This is the Tom Hartman program.

Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Well, I was going to start going off on the Walmart shooter,

who it turns out the Walmart shooter of last week was yeah that guy walked into a Walmart and shot

it up and he had been living with a bunch of Bibles and no furniture but now we've got another guy. We got 26 people dead and you know

down in southern Texas. This is this is the we have now reached the point where more people have

died in mass shootings in one year in 2017 than in any other year a trend that began back in the 1980s and has just

burst through that is showing the world the fundamental mental illness

associated with an industry, in this case the weapons industry owning an entire

political party so that people can buy you know weapons that have nothing to do with sports shooting

have nothing to do with hunting have nothing to do with tradition or taking your kids out in the woods or any of that, you know,

assault weapons. This is crazy.

Chris Murphy spoke out this morning.

Actually, that was yesterday afternoon.

He said, the paralysis you feel right now,

the impotent helplessness, the washes over you

as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the

television screen isn't real. It's a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the

gun lobby designed to assure that no laws are

passed to make America safer because those laws would cut into their profits.

As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, the Senator Chris Murphy said, they need to think

...