and Executive Director of Safer Country Paul Friedman.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (Netflix)
- LennoNYC (PBS)
- Murder in House Two (Crowd Network)
- Gun Violence Prevention Protection Laws (Safer Country)
- John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes (Why Hunger)
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In 2020 so far, nearly 2.5 million Americans bought a firearm for the first time. Meanwhile, as COVID-19 continues--as does physical isolation, unemployment, concerns about domestic violence, and more--many have worried that suicide rates may increase as well. So, does buying a gun during COVID increase your risk of suicide? Well, new research does show that those who bought firearms during the pandemic are more likely to deal with suicidal ideation than pre-existing gun owners. To break this down, hosts Kelly and JJ are speaking with Dr. Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center and an associate professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Guns and Suicide: an American Epidemic (Oxford University Press)
- Suicidal Ideation Among Individuals Who Have Purchased Firearms During COVID-19 (American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
- Associations Among Exaggerated Threat Perceptions, Suicidal Thoughts, and Suicidal Behaviors in US Firearm Owners (Journal of Psychiatric Research)
- We Need to Talk about Guns and Suicide (the Philadelphia Inquirer)
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How does structural racism intersect with gun violence? Does the Second Amendment apply to all individuals in the same way? And, when it comes to policing, how does the law view gun owners of different ethnic groups? To discuss all this and more, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Jennifer Carlson, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Princeton University Press)
- Citizen-Protectors: the Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline (Oxford University Press)
- The Hidden Arm of the Law: Examining Administrative Justice in Gun Carry Licensing (Law and Society Review)
- We're Doing the Gun Debate Wrong (the Stranger)
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Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, and with his election comes the obvious question: what does his Presidency mean for gun violence prevention? To find out, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Dr. Richard Spitzer, author and distinguished political science professor at the State University of New York Cortland; Chelsea Parsons, the Vice President of Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress; and Christian Heyne, frequent podcast guest and VP of Policy at Brady.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic (Biden)
- 7 Ways Biden Could Go It Alone on Gun Violence Prevention (the Trace)
- Brady Looks to a Bright Horizon for Gun Violence Prevention (Brady)
- Joe Biden Remarks on Gun Violence (CSPAN)
- Guns Across America (Oxford University Press)
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Timothy "TJ" Ryan served just under 13 years in the US Army as an Airborne Ranger, from 2005 to 2017. He had 8 combat deployments to countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, suffered moral injury, and was later diagnosed with PTSD--and then became an advocate and artist dedicated to eliminating the stigma of mental health care and gun violence. Today, he joins hosts Kelly and JJ, and Ted Bonar, a clinical psychologist specializing in military-related behavioral healthcare concerns, evidence-based treatment of PTSD, and suicide prevention and treatment. Together, they all discuss what it means to be a veteran, what role gender plays in veteran suicide, and how we all can be better informed and understanding about suicidology.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- We Lose 63 People a Day (Brady)
- Ending Family Fire (Brady)
- How Gun Violence and Suicide are Intrinsically Linked (Vets for Gun Reform)
- We Are Not Done Yet (HBO)
- Sources for Suicide Survivors (American Association of Suicidology)
- Firearms, Means Safety, and Suicide Prevention: A Clinical Workshop Webinar (American Association of Suicidology)
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Mr. Rogers said: "Always look for the helpers." In this live episode, hosts Kelly and JJ speak with Brady President Kris Brown, Parkland father and author Fred Guttenberg, Dr. Dana Winters of the Fred Rogers Center, and Clayton Rosenberg of the Alliance of Concerned Men, to talk about how we can all "find the helpers" in the face of violence and uncertain times. Together we’re bringing you something a little bit different for our 100th episode--a conversation not just on gun violence, but on how each of our guests have been helped in their journeys of activism, and how we all can be helpers ourselves.
This episode is dedicated to Lorraine Marie Thomas.
Mentioned in this podcast:Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope (Fred Guttenberg)
Fred Rogers, understated champion of radical kindness (Washington Post)
Cure the Streets (Alliance of Concerned Men)
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In this very special minisode, hosts Kelly and JJ discuss are joined by Brady President Kris Brown, Brady VP of Policy (and frequent podcast guest) Christian Heyne, and special guest the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Together, we're talking all about the violent plot launched against the Governor, the increasing risk of armed insurrection, and why voter intimidation at polling places from those with firearms is a major concern.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- The Plot to Kidnap Me (the Atlantic)
- Michigan Judge Blocks Ban On Open Carry Of Guns At Polls On Election Day (NPR)
- Armed intimidation at the polls is voter suppression (Brady)
As voters continue to head to the polls. We all deserve to feel safe while
exercising our right to the ballot. No one should ever be threatened with guns while
exercising their right to vote. Guns at the polls is not only dangerous, it is voter
suppression -- plain and simple. Brady is working tirelessly to keep voters in our election
safe. Visit our website, DisarmElections.com for tools and resources on how you can
advocate for gun-free polling places, and ensure safe voting in your state.
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Native and Indigenous communities in the US have long borne the pain of gun violence, from mass shootings to high rates of suicide, firearms used in gender-based violence, and police violence. Yet, many in these communities find themselves cut off from the democratic processes and a larger public awareness that would allow them to bring about changes necessary for basic public safety. To unpack a long history of mistreatment, firearms, and disenfranchisement, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Christine Sikowis Nobiss (Plains Cree/Saulteaux, George Gordon First Nation), a Decolonizer and a current co-chair and founder with Great Plains Action Society, President of Brady Kris Brown, and Sarina Sharma-Welsh, a San Diego Team Enough chapter member.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Gun Violence Has a Major Impact on Native Communities in the United States (Teen Vogue)
- Pine Ridge Suicides Highlight Stresses on Native American Youth (Youth Today)
- Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation (New York Times)
- 4 out of 5 of our Native women are affected by violence today (Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women)
- How to Make Voting Matter (Great Plains Action Society)
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Tragedies in places like El Paso, Charleston, Charlottesville, Oak Creek, Pittsburgh, Louisville, and many others, have led many to the same conclusion: that in many cases, gun violence and white supremacy are tied together. To begin to untie that knot, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by two individuals who know supremacy groups inside and out: Seth Daire and Corinna Olsen. Seth was once a member of the Christian Identity movement, and now is a researcher on extremism and the far right. Corinna was a leader in the National Socialist Movement who left, publicly disavowed the movement, and converted to Islam. Together, we discuss why people join hate groups, why they leave, and the roles guns play in all of these groups.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Sisters in Hate (Darby)
- Leaving White Nationalism (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- The Flexibility of Grand Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories (Extremism Research)
- The American right wing is enabling a dual crisis: gun violence and white supremacy (the Guardian)
- Brady Denounces Armed Vigilantes and Extremists (Brady)
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What does Judge Amy Coney Barrett's appointment on the Supreme Court mean for gun violence prevention? To discuss, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady's Vice President of Legal Jon Lowy, Brady President Kris Brown, Team Enough Executive Council member and Fellow Stephan Abrams, and the Legal Director at Democracy Forward Sean Lev. Together, we all discuss how the Supreme Court confirmation process actually works, what's happening right now, and where the Supreme Court may go in the future.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Fighting Government Corruption (Democracy Forward)
- Judge Amy Coney Barrett Shows She Shouldn't Be on the Court (Brady)
- Barrett's Views on the 2nd Amendment (Brady)
- Gun Control Groups Voice 'Grave Concerns' About Supreme Court Nominee's Record (NPR)
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Recently, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has held that the federal gun industry protection law, the Protection of the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (“PLCAA”) as unconstitutional in its entirety, the first appeals court to do so. What does it mean, and where do we go from here? This is exactly what hosts Kelly and JJ discuss with Team Enough Fairfax member Aaryan Rawal, Dr. Griffin Dix, father of Kenzo Dix and President, Oakland Brady Chapter, Brady Senior Counsel and Vice President of Legal Jon Lowy, and Brady President Kris Brown.
Mentioned in this podcast:
The awkward question that could assure your child comes home safe (the Mercury News)
Long Battle Against Guns Began With a Son’s Death (New York Times)
Gustafson v. Springfield Armory (Brady)
A victory for gun violence victims (Brady)
Why PLCAA is a Problem (Brady)
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In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ present to you audio from our live event, “Brady Book Club--the Violence Inside Us.” As we covered in episode 90, “the Violence Inside Us” is a wonderful book written by Senator Chris Murphy. Joined as well by Brady President Kris Brown and Brady VP of Policy (and frequent podcast guest) Christian Heyne, we get deeper into the book, discussing why it needed to be written, why it matters, and where we go from here.
Mentioned in this podcast:The Violence Inside Us (Random House Books)
"This Country Has Been Bathed in Violence." (Time)
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Politics and Prose)
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Fred Guttenberg loved watching Mr. Rogers with his daughter and his son when they were little. Their favorite piece of wisdom was: In the midst of tragedy and catastrophe, find the helpers. He has carried this life lesson with him, and is now sharing it in his new book, Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope. Fred is the father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg, who was killed when thirty-four people were shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018. Since her death, Fred has been fighting tirelessly to pass gun violence prevention legislation, and to honor Jaime's life with the non-profit Orange Ribbons for Jaime. Together, he and hosts Kelly and JJ talk about his journey since Jaime's death, and how he has been able to survive thanks to the kindness and compassion of others.
