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Why new laws could miss America's bigger gun problem | Redux

Why new laws could miss America's bigger gun problem

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Can there be a solution to America's gun problems? Anderson Cooper looks at both sides of the debate in "Guns Under Fire: an AC360º Town Hall Special" Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. (CNN) -- Trent Brewer drove to a parking lot, planning to sell some weed. The transaction never happened. Police in Springfield, Missouri, found Brewer, 23, face-down in a pool of his own blood with no pulse on December 12. He was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Police say Darian Earl Hall, 18, pulled out a chrome semi-automatic handgun before the sale could happen, and opened fire on Brewer as he began to run away. Hall has denied shooting Brewer, blaming another teen who was with him at the time. What exactly happened will eventually be settled in court.

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Mike Bouchard

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0.266305"These are all steps in the right direction to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, the mental health issues, those are all good things," said Mike Bouchard, ...
0.160795"These are all steps in the right direction to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, the mental health issues, those are all good things," said Mike Bouchard, a retired agent with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and president of Security Dynamics Group, a consulting firm that ensures companies are compliant with firearm regulations. "But I don't know that it's going to reduce the homicide rate."
0"These criminals don't care what the law says," he said. ...
0"If people knew every transaction of a gun was going to be recorded somewhere, I think they'd be more responsible with who they transferred their weapon to," he said. ...
0"Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy, we have controls we accept on everything else in this society -- except guns," Bouchard said.
0.193893"Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy, we have controls we accept on everything else in this society -- except guns," Bouchard said. "Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns most people will not even discuss restrictions."
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Trent Brewer

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Obama

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Beatriz Cintora-Silva

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0"No, no, no, please, no," Cintora-Silva said ...
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Daniel Sanchez

Overall Sentiment: 0.0251367

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SentimentQuote
0.0707331"I just shot everyone right now," he said, ...
0.184705Sanchez calmly replied "Yeah." She asked for his name, but he didn't answer. "I'm going to shoot myself right now," ...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein

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Harold Pollack

Overall Sentiment: -0.0275689

Relevance: 0.578648

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-0.252348"If you look at 'How did someone get that gun that led to that person getting killed?' we might be able to find ways to have interfered with it," Pollack said.
-0.191925"If you look at 'How did someone get that gun that led to that person getting killed?' we might be able to find ways to have interfered with it," Pollack said. "Maybe it's related to the gun dealer, maybe it's a type of gun commerce that we can interrupt, or maybe there's a social service intervention before any of that."
0.164029"We have to be able to use the tools that we have ... to try and make sensible policy," Pollack said. ...
-0.0123789"We have to be able to use the tools that we have ... to try and make sensible policy," Pollack said. "If our data about critical matters is left in a dusty box of a basement in a courthouse, there isn't a whole lot we can do."
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Anderson Cooper

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-0.0439368Anderson Cooper looks at both sides of the debate in "Guns Under Fire: an AC360º Town Hall Special" ...
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Dr. Charles Raison

Overall Sentiment: 0.139298

Relevance: 0.507149

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-0.101814"The only way to interrupt (violent incidents) is to lock up and intervene tons and tons of times, where everyone who exhibits symptoms is locked up," said Raison, ...
-0.163225"The only way to interrupt (violent incidents) is to lock up and intervene tons and tons of times, where everyone who exhibits symptoms is locked up," said Raison, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "But then as a society, where do we want to strike a balance between personal freedom and intervening to stop the high rate of violent acts?"
-0.0189186Raison said he finds the discussion about opening up access to mental health services promising, but also "an extremely slippery slope."
Sentiment Stats:
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Earl Hall

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Joe Biden

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Lindsay Nichols

Overall Sentiment: -0.0798212

Relevance: 0.376718

SentimentQuote
-0.186868"This may be the single most important gun violence prevention measure that the government could adopt," said Nichols, ...
Sentiment Stats:
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Emily Smith

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.351614

David Keene

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Relevance: 0.344954

Candy Crowley

Overall Sentiment: 0.090744

Relevance: 0.328666

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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