Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell
Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell

Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell

Recorded July 15, 2025 01:12:59
Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell
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Id: osv000895

Description

In their second conversation, One Small Step partners Roger Peduzzi (77) and Daniel Terrell (74) build upon mutual respect and their shared experiences of growing up the children of alcoholics and military service. They have a respectful disagreement over gun control, sharing why they each feel the way they do.

Subject Log / Time Code

2:00
Roger Peduzzi and Daniel Terrell share why they wanted to talk with each other again.
7:08
Roger shares that his friends were shocked when he went into the Army. He met people unlike the stereotype of military personnel.
10:00
Daniel talks about having alcoholic parents and shielding their kids from their traumas.
11:54
Daniel recalls joining the Army to counter elitists who didn’t serve. He was uncomfortable with prayer breakfasts being instilled in service. Roger left the military because he wanted to pursue medicine.
17:00
Roger shares that his mother was an alcoholic. She joined AA and became a counselor. Daniel’s father almost wrecked a car with them in it. He recalls a day his mother was suicidal with a gun.
23:50
Roger shares that he doesn’t really drink. Daniel recalls being at parties with people trying to get him drunk.
26:20
Roger tells a story about his adopted daughter whose father killed her mother with a gun. School shootings affect him deeply.
31:00
Daniel recalls teaching his children how to shoot when they were teenagers. He views gun ownership as power in the hands of the people, stemming from our revolutionary roots as a nation and is an advocate for training.
39:30
Roger shares that he would like to remove high-velocity weapons. Daniel doesn’t trust governments. Roger is concerned with authoritarianism against people on the left. Daniel is more concerned with Antifa oppressing conservatives.
51:30
Daniel argues that he has never met someone who shot someone else who wasn’t traumatized by it.
53:00
As a designated gang prosecutor, Daniel recalls being followed to his car and became more pro-gun out of responsibility for his family. He also finds shooting to be meditative.
56:50
Roger reflects on his family using guns to hunt for food and for sport when he was growing up. But as a veterinarian witnessing gun wounds, he associates weapons with violence.
64:52
Daniel and Roger find commonality in a shared sense of service.
66:23
Daniel shares that his family accuses him of TDS: Trump Disorder Syndrome.

Participants

  • Roger Peduzzi
  • Daniel Terrell

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