Mentioned in this podcast:“Always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers. Because if you look for the helpers, you’ll know there’s hope.” (Fred Rogers, interview with Television Academy, 1999
Overcoming Grief Through The Humanity Of Others (Orange Ribbons for Jaime)
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Few know that police officers are at a higher risk of suicide than any other profession, with the number of police officers who die by suicide greater than three times the number of those that were injured in the line of duty. Additionally, the vast majority of officers and soldiers who take their lives do so at home, using their service weapons. To discuss why these rates are so high amongst law enforcement, and what people can do to decrease rates of firearm suicide, host JJ is joined by Brady President Kris Brown and Steve Hough of Blue HELP. Blue HELP is an organization devoted to reducing mental health stigmas through education, to advocate for benefits for those suffering from post-traumatic stress, and to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers lost to suicide, assist officers in their search for healing, and to bring awareness to suicide and mental health issues.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- The Price They Pay (Solomon, McGill)
- Law Enforcement Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SAMHSA)
- Breaking the Silence: Suicide Prevention for Law Enforcement Video Facilitation Guide (National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention)
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63 Americans die every day due to firearm suicide. These people are not mere statistics, but are beloved family members, friends, and loved ones. Today, hosts Kelly and JJ talk to two people who lost ones they love--Adam Friedman, a Team Enough Executive Council member, and Khary Penebaker, a DNC member and Board Member at Everytown. Adam lost his grandfather, and Khary lost his mother. Together, we discuss what everyone should know about firearm suicide, what it's like to be a survivor left behind, and initiatives like Brady's End Family Fire that seek to prevent these tragedies.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Rates of Gun Suicide (Annals of Internal Medicine)
- We Lose 63 Americans a Day (End Family Fire)
- Know the Signs (Know the Signs)
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Is America destined to be, and remain, a violent nation? Why does the US have such high rates of gun violence? To discuss, JJ and Kelly are joined by Jon Lowy, Chief Counsel and Vice President of Legal at Brady, and Senator Chris Murphy, a United States Senator for Connecticut. While Senator Murphy devotes himself to public service, he has been very outspoken about fighting for gun violence prevention. Today, we're discussing his new book, “the Violence Inside Us,” and the role the gun lobby and legislation has played in shaping America.
Mentioned in this podcast:
The Violence Inside Us (Random House Books)
"This Country Has Been Bathed in Violence." (Time)
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Politics and Prose)
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Firearms are the most common means of suicide in the United States, and Brady's End Family Fire program addresses the heartbreaking facts that:
- Firearms are by far the deadliest method of suicide -- 90% of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal, while suicide attempts with other methods are (on average) only fatal in 4% of cases, and;
- The vast majority of people who survive a suicide attempt -- 90% -- don’t go on to die by suicide. 70% never make another attempt.
Yet, too few Americans know this--or are comfortable talking about it. To discuss firearm suicide in general, and to get into the data on how and why gender matters, JJ and Kelly are joined by Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Sarah Brady Fellow at Brady, and Dr. Eric Mankowski, a Professor of Psychology at Portland State University.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Characteristics of adult male and female firearm suicide decedents (BMJ)
- Gender and the impact of gun control on suicide and homicide (Archives of Suicide Research)
- The Accessibility of Firearms and Risk for Suicide and Homicide Victimization Among Household Members (Annals of Internal Medicine)
- State Firearm Laws and Rates of Suicide in Men and Women (National Library of Medicine)
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On September 9, 1971, 1,281 of Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rioted and took control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage. That riot--and the following four days of negotiations, followed by a massacre--had a major impact on prisons and policing in the United States. In particular, it changed how people thought about the rights of currently and formerly incarcerated and firearms. To discuss this all, and how it relates to 2020, Kelly and JJ are joined by the Pulitzer-prize winning historian Heather Ann Thompson. Dr. Thompson is the author of the celebrated text Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacyand the fantastic book Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City.Sheis here today to talk with us all about gun violence, segregation, policing, incarceration, and the Voting Rights Act.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Blood in the Water (Heather Ann Thompson)
Why Mass Incarceration Matters to our Cities, Economy, and Democracy (Ash Center)
The Ugly History of Racist Policing in America: Interview with Heather Ann Thompson (Vox)
How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America (Atlantic)
Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Atlantic)
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Native and Indigenous communities in the US have long borne the pain of gun violence, from mass shootings to high rates of suicide, firearms used in gender-based violence, and police violence. Yet, many in these communities find themselves cut off from the democratic processes that would allow them to bring about changes necessary for basic public safety.
To unpack a long history of mistreatment, firearms, and disenfranchisement--and the fight to get out the vote--Kelly and JJ are joined by Sikowis aka Christine Nobiss (Plains Cree/Saulteaux, George Gordon First Nation), a Decolonizer and a current co-chair and founder with Great Plains Action Society.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Left, Right and Center Presents: Diaries of a Divided Nation 2020 (Kcrew)
Native Voter Project (Great Plains Action Society) - Every Native Voice Counts (Native Vote)
- Here’s How Indigenous Women Are Fighting For Legislation That Protects Women From Violence (Bustle)
- Learn and Decolonize (Seeding Sovereignty)
- The Second Amendment : A Sacred Covenant of Ethnic Cleansing and Slavery Between the Nation State and Settler Militias (Zine)
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It needs to be said: communities cannot simply vote their way out of oppression. Too many citizens have been denied access to fair and safe elections due to economic barriers, burdensome new laws, a prior conviction, voter purges, inaccessible polling locations, or a host of other reasons. These stories are common, and dismissing them fails to recognize the heart of the problem. So, how do we solve these problems? And, why do communities impacted by gun violence need access to the ballot box?
To discuss, JJ and Kelly are joined by Michelle Zuluaga, a Civic Participation Manager with Latino Community Action Fund Georgia and Latinos for Democracy. Together, they're tackling the big questions--for example, is democracy a gun violence prevention issue?
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Amplifying Your Voice (Latino Community Action Fund Georgia)
- Census information (US Census)
- Why Vote (Latinos for Democracy)
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The events unfolding in Kenosha, WI, are drawing national attention. We are living in two Americas — one where intimidation by armed, white vigilantes is glorified and where protesters decrying police violence are vilified. And the other where Black lives matter and police violence is gun violence. Our legal and grassroots advocacy experts convened to discuss the threats posed and the solutions to protect our communities.
JJ and Kelly are joined by President of Brady Kris Brown and Anneliese Dickman, Brady's Milwaukee Program Manager, to discuss what happened, why it matters, and what you can do.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Voting Access Saves Lives (Brady)
- Attack on protesters in Kenosha (Brady)
- The shooting of Jacob Blake (BBC)
- Killings in Kenosha (Atlantic)
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Team Enough, Brady, and March For Our Lives have partnered on a new initiative--getting out, and supporting, the vote. Based on the fact that Black and Latinx communities that are the most affected by gun violence also face the greatest barriers to voting, and that it is vital that the citizens most impacted by this epidemic are able to vote for elected officials who will take concrete steps to protect them, the "Voting Access Saves Lives" program is aimed at improving access to the US electoral system. To discuss how the program works, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Robert Schentrup, a Team Enough fellow and survivor of gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- State Action Toolkit(Brady)
- Voting Access Saves Lives (Brady)
- Accessing Democracy: a Gun Violence Prevention Issue (Brady)
- How to Vote (Rock the Vote)
- Register to Vote (USA.gov)
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Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Christian Heyne, the Vice President of Policy at Brady and by Stasha M. Rhodes, a Campaign Director of 51 for 51, a pro-D.C. statehood coalition of groups committed to equal rights and representation for the more than 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C. Together, they're discussing how democracy is a gun violence issue, and why access to democracy is vital in 2020.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Join the Movement (51 for 51)
- Why Change the Senate Rules? (Why We Can't Wait)
- Heroes Act (US Congress)
- Voting Access Saves Lives (Brady)
- Voting Access Saves Lives Toolkit (Brady)
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Racist, pro-gun, anti-government extremist propaganda encouraging the use of firearms to threaten violence and insurrection is showing up in protests across the country--and the folks using them go by the funny name of “Boogaloo Bois.” Who are these people? What do they want? And what does their existence mean for gun violence, and gun violence prevention, in the US? To find out, JJ and Kelly talk to Jason Wilson, an investigative journalist who tracks the political right and extremist movements.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Who Are the Gun-Toting "Boogaloo Bois" (Brady)
- The Boogaloo Movement is Not What You Think (Bellingcat)
- Boogaloo Boise Add a Volatile Element to Protests (Washington Post)
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After the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, there were many proposals advanced by the media, advocacy groups, legislators, and academics for mandating liability insurance for all gun owners. None of those legislative proposals passed, but the argument continues. To discuss why that was, what gun liability insurance actually is, and if it could be helpful, JJ is joined by Peter Kochenburger, who is the Executive Director of the Insurance Law LL.M. Program, Deputy Director of the Insurance Law Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Law at UConn Law School. Peter is an expert on gun liability insurance.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Liability Insurance and Gun Violence (UConn)
- The Myth of Gun Liability Insurance (Forbes)
- The NRA Ends it's Carry Guard Insurance (the Trace)
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In a very special minisode, JJ discusses New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement that she has filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of New York that includes 18 causes of action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) and four of its senior officers, current and former, for fraud, malfeasance, false filings and abuse of the NRA’s tax-exempt status, among other charges.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Dissolve the NRA: The Hypocrisy of Wayne LaPierre (Brady)
- Original Interview (Brady)
- New York Sues to Dissolve the NRA, Alleging Widespread Fraud (NBC)
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JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, for a podcast all about what it’s like to be protesting to help bring about gun violence prevention during Covid-19. To do so, we went straight to the source--interviewing those from Concerned Citizens DC and Team Enough as they marched in DC to prevent gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Team Enough (Brady)
- District Crime in DC at a Glance (District of Columbia)
- Gun Violence in DC (Washington Post)
- Protesting Tips in the Time of Covid-19 (Wired)
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JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and D. Brian Burghart, a journalist who is also the founder and executive director of Fatal Encounters. Fatal Encounters is a project devoted to creating a comprehensive national database of people who are killed through interactions with police. Why? Because until its creation, there wasn't one. Together, we’re talking about why it took a journalist to start such a database, why having this information is so important, how this information can save police and civilians, and what the statistics say about police involved killings and the disparate impact they have on Black communities in America.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Fatal Encounters Database (Fatal Encounters)
- Visualizations (Fatal Encounters)
- Key Statistics (Brady)
- Officers Killed and Injured in the Line of Duty (FBI)
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Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, streets and communities across the United States have echoed with protesters’ demands for the reform or defunding of police departments. To break down the root causes of these demonstrations and what changes their impressive momentum might bring, host JJ and Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, are joined by Dwayne Crawford, Executive Director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), and Clayton Rosenberg, Chief of Staff for the Alliance of Concerned Men, for a discussion about police reform, public safety, and gun violence prevention.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Rage and Promises Followed Ferguson, but Little Changed (NY Times)
- Policing Task Force (Tribune News Service)
- Brady Joins Americans Across the Country in Expressing Outrage (Brady)
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Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, continues to have serious difficulty reducing gun violence, with the city suffering in 2019 its highest number of homicides since 2008. The majority of those 166 murders were shootings, and this year the District is on track to be just as deadly, with the majority of the victims expected to be Black men. The severity of these statistics is bad enough, but even worse is how DC residents’ lack of congressional representation makes it difficult, if not impossible, to directly address the causes of this violence.
