this stuff this week was a scandal. but this is a scandal. can we finally have enough outrage to do something about this? well, i thought your lead-in was really important. you showed several states that are doing something about this. colorado, new york. connecticut, but one of the things that happens in our media culture is we look at things like background checks and because of arcane rules didn t move on. from a majority we say, oh, we lost. we look at the terrible things, and they are terrible. but i think legislatively there s clearly a breakthrough. there s a reason the nra has been in the news more. they don t like to be in the news. they like to wield power quietly. when they passed the gun immunity act, there wasn t a lot
of coverage about it. they just did it. they just wielded power. they are on the defensive. and there are states making progress. to me the fundamental question about the debate is not regional, although that matters. it depends on if you look at these from the perspective of the shooter or the victim. i went to an inner city high school. we had a shooting when i was a freshman. two kids shot. a lot of other people shot at. no one was murdered, but it was a hugely traumatic event. and even though it was a city a lot of people related to the idea of being shot at. and that s very different from living with a rural area and feel that the gun is about being the shooter. i think this is a bridgeable difference. it may not be on ar-15.
that is not covered. we re way behind in updating all the privacy protections for our age. we have already signed away a lot of the rights on our commercial relationship. the risk of adopts this change far exceed the benefits. but what is great about this week is that we re finally focusing on this giant secret surveillance state, which gives incredible power to the government and no power to us. this asemitri is corrosive to our fabric. it may be the one thing about republicans overreach on turning everything to a scan dpal. the right had not been against this kind of surveillance previously. because it fits within the big scandal narrative, suddenly we are willing to take a look. we are going to talk more about this as soon as we get back.
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