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Nearly every day, there is a shooting in America.
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But rarely do we consider the impact a shooting has
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on our elected officials.
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"I'm more than happy to talk about this in a few days.
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Right now is not the time."
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“There's a time and place for a political debate.”
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“But it's a little bit soon to go into it.”
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“This is not the time to jump to some conclusion.”
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“This is not the time to have the discussion.”
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“Today is not the day.”
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Introducing Aftershot, the only app
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that helps a bunch of [expletive] figure out
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when to talk about gun reform.
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When developing Aftershot, we learned that most politicians
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actually voted against the C.D.C. researching
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the scale and scope of our country's gun crisis.
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Many see that as politicians just not caring about it.
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But, surely, they care about innocent people being
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senselessly gunned down.
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They're just confused.
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That's why we made Aftershot.
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We've invested hundreds of thousands
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of hours feeding mountains of statistical data
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through a complex mathematical equation that
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creates an algorithm that takes
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mere seconds to pinpoint the exact right time to talk
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about gun reform.
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Let's say you're a governor, and it's
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the day after a mass shooting in your state.
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For some reason, you're still confused
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when to talk about gun reform, even though 52 percent of Americans
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want stricter gun laws.
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That's the perfect time to open up the app.
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You enter some simple metadata,
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such as time of shooting, weapon used,
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and our algorithm does the rest.
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The equation is simple.
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There's a shooting every four hours,
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plus 44 percent of Americans know somebody who's been shot,
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plus the number of gun deaths in 2018 so far, which
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is 11,054 people, plus there are
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270 million guns in the U.S., plus the annual cost
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of gun violence in the U.S., which is $229 billion.
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Aftershot crunches all that data
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to determine, with absolute certainty, the correct time
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for lawmakers to talk about gun reform.
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[beeping]
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And, remarkably, it always says now.
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[beeping]
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Oh, I love the app.
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And it's so easy to use.
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As a member of Congress who receives a ton of money
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from the N.R.A., I find it so frustrating
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not to be able to use my N.R.A. log-in with other apps.
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But Aftershot is synced with my N.R.A. profile,
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so logging in is super simple.
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Oh, I absolutely love Aftershot's social media
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functions.
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After a mass shooting, I tend to go on Twitter
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and offer up some innocuous platitude to the victims.
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But, now, with Aftershot's autocorrect feature,
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I can no longer do that, which is good, I think.”
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I have a deep distrust for science stuff and technology,
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which is why I love Aftershot's 24/7 customer
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support hotline.
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There's an Aftershot troubleshooter there
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always to interpret their notifications, which
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are frequent, because there are a lot of shootings.
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To all the politicians who might
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be confused by or scared of having
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a conversation about gun reform, we're here to help.
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With our game-changing technology,
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you will never again have to utter the phrase,
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"Now is not the right time."
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And to all the people in America,
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if your local representatives are
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struggling to have a conversation about gun
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reform, help them out.
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Encourage them to download Aftershot.
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Or you could just vote us out of office.
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You don't need an app for that.
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