WEBVTT - Gun Grabbers Demand Failed Policies Again 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.920 You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.960 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.120 wherever you get your podcasts. We've gone through this many 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.640 times before now, and it feels unfortunately far too familiar, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.120 both the atrocity a mass shooting that occurs, and then 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.680 afterwards the immediate politicization of it. We're not allowed to 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.760 have a conversation. We're not allowed to have a discussion 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.760 meant in good faith to look at what happened here. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.880 We certainly can't wait for all the facts to come in. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.279 We have to take action right away. That's what they 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.800 tell us, before you know what you're even doing. You've 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.479 got to do something before you're aware of what's going on. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.000 And they're also using maximum pressure. That's a part of 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.239 this too. They're trying to use a pressure campaign to 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.440 get people to comply and to just bend the knee 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.560 and say, sure, we'll do whatever gun control, gun violence 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.200 control measures, whatever they're calling it. You want, well, we'll 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.640 get into more of this. And just the way that 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.440 they're trying to leverage this now, they're going after companies, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.600 They're going businesses that are favorable to the second Amendment. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.039 This is the culture that we live in now. 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I don't need to wait 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.640 another minute, let alone an hour to take common sense 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.920 steps I'll save the lives in the future, and to 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.320 urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.120 we can ban assaul weapons and high capacity magazines in 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.120 this country once again. I got that done when I 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.000 was a Senator. It passed, it was a law for 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.239 the longest time, and it brought down these mass killings. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.840 We should do it again. We did it before. That's true, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.440 and all of the data, including study study by the 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.920 Department of Justice that was released in two thousand and four, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.800 showed that there was no correlations. However, they could prove 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:06.000 between less shootings, less gun violence, and the assault weapons ban. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.720 More people are killed every year with knives, more people 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.480 are killed every year with blunt objects in this country 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.000 than with assault rifles. But as we know, this is 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.079 the same back and forth that we have every time 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.880 there is a mass shooting, and the focus immediately shifted 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.680 to gun control almost one hundred percent as soon as 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.840 we found out who this individual was and what the 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.440 likely motivations were and were not. I understand that they're 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.720 trying to claim that there is some connection to white 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:43.480 supremacy still when a Syrian Muslim American shoots up a 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.040 whole bunch of people in a grocery store and we 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.520 have no reason to believe there's any tide of white supremacy, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.120 but they're still making that case somehow, because that's how 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.680 their brains have just become rotted, unfortunately with this group think. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.880 But then they move to gun control. When that doesn't 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.160 work and it's increasingly going to look like it's absurd, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.720 they move on to the gun control issue and they 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.640 tell us, all, well, there's no reason you shouldn't do 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.280 the following things. And there are a lot of reasons 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.960 that we should not allow for the forced buy back 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.240 or confiscation of R fifteens. There are a lot of 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:26.039 reasons why we should not allow people to decide for 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.919 you what you are able to defend your home with, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.760 what you're allowed to defend your home with. And there's 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.360 a viciousness now too. I'm somebody who feels very strongly 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.320 that we have to start to confront the possibility here 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:48.320 that there is a mass psychological pandemic going on alongside 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.880 the viral pandemic that we have right now. I mean, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.520 the amount of psychological damage to this country that it 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.960 has done to itself as a result of lockdowns and 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.719 COVID panic propaganda is incalculable. But if you spend a 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.720 few minutes on this app, you get a pretty good 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.480 sense of how angry and crazy the mass hysteria crowd 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.400 has become. It's a big problem. That's what I wrote 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.440 last night on Twitter. I think it's very true. You 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.279 see this not just on social media platforms. You see 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.360 this in general discussions of what's going on right now 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.640 in the media, that there's a nastiness, there's a viciousness. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.880 They want to go after people who disagree with them. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.280 They want they want to find ways to look at 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.920 our look at their fellow Americans and say you're immoral, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.520 you don't care. You see my position when we talk 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.760 about gun control, when we discuss these issues, My position 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.040 is that their ideas don't work and infringe on liberties. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.400 Their position tends to be reduced to you're a bad 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.760 person if you don't agree with me, and you should 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.120 do exactly what I say, or else you're a monster. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.400 And if you want examples of it, I could sit 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.919 here and We could spend the whole day talking about this. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.800 We could just go through all the different people who 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.880 are claiming that if you don't agree with their gun 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:10.719 control measures, you're a bad person. Here's Sonny Houston, for example, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.800 who's a TV host, and here's what she says about 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.680 owning an assault rifle. Play eleven. I don't think we 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.960 can any longer equate freedom with the unfettered right to 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:28.800 own assault rifles. That is not freedom, because I feel 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.040 like a hostage right now. I feel like a hostage 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.400 to the selfish people that insist on owning these types 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.400 of weapons. That is not freedom in this country. You 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.839 are not a patriot because you think you have the 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.440 right to own these types of weapons. You are not 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.960 a patriot. You should be taking care of your fellow Americans. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.320 See how bizarre this is. You're not a patriot if 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.560 you own an assault rifle. There are millions of people 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.599 who own assault rifles and are completely law abiding and 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:09.280 quite patriotic, and yet because one person makes the monstrous 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.960 and evil decision to go and shoot a bunch of 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.880 innocent people in a grocery store, now you're a bad 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.960 person if you won't give up your rifle. You know, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.120 a lot of damage can be done with knives. I 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.920 have a number of knives, including some more combat style knives. