{"id":13874,"date":"2021-05-26T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2021-05-28T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:09:10","slug":"if-it-were-up-to-me-id-take-away-the-guns-bradcast-52621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13874","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;If It Were Up To Me, I&#8217;d Take Away The Guns&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/26\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_AmericanFlag-AssaultRifle_052621.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolesandler.com\">NICOLE SANDLER<\/a>, back in to guest host another edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> so that Brad and Desi don&#8217;t have to shout over the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13872\">sound of jackhammers<\/a>. [<i>Audio link to today&#8217;s show is posted below summary.<\/i>]\n<p>I had a different show planned for today, but that can wait for another day. We awoke this morning to the news of yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/san-jose-ca-shooting-05-26-21\/index.html\">another mass shooting<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/\">Gun Violence Archive<\/a>, this is the 232nd incident in which at least four people were shot in the US so far this year.  Although it seemed as if we got a bit of a respite in 2020 due to the pandemic, that&#8217;s the not the case at all.  Instead, 2020 is the year in which  gun violence killed more people than any other year in at least two decades.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a few weeks ago that we had a spate of shootings in a few days, and I called on <strong><a href=\"twitter.com\/igorvolsky\">IGOR VOLSKY<\/a><\/strong>. He&#8217;s the founder and executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/gunsdownamerica.org\">Guns Down America<\/a>, and author of the book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1630\/9781620973196\">Guns Down<\/a><\/em>. I decided to share that interview here today on <em>The BradCast<\/em> because Volsky is feeling optimistic that we&#8217;re making progress in the area of guns.<\/p>\n<p>The headline of this post is a line from a song I played after the interview. The artist is Cheryl Wheeler.  She wrote the song, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Op7agdIFOGY\">If It Were Up To Me<\/a>&#8221; in 1998 after the Jonesboro schoolyard shooting. I learned of it the following year, after Columbine. I sadly play it when it happens again. I felt the need to play it today&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_NicoleSandler_IgorVolsky_MassShootingAgain_052621.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s NICOLE SANDLER, back in to guest host another edition of the BradCast so that Brad and Desi don&#8217;t have to shout over the sound of jackhammers. [Audio link to today&#8217;s show is posted below summary.] I had a different show planned for today, but that can wait for another day. We awoke this morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,320,551],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradcast","category-joe-biden","category-nra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}