Daily Take: Who’s Really Pulling the Trigger: The Shooter, or the Predator Lobby?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,” they’re protecting a business model built on body counts…
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| 1:02.2 | Who's really pulling the trigger? The shooter or the predator lobby? |
| 1:08.1 | America's 465th mass shooting in 2025, this one at Brown University in Rhode Island, |
| 1:15.4 | should remind us all that it's insane that the GOP passed and Bush signed into law, the so-called |
| 1:20.5 | protection of lawful commerce and firemen in Arms Act, PLCAA, in 2006, that largely gives immunity from liability lawsuits to the gun industry, |
| 1:33.5 | and only the gun industry. It's time to end the Predator State Coalition in America, of which this is |
| 1:40.3 | just one glaring example. Ever since five corrupt Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that money is free speech protected by the First Amendment and corporations or persons protected by the entire Bill of Rights, |
| 1:54.6 | pretty much every industry in America has poured cash into politicians and judges' pockets to be able to freely rip us off, or, in the case of the |
| 2:03.3 | gun industry, kill our children. Even though a clear majority of Americans want stronger gun laws, |
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