We've been at this point over and over again in America: will this be the one that punches through the wall of money the NRA and the weapons industry it fronts for wraps around Republicans?

President Biden is right. "For God's sake" and our children's sake, we must do something about gun violence in America. And we must do it now.

Back in 1996, after a few years of mass shootings, Australia experienced a mass slaughter on a scale like we saw yesterday in Texas. Their Supreme Court hadn't ruled that Australian politicians could be owned by industries, so they passed extensive gun control and a nationwide gun buyback program. It was a turning point, and the mass shootings have since largely stopped.

Over at Daily Kos, Walter Einenkel has summarized how many millions of dollars the top Republicans in Congress have taken from the weapons industry: it's a grim toll, starting with Mitt Romney taking over $13 million and Richard Burr over $6 million.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Will This Finally Be the Time Republicans Turn Against the NRA's Money? " by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "March For Our Lives".

Article: "Protection or peril? An analysis of firearm-related deaths in the home" by A L Kellermann, D T Reay.

Tweet: "Koskoff says this is how it was marketed to young men, a campaign called "the Man Card" which allowed people to report their friends to Bushmaster for not being a man. @News12CT" by Marissa Alter.

Tweet: "Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was criticized for posting a Christmas photo Saturday showing his family members all holding long guns. The Twitter post was accompanied by the caption, 'Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.'" by NowThis.

Article: "Gun Ownership by Country 2022" by World Population Review.

Article: "Port Arthur Massacre" by Britannica.

Article: "Here's a reminder of the GOP senators taking the most NRA money to turn a blind eye to dead children" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Crossing Lines — A Change in the Leading Cause of Death among U.S. Children" by Lois K. Lee, Katherine Douglas, David Hemenway.

Article: "NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals" by Tim Mak.

Article: "Guns in the U.S. – 2021 Second-Highest Year for Gun Sales Since 2000" by SafeHome.org Research.

Article: "Gun safety activists decry inaction as US shootings surge" by AP.

Article: "Fox News Floats 'Man Traps,' 'Ballistic Blankets' to Stop School Shootings" by William Vaillancourt.

Article: "Police trying to piece together Texas school shooting as nation mourns 19 children, 2 educators" by Clyde Hughes.

Article: "Biden On Texas School Shooting: 'Why Are We Willing To Live With This Carnage?'" by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman.

Article: "Dickey Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ghost gun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden announces rule making 'ghost guns' illegal as part of comprehensive gun crime strategy" by Brooke Singman.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gun, ammo stocks rise after Texas school shooting" by Thomas Barrabi.

Article: "Video of Australian mass shooting aftermath leaked" by AP.

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia

Article: "Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" (Parkland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mass Shootings/Lucid Q&A May 27" by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Article: "As nation reels from Uvalde massacre, Supreme Court is expected to expand gun rights" by Jon Ward.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 18, 1787" by James Madison.

Book: "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.

Article: "University of Texas tower shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Whitman" by Wikipedia.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Howard Unruh" by Wikipedia.

Law: "National Firearms Act".

Article: "NRA Proven Wrong As Good Guy With A Gun Could Not Stop Robb Elementary Shooter" by Sarah Jones.

Article: "GOP's Ronny Jackson defends guns while blaming Texas shooting on rap music, video games and internet " by David Edwards.

Hour Two: What Is the Economic Cost of Guns In Our Society?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "America's gun culture - in seven charts" by BBC.

Article: "Sandy Hook Proved The Need To Enhance K-12 Security. Congress Armed Ukraine Instead." by Tristan Justice.

Article: "Biden's appalling response to the tragedy in Texas" by Andrea Widburg.

Article: "Biden Turns Texas Horror Into a Partisan Screed Full of Bad Jokes " by Katie Pavlich.

Article: "Laura Ingraham Agrees With Guest Who Puts Onus on Parents of Murdered Schoolchildren: 'It's Your Responsibility'" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warriors' Steve Kerr gives impassioned plea to lawmakers after Texas elementary school shooting" by AP.

Article: "Gun laws in Washington" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Columbine Students Are Asking: Will Sharing Photos of the Dead Change Our History of Violence?" by Fred Ritchin.

Article: "Columbine High School massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Two Wounded in Shooting At Redondo Beach Pier; Suspected Gunman Killed By Police" by CBS Los Angeles.

Article: "'I'm tired of the moments of silence,' says Warriors coach Steve Kerr as he makes powerful plea against gun violence" by CNN.

Article: "Indiana's 'red flag' law should have prevented the FedEx shooting. Here's what else you should know about these laws" by Leah Asmelash.

Article: "Several Colorado sheriffs say they won't enforce red flag gun law" by CBS News.

Article: "Biden to visit Texas after school massacre, chides Congress on guns: Where's the courage?" by Todd J. Gillman.

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

Article: "Here's a reminder of the GOP senators taking the most NRA money to turn a blind eye to dead children" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Which Senators Have Taken the Most NRA Money?" by The Brady Campaign.

Article: "President Lyndon Johnson's Economic Policies" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

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

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to shun Bayer weedkiller appeal" by Reuters.

Video: 'You are doing nothing!': Beto O'Rourke confronts Gov. Greg Abbott at Uvalde shooting presser.

Article: "Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas Gov. Abbott's press conference: "You're offering us nothing"" by Jacob Knutson.

Article: "Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "I Don't Like Mondays" by Wikipedia.

Article: "San Ysidro McDonald's massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London in association with The Equality Trust.

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Book: The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Well-Being by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Book: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen.

Documentary: Fahrenheit 11/9.

Article: "Man Shoots 11, Killing 5 Girls, in Amish School" by David Kocieniewski and Gary Gately.

Article: "Let's take a closer look at Trump's supposedly intimidating 74 million vote total" by Matt Bai.

Article: "Trump's Mixed Record on Gun Control" by Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore and Eugene Kiely.

Article: "Most voters say it's 'important' lawmakers pass gun control measures: post-Buffalo poll " by Mark Moore.

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