The one where we talk about the horrifying massacre in Nashville, the MAGA ghouls exploiting it, and what we could do going forward to prevent more of these tragedies from occurring.

Here are some of the sources and articles we used to assemble this episode:

‘Our heart is broken,’ Nashville mayor says as city comes together to grieve 6 killed in school shooting Eric Levenson

As the community grieves, police continue to work to answer the yet unanswerable: Why did 28-year-old Audrey Hale decide to storm into a private Christian school and murder three children and three adults?

A Brief History of Guns in the U.S. How to explain Americans’ astonishing personal arsenal? Start with politics, fear, and marketing.

“In almost any aspect of public health, culture and policy are reinforcing and reflecting each other,” says Daniel Webster, ScD ’91, MPH, director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy. “You gradually see carrying a gun around as normative.” Forty years ago, if someone brought a gun to a party, Webster says, “you would have been shocked. It would have been incredibly abnormal.” Now, gun ownership is a lifestyle choice, one rooted in the individualism “baked into our culture and our laws.”

How many US mass shootings have there been in 2023?

The US ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, up from 88 per 100 in 2011, far surpasses that of other countries around the world.

While calculating the number of guns in private hands around the world is difficult, the latest figures from the Small Arms Survey - a Swiss-based research project - estimated that there were 390 million guns in circulation in the US in 2018.

Violence Against Trans and Non-Binary People

According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey:

* Nearly half (46%) of respondents were verbally harassed in the past year because of being transgender.

* Nearly one in ten (9%) respondents were physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender.

* Nearly half (47%) of respondents were sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime and one in ten (10%) were sexually assaulted in the past year. In communities of color, these numbers are higher: 53% of Black respondents were sexually assaulted in their lifetime and 13% were sexually assaulted in the last year.

* 72% of respondents who have done sex work, 65% of respondents who have experienced homelessness, and 61% of respondents with disabilities reported being sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

* More than half (54%) experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including acts involving coercive control and physical harm.

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