To talk about the fight for DC statehood, the people leading the charge, and what the capital becoming the 51st state would mean for gun violence prevention, host JJ is joined by activists Ty Hobson Powell, organizer with 51 for 51, and Aalayah Eastmond, Executive Council member of Team Enough and a Concerned Citizens organizer, as well as Christian Heyne, Vice President of Policy at Brady. Together, the four discuss how gun violence affects DC communities, families, and lives, and how making the city a state would give its residents a voice in Congress with which to speak out in favor of the common sense gun legislation they so desperately need.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- DC Issues (51 for 51)
- Concerned Citizens DC Protest Demands (Concerned Citizens)
- Closer Than Ever: House Passes DC Statehood Bill in Historic Vote (NBC)
- 51 is Fair! (Brady)
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Gun violence exacts an enormous toll on Americans, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. Firearms are involved in 100 deaths a day, and 100,000 Americans are shot and injured each year, often with life-altering consequences. To discuss the trauma of suffering and living with a gunshot wound and the activism that can spring from such an injury, host JJ is joined once again by Christian Heyne, Vice President of Policy at Brady, and Allison Shaw — activist, producer, and owner and CEO of Manic Monkee, a Los Angeles brand development and consulting firm — who, like Christian, is a survivor of gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Living as a Survivor of Gun Violence (Wbur)
- How to Provide Support to Survivors (Brady)
- Beyond the Bullet (Heidi Yewman)
- Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (Sweet Relief)
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Gun violence has taken an enormous toll on the LGBTQ community. According to CDC data, nearly two-thirds of firearm deaths in the U.S. are suicides. For those using a gun, 90 percent of suicide attempts are fatal, and data shows that this has particular impact for the transgender and adolescent members of the LGBTQ community. According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 40% of transgender people report having attempted suicide in their lifetime, nearly nine times the national average. Furthermore, one-third of LGBTQ youth report having contemplated suicide, nearly three times the national average.
To discuss the risk firearms and suicide play to LGBTQ youth, host JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and Casey Pick, Esq. Senior Fellow for Advocacy and Government Affairs at the Trevor Project.
You can call the Trevor Lifeline anytime at 1-866-488-7386.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Get Help Now (the Trevor Project)
- Preventing Suicide Toolkit (the Trevor Project)
- End Family Fire (Brady)
- Mental Health and Safe Gun Storage (Brady)
- Firearms Laws and Statewide Suicide Rates (Suicide Prevention Resource Center)
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In early 2020, the American Medical Association said that killings of transgender women of color in the United States amounted to an epidemic. Transgender women of color are exceptionally prone to the deadly consequences that arise from the intersections of racism, sexism, transphobia, and unchecked access; 2020 alone has already seen at least 16 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means.
To discuss the murders of Black trans women and how firearms contribute to them, host JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and Imara Jones, writer, activist, and creator of TransLash.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- The Future of Trans (TransLash)
- Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2020 (HRC)
- The Murders of Riah Milton in Ohio and Dominique “Rem’Mie” Fells (Time)
- March for Black Trans Lives (New York Times)
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This week, Brady called on the Ohio House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Committee to vote against H.B. 381, a “Stand Your Ground” law which would allow individuals to use lethal force in public spaces by removing their “duty to retreat.” This bill would empower individuals to use lethal force even in confrontations that could end peacefully. Stand Your Ground laws were thrust into the national spotlight after the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and continue to be controversial. To talk about what these laws are, how they’ve developed, and their history of use against people of color, host JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and Dr. Caroline Light, an author and historian whose work focuses on America’s fascination with “castle doctrine”-style legislation.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press)
- Ahmaud Arbery Shooting Ignites Fight to Repeal ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws (the Trace)
- Brady Calls on Ohio Lawmakers (Brady)
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Ghost guns — constructed firearms that lack serial numbers or other identifying markings — have been gaining popularity over the last decade. These weapons, which are typically made of plastic and allow users to bypass background checks and registration regulations, are assembled from kits that can be purchased online, providing an easy way of obtaining firearms for people with criminal records. For example, if you are banned from owning guns in a state with universal background checks, you won’t be able to walk into a store and purchase a gun — but, if you order the parts for that gun online and assemble it yourself, it’s likely that nobody will know.
US law allows for the creation and possession of these ghost guns for personal use, while pre-assembled firearms made available for sale or distribution must bear their maker's markings and unique serial numbers. Furthermore, as per the 1968 Gun Control Act, a federal license is required to manufacture them.
However, the Act provided an exemption for people who make their own firearms for personal use, and the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established the federal background check system, included a similar allowance for homemade weapons. To put it plainly, it’s perfectly legal for Americans to build their own untraceable, unregistered firearms.
To understand why weapons of this nature present such a threat to public safety, host JJ is joined by Steve Lindley, ghost gun expert and Brady Program Manager, and Kyleanne Hunter, Brady's VP of Programs.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Tell the ATF to take action on ghost guns (Brady)
- What are ghost guns? (Brady)
- Ghost guns: the DIY firearms (60 Minutes)
- I made an untraceable AR-15 (Wired)
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Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) allow families or law enforcement officers to petition a court to temporarily restrict a person’s access to guns. The petitioner must submit evidence that this person is a danger to themselves or others. ERPOs save lives, allowing the people who are most likely to notice when a loved one or community member becomes a danger to take concrete steps to disarm them.
The nation’s first ERPO law was passed in 1999 in Connecticut, in response to a mass shooting at the state’s lottery headquarters that left four people dead. ERPOs otherwise sat largely ignored legislatively until 2014, when a young man in Isla Vista, California, committed a string of shootings that left six people dead and more than a dozen injured. Many of the victims were students at the nearby University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to the shooting, the gunman displayed concerning behavior, prompting a welfare check from police; however, because he had not violated any laws, authorities took no action to disarm him. Following advocacy led by Brady California, lawmakers passed California's ERPO law by the end of the year.
ERPOs again rose to national attention following the mass shooting at Parkland, Florida in 2018. Over the next 12 months, nearly a dozen states followed suit with California, with similar laws going into effect in Nevada and Colorado in the early days of 2020. Nevertheless, misinformation about ERPOs persists.
To get to what ERPOs actually are, and how they are used to save lives, JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and Raul Campillo, a San Diego prosecutor, deputy attorney, and member of the city's GVRO unit.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Extreme Risk Protection Orders (Brady)
- What is a Gun Violence Restraining Order? (City of San Diego)
- Extreme Risk Protection Orders Work (Giffords)
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The insurrectionist idea — that armed citizens have the ultimate right to take matters into their own hands and take up arms against whatever they define as an oppressive government — was once a fringe one. In 2020, however, the idea has been promoted and popularized by the gun lobby and its allies in the far-right movement. Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, joins JJ and Christian Heyne, Brady’s VP of Policy, to talk about how insurrectionism threatens democracy, how Trump's rhetoric is directing a vigilante army through his Twitter feed and press conferences, why racism is present in all of this, and why voting is so important.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea (University of Michigan Press)
- President Trump's Private Insurrection Army (NY Daily News)
- The Insurrectionism Timeline (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
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On the evening of May 14, 1970, dozens of police officers, responding to reports of rioting and unrest, descended on the Jackson State campus in Jackson, Mississippi, armed with not just their standard service weapons but shotguns and submachine guns as well. Equipped more like soldiers than police and accompanied by an armored vehicle the city, these men, all of whom were white, approached a crowd of students, all of whom were black, and without cause or provocation barraged the young men and women with 28 straight seconds of gunfire, injuring 12 and killing 2.
