Another Day In The Death Of America

[barryqwalsh]

Another Day In The Death Of America
Ep 1/5

Monday 26 September

9.45am-10.00am

BBC RADIO 4

On Saturday 23rd November 2013, ten children were shot dead in the US. The youngest was nine, the oldest was nineteen. They fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily.
Gary Younge picked 23rd November at random, and set out to tell the stories of the lives lost during that single day. First is Jaiden Dixon, age nine. The day began with the usual routine for Jaiden, as his mum Nicole chivvied him out of bed at their home in suburban Columbus, crowned Best Hometown in central Ohio for that year. By the time Jaiden should have been arriving at school, he was fighting for his life in a trauma unit. He’d been shot twice on his doorstep. Nicole hadn’t seen the gunman, but she knew who he was. Her ex-partner, Danny Thornton, was running amok.




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Episode 1, Another Day in the Death of America, Book of the Week - BBC Radio 4

 

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Another Day In The Death Of America
Ep 1/5

Monday 26 September

9.45am-10.00am

BBC RADIO 4

On Saturday 23rd November 2013, ten children were shot dead in the US. The youngest was nine, the oldest was nineteen. They fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily.
Gary Younge picked 23rd November at random, and set out to tell the stories of the lives lost during that single day. First is Jaiden Dixon, age nine. The day began with the usual routine for Jaiden, as his mum Nicole chivvied him out of bed at their home in suburban Columbus, crowned Best Hometown in central Ohio for that year. By the time Jaiden should have been arriving at school, he was fighting for his life in a trauma unit. He’d been shot twice on his doorstep. Nicole hadn’t seen the gunman, but she knew who he was. Her ex-partner, Danny Thornton, was running amok.




AUDIO
Episode 1, Another Day in the Death of America, Book of the Week - BBC Radio 4

"the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily."

Really? The guns did it? Just on their own? Guns are just rampaging around?

See I was under the strange impression that people were committing the violence.

And this is very ironic being lectured on gun control, by a country that just had a member of parliament shot and killed.
Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack - BBC News

How odd.... the criminal seems to have not followed the gun ban laws.... crazy.....

I also like how you don't have militarized police. Funny when foreigners lecture us on police.

Nothing threatening there, dressed in black, with that "standard issue" pistol. Sorry, side note for all the 'only us police are threatening and dangerous'.


And I was informed that violence in the UK is now higher than here in the US.

Britain the most violent country in Europe and even worse than South Africa and U.S.

So before you start spewing your myths about "guns killed people" instead of "people killed people"... solve your own problems. Then tell us how to solve ours.

Oh, and by the way.........

Before you start lecturing us on how gun control helped lower gun crime in the UK.....

If that law is what lowered the crime.... why did you have to drastically increase the police force? After all, banning stuff works in your world... so after the ban, crime should have decreased.

Why did you have to hire all those police? Hey.... crazy thought.... maybe the police reduced the crime... not the weapons ban?

 

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Well Done Andy!