#1139 In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 October 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 10/13/2017
Today we look at the usual pattern of political and media theatre that occur after every major shooting incident and some of the facts that explain why we shouldn't continue in this pattern any longer
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The usual pattern of how mass shootings are covered - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 10-6-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Transmutation (ft. Spinningmerkaba) - Kara Square
Ch. 4: Act 2: Mass shootings continue but what can we do about it? - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date 10-6-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Who We Are (ft. MissJudged and Fireproof Babies) - Hans Atom
Ch. 6: Act 3: Gun nuts are aggressively childish - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 10-1-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Planting Flags - K4
Ch. 8: Act 4: The evidence is in, gun control laws reduce gun deaths - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 10-2-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Shift of Currents - Aeronaut
Ch. 10: Act 5: "Mental Health Gun Databases" Are Very Racial - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 08-27-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Paper Planes - Durden ft. Airtone (ft. Airtone) - DURDEN
Ch. 12: Act 6: Beware carceral gun control laws - The Dig - Air Date 10-6-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Blind Love Dub (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) - Jeris
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell Congress: DON’T GUT OUR GUN LAWS via @Everytown - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: These Times - The Pine Barrens
Ch. 16: Act 8: Prayers Cannot Stop Guns - Intercepted - 10-4-2017
Ch. 17: Final comments on why I rarely tackle gun control on this show
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Tell Congress you oppose lifting restrictions on gun silencers and want the measure removed from the SHARE Act.
Tell Congress that you oppose the concealed carry reciprocity bill.
Take part in the Everytown postcards to Congress campaign and use the letter as a call script.
Find an Everytown for Gun Safety action or meeting near you
Sing up for Everytown action alerts via text
EDUCATE YOURSELF
S.446 - Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (Congress.gov)
H.R.38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (Congress.gov)
H.R.3668 - SHARE Act of 2017 (see Sections 1502-1507) (Congress.gov)
Everytown for Gun Safety - Concealed Carry Reciprocity (S. 446) Overriding State Public Safety Laws (Everytown.org)
Mass Shooting Since Sandy Hook, in One Map (Vox)
Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts (Vox)
Republicans want to pass a gun bill that critics say will make mass shootings more deadly (Vox)
Why a Congressional Ban on Bump Stocks Is Unlikely (The Atlantic)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (The Onion)
NRA says 'nothing could have been done' to prevent Las Vegas shooting (Yahoo)
Struggling Gun Industry Looks To Congress To Make Silencers The Next Big Thing (Huffington Post)
How I Got Licensed to Carry a Concealed Gun in 32 States by Barely Trying (Mother Jones, 2013)
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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:50.9 | CBC, the broadcast, the David Pakman show, the dig and intercepted. |
| 1:02.0 | Quote, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, |
| 1:07.4 | yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no |
| 1:12.9 | one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of |
| 1:19.3 | every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, |
| 1:24.5 | the more you're in the limelight. Those words are from a 2015 blog post of a young man named Chris |
| 1:32.5 | Harper Mercer describing a man named Vester Flanagan who killed a reporter and photographer at a |
| 1:38.8 | Virginia TV station on air days previously before shooting himself. Harper Mercer went on to |
| 1:46.0 | shoot nine people to death at his community college in Oregon before shooting himself. |
| 1:51.1 | Social scientists have long said of events like mass shootings that they are contagious and that |
| 1:56.4 | media serve as carriers. Forensic psychologist Park Deets told the village voice in 1999 |
| 2:02.7 | that suicide, product tampering, and mass murder lent themselves to imitation. And the degree |
| 2:09.0 | of imitation is connected to sustained and sensationalized media coverage. After the Sandy Hooks |
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