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“Yeah. That's often the way those stories end. But you later in life, you took up Buddhism. And I was wondering why you were attracted to Buddhism and why Buddhism was more attractive to you than Catholicism.”

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“And you went with the idea that you were going to be an investigative reporter, they have a great journalism school there. Why did you interested that? I really, first of all, I love writing, especially nonfiction and reporting. And I was a reporter at the Dallas Observer, a very junior reporter.”

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“The latter, they are primarily a lobbying organization. In 2018, they spent less than 10% of their budget on gun safety, like training. That rhetoric is a front for what they really are, which is an organization that works to loosen gun laws so that they can sell guns on behalf of gun manufacturers.”

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“Yes, well, Carolyn McCarthy, who became a congresswoman after her son and husband were shot on Long Island Railroad, called me. I remember standing in my kitchen and seeing the DC number and was just shocked, you know, that she attracted me down. And she said, look, gun control is a verboten phrase in the beltway. We don't say that.”

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