Though it occurred not even two weeks after the infamous Kent State shooting, Americans do not remember the massacre at Jackson State nearly as well, if at all — a fact possibly related to the former's victims being white northerners and the latter's being black southerners. To discuss the Jackson State shootings and how race is involved in both revealing and concealing the event, JJ welcomes aboard Kelly Sampson, Brady legal counsel; Cordy Galligan, Brady's Vice President of Communications; and Dr. Nancy Bristow, Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound and author of Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Memories of the Jackson State Shooting, 50 years ago (Clarion Ledger)
- Gibbs, Green Shooting (Jackson State)
- Remembering the Jackson State Shooting (the Nation)
- 50 Years After the Jackson State Killings, America's Crisis of Racial Injustice Continues—and Shows the Danger of Forgetting (Time)
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20 years ago, on May 14, 2000, downtown Washington D.C. watched as the Million Mom March became the largest non-violent protest in the history of the National Mall, birthplace of many of the nation's greatest political demonstrations. Over 750,000 people, the majority of them women, came together on that Sunday to call for the end of gun violence, and across the country many thousands more gathered in smaller — but no less spirited — groups, bringing the total number of participants into seven figures and making the Million Mom March true to its name.
In the 20 years since, Marchers have carried across the country the torch of activism they lit that Sunday afternoon as they stood, unified and purposeful, in the shadow of the nation's monuments to its greatest people and events, and wherever the Marchers have brought that torch — to counties, to states, to the halls of Congress — they have helped bring to pass gun safety laws ensuring that tomorrow will be safer than today.
In 2001, the Million Mom March merged with Brady, and the work the Marchers began continued to grow and be realized as they labored alongside Jim and Sarah Brady's activists to end the public health epidemic that is gun violence. The two groups became one, and as one they worked tirelessly to reduce — from 21 to zero — the number of children and adults shot each day in American cities and towns.
In this episode celebrating the 20th anniversary of the March, our host JJ welcomes three women to the show who are each as knowledgeable about gun violence prevention as they are committed to its ideals: Kris Brown, Brady's president, who was a participant of the Million Mom March; Dana Sanchez-Quist, a member of the Brady State Executive Committee; Shikha Hamilton, Brady National Chapter Organizing and Chapter Development Manager; and Donna Dees-Thomases, visionary founder of the Million Mom March and the dream of a safer future that it continues to represent.
Mentioned in this podcast:
the 20th Anniversary of the Million Mom March (Brady)
the Legacy of the Million Mom March (Medium)
Five Awake Documentary (Hollywood Reporter)
ASK to End Family Fire (Brady)
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Daphne Frias is a 22-year-old organizer from West Harlem, New York.She is a nationally acclaimed activist within the movement to prevent gun violence, the New York state director of March for Our Lives, a delegate at the United Nations Youth Climate Summit, and she just began med school. Daphne is a great, tough young person, who was kind enough to join host JJ to talk about the intersection of coronavirus, disability, and gun violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Gun violence, disability, and recovery (Journal of Disability)
- Higher COVID-19 Incidence in Minority Communities (AARP)
- Shootings Are a Glaring Exception to the Coronavirus Crime Drop (the Trace)
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In early 2020, DC native Tia Bell launched the T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project (True Reasons I Grabbed the Gun Evolved in Risks Project), a gun violence prevention program. The T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project aims to change the normalcy of gun violence within communities of color. The initiative incorporates film, empowerment programs, education, and development initiatives. Tia joins host JJ to talk about why authentically telling the untold stories of everyday gun violence users to all walks of life is so important, and how-to bring compassion for young people who feel invisible.
Mentioned in this podcast:
TRIGGER Project Aims to End Gun Violence (Howard University)
AIM (TRIGGER Project)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Quiz (American Society for the Positive Care of Children)
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to a rise in reported xenophobic and racist attacks on members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Today, we continue our discussion on how incidents of hate crimes against the AAPI community are up, as is fear within the community that firearms will be used against them.
To talk about the duel threats of xenophobia and guns to the AAPI community, host JJ and Kelly Sampson are joined by Dr. Russel Jeung, Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Together, we discuss why rhetoric and guns has the potential to be just as--if not more so--dangerous than a virus.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Stop AAPI Hate (A3PCON)
- STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center (Chinese for Affirmative Action)
- New Trump Attack Ad Appears to Suggest Gary Locke is a Chinese Official (Seattle Times)
- "They look at me and think I'm some kind of virus": What it's like to be Asian during the coronavirus pandemic (USA Today)
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One of the disturbing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic as been xenophobic and racist attacks on members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Incidents of hate crimes have created an atmosphere of discrimination and fear. As a result, many media outlets have reported on members of the AAPI community purchasing firearms.
To talk about the threat xenophobia, and these firearms, pose to the AAPI community, host JJ and Kelly Sampson are joined by David Inoue of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). Together, we discuss why guns are not the solution to COVID-19 related hate crimes.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- COVID-19 and Xenophobia (JACL)
- The Murder of Vincent Chin (ABC)
- Stop AAPI Hate (A3PCON)
- Blaming the Victim During a Time of Vulnerability (Washington Post)
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On April 16, 2007, a gunman shot and killed 32 people in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at Virginia Tech. Colin Goddard and Reema Samaha were in French class that day--Colin was shot four times and survived, but Reema was killed.The horrible events of that day launched Colin into activism, as well as Reema's brother, Omar Samaha. Along the way they made friends with Christian Heyne, the Vice President of Policy at Brady, and each made undercover videos investigating the gun show loophole.
Today, all three again join host JJ to talk about Virginia Tech, gun violence, activism, and how to define a survivor.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Colin Debates for Gun Violence Prevention (Brady)
- Gun Violence Survivors Speak Out (CNN)
- Many First Responders Struggle with PTSD (Washington Post)
- Living for 32 (Living for 32)
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On April 16, 2007, a gunman shot and killed 32 people in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at Virginia Tech. Colin Goddard and Reema Samaha were in French class that day--Colin was shot four times and survived, but Reema was killed.The horrible events of that day launched Colin into activism, as well as Reema's brother, Omar Samaha. Along the way they made friends with Christian Heyne, the Vice President of Policy at Brady, and each made undercover videos investigating the gun show loophole.
Today, all three join host JJ to talk about Virginia Tech, gun violence, activism, and why the gun show loophole persists.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Gun Show Loophole ( Brady)
- Living for 32 (Living for 32)
- $5,000 and One Hour Buys 10 Guns (ABC)
- Virginia Tech Shooting (CNN)
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Ms. Millie Brown started her organization, Tear's of a Mother's Cry, in 2009 to serve the women of Baltimore who have lost their children to gun violence. She has now served over 1000 mothers, providing much needed support to the bereaved. In 2019 alone, Baltimore had 348 killings—90 percent by gunfire. The murder rate (58 per 100,000 people) now exceeds that of previous global homicide capitals of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Each halved its homicide rates in the past five years; Baltimore’s climbed 65 percent. This terrible rate of gun violence has continued even in the time of the novel coronovirus.
Today, Ms. Millie joins host JJ to talk about the stories of two of these mothers, and their sons taken by homicide--Ms. Tracy Coleman, and Ms. Burnett McFadden. Ms. Tracy lost two sons, Cornelius and Cordell Bruce, in January of 2020. Ms. B lost three sons, Reginald, Randolph and Linton, in the space of several months in 2005.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Burnett McFadden, Community Advocate
- Two Brothers Killed Within a Week in Baltimore
- Dr. Ben Carson and Ms. Millie Brown: Tears of a Mother's Cry
- Baltimore still battling crime, amidst coronavirus
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JJ and Kelly Sampson, Counsel at Brady, are joined again by Clayton Rosenberg of the Alliance of Concerned Men and Women, a non-profit organization that focuses on saving lives of at-risk youth and adults in areas of Washington DC that experience high amounts of gun violence. Together, we're discussing what those in community based organizations doing to help fight gun violence in this unique period of time.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Alliance of Concerned Men and Women (ACM)
- COVID-19 and Gun Violence (Amnesty International)
- If COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate, Then Why Are Black People Dying at Higher Rates? (ACLU)
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Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski is the founder of the Washington Health System Teen Outreach, through which she has trained over 15,000 peer educators and served over 7,000 young parents. Currently, she serves as the President and Founder of the Academy for Adolescent Health, Inc., and is the author of books like "Sex Ed Is In Session" and the Nonnie series. Today, she joins host JJ to talk about the unique risk the intersection of COVID-19 and firearms can be posing to young adults, and how all of us need to be talking about how #EachPersonIsAPersonofWorth.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Sex Ed Is In Session (Amazon)
- Teen Suicide and Guns (PBS)
- 6 Ways to Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing (Brady)
- Dealing with Coronavirus (Observer-Reporter)
- Nonnie Talks About Quarantine (Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski)
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Victoria M Rodríguez-Roldán, the Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force, joins host JJ to talk about the intersections between gun violence, disability, and COVID-19, and how the solution to structural inequality is not "buy more guns."
