Security in America
Channel: New America
Date: 25/05/2016

The number of gun related deaths in the United States is a startling one. In 2013 over 33,000 citizens lost their lives. It's a staggering number, and one that has risen in years since. What's more, every year, over 130,000 people are injured by firearms, leaving them with physical ailments and crippling healthcare costs that often last a lifetime.

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Security is part the social contract between citizens and their government. What role does government have in protecting citizens from each other, especially as trust in the government is threatened by acts of police violence? In light of the shootings in San Bernardino, how does government balance privacy and freedom from freedom of terrorism?

PETER BERGEN Vice President, New America
TRYMAINE LEE Fellow, New America and National Reporter, MSNBC
FATHER MICHAEL PFLEGER Priest and Social Activist

**** About the Event ****

The digital age brings flexibility and dynamism to the economy, but also challenges current forms of security and equity. The disruptions in our economy, for both good and ill, offer our leaders opportunities to reframe the essential social contract we have with each other. It also asks government to rethink its relationship with its citizens. From safety nets to operation systems, from personal identity to income inequality, we need to rewire that social contract. New America has been leading these conversations for more than a decade. In this election year, we are poised to play a pivotal role in how the leading candidates write the new social contract. As the primary season settles and the general election turns its focus on our most pressing challenges, we will bring together the most original thinking on the most important public issues, to create conversations you won't hear anywhere else.

New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. We carry out our mission as a nonprofit civic enterprise: an intellectual venture capital fund, think tank, technology laboratory, public forum, and media platform. Our hallmarks are big ideas, impartial analysis, pragmatic policy solutions, technological innovation, next generation politics, and creative engagement with broad audiences.

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