WHO ELECTED THESE GUN NUTS?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Why are conservatives backing the gun nuts to the hilt? Florida's Ron DeSantis wants to put together a military force that answers only to Florida's governor. What could go wrong?
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| 0:46.4 | Laundice Santos, it turns out, is recruiting for his own Florida army. |
| 0:54.1 | What could possibly go wrong? |
| 0:57.6 | Florida is not unique in this. There are a couple of other states that did this back in the 1940s, |
| 1:02.5 | which is where the National Guard of the whole bunch of states, Florida included, |
| 1:08.5 | ended up being shipped over to Europe to fight the Nazis. |
| 1:12.3 | And in some states where the National Guard did more than just be the backup for the military |
| 1:19.1 | in case we got in a World War, states like Florida, the regular that have hurricanes and natural |
| 1:24.5 | disasters, the National Guard was sort of a disaster relief agency. |
| 1:29.0 | And when that National Guard in Florida went off to Europe, the Florida legislature got together |
| 1:34.5 | and started an organization that they called the Florida State Guard, the FSG or FLSG. |
| 1:43.2 | And this was basically to deal with hurricanes and natural disasters that happened in that period |
| 1:51.5 | from 1941 to 1945. And then it was dissolved in 1945 or 1946 after the end of World War II because |
| 2:00.2 | it was no longer needed. But the law is still on the books authorizing. |
| 2:05.0 | And so Rhonda Santos is now running ads saying he's looking for people who have a military |
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