Official seal of Newtown, Connecticut (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you have any interest in this subject, I’m speaking at 15:00 GMT (10:00 a.m. ET) on BBC television tomorrow, Friday Dec. 21, about the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and the reaction to them.
The call-in show is an hour, and will have five guests, three of them from the U.S., me and two men, one a colleague who has lived in Newtown for 19 years and a gun-owner from Arkansas.
In the past few days, I’ve done a BBC interview, written an op-ed for a Canadian newspaper and given an interview that ran in two German newspapers, Berliner Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau; here is the brief interview that ran in Frankfurter Rundschau.
The world is horrified by the massacre and many people — like many Americans — simply cannot understand why so many Americans insist on owning a gun.
As many of you know by now, the President has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with a committee who must come up with policy suggestions within one month — the same idea I floated in my New York Times op-ed two days earlier.
My book “Blown Away: American Women and Guns” discusses this issue; here’s a link to it.
I’ll have to try to catch it when it’s on. I might even call in. First I have to find what channel BBC is on in Columbus.
I suspect you could stream it on the web. They also have podcasts.
oh, i worry about online streaming; it usually doesn’t have very good quality, at least when I try it.
Maybe some local NPR station carries it? We listen to music on the web all the time and the quality is excellent.
Good luck, you’re an excellent resource! I hope the conversation is helpful and productive.
Thanks! Me, too.
I pray it goes well. It is my hope that the discussion will not be limited to talk of gun regulation alone.
I agree. My goal is to try and explicate gun culture as best I can.
Just finished watching the program on BBC. I need to watch the BBC more. I normally watch CBC. I really enjoyed the viewpoints from around the world. I used to listen to the podcast “Left, Right & Center”…you would make an excellent candidate for a Canadian version. I’d watch it….religiously ;-)
Thanks for making time to watch …and the kind words! It’s challening to speak so succinctly on such a complex issue.