Jul 15, 2013
A delayed start today, but lots of input today from Greg Dworkin, Armando and Meteor Blades, once the tech kinks were ironed out! Greg tipped us off to the Brookings essay, "The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety," which we'll have to give a closer look to. But we ended up giving over most of the day to the aftermath of the George Zimmerman trial and the killing of Trayvon Martin, with Tim and Armando, and we went everywhere. The state of the legal system, the nature of these "shoot first" laws, the militarized response to even non-violent mass public reaction, and more. Toward the end of the show, we added a round up of more "nuclear option" details in advance of tomorrow's expected trigger: cloture votes on blocked executive branch nominees, and set the table for further discussion of the ongoing Snowden/NSA affair.