People are asking why the shooter in Virginia Beach used a gun to settle his workplace score. The answer is probably pretty simple.

When a man has a gun, he literally holds the power of life and death in his hand. That kind of power is extraordinarily seductive.

With a gun in his hand, a man can look around a room, a building, or a public area and specifically identify who will instantaneously die and whom he will allow to live. It's a power that traditionally has only been held by doctors, priests, police and soldiers.

The power over life and death is greater and more intoxicating than any other power; it's one of the reasons why some men are specifically drawn to these professions and historically have tried to regulate them to be male-only.

Read more here.

-Thom

The day after the Virginia beach shooting, the largest mass shooting this year, a spokeswoman for the NRA publicly argued that they had no role in the shooting. The fact is, though, the shooter had been buying a lot of guns recently to prepare for this shooting, and the NRA opposed legislation currently going through the Virginia legislature that would've limited gun purchases to one gun a month to prevent just this kind of scenario.

Eventually America figured out that the tobacco industry have been gaslighting them for decades; the American people are figuring out now that the NRA is and has been doing the same. It's time for rational regulations on guns.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Massive Google Outage Turned Smart Homes Into Zombies" by Kelly Weill.

Article: "The Google Outage Highlights the Perils of a Centralized Internet" by Karl Bode.

Article: "Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?" by Tyler Durden.

Tweet: "The notification gateway to advise Google that cloud is down, is also on the cloud... and is down." by zerohedge.

Tweet: "In Trump's and Barr's America, it looks like the Executive Branch has finally claimed it can defy not only the Legislative Branch but the Judicial Branch as well. Isn't that called a dictatorship? Please tell me what I'm missing here. @JRubinBlogger" by Laurence Tribe.

Tweet: "Authoritarianism nakedly comes to America. Next will be military parades and "dear leader" speeches on the 4th of July & the persecution of "political enemies" the same way he took down the main counter-intelligence people at the FBI who specialized in Euro/Russ organized crime." by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "March 4, 1801 VT congressman Matthew Lyon." by Spit'n Lyon.

Letter: "To John Adams from Matthew Lyon, 4 March 1801" by Matthew Lyon.

Law: "Alien and Sedition Acts", 1798.

Article: "Representative Roger Griswold of Connecticut Attacked Matthew Lyon of Vermont on the House Floor February 15, 1798".

Article: "Matthew Lyon" by Caryn E. Neumann.

Article: "Seth Abramson Connects the Dots" by MindMatter.

Tweet: "(THREAD) BREAKING: The NYT just published the biggest political news since the Mueller Report was published: we now know at least 3 of the federal probes still ongoing post-Mueller-and all involve election interference. I hope you will RETWEET and read on. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/middleeast/crown-prince-mohammed-bin-zayed.html" by Seth Abramson.

Article: "The Most Powerful Arab Ruler Isn't M.B.S. It's M.B.Z." by David D. Kirkpatrick.

Article: "Ransomware: Who's to Blame or Not to Blame in Baltimore Attack?" by Dan Lohrmann.

Article: "National Emergencies Act", 1976 by Wikipedia.

Event: Thu, Jun 6: NEW YORK, NY 7:30pm - The Strand (2nd floor), 828 Broadway. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour.

Event: Mon, Jun 10: WASHINGTON, DC 6:30pm - Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour.

Event: Wed, Jun 12: PORTLAND, OR 7:30pm - Powell's, 1005 W Burnside St. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour.

Article: "William Barr's New Authority to Declassify Anything He Wants Is a Threat to National Security" by Joshua A. Geltzer, Mary B. McCord.

Article: "Andrew McCabe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A top FBI investigator has unexpectedly stepped away from special counsel Mueller's Russia probe" by Natasha Bertrand.

Article: "Peter Strzok" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump admits 'this Russia thing' part of reasoning for firing Comey" by David Smith, Julian Borger and Lauren Gambino.

Article: "Bill Barr has ties to ultra-conservative Opus Dei - and that could explain his 'ends justify the means' corruption" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "House Judiciary Schedules June 11 Hearing Starring Watergate Witness John Dean" by Susan Jones.

Article: "Carter Page exonerated by Mueller report" by Rowan Scarborough.

Article: "Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ex-Australian Diplomat Explains Why He Turned Papadapoulos Info over to FBI" by Jack Crowe.

Article: "Reality Winner" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Guns and Healthcare...Which One is a Right and Which One is a Privilege? Thom vs. Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times
- Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How guns literally go to men's heads" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'NHS not for sale!': Trump provokes UK anger after saying health service 'on the table' post-Brexit".

Article: "Trump's interest in pardoning troops accused of war crimes, explained" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Amendment XXII: Two-term Limit On Presidency" by F.H. Buckley and Gillian Metzger.

Article: "Mike Pompeo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John R. Bolton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump is here to help carve up the NHS in a post-Brexit trade deal - that's the real story behind his visit" by James Moore.

Tweet: "Theresa May stood next to @realDonaldTrump as he said the NHS will be "on the table" in a US trade deal. And that's what Tory leadership contenders and Farage are lining up for the No Deal disaster capitalism plans they have. They all need to understand: our NHS is not for sale." by Jeremy Corbyn.

Tweet: "I've been proud to work in the NHS for more than 20 years.
Donald Trump has today confirmed the cost of a post-Brexit trade deal.
I'll always fight to make sure that our NHS can't be sold off to predator US healthcare companies.
Who's with me?
@peoplesvote_uk @LabourHealth" by Dr Paul Williams MP.

Article: "Mnuchin defies House Democrats' subpoenas for Trump's tax returns" by Lauren Fox.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Mayo Clinic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Infant mortality" by WHO.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Luke Vargas, "The World in 2:00" with Luke Vargas

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Trump admin imposes new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships" by Patrick Oppmann and Maegan Vazquez.

Article: "Can Americans Travel To Cuba? Trump Administration Prohibits Cruise Ship Visits Among New Restrictions" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for 'middle ground' climate policy" by Valerie Volcovici.

Article: "Joe Biden's climate plan targets net-zero emissions by 2050" by Eric Bradner and Arlette Saenz.

Hour Three: The Latest on Money In Politics
- Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Move To Amend

Petition: "Motion to Amend ~ Sign the Petition".

Article: "Pramila Jayapal is Our New Champion in the US House!" by Move to Amend.

Event: DC, June 21 - June 24: "Move to Amend 2019 National Leadership Summit".

Bill: "H.J.Res.48 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only." by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: " - Taxpayer Protection Pledge" by Grover Norquist.

Article: "Pledge To Amend 2019" by Move to Amend.

Article: "National Health Service (England)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Only in America: Bankruptcy Due to Health Care Costs" by James E. Dalen.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "William McGuire" by Claire Suddath.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann

Videos: "Robert De Niro - Robert Mueller Sketches".

Article: "Labor leader wins election to become new California Democratic Party chair" by Hannah Wiley and Sophia Bollag.

Article: "Trump's children make play for royal treatment" by Kate Bennett and Betsy Klein.

Article: "Horace Mann" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Know Nothing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Hope was born in Parkland': Eric Swalwell joins 2020 race with focus on gun control" by Lois Beckett.

Article: "Comparing America to Israel on gun laws is dishonest - and revealing" by Haviv Rettig Gur.

Article: "Flint water crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York's attorney general" by Cristina Alesci.

Article: "NY's attorney general is one of the most powerful in the nation. That should worry Trump." by Allan Smith.

Article: "NY prosecutors want Paul Manafort sent to Rikers Island" by Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz and Kara Scannell.

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