towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
revolutions other gun rights restricted we are not talking about raiders, it turns out lots o people opposed to th revolution at a time also severe militia laws tha required gun owners to appea in public meetings where the and their guns would b registered on state roles, s they definitely understood tha we had a balance of gun rights with gun regulation. you make the point that the towns, as they developed economically, especially the ones who had the highest economic ambitions, one of the first things they did wa banned guns. that is right well, one of the reasons why our image of the wild west i so wrong is because of capitalism the residents of tombstone and dodge city they enact it got lost because they wanted wha most town want, which is t grow and prosper what business person was going to open up a store in tombston if every time they tried t deposit the weeks earnings i the bag they re going to b
main street of the town and in the middle of the road, that sign which is very difficult t read at the top, the top of it says carrying firearms strictl prohibited these distal records of that error indicate that the town with a strict gun control ha lower murder rates in the town without gun control. joining us now is adam winkler law professor at the universit of california los angeles. he is the author of gunfighter the battle over the right to bear arms in america professor winkler, i hav learned so much in a day that did not know before. so, you also talked in you book about the founders an their attitude towards gun control. what do we know about that well, we know the founder did have gun control they barred large portions o the population from possessing guns, including people who wer enslaved, and even white men who oppose the revolution. people who opposed the revolutions other gun rights restricted we are not talking about raiders, it turns out lots o people opposed to th
exploring in this podcast, is this tension between autocracies, which we know are on the rise, and democratic grassroots movements which are inspiring and fascinating in terms of the level of courage and conviction that they demonstrate, but also, in terms of the sort of david and goliath scenario whereby you have these huge powerful, often violent actors in state roles, and then ordinary people engaging in extraordinary acts of courage trying to defeat that state, and how feasible and successful with these movements be. it s a lot of these stories that bring people in, especially talking about afghanistan and especially here in the u.s. it seems to me, at least listening to podcasts over the last couple years, one of the things i love about them, is they give you more time to explore those connections and those personal moments to bring