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Aug 2023
24m 7s

Trevor Shuts Down Conservatives' Excuses...

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Trevor takes a closer look at the roles that anti-immigrant rhetoric, violent video games, internet hate groups and mental illness play in the U.S.’s gun violence epidemic – and, of course, the guns themselves. And Michael Kosta asks tourists, how do we stop mass shootings in America? For some Republican lawmakers, the solution involves everything but actual gun control. The answer is even; fewer doors. 

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