Watch an extended interview with Dr Greg Dworkin discussing the need for gun control reform in the USA.
Why am I on Australia's 60 Minutes website?
Apparently to balance the gun crazy that Liz Hayes, the 60 Minutes anchor, encountered on her tour of America.
Around three months ago, I received a request for an extended interview with Australia's version of 60 Minutes about where I thought Newtown was at in regard to gun safety after the 12/14 tragedy, and what steps the local doctors wanted to see taken. The above was taped in Newtown for later viewing, and is part of tonight's segment, labeled Trigger Happy.
More on the segment shown tonight on Australian TV below the fold.
So as it happens, it was much more compelling for the Australian TV audience to be exposed to Ted Nugent's view of gun safety, and to cover gun culture through Australian eyes. My segment isn't on air, but it is on the 60 Minutes website, and has been posted to YouTube. I'm happy about that, and don't take this as a complaint.
My segment was apparently the balance. It was an opportunity to let Australia know that not everyone in America thinks like Nugent.
It was also an opportunity to stress an evidence-based approach to gun responsibility. We mean it when we say we'll go where the data takes us.
And it was an opportunity for them to have an American voice, a Newtown voice, on the other side of the debate.
The Australians were fairly amazed. I know that from their visit here, and you can tell by watching the segment.
We have folks on both sides of the debate here, and I invite you all to watch this four minute interview and other spots from the segment, which runs 13 and a half minutes and can be seen here.
Since the shocking mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, there have been more than 6000 people killed by a gun in America.
With numbers like these, it would be reasonable to expect the US would be doing everything it could to reduce access to firearms.
Well, Liz Hayes just travelled across America and found quite the opposite.
The gun lobby is more outspoken than ever.
Women are signing up to "Pistol Packing Ladies" clubs. Kids as young as seven years old are being taught to shoot.
And we'll take you to the town where they've passed a law to make it compulsory to own a gun.
Preview for the segment describing
a town with a mandatory gun law.
Watch an extended interview with former rock star and gun enthusiast Ted Nugent who opposes gun control in America.