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 4 Reasons Not to Buy Guns in Response to COVID-19
- Gun-toting disabled woman with health condition appears in NRA video warning of effort to 'exploit' coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post)
- COVID-19 Pandemic and People with Disabilities (Respectability)
- Disability considerations during the COVID-19 Outbreak (World Health Organization)
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COVID-19 has, and is, disrupting the lives of millions of people in America. Among those are survivors of domestic and sexual violence, who are especially vulnerable in this time. Add in the rise of gun sales, and there is a dangerous storm brewing. More than half of all women murdered in the United States are killed by an intimate partner with a gun, and the chance of being murdered by an abusive partner increases five-fold when there is a gun in the home. Host JJ is joined by Ruth Glenn, President, and Rachel Graber, Director of Public Policy, of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) talk about the intersections, and risks, of domestic violence, firearms, and COVID-19...and what our listeners can do.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Call the Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233); for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing by Video Phone at 1-855-812-1001, or Chat Online here.
- Text the Domestic Violence Hotline by sending "LOVEIS" to 22522.
- Staying Safe in COVID-19 (NCADV)
- Beyond Bullet Wounds (Brady)
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In response to fear related to the COVID-19 pandemic, American gun dealers and online retailers have reported an increase in sales, especially to first time gun buyers. But, making the decision to buy a gun is a big deal, and not one that should be done impulsively. To help guide people on whether or not they should buy a gun, and to assist those that have already purchased one, host JJ is joined by Christian Heyne, the Vice President of Policy at Brady, and David Chipman, a Senior Policy Adviser at the gun violence prevention organization Giffords.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 6 Ways You Can Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing Amid COVID-19 (Brady)
- Panic Buying Guns Won’t Keep You Safe During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Giffords)
- Coronavirus and Guns: What You Need to Know (Giffords)
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Hosts JJ and Kelly Sampson join VP of Legal Jon Lowy to talk about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s advisory guidance designating gun stores, shooting ranges and other portions of the gun industry as “essential critical infrastructure.” In return, Brady has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain documents pertinent to the gun industry’s efforts to influence this decision. What does that mean? Listen to find out!
Mentioned in this podcast:
- We're Taking Legal Action on DHS Guidance on Gun Stores (Brady)
- So Called "Second-Amendment Sanctuaries" (Brady)
- Gun Stores Ruled Essential (Wall Street Journal)
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Jim “the Bear” Brady saw his career cut short on March 30, 1981, during an assassination attempt against the president. In addition to President Reagan, Jim and two law enforcement officers were shot. Jim suffered a serious head wound that left him partially paralyzed for life. Soon after the shooting, Jim and his wife Sarah Brady, became respected gun violence prevention advocates. Today, Brady President Kris Brown and VP of Legal Jon Lowy talk with host JJ about that fateful day in 1981, and the Brady mission and legacy that followed (and continues!) today.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 6 Ways You Can Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing Amid COVID-19 (Brady)
- The History of Brady (Brady)
- Reagan press secretary and activist James Brady dies at 73 (PBS)
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COVID-19 is scary, and part of that is the news that surrounds it--from physical distancing that can lead to social isolation, to worries about what the economic downturn could bring. And, all those things can be made even scarier when we think about it in relation to by increased risks of gun violence, because gun violence is, unfortunately, a constant in the US. . Christian Heyne, the Vice President of Policy at Brady, and Mighty Fine of the American Public Health Association talk with host JJ about things we can be doing in these times, when both are intersecting, to help ourselves and one another.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 6 Ways You Can Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing Amid COVID-19 (Brady)
- Policies that Work to Prevent Gun Violence (APHA)
- COVID-19 Conversations (APHA)
- Get Ready Fact Sheet (APHA)
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As the time of social or physical distancing stretches on, you may be looking for something to do--and what better than fight gun violence? In today's episode, Brady President Kris Brown talks with host JJ about ways to be involved in gun violence prevention in the time of Covid-19.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 6 Ways You Can Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing Amid COVID-19 (Brady)
- Demand McConnell and Trump Pass Gun Reform! (Brady)
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**In the time of Covid-19, physical distancing (sometimes called social distancing) is necessary to flatten the coronavirus curve--but there is a danger to it as well, as populations most vulnerable to isolation are left in possible crisis.
So, how do we talk to the people we love--and to ourselves--about suicide? How do we protect ourselves and others? What are steps we can take, right now, even from home, that may save a life? To find out, host JJ is joined by Dr. Jonathan Singer, President of the American Association of Suicidology and Colleen Creighton, Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Suicidology**.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- #BeHereTomorrow (American Association of Suicidology)
- The Truth About Suicide and Guns (Brady)
- 6 Ways You Can Prevent Gun Violence While Social Distancing Amid COVID-19 (Brady)
- Fighting the Social Recession (Vox)
- Resources to Support Mental Health and Coping with the Coronavirus (Suicide Prevention Resource Center)
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Staying at home in order to practice social distancing amid COVID-19 means that millions of children and family members will be spending more time in close proximity to firearms. And we all know kids are curious, and they can find everything — including a gun you thought was “hidden." These factors make it more important than ever that we ensure our homes are safe from Family Fire — which is a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused gun in the home that results in death or injury.
So, how do we talk to the people we know and love — including our kids, neighbors, spouses, and more — about guns right now? For this minisode, host JJ is joined by Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Vice President of Programs at Brady, and Leslie LaRue, a mom and PTA leader in Austin, Texas.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- End Family Fire (Brady)
- Gun Sales Surge (Los Angeles Times)
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Hosts JJ and Kelly Sampson join Victoria M Rodríguez-Roldán, the Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force**.
Together, we cover the idea that mental health is linked to gun violence, as well as how police brutality, racism, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny are all part of the gun violence problem.**
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Be You Means Being Safe From Gun Violence (LGBTQ Taskforce)
- Rethinking LGBTQ Policy Series: Policy Recommendations For Gun Violence Prevention Using A Racial, Disability, And LGBTQ Justice Framework (LGBTQ Taskforce)
- Gun Violence and the LGBTQ Community (Human Rights Campaign)
- Gun Violence Plagues the LGBTQ+ Community. Queer Liberation Means Fighting Back (March for Our Lives)
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Hosts JJ and Kelly Sampson talk with singer, rapper, and change agent Farooq Ameen Al-Said. Al-Said helps lead 1Hood, a Black-owned and Black-led community organization dedicated to activism and education through the lens of hip hop.
**We cover the racist history behind America's gun laws, how white supremacy informs media portrayals around rap music and gun violence, and how Black residents in Pittsburgh are facing systematic police violence.
Mentioned in this podcast:**
- Justice for Antwon Rose II (1Hood)
- How Pittsburgh Fails Black Women (1Hood)
- "Former officer Michael Rosfeld found not guilty in death of Antwon Rose" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- "The State v. Hip Hop: Jamal Knox was sent to prison for his lyrics. The courts have a history of criminalizing rap music." (Pacific Standard Mag)
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It's the latest full-length episode of Brady's series on racial justice, gun violence, and gun violence prevention. JJ and Kelly Sampson, Counsel at Brady, are joined by Dr. Joseph Richardson, of the Departments of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also is a Director and Executive Producer of Life After the Gunshot, an amazing documentary that traces the intersection of gun violence, trauma, and incarceration in DC. Together, we're talking about gun violence, public policy, and trauma and incarceration as a social determinant of health among Black boys and young adult Black men.
Mentioned in this podcast:Life After the GunshotDickey Amendment
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It's the second full-length episode of Brady's series on racial justice, gun violence, and gun violence prevention. JJ and Kelly Sampson, Counsel at Brady, are joined by Clayton Rosenberg of the Alliance of Concerned Men and Women, a non-profit organization that focuses on saving lives of at-risk youth and adults in areas of Washington DC that experience high amounts of gun violence. We’ll be exploring how that violence is intertwined and complicated by racism, gentrification, and policing, as well as the Alliance’s work as violence interrupters.
Mentioned in this podcast:the Murder of Clarence Venable51 for 51
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It's the first full-length episode of Brady's series on racial justice, gun violence, and gun violence prevention. JJ and Kelly Sampson, Counsel at Brady, are joined by Dr. Saul Cornell**, the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University. Together, they speak about the ways the modern gun debate intersects with the history of race relations in America, what you need to know about the history of the 2nd Amendment, and why bumperstickers don't quite work when talking about history and race in the US.
Mentioned in this podcast:**A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
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This episode is the first in a series of podcasts tackling the intersection of racial justice and gun violence prevention. These are tough issues that the country has struggled with enormously and at great length, and to address them with the gravity, attention to detail, and transparency they deserve, JJ enlists the aid of her new cohost Kelly Sampson, Brady Counsel; Aalayah Eastmond, a member of the Team ENOUGH executive council and survivor of the Parkland school shooting; and Tatiana Washington, another Team ENOUGH executive council member who also serves as an advocacy associate at March for Our Lives. Together, this formidable panel discusses allyship, racism, and the roles that young women of color play in the gun violence prevention movement.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- "The Right Not to Be Shot," by Brady's Kelly Sampson and Jon Lowy
- Aalayah's congressional testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary
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This week, Brady handles how gun violence is a public health issue, and why diversity in research really, really matters. To do so, JJ is joined by Vice President of Policy at Brady, Christian Heyne, JP Thomas, Senior Program Manager at Brady, and Dr. Daniel Webster, the Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Today, Daniel is here to discuss everything from the boyfriend loophole to John Hopkins' free course on gun violence prevention.
