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The Hartmann Report

IS IT FINALLY TIME TO END THE SECOND AMENDMENT AFTER BOULDER MASSACRE?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

American mass murders are a remnant of our slave patrols. RBG was right that Heller was wrongly decided and needs to be overturned. Is it finally time to get rid of the Second Amendment?

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:18.0

Another day, another mass shooting in America, this following by one week, the NRA holding

0:25.4

a celebration, basically, that the city of Boulder, which had passed a law saying, no, you

0:31.7

can't have assault weapons in our city, that got struck down because there's a state

0:36.2

law that says you can have anything you want.

0:38.1

And so a federal judge says, sorry, preemption, all that kind of stuff, it's amazing.

0:43.0

So the piece that I published over at HarbinReport.com was about the background of the Second Amendment.

0:48.4

It was not so that everybody can, any paranoid gets a friend of who wants and it appears

0:53.6

that that's what the shooter was, 21 years old, telling his sister and brother that people

0:59.0

were constantly following him and, you know, they're eating a meal and they would look

1:02.8

at their watching me.

1:05.0

This is a clinical mental illness.

1:07.9

What is a mentally ill person doing with a weapon of war?

1:11.4

For that matter, what is anybody in America doing with a weapon of war carrying them around

1:15.8

on our streets?

1:18.9

Is it time to end the Second Amendment or is it time to at least overturn Heller?

1:23.4

Although even with a Heller decision, you can have rules or laws or policy, depending

1:30.0

on, I guess, laws would be the word, let's say no.

1:32.9

You can't have these weapons of mass destruction.

1:35.4

These are weapons of war they belong on the battlefield and we want to have as few battlefields

1:41.3

as possible.

1:42.3

I think there's a consensus about that.

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