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The Hartmann Report

CAN THERE BE HOPE AMIDST UBIQUITOUS GUN VIOLENCE?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Thom shares the reasons that he holds to hope despite what seems to be a never ending deluge of gun violence and police brutality. Callers become emotional over their sense of helplessness, however a Swedish listener rings in with a gleam of positivity.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.2

Well greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

0:22.9

and peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

0:27.5

So what's going on in the world?

0:29.2

Well, we interrupt the trial about, you know, the cops killing Derek Chauvin killing George

0:34.6

Floyd with a story of a 13 year old boy being shot to death by his name is Adam Toledo,

0:42.3

by Officer Eric Stillman, unarmed, hands in the air, bang, dead.

0:48.4

We interrupt the report on this police shooting with another mass shooting, eight dead in

0:55.5

a shooting at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, a government killed eight people and wounded

1:00.2

several others before taking his life.

1:02.2

This is another, you know, going out in a blaze of glory suicide.

1:07.2

These are all too often, you know, all too frequent and they're facilitated by the easy

1:12.0

availability of guns, right?

1:14.0

I mean, this does happen in other societies, you know, in Japan or in, you know, the UK

1:19.6

or something.

1:20.6

Somebody will, you know, stab somebody with a knife and then kill themselves, but

1:24.7

killing eight people.

1:27.4

Last month, eight people were fatally shot at a massage business in Atlanta, 10 guy died

1:31.8

in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

1:35.6

Another one in Indianapolis, this was an Indianapolis, this FedEx facility.

1:39.9

There was another one a little earlier this year, five people, including a pregnant woman

1:43.3

were shot and killed in January by a man who had apparently previously killed three people

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