Right now with guns we're at the point where advocates for gay marriage were in the 1990s when it seemed impossible...

Democrats are gearing up for quick policy battles in the House and Senate over "gun safety." They should also be preparing for a decades-long war over "gun control."

In 1977, Harlan Carter and a group of his friends staged a coup within the senior ranks of the NRA, flipping it from a gun-safety-oriented sportsman's club into a "no compromise" (Carter's phrase) lobbying and PR group for the gun industry.

Carter was the perfect man for the job of filling America with guns, championing the slaughter of schoolchildren, and amping us up to around 45,000 gun deaths a year — more than any other nation on Earth — as he had shot and killed a 15-year-old Hispanic boy, Ramón Casiano, when Carter was himself only 17 years old.

He loved guns and sure knew what they could do in the hands of a pissed-off white boy.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "House Democrats look to pass gun control legislation by early June" by Thomas Franck.

Article: "Progressives defy GOP, close in on a wealth tax to fund education in a state Trump won by 30 points." by Blue Tuesday.

Article: "Florida votes to raise state's minimum wage to $15 an hour" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "What's in the $2.2 Trillion Social Policy and Climate Bill" by New York Times.

Quote: "When the People Lead, Leaders Will Follow" - Eisenhower.

Law: "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" (PLCAA) (Child Safety Lock Act of 2005).

Article: "Europe's Russian Oil Ban Could Mean a New World Order for Energy" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "McConnell says ‘biggest decision' was stopping Merrick Garland as leader" by Amelia.

Article: "Congressman Mondaire Jones Bill Would Add 4 More Justices To Us Supreme Court" by Dan Murphy.

Article: "OPEC" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As US oil booms, Congress lifts 40-year oil export ban" by Charlotte Raab.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gas prices are high. Oil CEOs reveal why they're not drilling more" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Bad weather forces Texas refineries to shut down, resulting in rising gas prices and frustrated drivers" by Dylan Lyons.

Article: "President Biden claimed that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits. That's mostly true." by Yacob Reyes and Amy Sherman.

Article: "Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation" by Joseph R. Biden Jr..

Article: "UK hits oil and gas companies with $6 billion windfall tax" by Anna Cooban.

Article: "Trump Virtually Cuts Off Refugees as He Unleashes a Tirade on Immigrants" by Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear.

Article: "What makes the AR-15 style rifle the weapon of choice for mass shooters?" by Scott Pelley (60 Minutes).

Article: "NRA opens gun convention in Texas days after school massacre" by Juan Lozano, Jill Colvin.

Prop: "Proposition 47: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act".

Article: "Judicial review" by Wikipedia.

Article: "High-capacity magazine ban" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Virginia Thomas" (Ginni Thomas) by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How Do Housing Bubbles Form and How Do They Pop? Was Will Rogers Right? "Buy Land - They Ain't Making It Any More?"
- 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: "Will the Housing Market Crash? (May 2022)" by Daniel Kline.

Quote: "Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff." - Will Rogers.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Southwest Florida home prices: Real estate market sees record-breaking home sales this year" by Laura Layden.

Article: "Liar Loan Definition" by Investopedia.

Article: "Wall Street's Barons are Causing Homelessness: Can We Stop Them?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Germany's biggest developer will be under pressure in Berlin" by Economist.

Article: "Why America Must Prepare For a Decades-Long War Over "Gun Control"" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "What changed in the mid-2000s to accelerate deaths from mass shootings?
The assault weapons ban expired.
We have the tools to prevent gun violence. We just need leaders with the conscience and courage to implement them. [graphic]" by Hillary Clinton.

Tweet: "Even before the school shooting in Uvalde, three out of five Americans said they wanted stronger gun laws.
We are the majority. Don't forget it. [graphic]" by .

Article: "Cigarette vending machines are now illegal; Federal rule went into effect June 22" (2010) by Dustin.

Article: "Ddt and Bald Eagles" by Act for libraries.

Article: "Newton's Pillar House Will Close in June" by Tom Larsen.

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

Article: "DDT Is Still With Us, 50 Years Since It Was Banned" by Scott W. Stern.

Article: "White Defenders" by Patrick Blanchfield.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Massachusetts' restrictive gun laws may be the answer elsewhere: Mass. Chiefs of Police leader " by Matthew Medsger .

Article: "Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Tobacco Use" by CDC.

Article: "Cigarette Vending Machines Banned" by Thuy-Doan Le.

Law: "49 U.S. Code § 41706 - Prohibitions against smoking on passenger flights".

Article: "Effectiveness of school-based smoking prevention curricula: systematic review and meta-analysis" by Roger E Thomas, Julie McLellan, and Rafael Perera.

Article: "Youths Mock Vending Ban On Cigarettes".

Article: "Tobacco Company Marketing To Kids" by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Article: "‘It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections" by Heidi Przybyla.

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida's new election police unit is the scariest voter suppression effort yet" by Fabiola Cineas.

Article: "Full List of Republican Senators Who Receive Funding From the NRA" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Says ‘White Liberal Guilt' Has ‘Hurt More People Than Nuclear Weapons' – and Candace Owens Agrees" by Michael Luciano.

Book: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.

Article: "Supreme Court blocks Texas law that banned Facebook, Twitter from moderating posts" by John Fritze and Jessica Guynn.

Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".

Article: "New Zealand collects about 56,000 guns in buyback program after Christchurch massacre" by Steve Almasy.

Article: "How Australia Restricted Guns After a 1996 Massacre" by Krishnadev Calamur.

Article: "The UK's last school shooting was in 1996. It overhauled its gun-control laws after and there hasn't been another." by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Other Countries Had Mass Shootings. Then They Changed Their Gun Laws." by Max Fisher.

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Morrison" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Stephen Morrison" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Group decision-making in animals" by L. Conradt & T. J. Roper.

Article: "The Sit-In Movement" by ushistory.org.

Article: "Milo Yiannopoulos" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Justin Trudeau 'capping the market for handguns' with plan to stop all sales: report" by Bob Brigham.

Tweet: "One Canadian killed by gun violence is one too many. That's why we've banned 1,500 types of military-style assault firearms. And that's why, today, we've introduced legislation to further strengthen gun control in Canada. Thread" by Justin Trudeau.

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