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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: The NRA & GOP Broke America: How Many Dead Children's Voices Must We Hear?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The NRA, GOP and SCOTUS have made the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights into such a suicide pact, drenching our nation with our own children’s blood.

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The NRA and the GOP broke America.

0:04.0

How many dead children's voices do we need to hear?

0:08.0

This article starts with, or this op-ed starts with a quote from Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting

0:15.3

opinion in the District of Columbia versus Heller Supreme Court case.

0:20.8

The court would have us believe that over 200 years ago the framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons and to authorize this court to use the common law process of case-by-case judicial

0:35.0

lawmaking to define the contours of acceptable gun control policy.

0:39.8

Absent compelling evidence that is nowhere to be found in the court's opinion,

0:44.0

I could not possibly conclude that the framers made such a choice.

0:50.0

Yesterday America experienced another horrific mass shooting this time at the

0:53.9

Super Bowl victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs. The state's gun-loving

0:58.2

governor Mike Parsons apparently ran scared from the sight of the shooting, according to witnesses.

1:04.4

We are literally the only country in the world that is experiencing this magnitude of gun crisis.

1:11.8

Half of the guns and civilians hands in the entire world are here

1:16.5

in the United States. So it shouldn't surprise anybody that the leading cause of

1:21.3

childhood death in the U.S. is bullets.

1:24.8

That slaughter in Kansas City followed by a few hours the release of an AI generated

1:29.2

message from the grave sent to members of Congress in which now dead children murdered in the Parkland

1:35.0

Florida school shooting six years ago speak bluntly about the lack of action.

1:40.6

You can listen to the one from the victim, Joaquin Oliver here.

1:45.0

I'm Joaquin Oliver.

1:47.0

Six years ago, I was a senior at Parkland.

1:49.0

Many students and teachers were murdered on Valentine's Day that year by a person using an AR-15,

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