In this episode of Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp breaks down the first 2016 Presidential Debate. He covers the crucial issues that were absurdly missing from the debate; issues that are, in fact, the most pressing for our nation and the world. Also, correspondent John F. O’Donnell infiltrates the presidential debate like a troll-god. He messes with the heads of some of the most powerful American politicians alive, and they have no freakin’ idea.Then Lee Camp gives updates on both the lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee for rigging the primary election against Bernie Sanders, and the militaristic measures taken against the Dakota Access Pipeline clean-water defenders. Finally, Correspondent Naomi Karavani reveals the intensifying “War on Cash.”
Gun suicides (nearly 19,000 a year in the U.S.) outnumber gun murders (more than 11,000), and a gun in the home
increases the risk that someone in the home will commit suicide. The
reason is that suicide attempts with pills or razors often fail; with
guns, they succeed. When Israel moved to have many soldiers store guns
on base rather than at home, its military suicide rates plunged.
A Florida man defended his decision to shoot an impatient pizza customer over the weekend, citing the state’s infamous “Stand Your Ground” law.
Michael Jock, a 52-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, was standing
in line behind 49-year-old Randall White at a local Little Caesars on
Sunday when Jock grew angry over White’s complaints about the speed of
service. The two began to shove one another, prompting Jock to pull out a
.38 Taurus Ultralight Special Revolver that had been concealed on his
person and fire twice, hitting White both times in the lower torso.
Only two weeks ago, on December 4th, 11 people were shot in one night in Chicago,
but that news barely jiggled the wires, because at the time everyone
was encompassing the murder-suicide perpetrated by NFL player Jovan
Belcher, who shot his girlfriend to death in front of her mother before
killing himself in front of his coaches in a parking lot. At the time,
everyone said it was terrible, something that really makes you think,
and Bob Costas went so far as to lament the deadly nature of America's
gun culture during the national broadcast of a football game. He was
roundly attacked for speaking out of turn, for "not having all the
facts," and for generally intruding upon everyone's enjoyment of the
game.
Between 2003 and 2010, 247,131 Americans died of gunshot wounds. Since 1982, there have been more than 60 mass shootings in America.
In almost every case, the weapons used were obtained legally. The
number of households with guns has been declining, with a few upticks
here and there, since 1990, and yet gun sales went through the roof in
the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, which means more people aren't
buying guns, but the people who buy guns are buying more of them.
The gun business in America is booming, despite the decline in households that own guns. As the Washington Postglibly noted this week,
"The U.S. gun industry has been one of the brightest spots in the U.S.
economy in recent years, even through the recent downturn. This year, it
racked up $11.7 billion in sales and $992 million in profits, according
to the research firm IBISWorld." Almost 17 million people applied for a background check to purchase a gun in 2012. More than 156 million people have applied since 1998.
Now that every state but Illinois has CCW and 17 million people are applying to purchase guns, is it too late to let everyone know that carrying a gun does not keep you safer?
As you are watching the national train wreck that is Mitt Romney, and closer to home the two way battle between long past his prime Washington DC insider Tommy Thompson and Washington DC resident and inherited millionaire Eric Hovde? As you do, keep this in mind!
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." Dorothy Parker
On that same topic, here is our friend Lee Camp's thoughts:
Comedian Lee Camp gives us his take on what happened in Wisconsin during the recall elections(PS definitely an R rated version, not suitable for work or kids)
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