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Pete Buttigieg: “We lose so many lives. It's the same number of lives as gun…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Discusses Need for Major Structural Reform, Live from Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 42:40

Car crashes, they just don't make the news the way an aviation disaster would make the news. We lose so many lives. It's the same number of lives as gun violence. We had a long way to go. That's also unfinished business. But we made a dent. And that dental amounts to thousands of lives. (42:40–42:44)

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Asserts that the number of lives lost in car crashes is comparable to those lost to gun violence.

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