We've already banned fully-automatic weapons, shoulder-fired missiles & sawed-off shotguns, only used to kill humans -- it's not a stretch ban Rittenhouse's AR15 & Russian AK47s to save American lives.

Expect the gun control debate in America to really get hot over the next 12 months as Beto O'Rourke runs for governor of Texas. O'Rourke said, when running for president in 2019, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!"

And it's entirely time for this debate. America has just a bit more than 4 percent of the world's population, but, with more guns than people in our country, we have more than 40 percent of all the guns in civilian hands in the world.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Joe Madison is on Day 16 of Hunger Strike - Will He survive?
- Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, Host-The Joe Madison Show (weekdays 6-10am on SiriusXM ch. 126 Urban View) @MadisonSiriusXM

Article: "Acclaimed Talk Show Host and Human Rights Activist, Joe Madison, "Starving for Voting Rights"" by Joe Madison.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "House Democrats pass Biden's expansive Build Back Better policy plan" by Lauren Gambino and David Smith.

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Article: "Wisconsin election violations: Racine County sheriff recommends charges" by FOX6 News.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "CNN's 'feel-good' stories are seriously starting to piss me off" by SemDem.

Article: "Why Is the GOP Making America's Job of Creating a Less Deadly Society More Difficult?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What other countries show us about America's gun violence epidemic" by Meredith Deliso.

Article: "American Public Opinion and Gun Violence" by Frank Newport.

Article: "Gun Ownership by Country 2021" by World Population Review.

Article: "Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010" by Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway.

Article: "O'Rourke stands by his 'we're gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47' comment" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Estimating Global Civilian-held Firearms Numbers" by Aaron Karp.

Article: "Social Security COLA: Seniors Will Receive the Highest Increase in Decades, But It's No Match For 6.2% Inflation Surge" by Vance Cariaga.

Article: "Jury begins deliberations in trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery" by Mike Hayes, Adrienne Vogt, Melissa Mahtani and Melissa Macaya.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict: Teenager's victory lap set to further divide US as he gives Fox News interview" by Daniel Bates.

Article: "Trump sexual assault allegations: How many women have accused the president?" by Clark Mindock.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response" by Long Chi Nguyen et al.

Article: "As nationwide audience turns to Rittenhouse trial, Judge Schroeder's peculiar behavior stands out" by Elliot Hughes, Bill Glauber, Sarah Volpenhein.

Article: "Trump pushes for ban on gun 'bump stocks'" by BBC.

Article: "2017 Las Vegas shooting" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Mary L. Trump
- Dr. Mary L. Trump, Ph.D from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and has taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology / Recently launched, Substack Newsletter, The Good In Us / Author of the new book, The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding A Way to Heal / Previous book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Article: "Former President Trump will 'probably' announce his 2024 plans soon. Here's when" by Herb Scribner.

Article: "'Plain and simple grift': Trump has raised $170m since election day" by James Crump.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Only two House Republicans vote for the January 6 select committee" by Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran.

Article: "Madison Cawthorn Gloats About Rittenhouse Verdict, Urges: 'Be Armed, Be Dangerous'" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Unthinkable Voter Suppression Has Begun: Now There's a Way to Defeat It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "QAnon Rep. Sparks Backlash After Calling for 'Price of Blood' to 'Restore America'" by Evan Brechtel.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Right-Wingers Turn on Glenn Youngkin Over His LGBTQ Staffer and Vaccine Rules" by Zachary Petrizzo.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Francisco Franco" (Spain) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.

Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

Article: "Are Rats Born Racist?" by Bianca Lorenz.

Article: "Desegregation busing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Schools Are More Segregated Now Than They Were In 1968, And The Supreme Court Doesn't Care" by Ian Millhiser.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "5 Dead, 40 Injured in Waukesha, Thanks to the Left" by Robert Spencer.

Article: "The Waukesha slaughter and plague of black racism" by Scott Lively.

Article: "Meet the Progressive DA Behind the Waukesha Bail Catastrophe" by Kevin Daley and Chuck Ross.

Article: "The Persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse" by Matthew Boose.

Article: "Tucker Carlson's interview with Kyle Rittenhouse is fascinating" by Andrea Widburg.

Article: "Censoring the Pilgrims" by WSJ.

Article: "Atlas: I Watched The Nation's 'Top Scientists' Lie About COVID And Get Away With It" by Scott Atlas.

Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Article: "Bryan Stevenson says 'slavery didn't end in 1865, it just evolved'" by Emma Seslowsky.

Article: "Robert E. Lee" by Wikipedia.

Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Hour Three: Build Back Better & Defense Spending Bill
- Senator Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator (I-VT) / 2 time U.S. Presidential Candidate / Chair of the Senate Budget Committee

Article: "Infrastructure bill passes in House, now awaiting Senate review" by CBS News.

Article: "House Democrats pass Biden's expansive Build Back Better policy plan" by Lauren Gambino and David Smith.

Article: "Here's what's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill" by Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System" by Lee Lacy.

Article: "Infrastructure Spending Trends" by Curtis Arndt.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Congresswoman Offers Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana" by Kaia Hubbard.

Article: "War on Drugs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hunting laws allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to carry weapon during fatal shootings in Wisconsin, lawyers say" by Antonio Planas & AP.

Article: "Hunting Regulations And Hours" by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Article: "Family of man Kyle Rittenhouse killed calls for 'forcefully rejecting' not guilty verdict" by Isabel Keane.

Article: "The GOP Now Stands For Trolls, Vigilantes & Death" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Did Woodrow Wilson state that the film The Birth of Nation was "like writing history with lightning'" by Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes.

Article: "What Happened Was... A lightning fast recap of the week's biggest events for November 15th - 21st, 2021" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "European thinktank adds U.S. to list of "backsliding" democracies for 1st time" by AFP.

Article: "US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns" by Nyshka Chandran.

Article: "Rittenhouse verdict celebrated on right-wing social media as green light for killing protesters" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Rittenhouse makes mockery of justice system. Then, Proud Boys make mockery of NYPD" by Lauren Floyd.

Article: "Fueled by Trump-inspired grievance, attempts to terrorize public officials escalate" by Henry J. Gomez.

Article: "Revenge Of The Virgins: Inside the twisted underworld of 'incels' who embark on murderous rampages because they're always rejected by women" by Mark Hodge.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Book: Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David S. Lifton.

Article: "JFK Through the Looking Glass Streaming: How to Watch Online" by Andrea Reiher.

Article: "John F. Kennedy autopsy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia

Case: "United States v. Cruikshank" (1876. 1st & 2nd Amendment apply only to the federal government).

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "Texas passes law banning abortion after six weeks" by BBC.

Article: "Hamburg massacre" (1876) by Wikipedia.

Case: "McDonald v. City of Chicago" (2010. Right to keep & bear arms for self defense in one's home).

Article: "The Department of Defense Releases the President's Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Budget" by DoD.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

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

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

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi.

Book: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.

Article: "Stochastic terrorism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James Madison High School (Brooklyn)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "InfraGard" by Wikipedia.

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