The NRA has been at the heart of many hurdles to pass comprehensive gun control legislation, but how can progressives defeat the NRA? Enter Igor Volsky, who has a plan to do just that - and you won't want to miss it.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Author and activist and leader of non-profit 'Guns Down, America', Igor Volsky joins Thom for a fascinating discussion of gun laws, from the history of the NRA through to modern massacre survivors. --------------- Thom reads from 'Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns' by Igor Volsky. --------------- The discussion on gun control continues and deepens with the deepest of Thom's deep thinking callers. --------------- --------------- Omar in Virginia turns the conversation from gun laws to the conservative propaganda media that maintains an environment of mistrust, fear, and outrage to maintaining things the right-wing billionaires want. --------------- Thom reads from 'State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind.' --------------- Who are the cable news pundits anyway? Is it possible to unbrainwash a Fox News cult follower? How does socialism in America grow the economy?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Tom Hartman here with you one of the book reports that we just recorded it this morning actually is |
| 0:20.3 | Igor Volsky's new book, Guns Down, |
| 0:23.1 | how to defeat the NRA and build a safer culture |
| 0:26.3 | with fewer guns. |
| 0:27.6 | And to our great pleasure and to our great benefit. |
| 0:31.2 | On the line with us is Igor Volsky himself, the executive director |
| 0:34.8 | of Guns Down America, Guns Down America.org. The book of course, Guns Down. |
| 0:40.2 | Website for that is Guns Down Book.com and of course you can tweet Igor at I-G-O-R-V-O-L-S-K-Y or at Guns Down America. |
| 0:50.1 | Igor, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:51.3 | Hey Tom, thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:55.0 | So how do we defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns? |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, well look, I think the big point here in terms of how do you defeat the NRA is really |
| 1:07.4 | on us. |
| 1:08.4 | And what I mean by that is, you know, for years, advocates of gun control, |
| 1:13.0 | politicians who support of gun control |
| 1:15.7 | really push incremental reforms that focus |
| 1:19.2 | on appealing to a magical moderate voter and talked about maybe a little bit of background checks, |
| 1:26.8 | maybe we could limit some kind of the most deadly weapons, but what's clear in the research |
| 1:32.4 | and you allude to this is that where there are more |
| 1:35.8 | guns there are more gun deaths of every kind from suicides to homicides to |
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