OA599: Our Massive Gun Problem – What Can We Do?
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Another horrific mass shooting has us all asking WTF can we actually do about this? There is plenty of reason for pessimism, but Opening Arguments is here to break down what might realistically be done. This is part 1, focusing on why gun companies are immune from civil actions and what we should do about that. Part 2 will be about the police response.
In the first segment, we give an update on Elon Musk. There was a filing that went virtually unnoticed but sheds more light on the Twitter situation.
Links: Musk SEC filing, letter to himself, 15 US Code § 7902, Definition: qualified civil liability action from 15 USC § 7903, Database Amasses Details of a Half Century of US Mass Shootings
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
| 0:49.6 | I know my rights. No, you don't! That's the problem. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.9 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.9 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.3 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 599. |
| 1:22.1 | One away from the big 6.00. I'm Thomas. That's Andrew. How you doing? |
| 1:27.3 | I'm fantastic Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:29.3 | Well, the news has not been great. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm fantastic about doing the show. |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah, true. Me too. Especially 600. It's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:36.5 | We have some fun stuff planned for episode 600. |
| 1:40.1 | We also have some very not fun stuff in terms of the news. |
| 1:43.8 | I am mentally incapable of covering the shooting in any detail. I just can't even look at it. |
| 1:48.8 | I can't handle it. But fortunately, that's not really what our show does anyway. |
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