(2013/01/05) Sandy Hook Shooting: The Sane Reaction (Gun Control)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 January 2013
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Edition #675
Sandy Hook Shooting: The Sane Reaction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The TRUE Gun Control Debate - Lee Camp - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Late Afternoon - Bard
Ch. 4: Act 2: Thom re-calibrates his thinking on guns - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
Ch. 6: Act 3: Gun Massacre Forces Change in Australia, Why Not in the US? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-18-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Strange sinner - Hotrod Cadets
Ch. 8: Act 4: President Obama's Calls for 'Action' on Guns - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-20-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Goodnight and go - Imogen Heap
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama Nobly Takes on the Gun Nuts - The Progressive - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Show me something new - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 12: Act 6: Lots of Common Ground for New Gun Safety Laws - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-17-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Something in common - Free Energy
Ch. 14: Act 7: Some Senators Show Willingness To Take On Gun Laws - NPR - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Something happened - Visitors
Ch. 16: Act 8: School Attack in China: No Guns = No Deaths - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Blueprint - Arkells
Ch. 18: Act 9: Time To 'Well Regulate' Our Militia - Dan Savage - Air Date 12-18-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: From finner - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 20: Act 10: Speculating about Adam Lanza's mind - On the Media - Air Date: 12-21-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: King of sorrow - Sade
Ch. 22: Act 11: Condolencer-In-Chief - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 12-20-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Mental illness isn't a major cause of murder - Rob from Connecticut
Ch. 24: Loves guns, sometimes freedom is scary
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on gun control and curtailing freedoms
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.5 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestivalleft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning bestival left podcast with us today from comedian Lee |
| 0:12.6 | Camp, the Tom Hartman program, the young Turks, the David Pakman show, the progressive, |
| 0:17.2 | the Rachel Maddo show, NPR, the majority report, Dan Savage, on the media, and MarkFurray.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Every time there's a horrific massacre of all American proportions in this country, |
| 0:34.3 | we have the exact same gun control debate, or should I say, the same gun control, |
| 0:39.5 | whining, screaming, yelling, s***, ruckus of a pissing contest. |
| 0:43.6 | One side says, this would happen if there were more gun control. |
| 0:46.9 | And the other side says, don't take away my rights just because one crackpot with a glock |
| 0:51.3 | took out a schoolroom. |
| 0:52.3 | I don't take away your right to bear cheese. |
| 0:54.4 | Every time someone knocks a guy over there and with a block of camera bear bitch, |
| 0:58.5 | I'm only gonna address one part of this continuous bickering, but I think it's the most important part. |
| 1:03.6 | Some people act like they're against gun control. |
| 1:06.6 | When in fact, we're all for some kind of gun slash weapon control. |
| 1:11.4 | I have yet to meet anyone who says we should be allowed to have a nuclear bomb on our porch |
| 1:15.4 | or a grenade launcher in our bedroom. |
| 1:17.5 | Very few people defend your right to own a tank or keep a dirty bomb in your pants. |
| 1:22.6 | Two many puns to choose from. |
| 1:26.1 | And if the military created a laser handgun tomorrow that could shoot through everything |
| 1:30.9 | from New York to Idaho in a single shot. |
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