The cost of enough guns to arm every adult in a school is about the same as the cost of hiring just one teacher. And those guns will work for year after year, and never ask for pesky things like healthcare or pensions. So, let's all work together to put a gun into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. After all - What could possibly go wrong?

Thom talks with journalist Max Blumenthal on what the mainstream media missed covering the Christopher Dorner story. Also discussed: the largest climate rally in US history, the latest from the GOP election rigging campaign and why cruise workers have always been treated unfairly. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the massive protest in Spain over talks of privatizing their country's health care system.

Nobody should have to wait in line for hours to vote in an election. But because of the Republican voter fraud witchhunt - that's become reality in America. And the talking heads at Fox So-Called News think that's just fine.

Horace Cooper, Conservative commentator & Karl Frisch, Democratic Strategist & Patrick Howley, The Daily Caller all join Thom Hartmann.

Horace Cooper, Conservative commentator & Karl Frisch, Democratic Strategist & Patrick Howley, The Daily Caller all join Thom Hartmann.

Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne, co-authors, Rethinking Money join Thom Hartmann. During the past four decades - there have been around 10 countries experiencing some kind of financial or monetary crisis each year. Could turning to alternative currencies help relieve some of the burden that nations are facing today - and improve the global economic outlook?

Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne, co-authors, Rethinking Money join Thom Hartmann. During the past four decades - there have been around 10 countries experiencing some kind of financial or monetary crisis each year. Could turning to alternative currencies help relieve some of the burden that nations are facing today - and improve the global economic outlook?

Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Elizabeth Warren's rocking Senatorial debut, whether the US is equipped to handle a legitimate meteor threat and Colorado's efforts for universal background checks. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with authors Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne on whether alternative currencies may help our world's economies. And in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains how 102-year-old Desiline Victor is a symbol of our country's democratic failures.

Wiping out private debt would unleash enormous spending in our economy in ways we haven't seen since the boom years of the 1950's and 1960's. The only reason it's not seriously being considered by our lawmakers today is because a debt jubilee would diminish the profits of the banksters who thrive - and prey - on an indebted nation. But, in the not-to-distant future, as our economy continues to collapse under the weight of tens of trillions of dollars in private sector debt, our nation will be faced with an ultimate choice: Strike Debt or watch our economy completely collapse in a way that will make 1929 look like a picnic. Let's make the right choice now!

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Actor/Activist Mike Farrell joins Thom Hartmann. Next week - Georgia will likely execute an intellectually disabled man - even though the US Supreme Court has declared executing the mentally challenged illegal. Isn't it time we did away with the death penalty - so that horrendous situations like the one in Georgia can be avoided?

Austin Petersen, FreedomWorks joins Thom Hartmann. What is it that Conservatives don't understand when it comes to the rules of Capitalism - and don't Americans struggling to survive deserve to make wages they can live off of?

Attorney Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio, joins Thom Hartmann. Yesterday - the president of the NRA published an op-ed - painting America out to be the most dangerous place in the world - where crime and danger lurk around every corner - and where guns are our only savior. Is defeating all gun control measures by scaring the hell out of America the NRA's new strategy? All of LaPierre's arguments in the op-ed hinge on the apocalypse arriving soon...

Thom talks with Attorney and Radio Host Mike Papantonio about Wayne LaPierre's raving and reckless op-ed, debates Libertarian Austin Petersen on raising the minimum wage and takes viewer phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live." In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details how we should be far more concerned about our private debt than our public debt.