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How Does the Nation Reduce Gun Violence?
05/08/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gun control, gun violence, National Physicians Alliance, Cheryl Bettigole, Ladd Everitt, CSGV, mental health care, NRA, Glenn Beck, suicides, gun training
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Coming up for the hour we’ll have two leading experts on gun violence. We’ll open the phone lines and take your phone calls.
First- this past weekend the NRA held it’s national convention in Texas….
As the convention opened—one of the Keynote speakers—Glenn Beck gave this talk to an audience in Houston.
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Conservative commentator Glenn Beck speaking to a group last week in Houston.
Our guests today are Ladd Everitt, Director...
Be the first to commentDo "Gun Free Zones" Invite Gun Deaths? And A Leading Muslim American Human Rights Activist Speaks Out
04/04/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gun control, preventing gun violence, Mother Jones Magazine, gun free zones, NRA, Mark Follman, Cyrus McGoldrick, NCPCF, police spying, WMNF, Rob Lorei
Good morning,
Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll look at those proposals from the NRA for school safety. We’ll talk with a journalist from Mother Jones Magazine who has been covering the gun safety issue closely since the Newtown massacre.
Later we’ll talk with a leading Muslim American civil rights activist……
But first: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is blaming the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers for the reluctance among many of her colleagues...
4 commentsCivil Rights Pioneer and Tampa Native Dr. Bernard Lafayette
02/04/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bernard Lafayette, Freedom Riders, SNCC, non-violence, guns, NRA
Our next guest is Bernard Lafayette who was born in Tampa. He is a longtime civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma, Alabama, voting rights campaign; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked closely throughout the 1960s movements with groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Amer...
Be the first to commentCallers aren't sold on need for new Rays stadium; mixed opinions on gun control
01/30/13 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rays, Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa, St. Pete, Tropicana Field, Hillsborough County Commission, Pinellas County Commission, guns, gun control, NRA
Where will Tampa Bay’s Major League Baseball team play a decade from now?
The team seems to be saying it wants out its lease of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg but wants to stay in the region.
St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster wants the Rays to stay in his city.
This week Pinellas County officials said they are open to the team considering regional options.
The Rays spoke with Hillsborough County Commissioners last week.
We heard from listeners about their opinions.
We also con...
Be the first to commentPresident Obama announces executive actions to curb gun violence & wants Congress to beef up background checks & ban assault weapons listen
01/16/13 wire reportsWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gun control, guns, violence, shootings, NRA, Barack Obama, ATF
President Barack Obama has announced a $500 million package of executive actions and legislative proposals aimed at reducing gun violence a month after a mass shooting in Connecticut killed 20 elementary school children. Obama signed 23 executive actions — which require no congressional approval — including several aimed at improving access to data for background checks. A presidential memorandum will instruct the Centers for Disease Control to research causes and prevention of gun violence....
Be the first to commentThe Surprising History of the National Rifle Association
01/14/13 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NRA, support for gun control, history, Steven Rosenfeld, Alternet
Good afternoon, welcome to The last Call. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk with author Steven Rosenfeld who has been looking into the history of the NRA and recent gun laws. And he's found some surprising things: that for most of the 20th Century the NRA was one of the country's foremost gun control organizations- it even helped draft tough gun laws. He also writes that some prominent conservative constitutional scholars- so called originalists- take strong issue with recent court decisio...
Be the first to commentHillsborough County Commission wants task force on gun violence but balks at idea of gun buy-back -- for now listen
01/09/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gun control, guns, violence, shootings, NRA, Les Miller, Kevin Beckner, Mark Sharpe, Terry Kemple, Hillsborough County Commission
Wednesday the Hillsborough County Commission put aside a suggestion to organize gun buy-back programs to reduce crime. But the idea may come back as soon as next month among the suggestions for a task force to reduce gun violence. Commissioner Kevin Beckner recommended forming a task force – it was unanimously approved by the board.
1 comments"To direct staff to make recommendations for convening a task force under the County Administrator's office. They consist of at least law enforcement agencies...
Gun control: How it varies from state to state
12/27/12 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Robyn Thomas, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, guns, NRA
In the wake of the latest gun-shooting massacre in America, lawmakers are talking for the first time in years about seriously trying to pass gun-control measures.
Earlier this year the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence released a report grading each individual state in terms of its gun control laws, and matching statistics to how many deaths occur in the states due to gun violence.
The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence's Executive Director, Robyn Thomas, spoke to WMNF in the first 15 ...
Be the first to commentRemembering Bill McBride; The NRA's Wayne LaPierre on Meet the Press
12/24/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill McBride, Alex Sink, Holland and Knight, Jeb Bush, NRA, Wayne LaPierre
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up this morning we'll remember Bill McBride who ran for governor as a Democrat in 2002. He died suddenly this past weekend at the age of 67. We'll talk with Patrick Manteiga, publisher of the newspaper La Gaceta about McBride's legacy in just a moment. Later we'll hear part of NRA VP [Wayne LaPierre's interview yesterday](http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/23/16101856-nra-chief-if-putting-armed-police-in-schools-is-crazy-...
Be the first to commentNRA says answer to school violence is more guns in schools listen
12/21/12 wire services including APWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gun control, guns, violence, shootings, NRA, CodePink, Medea Benjamin
The National Rifle Association broke its silence today on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer waiting in the wings.
Be the first to comment"I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of s...
