July 22 - A Survivor of Virginia Tech on the Latest Gun Massacre; How Politics Trumps Public Safety; $21 Trillion Hidden in Tax Havens

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We begin with a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre, Colin Goddard, who was shot four times and was one out of seven in a class of seventeen to survive the shooting with three of the four bullets still in his body. We discuss why, after Virginia Tech and the mass shooting in Arizona of a U.S. Congresswoman and a Federal Judge, nothing was done to prevent deranged individuals from obtaining military firepower to up the ante and break records in the mass killing of innocents. colin goddard

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Then we look into the role of the NRA in preventing the oversight of an industry that manufactures a product that is completely unregulated from a health and safety standpoint. Kristen Rand, the Legislative Director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington DC joins us.

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Then finally we examine a new report by the Tax Justice Network that reveals the super-rich are hiding $21 trillion in tax havens, the equivalent of the U.S. and Japanese economies combined. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and columnist with Reuters, David Cay Johnston joins us to discuss the scale of global tax-avoidance that might be as high as 32 trillion.

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