Healing after Disaster Strikes the Whole Community

Healing after Disaster Strikes the Whole Community

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NRA's Clout, Patents for Startups, Mass Trauma

Episode: NRA's Clout, Patents for Startups, Mass Trauma

  • Oct 4, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 18:30 mins

Guest: Alyssa Bandford Witting, PhD, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Brigham Young University If you check out the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, you’ll see people raising millions of dollars to support victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas and for recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. After a traumatic event or disaster, the physical recovery is expensive. And what about emotional recovery? How does an entire community heal from mass trauma, whether it’s natural disaster, war or violence?

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How the NRA Shapes the Debate Over Guns After a Mass Shooting

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Guest: Kelly Patterson, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University  After each tragic mass shooting comes a spin cycles that’s now familiar: Gun control advocates press for restrictions on access to firearms and blame the NRA for blocking them. Meanwhile, the NRA goes silent. Up until Friday of last week, the NRA was posting multiple times daily on its Facebook and Twitter feeds. Since the shooting in Las Vegas, nothing. No public statements from the NRA in the press, either. And allies of the NRA in Congress say now is not the time to talk about gun laws, it’s the time for “thoughts and prayers.”  If the recent past is any indication, when the time to talk about gun laws does come, Congress is unlikely to make changes. How much credit can the NRA take for that?

Guest: Kelly Patterson, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University  After each tragic mass shooting comes a spin cycles that’s now familiar: Gun control advocates press for restrictions on access to firearms and blame the NRA for blocking them. Meanwhile, the NRA goes silent. Up until Friday of last week, the NRA was posting multiple times daily on its Facebook and Twitter feeds. Since the shooting in Las Vegas, nothing. No public statements from the NRA in the press, either. And allies of the NRA in Congress say now is not the time to talk about gun laws, it’s the time for “thoughts and prayers.”  If the recent past is any indication, when the time to talk about gun laws does come, Congress is unlikely to make changes. How much credit can the NRA take for that?