(2013/01/29) The lesser-known histories (Gun Control)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 January 2013
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Summary
Edition #683
The lesser-known histories
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The untold story of guns - On The Media - Air Date 12-21-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Magnificent Seven - The City of Prague Philharmonic
Ch. 4: Act 2: Real Reason For The 2nd Amendment Part 1 - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-12-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: John Adams Theme Song - HBO
Ch. 6: Act 3: Gun Laws - Public Opion And The Constitution - CounterSpin - Air Date 12-21-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Flower in your hair - The Lumineers
Ch. 8: Act 4: Real Reason For The 2nd Amendment Part 2 - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-12-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Swing low sweet chariot - The Persuasions
Ch. 10: Act 5: Does the NRA Represent Gun Owners or Manufacturers? - Young Turks - Air Date: 01-11-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Gone going - Black Eyed Peas
Ch. 12: Act 6: NRA Fades from Important to Impotent - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-9-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Speak up - Luke Reynolds
Ch. 14: Act 7: Protecting liberties we don't have anymore - Bill Maher - Air Date: 1-18-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: A lack of color - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 16: Act 8: Rand Paul Vows to Stop 'King' Obama's Executive Orders - Young Turks - Air Date: 01-18-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Moral right vs legal right to guns - Adam
Ch. 18: Focus on corporate personhood, not guns - Alfonzo
Ch. 19: Responsibility and blame - David From Vancouver, BC
Ch. 20: Check out SOJO.net for progressive Christianity - John from Reno
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Ch. 21: Final comments on interesting voicemails
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from On the |
| 0:12.4 | Media, the Tom Hartman program, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, and |
| 0:17.1 | The Real Time with Bill Mar. |
| 0:30.1 | We've become accustomed in the past 20 years to seeing the issue of guns in America broken |
| 0:34.4 | down into two camps. |
| 0:36.4 | Gun control advocates led by police chiefs and Sarah Brady against the all-powerful |
| 0:42.2 | National Rifle Association, which not only asserts a second amendment guarantee of gun |
| 0:47.3 | ownership, but uses its vast war chest to elect sympathetic politicians and defeat opponents. |
| 0:55.0 | But according to Adam Winkler, UCLA law professor and author of Gun Fight, the battle over |
| 1:00.4 | the right to bear arms in America, there was a time, relatively recently, in fact, when |
| 1:05.8 | the NRA supported gun control legislation, and the staunchest defenders of so-called |
| 1:11.6 | gun rights were on the radical left. |
| 1:15.0 | That piece has been excerpted in the Atlantic, and I'm welcome to On the Media. |
| 1:19.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm old enough to remember when the NRA was substantially an organization that promoted |
| 1:26.9 | marksmanship and hunter safety, and I've seen some of this evolution, but I was genuinely |
| 1:33.2 | stunned at recent history, which had somehow escaped me, mainly the origin of the gun rights |
| 1:40.5 | movement in California in the 60s. |
| 1:44.2 | One of the surprising things I discovered in writing gunfight was that when the Black |
| 1:48.1 | Panthers started carrying their guns around in Oakland, California in the late 1960s, it |
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