Please Kill Responsibly - Episode 56

The gun lobby hires Emerald Ash Borer to solve their image problem. How many people will get shot as he brainstorms ways to reduce gun violence? (Spoilers: it's not zero.)

Please Kill Responsibly, episode 56 of This Gun in My Hand, was knocked off a shelf by a cat, who was set loose from a cage by a piece of twine tied to a broom handle, which was pulled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What sets in motion a cascading series of events, leading to the desired outcome? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Faro was the most popular gambling card game in the Eighteenth Century United States. For a good time, read Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America by Herbert Asbury, or any of his other books.

2. “Ballistic blankets” are real and have really been offered as a solution for school massacres in the year of our lord 2022. Who needs to write satire when reality is as sick as ours? After the May 24, 2022 murder of nineteen children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, a former FBI agent on the teevee suggested hanging bulletproof or bullet-resistant blankets on walls of schools, which could be used to block windows.
https://www.newsweek.com/ballistic-blankets-children-shot-maureen-oconnell-fox-news-school-uvalde-texas-1709955

3. In the edited-for-television version of Repo Man (1984), much of the cursing dialogue was overdubbed with phrases like “Flip you, melon farmer.”

4. Rube Goldberg graduated from UC-Berkeley in 1904 with a degree in Engineering. He passed away in 1970.

5. The tasteless opinions of these characters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their creator, Robert Thomas Northrup. 

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/

Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: Old FM radio tuning by sielxm3d.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_3667256/sounds/319846/

Music and voice clips from the following public domain works: The Phantom Empire, Chapter Two (1935). The Shadow radio show (1940), Bold Venture radio show (1951), Lux Radio Theater ("Sing, You Sinners," 1940), Crestablanca radio commercial.

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Sound effect title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound Effect Title: Toy Gun 7
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434720/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the cover of the public domain comic book Guns Against Gangsters, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September-October 1948). Art by L.B. Cole.