The Gun Control Debate - Free Podcast
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at |
| 0:04.0 | Tom Arban.com. |
| 0:05.0 | James and St Simon Island, Georgia. Hey James, what's on your mind today? |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, I'm a gun owner and I just decided to call and crawl into the alliance bit here and say that, you know, there are |
| 0:16.2 | 320 million plus guns in private hands in the United States. |
| 0:21.5 | The vast majority of the legal gun owners are not |
| 0:24.5 | using their guns for any crime and you know the talk of the talk of confiscation I |
| 0:32.1 | don't know where this want you want to go with this, but if you think you're going to confiscate them, how are you going to accomplish that? |
| 0:38.0 | It's just not going to happen. The bad guys are going to get the gun. They are and the vast majority of the guns out there are in |
| 0:47.0 | the hands of waffle people who never commit crimes with them. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, no you're right on that point James. Apparently you're not familiar with the experience of |
| 0:53.9 | Australia after the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. I'm aware that in Australia there |
| 0:59.0 | was a quasi confiscation program? It was not confiscation. |
| 1:03.4 | What they did, first of all, they had four or five, maybe more mass shootings. |
| 1:08.1 | And finally, the worst of them was in 1996 in Port Arthur and Tasmanian. in Tasmania and some 30 some odd people were were massacred and the Australian |
| 1:15.5 | press made the unusual step of actually showing the pictures of the dead |
| 1:18.8 | people and the entire country said oh oh my God, that's it. |
| 1:23.2 | You know, this is over. |
| 1:24.3 | And I think, frankly, America would do the same thing |
| 1:26.8 | if we saw the pictures of the kids from Newtown |
| 1:28.9 | or from Parkland. |
| 1:30.0 | And I think that those pictures should be released. |
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