but charleston s mayor echoing the growing frustration we are hearing everywhere. enough is enough! but here is the thing, just days after that massacre at robb elementary. more than a dozen mass shootings were recorded. this weekend. including in charleston, where that mayor was speaking just right there. so let s discuss, i want to bring in igor, he is the desire executive director of guns in america. he is also the author of guns down, how to defeat the and are i. i like the sound of that title, how we re going to do it? president biden said he is going to stop and work with rational republicans to take some action on gun safety. sounds great, but is he getting himself? well look, i think this is his choice. remember, this is a president who told us that his 30 plus years in the senate gave him the tools that he needed to get big things done.
but here is the thing, just days after that massacre at robb elementary. more than a dozen mass shootings were recorded. this weekend. including in charleston, where that mayor was speaking just right there. so let s discuss, i want to bring in igor, he is the executive director of guns in america. he is also the author of guns down, how to defeat the nra. i like the sound of that title, how we re going to do it? president biden said he is going to stop and work with rational republicans to take some action on gun safety. sounds great, but is he kidding himself? well look, i think this is his choice. remember, this is a president who told us that his 30 plus years in the senate gave him the tools that he needed to get big things done. to get democrats and republicans together. and i think the arguments that
shooting today. there is ways to put it into this, y all. the federal 1984 assault weapons ban is an example. this is a graph that shows the number of mass shootings that shows when an assault weapons was used before, and after the ban. when it was in effect just 53 shootings happen. after the ban, that number jumped to 182. don t tell me it cannot be done, because it has been done before. we have to do it for these babies in uvalde, who are just looking forward to summer break. we have to do it for that father in buffalo who just went to the store to get a son a birthday cake. we have to do it for the young people who don t have a good time at pulse nightclub. we have to do it for people who are worship-ing in charleston south carolina, in sacramento, california. in pittsburgh, pella sylvania. america, if this is not who we are, if this is not who we want
that he said he ran because of the hate he saw in charlottesville. whether it was george w. bush talking about education or name your president, talking about something that drove them to run, this was joe biden s issue. this was the issue that he wanted to express in a very visceral, very emotional, very personal way. and he did. the question is how do you sustain it in the sense that the president of the united states saying there s a venom of hate in our politics. it cannot be the story of our time. how do you bend the arc? you know, it has been the story of our time. it has been the story of america. the sort of twin cultures not only gun culture, but also white supremacist culture as well. and gun culture in some ways being used to reinforce white supremacy as we saw in this instance in buffalo. and as we ve seen in other instances. el paso, in pittsburgh, in
of these gunmen seem to share this same, similar ideology and how it s really kind of entered the mainstream at times. all of these gunmen in el paso, in charleston, in the tree of life shooting, we can add more to this list, oslo and christchurch, this is a transnational thing, too, and now in buffalo. although the targeted populations seem different, we might usually we read stories about latinos being killed in el paso or jewish worshippers being killed in pittsburgh, for instance, all the perpetrators come from the same ideology, which is that this is from the white power movement. a movement that s brought together extremists on the militant right for decades in this country if not generations. this goes all the way back to the late 1970s. this movement has been at war with the express goal of fomenting race war of targeted attacks of mass violence and