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Graham Platner: “We have gun violence issues, we have poverty issues.”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner Talks Guns, PTSD and Democratic Leadership

Published | Video Starts at 27:10

And I mean, I very much think that. I'm a systems guy. I don't believe that anything is actually disconnected from anything else. I mean, we. And we've got a politics that treats like We have gun violence issues, we have poverty issues. They're all connected. They're all connected. The communities that have the most gun violence and gun suicide are the poorest communities, of course. And of course they are. (27:10–27:13)

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Asserts that the U.S. faces both gun violence and poverty issues.

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