Here's my favorite rant for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Arpen.com.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Two simple changes to U.S. law.

Both things based in other laws that we already know and like

could solve most of America's gun violence problem.

This guy Tom Hartman over on alternate today.

It just went up at the very top of the page.

Hang on just a second here. Sorry, my microphone fell. And we're getting it, we're getting it, there we go.

Okay. Two simple changes to U.S. law, both based and other laws. Number one, treat all semi-automatic weapons in a similar

way under the same laws as fully automatic weapons. See, back in the 30s, Tommy guns are a big problem.

In the late 20s early 1930s we had prohibition

alcohol was illegal thus all these alcohol gangs you know sort of like drug

gangs emerged a predictable consequence of prohibition, although that's a whole completely

separate conversation. But the alcohol gangs, the Al Capone groups and whatnot, They used the state of the art at civilian killing weapons

technology which at that time was the Thompson machine gun and you know other types of automatic

fire weapons fully automatic weapons we said we the nation collectively

in 1934 with the passage of the Uniform Gun Control

Act or the National Gun Control Act. We said no, we don't want automatic

weapons on our streets anymore and we banned them and are, actually we didn't ban them. What we did is we said,

you have to prove that you actually have a need and a use for this. And then you have to pass a fairly

exhaustive background check. You have to submit a fairly exhausted background check,

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