This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you.

Well, a lot of interesting stuff going on right now.

Donald Trump visiting Puerto Rico, hopefully putting that story back in the news.

I mean, people are dying.

This is a disaster and it's also an extraordinary opportunity

for us to take a Caribbean island nation and turn it into a 21st century energy

showcase. Although that would kind of go against what the Trump administration is doing right now, they're trying to actually jack up the prices that we have to pay for electricity if it's made with nuclear power with coal to subsidize the nuclear and

coal industries but that's you know kind of a whole other thing. But here we are

the Washington Post, excuse me,

this is the New York Times today,

as an editorial, it's by the editorial board.

The headline pretty much says the whole thing,

477 days 521 mass shootings zero

action from Congress going back you, basically going back a year, June of last year, 31 mass shootings, July 49 mass shootings, August 42 mass shootings,

is amazing. September 32 mass shootings. This is amazing.

September 32 mass shootings, October 31 mass shootings,

November 36 mass shootings, December 27 mass shootings.

This is in the United States, of course.

You know, Europe? No. January 31 mass shootings,

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