![]() ![]() Throwing the National Rifle Association into the mix, she proceeded to explicitly mention Republicans, “The NRA has spent $100 million or more since Sandy Hook to elect Republicans who are going to protect guns, who are going to protect the proliferation of guns, and when we see one party getting elected specifically by people who exploit this culture of violence, then we're going to continue to see these incredibly tragic outcomes.”Ĭlaiming that Republicans are trying to use shootings to further their political fortunes is a bold claim that you would think would require some evidence, but none was forthcoming probably because such a claim is also insane. Not that Packnett cares about such details as she tried to tie all her outlandish claims together, she blamed current politicians, “Culture continues to encourage this kind of violence and protection at all costs, and states continue to make it easier and easier to get these guns, and when that is happening, this is the outcome you can expect, and unfortunately you can equally expect Congress to do little about it.” There simply is no correlation between gun rights or gun culture in various countries and rates of domestic violence. ![]() Packnett then blamed guns for other terrible things, “It gets into marriage and family life where we see domestic violence and gun violence. It gets into public safety where we see police violence. It gets into schools and public spaces where we see mass shootings. It seeps its way into communities where we see neighborhood violence and, unfortunately, if the gun is the hammer, then everything big and small looks like a nail.” Still, Packnett continued, “and the trouble with a culture of violence is that it spreads like a smog, and it gets into everything.” It was one of the reasons it lost the war, but since when did MSNBC let facts get in the way of a good narrative? By the time of the Civil War, the slave-holding South was economically well behind the North. This is why red states are right to crack down on left-wing history. ![]() UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham is produced in partnership with Pineapple Street Studios and presented by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses.Packnett began by trashing the country, “Unfortunately, we live in a country that was built by violence. America used the gun, used the hand, used the whip against indigenous people, against enslaved Africans to build this country that we now inhabit.” Listen and subscribe on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, or Audacy. And we can’t wait to share Season 3 with you-coming in 2023. Follow her Seasons 1 and 2, Packnett Cunningham sat down with everyone from Tracee Ellis Ross and Representative Ayanna Pressley to America Ferrera and Tarana Burke. Her book We Are Like Those Who Dream is forthcoming. Described by President Barack Obama as a leader “whose voice is going to be making a difference for years to come,” she was a member of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing and the Ferguson Commission, as well as a three-time Harvard Institute of Politics fellow. Our host is Brittany Packnett Cunningham-an educator, activist, TV commentator-and someone who always, always, asks better questions about the world. Welcome to UNDISTRACTED, a weekly podcast that looks at the news through lenses that are too often neglected (but so real to all of us): gender, race, ability and more. We are undistracted.”- Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Host, UNDISTRACTED We got work to do, and we’re going to do it together, and we’re going to find our joy along the way. “Enough with the distractions, the noise, the billions of tweets. ![]()
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