There are more places to buy guns in the United States than there are Starbucks worldwide
There are more places to buy guns in the United States than there are Starbucks worldwide
Back to the beginning of the program: gun violence…
In which I repeat myself from our broadcast of Dec. 14 2012, the day of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary.
I noted that day in our search for some way to quantify what had happened, that there were then more places to buy a firearm in this country than there were Starbucks on the whole planet.
We looked up the latest numbers this afternoon. It’s still true.
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