Then, in our "unbelievable, but" segment, JJ is talking about why you shouldn't test strange guns you find in malls (seriously, folks), followed by wrapping up our time together with a selection of gun violence, and gun violence prevention, news from this week...and then a very special message from JP.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change course
- Firearm Purchaser Licensing Teach-Out: The Background Check Policy Not Enough People Are Talking About course
- Brady Applauds Passage of Seven Common-sense Gun Violence Prevention Policies
- Gun Laws, Loopholes, and Violence
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This week, Brady tackles policing, intentional data loss, and how to get rid of guns in a forge. Today, JJ and Vice President of Policy at Brady, Christian Heyne, are joined by David Chipman, a Senior Policy Advisor at the gun violence prevention organization Giffords, and currently serves on the Firearms Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He also served for 25 years as a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, aka, the ATF. Today, David is here to detail why the Tiahrt Amendment (which prohibits the ATF from maintaining a searchable database--instead, officers attempting to trace a gun used in the commission of a crime must use a card catalog and phone system to track the weapon) is harming the American people, and why technologies like Shot Spotter are changing gun violence prevention.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Brady Applauds Passage of Seven Common-sense Gun Violence Prevention Policies
- Gun Laws, Loopholes, and Violence
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This week, Brady is in Iowa! JJ is joined by Brady President Kris Brown in Des Moines for the “We The People 2020: Protecting our Democracy a Decade After Citizens United" forum. There, Brady and seven other organizations (Common Cause, End Citizens United Action Fund, MoveOn Political Action, NAACP, People For the American Way, Progress Iowa, and Public Citizen) were joined by top Democratic presidential candidates former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Maryland representative John Delaney, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang. Also there? The American public, who JJ is speaking to about the dominance of big money in politics, the need to protect the right to vote, how to ensure fair courts, how to create a democracy that works for all of us, and, of course, gun violence prevention.
Mentioned in this podcast:Brady Calls for Peace
Citizens United Forum
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JJ is joined by Brady President Kris Brown, and State Director of Virginia at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Lori Haas. Together, we're talking about what happened this Monday--namely, that though it has been YEARS since significant gun violence prevention legislation has cleared committee in the state of Virginia, it happened today! And the rest of the country should be paying attention, because it was only November that Virginia voters altered the balance of power, electing a gun violence prevention majority to the state legislature. Something, that if you asked Virginians a few years ago, they would have said was HIGHLY unlikely. Yet, here we are!
Mentioned in this podcast:A Giant Temper TantrumVirginia is for Gun Violence Prevention Lovers
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A Bishop, a Rabbi, and an Imam come on a podcast...no, it's not a joke, it's an amazing conversation. We do laugh a lot though! JJ is joined by three great men-the retired Bishop Mark Beckwith, the Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, and Imam W. Deen Shareef. All of them graciously are here to talk about how gun violence, and gun violence prevention, is a matter of faith. Together, we’re discussing the idea of scapegoating, the role of faith in gun violence prevention, arming religious institutions, and more. Then, in our “unbelievable, but” segment, we’re talking not about men of the cloth, but a man of Florida, and wanna be cowboy...well, we’ll get there. Finally, I’ll share a news update that, sadly, begins with the death of a beloved trans-rights advocate but fortunately ends with youth being empowered in their right to protest. Mentioned in this podcast:
* A Matter of Faith
* The Truth about Suicide and Guns
* How to Support Survivors and People Impacted by Gun Violence
* Team ENOUGH suicide prevention and mental health resources
* Scapegoating and Gun Violence--a Fatal Circle
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So, if you've been paying attention in the news...everything is on fire. In some cases, literally. And that can be really hard, especially for those who suffer from PTSD. And guns complicate that even more. But, what can you do if you're worried about yourself, or those you love? Don't panic, Brady's got you. JJ is joined by Dr. Kyleanne Hunter and Dr. Ted Bonar to talk about PTSD, depression, and how suicide is never the answer.
Mentioned in this podcast:The Truth about Suicide and Guns
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JJ and JP ring in the first podcast of 2020 with writer, producer, director, community organizer, and super impressive human, Heidi Yewman. Heidi is a long-time Brady member, one who has devoted herself to exploring the multiple and complex narratives that surround gun violence. Then, JJ shares with you an unbelievable new Las Vegas law that is sure to make you shake your head in confusion, and a news update that covers a long list of violent New Year's shootings and continued developments on so-called second amendment sanctuaries.
Mentioned in this podcast:Beyond the Bullet
Behind the Bullet
My Month with a Gun
End Family Fire
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JJ is joined by everybody's favorite co-host, JP, and everybody's favorite leader, Brady President Kris Brown. Together, we're here to talk about all that Brady did this year--and what we resolve to have happen in 2020. After that, I’m going to drop some truth in our “unbelievable, but” section--namely, that this holiday season winds down, you should resolve to practice and discuss safe gun storage. Finally, we’re leaving 2019 with one last news wrap-up that covers everything from increased shootings to increased funding. 2019 has been...a lot, but we’re here together to make 2020 safer.
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JJ is joined by now frequent guest, Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, and dear friend Dr. Joe Sakran. Joe is a trauma surgeon, survivor, gun violence prevention activist, and founder of the hashtag “this is our lane.” We’re breaking down not only Joe’s journey to becoming a doctor and an activist, but also what “this is our lane” is about, and the role health care professionals play in helping to end the epidemic of gun violence in the US. Per Joe and Ky’s request, we’re having this hard conversation with some hard liquor--in other words, we’re sipping whiskey and spilling facts. Then, in our “Unbelievable, But!” segment, I’ll tell you why Santa probably won’t put you on the “nice” list if you show up to a photo op with him while you’re packing heat. Finally, we’re wrapping up with a brief gvp news review, where I’m covering everything from mass shootings, to political debates, to bad radio hosts.
Go visit This Is Our Lane here.
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How do we get more gun owners involved in the fight against gun violence? What is the gun violence prevention movement doing wrong? To answer those questions, gun novice JJ is joined by two great gun owners: Kyleanne Hunter, VP of Programs at Brady, Marine veteran, and corgi owner; and Mark House, a New York city public school Principal and father. Together, they're trying to find a way for everyone to be included in the conversation on how to end gun violence.
Then, JJ dips into some unbelievable news--namely, why guns don't belong in schools--and the gun violence prevention wrap-ups move from Fridays to Mondays! What?! I know, I know, we're getting crazy around here.
In this episode, you'll learn:
...about the culture of gun ownership;
...why safe storage matters;
...what it's like dealing with the "new normal" of school shootings;
...how some gun owners respond to "common sense" gun laws;
...what it's like, being a gun owner who is involved with efforts to reduce and prevent gun violence;
and, what the gun violence movement is doing wrong. Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"End Family Fire."
"Gun Ownership."
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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It's the Brady Briefing, another time where JJ**, all alone, talks about mass shootings, the murder of a violence interrupter, the ripple effects of gun violence, and a judicial nomination gone wrong. You know the deal--it's the weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of December 7th to December 13th.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- the mass shooting in Jersey City;
- the mass shooting at a U.S. naval base in Florida;
- the murder of Clarence Venable, a violence interrupter;
- the long-term effects of gun violence, as 450 city employees having filed for workers’ compensation following the May 31st Virginia Beach massacre;
- and why Lawrence J.C. VanDyke being appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dangerous.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :“Brady Calls on U.S. Senate to Reject ‘Not Qualified’ Judicial Nominee...” “Brady Outraged at Murder of Violence Interrupter Clarence Venable in...”
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ is joined by JP, who has finally returned, and Joshua Scharff, Legal Counsel and Director of Programs at Brady. Together, the three break down the trend of so-called second amendment “sanctuary cities.” These resolutions are dangerous as well as hypocritical, so this is a Minisode you don't want to miss. This may be a giant temper tantrum, but it's one that has far reaching repercussions.
Today in this Minisode, we cover:
- What is a so-called second amendment “sanctuary city”;
- Why that problematic--and wrong--name gets used;
- What is the impact of these so-called second amendment “sanctuary cities";
- What happened in New Mexico;
- The insidious role played by the gun lobby;
- Why people should be worried about this gun lobby initiative coming to their hometowns?;
- and most importantly, what can people do if they’re worried?
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ is joined by Jon Lowy, Chief Counsel and Vice President of Legal at Brady, and Kyleanne Hunter, who in addition to her work as VP of programs for Brady, is a US Marine Corps combat veteran who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack pilot. Together, we're talking assault weapons: what they are, how they got banned, and what's going on with them now.
Then, JJ explains the strange case of the bouncy chair turned semi-automatic rifle, and salutes a great gun violence prevention hero.
Today, you'll learn:
- What an assault weapon is;
- What’s the difference between an automatic, and semiautomatic, weapon;
- What's an assault weapons ban;
- What happened to the assault weapons ban;
- Why assault weapons are often used in mass shootings;
- and why most Americans support an assault weapons ban.
Also, why can't JJ have a tiger?!
Finally, we answer the important question of what can people do if they’re concerned about assault weapons.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :Bloody Hands Demand a ban on assault weaponsThe Brady Plan
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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It's the Brady Briefing, another time where JJ **casts alone on everything from the mounting numbers of mass shootings to how teenagers seem to be leading the fight against gun violence. Get ready--it's the weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of November 30th to December 6th.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- how mass shootings in 2019 now outnumber the days;
- the current hunt for the killers in the Fresno shooting;
- the sentencing of a mother following the death of her toddler;
- how the students of Parkland continue to build momentum within the gun violence prevention movement;
- the company run by one amazing DC teenager;
- and what happens when survivors from around the country gather to mourn.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"What You Need to Know about the NRA's Supreme Court Lawsuit."
