The modern gun violence prevention movement, or gun control movement, as was known at the time, really started coming together in the mid seventies. There's more money now than there was at any other time. Groups that are organized around gun control and groups that just have an interest in it, where it's one of many things they care about, got organized around a common policy agenda. But we're still in this place where we're having shootings like mas buffalo, like ivaldi, and as of 20, guns are leading cause of death for american kids. It's time for us to be grown ups. Grown ups protect our kids. Don't let em down.
You might look at school shootings and think “Yes, obviously.” But two people who have been studying and participating in the movement for decades explain how its success isn’t obvious.
This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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