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🗓️ 16 June 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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After every mass shooting we have the same conversation about guns. We take up the subject today, and examine a recent article claiming that the militia in the Second Amendment is really just the National Guard.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 682. |
0:04.0 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:08.7 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:14.4 | Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
0:16.6 | I want to talk about guns a bit today, obviously with the Orlando shootings still in the news, |
0:23.3 | and in particular because I saw an article, well, somebody sent it to me from over on MarketWatch about how stupid people are for allegedly misinterpreting the Second Amendment. |
0:34.3 | Don't they know the militia is really a reference to the National Guard? |
0:38.5 | So I thought, let's see, who can sort all this out for us? |
0:42.1 | And I decided Larry Pratt, who is Executive Director Emeritus of Gun Owners of America, |
0:47.9 | which you can visit atgunowners.org. |
0:50.3 | Stay tuned after my conversation with Larry, because I got a couple things to tell you about |
0:55.6 | a big life change for me, if you can put it that way, as well as a little clarification about the |
1:02.4 | numbering of the episodes. So here we go. Larry, welcome back to the show after such a long |
1:09.2 | absence. Tom, it is very nice to be back. Thanks for having me. |
1:13.2 | I was telling you before we went on, I had you on last on episode seven. Here we are, episode |
1:17.6 | 682. And I bet you live a fairly tranquil life until something like the Orlando shooting happens. |
1:26.5 | And then everybody in the world wants to talk to you all at once. |
1:28.7 | So I really appreciate the fact that you've made time to talk to me in particular. I do want to talk about Orlando in a few minutes. |
1:36.5 | But I want to start with the real reason I wrote to have you on was an article. I'll link to it so people can see for themselves, tomwoods.com |
1:45.7 | 682. |
1:47.4 | It's an article from MarketWatch, and it's called Nice Neutral Title, What America's Gun Fanatics |
1:53.5 | Won't Tell You. |
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