The Rick Smith Show 5-18-2018

Eugene Gu, MD, Surgeon-scientist hoping to cure heart and kidney diseases in babies. Blocked by @realDonaldTrump and Healthcare columnist @TheHill joins Rick to discuss what doctor see rolling into emergency rooms across the nation and the real world results of a nation with porous gun laws and a gun fetish culture. 

Red T Raccoon, medic in Iraq and an EMT in CT joins Rick to share his battlefield experiences of what weapons of war do to the human body in a war zone and a school and to explain why now is the time to enact sane gun laws to protect students and law abiding citizens.

Brett Pransky, Democratic Candidate for State Representative in Ohio's 77th House District joins Rick talk about his campaign, the issues that brought him to step forward, and to discuss how state gun laws encourage a dangerous gun environment. 

Khary Penebaker, #GunViolence Survivor and @Everytown Board Member joins Rick to talk about a day with two school shooting, one in Santa Fe, TX and another in Georgia that has needlessly taken the lives of students whose only crime was going to school and to share his thoughts on how Americans can fight back against to NRA and gun fetishists.