We're Able to Create a Background Check System

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Shan ramis: I started year after, you know, 30 children were shot at a playground and stocked in california within a sall weapon with nak, forty seven. The 19 assault weapons banned by this proposal are deadly, dangerous weapons. They were designed for one purpose only. To kill people. And as long as violent criminals have easy access to them, they will continue to be used to kill people.

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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