Radiolab/More Perfect: Gun Show

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Via Radiolab:

For nearly 200 years of our nation's history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers and a recently-repositioned NRA — that insisted owning a firearm was the right of each and every American. So began a constitutional debate that only the Supreme Court could solve. That didn't happen until 2008, when a Washington, D.C. security guard named Dick Heller made a compelling case.

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Coincidentally I just listened to this episode this morning before the shooting happened. It's disheartening how a few people who had a fear not based in reality (that the government would take away their guns) forced a supreme court case in 2008 that brought us to the America of today.

 

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I love Radiolab and More Perfect

I'll give this one a listen

 

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I love Radiolab and More Perfect

I'll give this one a listen

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I'm still a few episodes behind. I have way too many podcasts in my backlog.