With a video part of the podcast, out there at no cost on YouTube, audiences can count on to listen to and see from these leaders this season. They’ll even be confronted with compelling tales from these most affected by gun violence—together with younger perpetrators.
“Each bullet fired creates two victims: the particular person in entrance of the gun, and the one pulling the set off,” Harris-Taylor explains. In the case of avenue violence, most shooters are harm by weapons lengthy earlier than they ever use one. Breaking the cycle means understanding what led them to select up a weapon within the first place. As one visitor on the podcast notes, “There’s all the time a narrative behind it. It’s by no means for enjoyable.”
This season goals to be a useful resource for the group. The group has assembled a touchdown web page for anybody in want of assets, whether or not they’re a sufferer of gun violence, fearful for a member of the family, trying to escape their scenario, and even re-entering civilian life after time away.
Harris-Taylor and Watkins perceive that the options have been in place for a very long time. They simply want funding and help to be extra extensively efficient. “That’s why we additionally hope to succeed in leaders in positions of energy,” Harris-Taylor says. “To ahead the dialog.”
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