Why Don't We Tackle Mass Shootings Like We Tackle Terrorism?

Why Don't We Tackle Mass Shootings Like We Tackle Terrorism?

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 757 , Segment 1

Episode: Mass Shootings, Kelsey Nixon, Minecraft for Autistic Kids

  • Feb 28, 2018
  • 16:32 mins

Guest: Ari N. Schulman, Editor, New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society The pace of mass shootings is rising rapidly in the US. But what if we’re so busy blaming guns, or mental health, or lack of security in schools that we’re failing to see these mass shootings for what they actually are? And, that’s why they keep happening? Maybe there’s a different way to think about the problem.

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Can Youth Protests Change America in 2018?

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Guest: Rebecca de Schweinitz, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, Author of “If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality” Much to the surprise of some adults in the United States, teenaged-survivors of the high school shooting in Florida have quickly become prominent activists with their #NeverAgain social media campaign, media appearances and rallies. Many students involved in the #NeverAgain movement are too young to vote. Will they really be able to change gun laws when years of lobbying by activists before them have failed? But in America, there’s a long history of children agitating for – and sometimes ushering in – social and political change.

Guest: Rebecca de Schweinitz, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, Author of “If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality” Much to the surprise of some adults in the United States, teenaged-survivors of the high school shooting in Florida have quickly become prominent activists with their #NeverAgain social media campaign, media appearances and rallies. Many students involved in the #NeverAgain movement are too young to vote. Will they really be able to change gun laws when years of lobbying by activists before them have failed? But in America, there’s a long history of children agitating for – and sometimes ushering in – social and political change.