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ is joined by Jon Lowy, Chief Counsel and Vice President of Legal at Brady. Jon--affectionately called Lowy--has been deeply involved with a highly publicized Second Amendment case, one that seems to combine theNew York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York and the District of Columbia v. Heller. Lowy was present for arguments on December 2nd, 2019, and provides JJ with a breakdown of the good, the bad, and the ugly of possible decisions.
Today in this Minisode, we cover:
- what the 2nd Amendment is;
- what the 2nd Amendment isn't;
- what the Heller decision meant;
- why the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York went to the Supreme Court, and why it matters;
- possible decisions...and what to do about them.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
Ten Years Later, Heller Continues to Resonate.
2nd Amendment and Public Safety After Heller.
20 Years in the Making.
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JJ is joined by Christian Heyne, VP of Policy at Brady, and Liz Dunning, the Director of Institutional Giving at Brady. Both Christian and Liz work at Brady...and both lost their mothers to gun violence. In this episode, we’re talking about how they deal with that loss, how they balance working in gun violence prevention, and what brought them to Brady.
JJ also talks about why you shouldn't shoot at alien lasers--no, really--and thanks a very special GVP hero.
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Liz's blog, Run Lizzie Run
- Sitting on the floor
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It's the Brady Briefing, another time where JJ **casts alone on everything from university studies to the FBI to an underserved population, in this, a weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of November 22nd to November 29th.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- a new medical study that shows the ripple effects of gun violence;
- the FBI dealing with an increase in background checks;
- a billionaire running for President;
- the ongoing issue of “ghost guns”;
- the continuing lack of resources available to native populations battling gun violence.
And hey, don't forget giving Tuesday! Check us out at bradyunited.org/podcash.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :Brady welcomes Fix NICS Report Gun Violence Has a Major Impact on Native Communities in the United States
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ and Cordy call Davida Hall, VP of Content at Studio 71 and founder and creator of The Lipstick Lobby...and the special Brady shade, "Fired Up!"The Lipstick Lobby is a social justice movement for change, progress and equality, that seeks to empower women through statement lip products to fight for the issues most critical to their lives.
Today in this Minisode, we cover:
- how the Lipstick Lobby came to be;
- why corporations need to be looking into gun violence prevention;
- how a little lipstick can lead to big change;
- how it feels to do a photoshoot with activists and survivors;
- and why "Fired Up" makes such a great gift.
100% of all proceeds from the "Fired Up" lipstick go to supporting Brady! Right now, Red, Blue, and Brady listeners get 15% off with the code "Brady15." Go forth! Shop! Check out https://thelipsticklobby.com.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"Fired Up Lipstick."
"Kris Brown**."
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz*, or via our website at* bradyunited.org*. Full transcripts and bibliography available at* bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ is joined by Christian Kimbrough, founder of Revive Minds, gun violence advocate, and survivor. Christian is joining us today to talk about being a survivor of being shot in the head at age 13, living with a traumatic brain injury, and running his amazing company, Revive Minds**.
In this episode, we cover:**
- why being a Christmas miracle can be hard;
- why he felt the need to become an advocate;
- why youth outreach is so important;
- how the media lies about quick recovery times;
- what it's like living with a traumatic brain injury; and finally
- why gun violence is wack.
JJ also talks about why you shouldn't bring a gun to a bar...and then steal that gun back from the court, and applauds GVP heroes who fought the law and won.
Revive Minds can be found here: https://www.reviveminds.com/. Go shop!
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It's the Brady Briefing, another time where JJ **casts alone on everything from the loss of more victims of gun violence to the efforts of some brave retirees, in this, a weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of November 16th to November 22nd.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- the ongoing need for the Transgender Day of Remembrance;
- why passing of Kimberly Gervais could potentially be ruled the 59th fatality of the Las Vegas shooting;
- what happened to 10 year old Micah Tennant;
- why Tirtza and Barry Pearl are now JJ's favorite people; and
- why the fifth Democratic primary debate was such a disappointment.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"Where is the Outrage?"
"Heather Sallan Tells Her Story."
"Key Statistics on Gun Violence."
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ and JP gather to talk with Ross Misher**, CEO at Brand Central Group and long time Brady member . When Ross was only 12, his father Ken Misher was murdered by a long-time employee and friend who purchased a handgun in 15 minutes or less while on his lunch break. Ross turned his anger into action, launching a life in activism that continues 35 years later.
Today in this Minisode, we cover:**
- why background checks matter;
- why "cooling off" periods are important;
- why Jim and Sarah Brady were amazing advocates;
- the trauma felt by those left behind after a shooting;
- why the NRA is out of touch; and
- how YOU can get involved in activism today.
In particular, listen in for the "Tina Timid" section. You'll be horrified! Which, par for the course on here, but still.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"Expand Brady Background Checks."
"History of Brady."
"Say Enough: Kenny Misher."
"Team Enough."
Similar episodes:
Episode 1: Tony Coelho on the ADA, the Brady Bill, and what happens when you confront the Pope Episode 4: Joan Peterson on domestic violence, ERPOs, and how to be proactive For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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JJ is joined by Nancy Kislin, psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker and a professor with over 28 years of experience. Nancy is calling into today to talk about why lockdowns, which are meant to help students prepare in case of a shooting, are in fact damaging to the mental health of students. Nancy provides parents, caregivers, academic staff, and first responders with explanations of how lockdown drills work, as well as inexpensive, common-sense solutions to the problem of poorly-designed lockdown drills.
In this episode, we cover:
- how lockdown drills are designed;
- the lack of research around lockdown drills;
- what lockdown drills mentally do to students and staff;
- how parents can talk to their kids about school violence; and
- what parents should be doing about lockdown drills.
If you have a student in school, this is NOT an episode to miss.
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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It's the Brady Briefing, another time where JJ **casts alone on everything from court cases to mass shootings, in this, a weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of November 9th to November 15th.
In this cast we have a lot of ground to cover--from straw sales, to mass shootings, to “2nd Amendment sanctuaries” to DOJ programs to court cases to the shooting at Saugus High school. It’s a lot, and it’s all awful. But remember, we're in this together.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- what straw sales are, and why they're dangerous;
- why doctors are LESS likely to talk about gun safety after mass shootings;
- why a “Second Amendment Sanctuary" prioritizes guns over people;
- why the case against the Bushmaster AR-15 gun by Remington is so important;
- why the U.S. Department of Justice’s announced "Project Guardian" initiative is toothless;
- and finally, what happened at Saugus High School.
So, you know, a lot.
**JJ also shares some amazing quotes, an even better tweet, and more conversations about PLCAA.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :
"*Saugus High School Shooting"
"Brady Applauds SCOTUS Decision"
"Aalayah Eastmond Testifies"
"FAQ: What's a Crime Gun?"*
Similar episodes:
Brady Briefing 6: Elections, anniversaries, and #thisisourlane Minisode 4: Kris Brown and Kelly Sampson on toy guns, dangerous fakes, and Easy-bake Ovens Episode 3: Brady's legal team on the Kirsten Englund case, and how to "be a lighthouse"
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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Your hosts:
In this episode of "Red, Blue and Brady," the podcast all about gun violence prevention, JJall alone. She has no friends! It's rough. JJ is the podcast producer and co-host at Brady. She spends her days yelling into a microphone. She can be reached @bradybuzz.
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JJ is joined by Kyleanne Hunter, who in addition to her work as VP of programs for Brady, is a US Marine Corps combat veteran who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack pilot. They're chatting today with Ted Bonar**, a clinical psychologist specializing in veterans, PTSD, depression, and gun safety. The topics range today, from--"Do veterans liked to be thanked for their service? Is Veteran's day triggering? How can you have a conversation with a veteran about gun safety? Can we talk about mental health in a clear way?"
In this episode, we cover:**
- why Veteran's day can be tough on active-duty military and veterans;
- why thanking veterans for their service is complicated;
- how to ask the hard questions about depression, PTSD, and suicide;
- and how to keep those we love, and ourselves, safe from gun violence.
JJ and Ky also discuss what happens when guns are raffled off in schools (spoiler: it's not good!), a pretty big GVP hero, and why we need to talk more about suicide when we talk about gun violence.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :"the Truth about Suicide and Guns.""How to Support Survivors and People Impacted by Gun Violence."Kyleanne Hunter: As a Marine, I was trained to handle guns. As a veteran, it's my duty to help prevent tragedies like Thousand Oaks."
Similar episodes:
Minisode 1: Kyleanne Hunter on what is family fire, how to end it, and how Forest Gump is surprisingly accurate For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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**JJ casts alone today, talking about elections, anniversaries, and #thisisourlane, in this, a weekly wrap up on gun violence and gun violence prevention for the week of November 2nd to November 8th.
Today in this wrap-up, you'll learn about:**
- why the Virginia election matters so much;
- what a a special session of the Virginia legislature means;
- the Fort Hood shooting;
- The Thousand Oaks shooting;
- the Sutherland Springs shooting; and
- the #thisisourlane campaign.
JJ also gives some truly terrifying facts about the CDC, how gun violence is studied in the US, and why health care professionals are so vital to fighting the epidemic of gun violence.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :“Brady Celebrates Virginia Election Results.”“Ahead of Virginia Special Session, Brady Urges Floor Vote on Gun...”“Brady Campaign on Thousand Oaks Shooting.”“Sutherland Springs.”“Gun Violence Is a Public Health Crisis: 5 Things The Public Needs to...”
