Sad, tired and angry: America’s endless gun debate

This week, an 18-year-old in Uvalde, Tex., killed 19 children and
two teachers at Robb Elementary School. The massacre came less than
two weeks after a white supremacist killed 10 people at a
supermarket in a majority-Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y. We’ve
been here before. This happens all the time in America. And it
feels like we have the same reactions, the same conversations, read
the same tweets. Which is why instead of a normal show this week,
we’re revisiting a conversation from 2018 about gun control. In the
aftermath of a shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., we brought on Patrick
Blanchfield, who writes about gun violence in the United States. We
discussed what gets missed in our gun control conversations, the
familiar debate over “thoughts and prayers” and how violence in
American schools and on our streets is connected to American
violence abroad. Links from the show: Catholic leaders react to
Texas school massacre: ‘Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the
problem.’ Cardinal Cupich: The Second Amendment did not come down
from Sinai How the Catholic Church in Uvalde is helping a
devastated community grieve and heal Sad, tired and angry: A prayer
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