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I thought that we would talk a little bit about shootings
and just as that kind of thought experimenters or simply
an experiment in randomly picking a day I picked the day
Sunday February 16 two days ago and I said let's just do a report
on shootings that day because I've said many times Louis
every day we could use stories on on various shootings that have taken place
negligent slash accidental shootings the shootings that with that were
homicides gang-related violence et cetera so I said let's look at Sunday
16th Sunday the 16th
there were 5 individual shootings that were reported on extensively
there were across the five shootings five people dead and 23 people
injured so for example one dead and three injured
in Saginaw Michigan shot outside a club in Saginaw Michigan
one dead and four injured in Fort Worth Texas
this was at the Fort Worth stockyards their in Texas
one dead and four injured in Jacksonville
Florida this was a nightclub shooting one dead and six injured
in Dallas Texas at an at a a dallas nightclub
and one dead and six injured in Pine Hills
Florida this was after shots fired at a house party
each of those that I just told you about could be a 45 minute discussion about
the specifics of the case in what happened exactly
we could do this just about every single day the entire show
could be just telling you about the shootings that are taking place in this
country
yet we still have important elements
in this country and by important I mean that they have clout they have money
and they have political influence who say we don't need to be
further restricting access to guns we need to be if anything
expanding it every day we could do did
these types segments Louis injustice read these right
and the numbers look good at there are probably some that we missed the you may
not have found
and we seem to be hovering around like something like
eight to ten thousand gun murders a year in this country