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  • The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment

  • The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
  • By: Thom Hartmann
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times best-selling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby.

Taking his typically in-depth, historically-informed view, Thom Hartmann examines the brutal role guns have played in American history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are in fact the Second Amendment’s “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post-Civil War social order. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States. But Hartmann also identifies a handful of powerful, commonsense solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is the kind of brief, brilliant analysis for which Hartmann is justly renowned.
©2019 Thom Hartmann (P)2019 Thom Hartmann
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Very history light, politics heavy

Beware- This is not really a history of the second amendment, it is more a political diatribe on author s opinions on the subject. Read well though.

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