On the next Your Call we'll open the lines to get your views about today's political climate. Jared Loughner, 22, opened fire at a meet and greet hosted by Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. She remains in critical condition. Six people, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl have died. How should the media and politicians respond? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. This is not an isolated incident as many have suggested. Where should the conversation go from here? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates and co-author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
Alfredo Gutierrez, former Arizona state senate majority leader; editor of La Frontera Times
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What was your reaction to the horrific shootings in Arizona?
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Why Do So Many Americans Own Guns?
Why do so many Americans own guns? On the next Your Call, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban, we'll have a conversation about gun ownership. If you own a gun, we want to know why. Are there limits to the right to bear arms that you're comfortable with?
Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you can't imagine keeping a gun, what questions do you have for the people who do? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Joe Meyers, gun collector based in Santa Cruz
Scott Jackson, chief instructor with California Department of Justice and a handgun safety instructor at Bay Area Firearms Instruction Company
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Your Call 070908 Guns after Heller
What should the Left's position be on guns? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the impact of the Supreme Court decision that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms, and overturned the legal tradition that the right was collective. So if guns can't be banned, what kind of regulation, if any, would create a safer, healthier world. We'll talk with anti-gun lefties, pro-gun feminists and a scholar who says gun laws have always been more about controlling the poor than they were about controlling guns. On the next Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
Don Kates in Battleground, Washington
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland and author of Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out.
Laura Cutilletta in San Francisco
Staff attorney with the San Francisco based gun control group, Legal Community Against Violence. She joins us from San Francisco.
Mary Zeiss Stange in Montana
Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Skidmore College and author of Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in America Today.
Click to Listen: Guns after Heller