'BradCast' 4/19/2021 (Good Shots and Very Bad Shots)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 Genuinely good and not-divisive news, as NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars successfully completed the first-ever remote-controlled flight on another planet, carrying a piece of wing fabric from the Wright Brothers' plane that launched the era of flight in 1903. President Biden announced that all adults over the age of 16 are now eligible for COVID vaccine shots in all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. The CDC announced that 50 percent of U.S. adults have now received at least one COVID shot.\\xa0 The bad news:\\xa0 if you're having trouble keeping up with the spate of near-daily mass shootings in the US, you're not alone. Over the weekend, two new mass shootings in WI and TX joined the growing list of mass shooting shootings over the past month in GA, CO, MD, CA, SC, TX and IN.\\xa0 In the Indiana FedEx plant massacre that killed 8, the 19-year-old perpetrator had previously had his guns confiscated the under the state's 'red flag' law, which allows officials to take weapons from those considered to be a danger to themselves or others, but a loophole allowed him to obtain new guns legally anyway. Minnesota State Police in Brooklyn Center, MN are attacking journalists (and their First Amendment rights) who are covering community protests against the police killing of unarmed Daunte Wright. Callers weigh in on all of the above - including a teacher re-entering the classroom amid COVID, and a gun rights supporter - with insightful and constructive comments."