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Episode 30 - The Firearm Factor
Kory and Kellan discuss the increasingly important role that firearms play as civil unrest, political tensions, and the delegitimacy of governments increase worldwide.
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Mass Shootings 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020#:~:text=There%20were%20614%20mass%20shootings,there%20were%20180%20more%20incidents.
Mass Shootings 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2021
Gun Violence Over Time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/23/2020-shootings/
Deaths by Car Accidents 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/05/pandemic-travel-traffic-deaths-up-8-2020-despite-driving-less/4590942001/#:~:text=The%20nonprofit%20National%20Safety%20Council,first%20jump%20in%20four%20years.
Gun Purchases 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/02/10/this-is-how-many-guns-were-sold-in-all-50-states/43371461/
Guns in the US
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx
https://www.statista.com/statistics/186935/deaths-by-firearm-related-injuries-in-the-us-since-1970/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/
Gun Laws
https://youtu.be/pXnycRj1KWs
Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
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