From uclas school of Public Affairs. This runs an hour and a half. Understand theo deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the school of Public Affairs. Is a the other focuses focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest. Ause of successful suicide it turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue they are written into the fabric of american their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Puts a simply, puts succinctly, as the Second Amendment is made up for white people. As more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky s
Teacher and the class sizes are go and so i mean i think i think its san antonio and plano right now theyre talking about closing a number of traditional public schools. And thats a lot to do with Charter School enrollment. And so thank you were waving at me and im just here to ask them how theyre but thanks everyone for those wonderful for me thank now without further adieu tonight, i am very excited to welcome Andrew Mckevitt celebrating the release of country gun capitalism and culture and control and cold war just as World War Two transformed the United States into a Global Military and economic superpower, so too did forge the gun country. America is today after 1945 war ravaged european nations possess large supplies of mass produced weapons and american entrepreneurs seize the opportunity to, buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming Consumer Market made cheap guns, accessible to millions of americans and guns ownership and violence began
And urban uprisings fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, Gun Control Groups were diverted. Their abolitionist roots toward a conciliator or a fundraising, focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpile of firearms. Gun country recast the story of guns in postwar america. One of cold war and racial anxieties. Unfettered capitalism am an exceptional violence continues to haunt us to this day. Andrew mckevitt is john de winters endowed professor of history at Louisiana Tech university. He is the author of consuming japan, a popular and the globalizing of 1980s america. Covert will be joined conversation with matthew dallek. Matthew dallek is a historian and professor at George Washington universitys graduate school of political management. He is author most recently of birchers how the John Birch Society radicalized the american right. Please join me in welcoming to politics and prose. Andrew mcdevitt and matthew dallek. Dreyfus. All right. Okay. Well, thank you to politics and pros
that it may not hold. hundreds of people have died since fighting started between the sudanese army and rsf paramilitary force. in recent days, more countries have attempted to evacuate their diplomats and citizens this is a member of the dutch military handing out earplugs as they get ready to take off. and this was the scene as the spanish defence ministry helped diplomats and citizens on to their plane. so far we know that germany evacuated 311 people this weekend to jordan, with 1000 german soldiers involved in that operation. france evacuated 388, both french nationals as well as a significant number of people from other countries, including the uk. italy flew out 200 people 140 of them italian nationals. in comparison, just 30 british nationals and 70 americans have been evacuated from sudan. and the the us and uk have a far higher number of people to evacuate 16,000 and 4,000 passport holders respectively. before the ceasefire was announced, we heard from the un
Bloody and battered after an elite patrol teamed up with state police to take him down. They used thermal technology to track his movements, and then unleashed a canine in the morning to sniff out and subdue the brutal killer. State Police Officers revealing what they believe was the key to his capture. They were able to move in quietly, they had the element of surprise, cavalcante did not realize he was surrounded until that had occurred. That did not stop him from trying to escape. He began to crawl through thick underbrush, taking his rifle with him as he went. One of the customs and Border Control teams had a dog with them. They released the dog. Dana the community that was locked down for two weeks can finally rest easy. Local residents saying how relieved they are, they wont have to worry about a killer on the loose. I flipped the lights on and off when he flipped the lights back, that was the moment my wife was already on 911 but i was like, he is downstairs, call 911 right now.