This is a longer episode than normal, because of our gun control conversation.
The UCRs are out, and they show a 23% increase in homicide in the past two years. Two Chicago Police officers were disciplined for kneeling and showing a Black Power fist salute. Also, we discuss statistics on law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, after the ambush killing of a Georgia police detective (https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/senseless-killing-slain-georgia-detective-shot-felon-captured-after-manhunt/k3c1RwmxJC8oAN95F1O3eJ/). And the decision by the Jefferson Parish jail (http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_a3225930-a3d8-11e7-9d57-8f558cb46340.html) to limit visiting to only video visitation (which comes with the first call free and additional calls at $13 for 20 minutes) is an outrage.
Finally, Peter and Nick do what many said couldn’t be done: we have a reasonable, calm, and constructive debate about gun control in the service of a goal to reduce gun violence. It is tied to the horrific event in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured, and we discuss the police response to the incident, and then look at some of the bigger issues in gun control other than the issues covered in the press. That is to say, we move beyond “You won’t take my guns,” and “Yes we will.”