The Voice America’s Gun Debate Needs

EPISODE 68: A realistic proposal.

This episode is not a lamentation.

It’s not a deluge of emotional appeals and statistics, either, designed to prove to you that America has a legitimately terrifying gun problem. My bet is that you already know that, and are pre-exhausted by the reminder.

What today’s episode is, instead — I hope — is something pretty different: a story about optimism. And a way to finally evolve America’s impotent gun debate.

And it’s rooted in the unparalleled political trajectory of a man who, when I first saw him, was assembling an assault rifle, on television.

Blindfolded.

Because, yes, Jason Kander is a gun guy. He’s also a baseball guy and former Army intelligence officer and political prodigy who then dropped out of political life, entirely.

But the biggest reason I wanted to talk to him now, days after the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, is that Jason Kander is a fifth-generation Kansas Citian with a truly persuasive argument:

That the gun industry’s biggest scam is also its greatest legal strength.

And that one relatively unknown piece of legislation, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, is the key to changing everything.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Hopefully,

Pablo