America's Tolerance For Gun Violence - Diane Rehm

[Agschmid]

Today on Diane's show...



If you can give it a listen, I'm sure it will be a good one.

Unfortunately this will be another tragedy where nothing changes policy wise.

[KG]

1. ammosexuals have a high tolerance. the rest of us, not so much.

[Eleanors38]

8. Please quit using that slur, based on another slur. The only power this slur

gets is from the same source "homosexual" was/is used as a slur. There can be no other way for "ammosexual" to have a denigrating use if it Were Not based on a previously institutionalzed form of sexual slur.

[KG]

9. no, i don't think i will.

[riderinthestorm]

2. K&R! This should be a great discussion nt

[MannyGoldstein]

3. "I apologize, during the break I was informed that"

"I apologize, during the break I was informed that Senator Sanders may not have introduced legislation to provide guns to all schoolchildren for open carry. One of my staff read this on the Democratic Underground web site, but we cannot confirm it at this time."

[retrowire]

4. lmao good one

the other day when they were talking about Trump she seemed somewhat excited about him. I know she's supposed to be unbiased but... ugh... you guys listen to it, there is a line she said that needed no context.

soon after they got a caller that literally said "so you guys are talking about all the candidates except one I've noticed. everyone has noticed because there's kind of a media blackout on him. Bernie Sanders! what do you guys think of him?"

that made them finally talk about him. it's so fucking obvious how they avoid the mention of his name, no matter how relevant he is.

[Fred Sanders]

5. American politicians kowtowing to the NRA have a high tolerance....not so much Americans!

[d_legendary1]

6. I don't know about Americans in general

but I do know about some politicians who are afraid of money bombs from the NRA should they step out of line.

[Lee-Lee]

7. A serious discussion would be about the tolerance of violence, period

Instead of focusing only on violence done by one specific means as if the inanimate objects used cause the violence.

[Eleanors38]

10. This is a MSM coordinated effort, coming out of NPR...

Entire "On Point" broadcast (1 hr) on NPR this A.M. was on "Gun Violence," with all the guests known figures in the gun-control outlook; even the callers (few) were uniformly calling for a variety of controls with (as expected) no counter-arguments against Hemenway, et al. And that 33,000 figure of gun deaths? NO MENTION that 2/3 were from suicide, yet most of the discussion -- esp. from the moderator -- was centered on homicides.

I have no problem with advocacy journalism, but NPR should devote an hour to the "other side." Journalists know full well that 2A advocates are a highly motivated and widespread movement which doesn't pass up opportunities to comment on gun matters.