Similar episodes:
Minisode 5: Virginia elections--why did they matter? What do they mean? Will JP ever return?! Episode 7: Chris Hurst on being a survivor, a politician, and why Virginia elections matter Minisode 4: Kris Brown and Kelly Sampson on toy guns, dangerous fakes, and Easy-bake Ovens Episode 6: Andy Parker on the confluence of guns and Google
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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**JJ, JP, and Christian team up to talk about Virginia elections--namely, how a gun violence majority got elected in Virginia for the first time on record. If Virginia is now a state for gun violence prevention lovers, what does that mean?
Today in this Minisode, we cover:**
- what a gun violence prevention majority means;
- why the Virginia election matters so much;
- why do people keep saying "if we can do it here we can do it anywhere;" and
- how survivors and politicians really made this issue their own.
JJ, JP, and Christian also discuss what it's like to do grassroots organizing, how to run a campaign in 2019, and what Virginia signals to the rest of America.
Some of the links mentioned in this episode :"2019 Elections and Endorsements"“Brady Celebrates Virginia Election Results.”
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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Your hosts:
In this episode of "Red, Blue and Brady," the podcast all about gun violence prevention, JJis joined by JP and also by Christian**!
JP is Senior Manager of field operations and grassroots organizing at Brady. Despite being super busy, he enjoys taking time for the podcast. Christian is the Vice President of Policy at Brady, leading all legislative efforts at the federal and state level. He began advocating for stronger gun laws after a man with a history of violence shot his parents on Memorial Day 2005. His father survived multiple gunshots, but his mother was killed. Today, Christian works tirelessly to build consensus both in the states and in Congress. JJ, meanwhile, is the podcast producer and co-host at Brady. She spends her days yelling into a microphone. All of them can be reached @bradybuzz.**
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JJ and Christian are joined by Chris Hurst, a journalist, former news anchor, and politician of the Democratic Party currently serving as a Delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates for the state's 12th district. Chris decided to leave journalism and run for office after the on-air television murder of his girlfriend, Alison Parker, and her cameraman, Adam Ward**. Since that day, Chris has worked on finding solutions for Virginians and Americans--be it on education, health care, the environment, or gun violence prevention.
JJ and Christian also discuss what happens when people try to shoot guns indoors (you won't be shocked that it's covered in our "Unbelievable, BUT" section) and call out bipartisan legislators who are doing a great job of going across the aisle to help stop this epidemic of gun violence.**
Some of the links mentioned in this episode : “Brady Applauds Introduction of the Bipartisan Prevent Family Fire Act.”
Similar episodes:Andy Parker on the Confluence of Guns and Google For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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All the gun violence prevention news that we could fit in this, a weekly wrap up for the week of October 26th to November 1st. This week, JJ covers mass shootings yet again, how guns in even the most trained hands can sometimes go horribly wrong, laws in Pittsburgh that were struck down, bizarre news from the NRA coming out in court, and finally, calling out awesome Team Enough member Arielle Geismar for her great work.
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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Should you let your kids play with realistic toy guns? Let them have a realistic toy gun as part of their Halloween costume? Why have toy guns gotten more and more realistic? Are toy guns more regulated than real guns? Why did all of our childhood toys involve melting things?!
Kris Brown, President of Brady, and Kelly Sampson, Counsel at Brady, join JJ to weigh in on this spooky subject.
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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News reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were shot and killed on live television on August 26, 2015. Since then, Alison's father, Andy Parker, has fought for gun violence prevention. He also has taken on online trolls and hoaxers who maintain her death was somehow staged, and the platforms (like Google) that are used to host the video of Alison and Adam's death. Andy joins JJ and JP to discuss all this and more in this week's Red, Blue, and Brady.Get your copy of "For Alison: the Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety."
Send Alison to the Capitol and visit the For Alison Foundation
For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast**.
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All the gun violence prevention news that we could fit in this, a weekly wrap up for the week of October 20th to October 25th. This week, JJ tackles the anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, the continued stories on the shooting of children, an art exhibit to commemorate those killed, and finally, a lot of plans from politicians on how to solve the nation’s gun violence problem.
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Music provided by: David “Drumcrazie” Curby
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It's a phrase no mother ever wants to hear--
"Don't do it Daddy, don't shoot Mommy!"
And yet, it's what Kate Ranta heard on November 2nd, 2012. Today, she joins JJ and JP in studio to talk about her autobiography, Killing Kate: A Story of Turning Abuse and Tragedy into Transformation and Triumph, becoming a domestic violence and gun violence prevention activist, raising two amazing boys, and what she'd like to see change in the US.
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In 2013, Greg Jackson was a young man working as the Southern Regional and Gun Violence Issue Coordinator for the nonprofit Organizing for Action, a grassroots organization committed to moving forward with President Obama's agenda of empowering people in their own communities to fight and move forward on key issues. He also then became the victim of random gun violence. In this podcast, Greg joins JJ and special guest Christian (VP of Policy at Brady) to talk about being a survivor, a community activist, and his work as the National Advocacy Director for the Community Justice Action Fund, which is committed to reducing gun violence by empowering those most impacted by violence to lead, organize, advocate and create solutions in their neighborhoods, states, and country. We also talk about an amazing GVP hero we recently lost, and murderous labs. Yes, you read right, murderous labs.
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**All the gun violence prevention news that we could fit in this, a weekly wrap up for the week of October 13th to October 19th. This week, we're talking about a great gun violence prevention hero we lost, the latest democratic debate, the continuing carnage in Chicago, the dangers of road rage, gun violence prevention art in Rockefeller Center, teachers learning how to triage gunshot wounds, a strange, violent video played at a Trump fundraiser, and a glimmer of hope in the introduction of legislation designed to help prevent family fire. Yet again, it's been a painfully busy week.
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Concerned with urban violence and the 100 Americans we lose each day to it? If so, this is an essential minisode for you. We're here with Thomas Abt, a leading researcher of urban violence whose work focuses not only on this epidemic's causes, but its solutions as well -- and whose plan could potentially reduce gun homicide rates by 50% in just eight years. Join us as we talk about his book "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets," the work he does, how this work is possible, and why people need to know about it.
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Joan Peterson became a gun violence prevention activist after the estranged husband of her sister, Barbara Lund, shot to death both Barbara and her boyfriend, former Iowa state legislator Kevin Kelly. In today's episode, Joan tells JJ and JP about her long history of activism following the loss of her sister, why extreme risk prevention orders (often referred to as "ERPOs," sometimes as "red flag laws") need to be passed into law wherever they are proposed, why background checks matter, and how to deal with internet trolls.
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This week (October 6th to October 12th) in gun violence prevention: CEOs doing the right thing; Ohio politicians doing the wrong thing; two young men are murdered; a Kansas city bar's patrons receive the wrong kind of shots; and, to end on a high note, what you can do in the coming days to push bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation.
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On April 28, 2013, Kirsten Englund was driving up the Oregon coast to visit her son when she decided to stop at an overlook and admire a lighthouse, a touristic detour which should have led only to her taking a few pictures before getting back on the road. Instead, she encountered a mentally disturbed man — a man who should not have possessed had a gun — who shot her to death in an entirely avoidable act of random violence. In today's episode, we examine Kirsten's case and a piece of its legal aftermath: the suit Brady's legal team brought against the firearms dealer who, sight unseen via the internet, sold Kirsten's killer the gun he used to murder her.
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Ivy Schamis was teaching a lesson on Holocaust history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school when she heard the first shots from the gun of the murderer who would kill seventeen people that day, 2 from Ivy's own classroom. In this episode, Ivy shares her account of the day's grim events, their emotional aftermath, and why she believes that we as a society must push for stronger gun safety laws.
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In this episode, Tony Coelho, a longtime friend of the Brady family and 10-year veteran of the House of Representatives, talks with JJ and JP about Jim and Sarah Brady, the Brady organizational legacy, and what it was like to be majority whip during the introduction of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (commonly known as the Brady Act or the Brady Bill). Our guest also shares his thoughts on how the work of reducing gun violence intersects with disability rights, a subject in which he is equally well-versed: though widely-known for his strong support of gun violence prevention, Representative Coelho has been no less committed to improving the rights and livelihoods of handicapped Americans, a cause he advanced substantially as lead sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act..
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This week (September 29th to October 5th) in gun violence prevention: survivors make a stand; teens take over TikTok with anti-gun violence memes; Brady releases a game supporting advocacy on its website; and something new is launched to deal with a problem growing larger by the minute.
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Each day, at least 8 children and teenagers suffer unintentional gunshot wounds inside the supposed safety of a home, which we at Brady call family fire: a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused gun in the home that results in death or injury. In this episode, Kyleanne Hunter, Vice President of Programs for Brady and a Marine Corps combat veteran, talks with us about how firearm owners and non-owners alike can work toward a gun violence-free future by participating in the End Family Fire initiative.
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Following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, Luigi the service dog took it upon his golden retriever shoulders to help ease the return of students and teachers to their classrooms. In this episode, we learn how service animals can contribute to the recovery process of a traumatic event, and we hear about Luigi's efforts from one of his biggest admirers: Ivy Schamis, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas history teacher who survived the atrocity committed at her school.
For more information on PAWS and their amazing work, check out https://www.goldenpaws.org/about/.
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