From uclas school of Public Affairs. This runs an hour and a half. Understand theo deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the school of Public Affairs. Is a the other focuses focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest. Ause of successful suicide it turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue they are written into the fabric of american their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Puts a simply, puts succinctly, as the Second Amendment is made up for white people. As more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky s
I want you to understand the deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Among the other focuses is a focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest cause of successful suicide. It turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue that they are written into the fabric of american society, or at least so their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Put succinctly, as the Second Amendment is for white people. When more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky state capital, nothing happens. If
Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and
Im taking off my mask so you can hear me clearly. It just wrapped up but a counterpress conference is down the street. Our colleague is over there and we expect to hear those voices of dissent very soon. Several of those organizations have been calling for the ceo of matinee hood to step down. He has now resigned. Image posted to the website, a photo of black people appearing to be rioting somewhere, though not in san jose with the question, do you really want to sign on to this . The ad target the City Council Candidate who supports defunding the police. The ad is now down and we just learned that ceo matt mahood resigned under pressure. We had video of him earlier. At least three Board Members also resigned. Silicon valley organization hired an outside firm to do a topdown investigation of what they say is a pattern of questionable choices dating back years that led to the organization getting to this point. They say they expect results within a week. That is a topdown investigation
Right moving westbound at the toll plaza. Theic b ibackup there and the er fire on the side of the road has been put out and now that there is a threecar crash in the same area barakilocking a cup lanes. Back over to you. Thank you very much, mike. We have been following breaking news all morning long because a deadly terror attack in france. This is a live look this morning. Heavily guarded and a lot of police out and remain on the street. This is because three people died when someone with a knife attacked people in a church. The victims we know include a woman and a man that were inside the church and a woman who ran from the church to seek help. But the attacker hunted down. We understand several other people were hurt. Authorities arrested the suspect after the attack. Took him to the hospital. Police are not searching, were told, for any other attackers. Now, this happened in nice, but in a separate attack, not believed to be linked, a Security Guard was stabbed at the french con