Daily Take: Killer Democracy: How a Corrupt Supreme Court Turned Debate Into Death
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
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Scalia’s Heller ruling — and the decisions that followed — didn’t just reshape gun laws; they transformed political disagreements into open-season assassinations…
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| 1:04.4 | debate into death. Republican Charlie Kirk is dead. So is former Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. |
| 1:14.6 | Two clearly political assassinations in the past four months. |
| 1:18.6 | And a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's journal Pediatrics |
| 1:23.6 | suggests that most of the deaths from the more than 250 mass shootings in America so far this year could also be classified as political assassinations. |
| 1:34.4 | How did we get here? And what do we do? In 2008, the in the NRA's pocket Republican Supreme Court Justice Antonin and Scalia did much the same thing that Sam Alito |
| 1:45.9 | would later do with his Dobbs anti-abortion ruling. He reached back hundreds of years to look for a |
| 1:51.9 | definition at the time the Second Amendment was written for how people then viewed the phrase |
| 1:57.0 | bare arms and then twisted it all out of recognition. |
| 2:02.5 | The result was the corrupt Heller decision as I lay out in the hidden history of guns |
| 2:06.6 | in the Second Amendment, which unleased a new wave of guns on an unsuspecting America. |
| 2:11.8 | It was followed two years later by McDonald v. Chicago, another NRA purchased all-Republican |
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