The book dying of whiteness of a politics of racial resentment telling americas heartland. Thanks are joining us this morning. Im glad to be a. Could you start by talking about your background, particularly what comes to Thet Subject of Gun Violence . Sure. Ive trained across the board. Im an Md Doctor Comtrade in Psychiatry And Neurology and i went back to school i got a T Phd in sociology and politics. I tried to combine those in whats now been a two Decade Study of guns in america, not just beGun Violence but what guns mean. Ive done a lote of work on the social and political meetings of guns in america. I also helped run a group called the safety and see project in tennessee that looks at what might be able to bring together people across the political divide to really talk about how is it we can maybe form even though seems impossible some kinds of common cause across the political spectrum. To really try to keep people and killed is safer and last part is i should mention i had a
Violence, but what guns mean, i have done a lot of work on the social political meetings of guns in america. I help run a group called a project a group in tennessee that brings people across lyrical divides to talk about how we can form, even though it seems impossible sometimes, to try to keep people in community safer and the last part is, as you mentioned, i had a book cannot about a year and a half ago called dying of whiteness, and it has a lot of topics. I was doing research into missouri progun communities and talking to people about guns and looking at that tension between liberty on one Hand And Safety on the other. Host statistics about Gun Violence, particular event this year, 10,000 people related to that in the first half of this year. From your background, what is the best way to understand the rising numbers . Guest i think it is a question, not an answer. In a way, with what we are seeing, it is a spike in certain kinds of Gun Related Injuries and deaths. That comes in
Have hit before. Its a little challenging, frustrating with a little one and kind of disrupt your routine. But all i can say is just be prepared. Preparation means water if venturing outdoors. And people were walking the lafayette reservoir. Despite the heat, i think tomorrow will do early. Well go early in the day because tomorrows supposed to be the hot day and we will do the lower today, not the upper because its shaded after the pandemic. You you need a release, so the heat is not going to stop us cooling centers like this one in pleasant hill will likely be busier wednesday. Offering Water Power and ask the defining thing of a real Heat Stroke is that there is confusion. People are just theyre altered their confused emergency physicians say, Heat Stroke more severe that Heat Exhaustion will make someone very sick, weak and unable to walk. Early signs of trouble, fatigue, dizziness. Nausea if they feel that theyre getting, uh. Illness related to too much heat. Wed rather they come
Foreign relations meeting. I am and dostic terrorism in White Supremacys the Senior Correspondent for the cbs new hour and i will be presiding over the discussion i will post mown question and for the first 30 minutes and we will turn to member questions. With more than 300 people registered so we will do our very best to get to as many a we can. And with terrorism in White Supremacy white premacist and other far right extremists killed more people than september 11, 2001 than any other extremist. 71 percent of those fatalities of extremist between 202,017 committed by a white supremacist far right group. For two decades he was counterterrorism effortsa between 2002 have focused on gun violence so focusing on how the natur has changed over the years and with that woerful insecurityse and with the university of california at berkeley d the board of directors Homeland Security advisor and is now vice chrman and the chief Administration Officer thank you all for a being here so t give us
The disaster that is occurring at the border right now and if we could quick put up our chart. Not only to have it on the chart but we had an event in oshkosh over against the required a giveaway so i produced out of my factory cups with that chart but it shows how out of control this problem is. The first seven months of this year we have over 300 total 312,000 individuals over the border illegally and apprehended as unaccompanied child or family unit and i know these are not for public release yet so their initial numbers but in the first three months of may another 65000 unaccompanied children but primarily people coming in his family units and were apprehended at the border between the ports of reentry and over 97000 total apprehensions so were on path for breaking again i guess it was march 10, 3000, april 10, 9000 and now it will be beyond that in may so this is a growing problem. Needs to be taken seriously and its what you and the men and women that you lead are grappling with.