Dr. Garen Wintemute is an emergency room doctor at UC Davis Medical Center and the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program.

We are in the midst of a huge national experiment that’s going to answer the question: What happens when you take a society that is exhausted, fearful, concerned for its future, angry at itself, polarized... and throw a bunch of guns into it? We have no alternative but to live through answering that question.

Notes and references from this episode:

UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program - home page

“Trigger Effect: The 1989 Cleveland School Shooting, 25 Years Later,” by Stu VanAirsdale, Sactown Magazine

Warner Mountains: Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering - SummitPost

“Gun Deaths Hit an All-Time High (Again) in 2021,” by Jennifer Mascia, The Trace

“Attorney General Bonta Launches Office of Gun Violence Prevention” - Office of the Attorney General

“Survey finds alarming trend toward political violence” - Violence Prevention Research Program, UC Davis

Gary Snyder biography - Academy of American Poets

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