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Of Monsters and Men Interview

Last month we were so fortunate to be able to sit down with some of the folksy folks from Of Monsters and Men. They played a simply unbelievable show at the Orpheum in Boston and we were able to catch up with them beforehand. You’ve likely heard their newest hit single on the radio, “Little Talks”. We love them over here at Soundboard, and we hope you do too.

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“Here is a list of every single politician who received campaign money from the pro-gun National Rifle Association this election cycle. The NRA gave a more than $700,000 largesse to candidates, the vast majority of whom were Republicans. Here is a list of studies from the Harvard School of Public Health that say, plainly, when nations have fewer guns, they also have fewer homicides. The tremendous difference in the number of gun deaths in much of the rest of the West, where gun control tends to be more stringent, compared to America supports those findings: “Among the world’s 23 wealthiest countries,” reported ABC News earlier this year, “80 percent of all gun deaths are American deaths and 87 percent of all kids killed by guns are American kids.” Read the rest of the article: Actually, Now Is the Time to Talk Politics from Gawker.com