Greg Dworkin joined us to discuss Oklahoma's continuing recovery, and some of the factors that stand in the way of more widespread adoption of protective measures like the construction of "safe rooms" and basements in homes in "Tornado Alley." Then we catch up on the day's GunFAIL stories, noting once again the passive voice construction that makes accidental shootings a rootless, causeless consequence of freedom or something. Also, more notes on the gun-toting teachers of Utah story, prompted by a note from alpaca farmer, a former Utah resident. Seems the teachers interviewed left out one of the key arguments they once made against a bill that would mandate alerting parents when there's an armed teacher in their kid's classroom. And one of the folks quoted as supporting armed teachers, whose argument rested on those teachers being deemed trustworthy because they had to go through a permitting process, turns out to have been lobbying to repeal the permitting requirement entirely. And not only that, but the guy's actually been on my GunFAIL list before! Moving on, more facts about tax-exempt political groups, and more discussion of a possible "nuclear option" on nomination filibusters.
