Talking About Guns Podcast
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As part of our mission to change the conversation around gun safety, Talking About Guns is a podcast created to normalize dialogue about a typically polarizing topic. We invite guests from all sides of the gun debate and talk about the hot-button issues, but without the screaming. Guests so far have included former NRA lobbyist Abra Belke, The Reload's Stephen Gutowski, the Heritage Foundation's Amy Swearer, gun reform advocate Fred Guttenberg, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, and current Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost.
Each episode features a segment with Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at Tufts University’s School of Medicine with decades of experience researching gun ownership and gun policy. In "Siegel's Scope," Dr. Siegel unpacks things like what actually works and doesn’t work with respect to gun laws, what it would truly mean to treat gun violence as a public health crisis, and why stand your ground laws were created.
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Episode with Jocelyn Benson
A recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal for her “exemplary public service to advance free and fair elections,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson joins us for the latest episode of TAG. From armed protestors outside her home in the middle of the night contesting the 2020 election results and learning of a plot published on Facebook to shoot her in her backyard to her efforts to institute a ban on guns within 100 feet of polling places, Secretary Benson shares first-hand how gun safety interfaces with elections. We also discuss the impact of the Michigan State University and Oxford High School shootings on legislation and Gen Z.
In the latest edition of Siegel’s Scope, Dr. Siegel unpacks the post-Bruen federal district court decision from Oregon – which upheld the state’s ban on large capacity ammunition magazines – and its potential ramifications on the upcoming Supreme Court case regarding gun restrictions for the subjects of domestic violence restraining orders.
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"It's so important gun owners have a seat at the table, so when policies are discussed...the people who will actually encounter them every day have the ability to say, 'That won't work for us…but here’s what will.'"
— ABRA BELKE, TALKING ABOUT GUNS
