It first ran 10/6/2023 (Clip: Season 2024 Episode 6. Note: their numbering, not mine).
They had HCMC Pediatric ER Dr. Anupam Kharbanda on as a guest. His main point, besides emphasizing what a pressing problem gun violence is, was to point out the need for people to lock up their guns and, separately, lock up their ammunition.
Here’s a few quotes from the show.
Cathy Wurzer: The American Academy of Pediatrics released a study this week that showed that gun violence is now the biggest cause of accidental fatal and non-fatal injuries among children.
Dr. Kharbanda: You can break it [gun violence] up by age group. Under age 12 we know that most of these injuries are occurring in the home due to firearms. Probably, we speculate, guns, firearms, that were not locked up. And then from 13 to 20 those injuries were predominantly homicides that are occurring on the street.
So they kind of admit they’re counting 20 year olds as children (and there was no pushback from Cathy Wurzer or Eric Eskola.)
Cathy Wurzer: The legislature passed several bills this past session-might some of the gun control bills passed be helpful in this situation?
Dr. Kharbanda: I think they’re a start.
“They’re a start.” Goodness, I wonder what else they’d like to pass. My own opinion is they would like to set things up so that the desire to own a gun would disqualify you (according to the mental health standards they would set up) from owning a gun. You know, like a firearms “Catch 22”.
Dr. Kharbanda: We don’t have a good funding source for gun storage and a way to supervise or police it.
Now there’s a question. If they pass a firearms storage bill how are they going to enforce it? Answer is they can’t. I speculate it would have little no effect on ‘gun violence’.
Here’s a link to the segment, it’s about 6 minutes long.
https://video.tpt.org/video/alarming-pe ... ics-40396/
P.S. TPT Almanac has had members of Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus on several times and they have had kind words about the show and the show’s hosts, Cathy Wurzer and Eric Eskola, so I think I should mention that to be fair.