On the heels of horrific on-air murders in Virginia, and as guns claim one life every 16 minutes in the U.S., the father of one of the Roanoke victims vows to stand up to the NRA and "cowards" elected to office who fail to take action to help prevent gun violence. On today's BradCast we look at the numbers, the jaw-dropping death toll in this nation, and what, if anything might ever be done about it.
For the record, as WaPo details, we've now had 247 mass shootings in the 238 days of 2015.
Also on today's busy program…
• Louisiana's Republican Governor and also-ran 2016 GOP candidate Bobby Jindal pretends global warming had nothing do with Hurricane Katrina as Obama comes to New Orleans to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the devastating storm.
• New national poll finds Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and, yes, Bernie Sanders would all trounce Trump and the other GOP front-runners if the election was held today…and if we had a national election…and if all voters who wanted to vote were allowed to vote…and if those votes were actually counted and counted accurately.
• Donald Trump's ugly nativism gets even uglier as the Republican establishment gets desperate.
• Kentucky dead-ender County Clerk defies still more federal court orders and denies same-sex marriage licenses — and all marriage licenses — in her county, under the ridiculous premise of "religious freedom".
