rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
shooter. they ran past. went back inside. what were you thinking as you were hiding in that bathroom for so long? i think i was just like, trying to be still. not like, just crying in my head, saying, don t make any noise. in the span of ten days, to 18 year old man allegedly killed 31 people 19 of them children, in two separate mass shootings on opposite ends of the country. the shooters in both massacres, a lot and they won in uvalde, texas uvalde, texas, legally purchased semiautomatic rifles. assault style weapons, they can buy, but they are not legally old enough to buy a call. this is not the american dream, it is the american nightmare. our nation is under siege. we are not even six months into the year and according to the gun violence archive, there have been 217 mass shootings. 24 of them were at schools. the centers for disease control says that guns are now the leading cause of lessons in america. we have endured gut-wrenching mass shootings this month, bu
it sounds a lot like the filth you would most certainly encounter in the bowels of the interweb, places like 4 chan where the racist domestic terrorist who drove 200 miles to a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo to slaughter black people says that he was radicalized while he was sitting at home bored during the pandemic. this vile person killed ten people, all black and injured three more. he spelled out his ideology in a manifesto he allegedly wrote filled with racist and anti-semitic memes citing the great replacement theory of white supremacists, the false idea that began in the early 30s in france that claims that white people in europe and in the united states are being systematically replaced with non-white people as part of a jewish conspiracy. it s the camp of the saints that you might have heard from former bebright boss and consignificant-year steve bannon and might seem like the crud that s relegated to the darkest corners of the intraw
zealand s prime minister jacinda arounder who was able to pass a sweeping ban on most semiautomatic weapons after the deadly terror attacks on two mosques in christchurch, a shooting that inspired the shooter like the one in buffalo. but new zealand acted because that s how a rationally country responds to an horrific attack. joining me now is a member of the new york times editorial board and msnbc contributor and tim wise, anti-racism educator and author of dispatching the race war. . mar, a, there is some ration action that happened. you had vice president harris call for an assault weapons ban. let s play that. we are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like. you know, we re not looking for a vaccine. we know what works on this. it includes let s have an
racial justice educator, and author of, nice racism. in two mobilize, anti-racism educator and author of dispatches from the race war. thank you both very much for coming back to the sunday show. it has been two years since the murder of george floyd. which kicked off nationwide protests in a surge of white support for criminal justice reform. why do you think the approval has swung back to disapproval? i ll start with you, robin. the awakening which was ignited by the events of the summer of 2020 was a critical event. you cannot address the problem that you can t see what you misunderstand. it is only a first tap. and if it does not follow by, action that is meaningless. unfortunately, these status quo of america s control for most