THE STRUGGLE FOR GUN CONTROL
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
America must prepare For a decades-long war over guns. Right now we’re at the point where advocates for gay marriage were in the 1990s when changing the law seemed impossible. How have recent events moved the needle?
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| 0:46.9 | So my op-ed today over HartmanReport.com is titled Why America Must Prepare for Decades Long War |
| 0:53.2 | over Gun Control. |
| 0:55.2 | What got me started to think it on this was I was reading a piece, one of these guys who |
| 0:59.7 | can also democratic campaigns. |
| 1:01.8 | And he was saying that people like me and elected officials, people like Congress and |
| 1:07.1 | Polkan should not be using the phrase gun control because that just triggers the people |
| 1:11.1 | on the right. We should instead be talking about gun safety because everybody loves safety. |
| 1:15.3 | Control, that's not such a happy word. |
| 1:17.5 | I call BS. |
| 1:21.3 | We absolutely need to control guns. |
| 1:23.3 | Guns are, there are two products that are sold in America today that when used as directed |
| 1:29.2 | cause death, cigarettes and guns. |
| 1:33.9 | And we need to control them both. |
| 1:36.4 | Now, products have what you can call a life cycle or a product cycle |
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