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Humanizing national gun policy in the wake of the 2024 elections

Season 1 Episode 10 | 52m 03s

Last year, 46,728 people were killed in firearm deaths. For parents and families grieving children lost to the Sandy Hook School shooting, there’s no escaping the trauma associated with that loss, and the rhetoric surrounding gun violence. Today on the Wheelhouse, how the national gun policy discourse affects survivors of gun violence.

Aired: 11/12/24
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