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Not only does the gun lobby have no shame...
Following the Sandy Hook massacre of twenty first graders with an assault rifle, but the gun lobby is now threatening violent revolution. Appearing on MSNBC on Monday, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt, argued that the right to bear arms is necessary to make our democratic government cower in fear of gun owners. Pratt said, “We have guns fundamentally protected by the Second Amendment to control the government.” He went on to say that he thinks it “bothers lawmakers” that armed Americans can attack them with assault weapons, a position Gabby Giffords probably agrees with.
This is the position the gun lobby is taking in response to the deafening calls around the nation for new gun safety laws, which would prohibit the sale of the very assault weapons and high capacity ammo clips that are routinely used in these deadly massacres. It’s a “pry my gun from my cold dead hands,” approach, which could have tragic consequences - stirring up secessionist crazies around the nation.
Our nation is again dealing with a tragedy that happens all too often, yet the corporate gun lobby, focused more on profits than on safety, is helping set up more and more mass shootings in the future. We know how to respond to danger here in America. One shoe bomber, and we all take off our shoes at the airport. One threat of binary liquids and we can't carry liquids on airplanes. One underwear bomber, and we put in billions of dollars in porno x-ray scanners and grope granny. There are more than twenty mass shootings every year in America and over a hundred people are shot every day...but we can't do something about guns?
It's time to start pushing hard for laws that say that unless you can prove you NEED a gun, you can't have one. And if you do have one, you have to prove proficiency and the gun - and you - must be licensed. To hell with the blood-soaked gun lobby and their toadies Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns...- Mark Glaze, Mayors Against Illegal Guns 
Screwed: Fiscal Cliff - are the middle class & seniors being thrown under the bus?- Richard Fowler, Progressive Strategist & Host of the Richard Fowler Show - Christopher Bedford, The Daily Caller
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Shift Change...how to create a democratic workplace- Melissa Young, Co-Producer, "Shift Change" - Mark Dworkin, Co-Producer, "Shift Change"
Don Siegelman...America's political prisoner- Dana Siegelman, Daughter of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman
Daily Take: The NRA has more blood on their hands than Al-Qaeda...when will America wake up?
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim… we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hour One: Israel & Switzerland...not gun-toting utopias- Janet Rosenbaum, Ph.D., State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Media's rush to judgement on cause of Newtown tragedy- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com
Hour Three: Obama's defining moment...
Speech: " Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns...
Hour Two: The NRA has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda...when will America wake up?
Hour Three: Why are we doing nothing to ban violent video games?- Rene Sandler, Attorney
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