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.280 They don't threaten anyone. That's not a problem for anyone, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.600 because I'm a moral, law abiding person. So no, I'm 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.320 not going to give up my knives because someone in 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.000 New York recently was stabbed to death outside of a 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.760 housing project. That has nothing to do with me. I mean, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.960 the logic here is actually quite simple. Law abiding, good 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.680 people in possession of weapons are a threat to no one. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.560 Evil people getting these guns and using them is something 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.800 that does occur, and there are plenty of laws that 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.600 are already in place to try to make it harder. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.680 But there is no perfect security. We're going through in 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.680 so many different ways, and it's part I think of 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:09.280 the leftist and increasingly it does feel like they're they're Bolsheviks. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.920 I mean, it feels like the Democrat left in this country. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.800 They're not close yet to getting a communist a communist state. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.640 I understand that, but their mentality of absolutism and my 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.320 way or else and whatever I have to do, whoever 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.480 I have to destroy it starts to feel a bit 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.640 closer to the more extreme Marxists of the past. It 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.120 feels like they're willing to just say it doesn't matter 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.800 what our rules, traditions, and expectations are for each other. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.719 If I need to crush you, I will even over 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.520 something that's rooted largely in hysteria and fear and not 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:53.800 reason and fairness. You know, the the selfishness of people 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.960 owning assault rifles. So this is an absurd statement, but 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.559 this is what you can expect from Sunny Hasten and 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.559 many many others. She is not herself somebody who stands 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.520 on a national stage in front of everyone and claims 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.560 to be a victim or related to a victim. And 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:15.520 that's another that's another series of conversations that will be 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.640 happening now. There'll be people who because they suffered a 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:24.040 personal tragedy or because they were they lost someone they 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.400 loved in a shooting. We have to listen to the 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.600 policy dictates that they give us. And if you disagree 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.920 with the policy dictate, what's the point. Is it that 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.880 they've made such a compelling argument, or is it that 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.400 you're a bad person? Is it that you're somebody who 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.720 doesn't care about dead children? This is what they said 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.839 during Sandy Hook, if you didn't agree with the nationwide 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.840 assault weapons band that a Barack Obama wanted very much, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.760 and universal background checks and all these other things, magazine limitations, 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.760 which this is for anybody who understands firearms, which many 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.400 of the loudest voices in opposition to firearms, many of 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:06.959 the loudest voices calling for guns to be banned or 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.319 calling for the laws to be changed. No very little 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.439 about them. That's a common thing. That's that's quite common, actually, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:19.079 But they don't really care. They almost show off their 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.200 ignorance of guns and are happy about the fact that 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.079 they can use emotion over reason to try to push 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.520 people to taking actions on gun control measures. Or notice, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.240 they say gun violence. They're trying to stop gun violence. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.679 Why can't they just say that they want to take 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.960 guns from people, they want to control guns. They don't 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.280 like that term, they want to stop gun violence. They say, oh, okay, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.080 this is so much about propaganda and not about what 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.040 will actually work. I don't want anyone to be harmed 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.120 in this country. I don't want anyone getting shot. You 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.760 don't want anyone getting shot, no innocent people getting shot. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.320 And yet when we look at this and we see 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.040 that there are so many laws, there's so many regulations 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.920 already in place and are insufficient to stop all shootings. Obviously, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.400 what do they decide There have to be more laws, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.040 and there should be more state control, and if and 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.319 if you're not okay with that, they'll put forward someone 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:17.760 like Parkland Dad Fred Guttenberg, who is now appearing publicly 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.000 as he's now an advocate for a policy in the 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.960 public sphere. Here's what he says. Played twelve states and 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.400 cities across this country since Parkland have done amazing work 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.240 to pass gun safety measures to protect the people through 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.679 our communities across this country. And every time that's happened, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.319 the nr RATE has been their filing lawsuits to make 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.080 us less safe. They are a terror organization that is 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.800 making us less safe. You can't make up these things. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.120 I did. Literally six days ago, the n RATE achieved 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.600 its goal and they called it victories for Colorado. That's 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.280 what they called it. And here we are. Ten people did, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.040 including a police officer, because of what they believe was 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.200 victory for Colorado. It is time to break the hold 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.480 that that terror organization has on our legislators and on 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.600 legislation it is time to focus on this public health epidemic. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.599 It is time to work together to save lives. That 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.240 is all that true matter right now, public health epidemic. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:28.600 You caught that right. Notice the connection that they make 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.720 between what's going on right now where you have no 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.840 choice you must obey because of COVID nineteen and with 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.600 gun control now because gun violence is a public health epidemic. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.560 You see, so is climate change that affects public health, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:47.560 that affects our lives. It's existential and existential threat. There's 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.720 no discussion about these things. As far as they're concerned. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.880 You will do what you are told. You will do 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.760 what they tell you to do, or else, or else, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.960 they'll call you a terrorist organization. They'll go after your funding, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.800 they'll ruin you. They'll make it possible for you to 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.640 pay your mortgage, feed your kids, go about your life. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.800 They'll destroy you and maybe they'll lock you up to 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.800 they change these gun laws. They say that you can't 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.360 have a magazine with more than ten rounds. That usually 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.640 comes with a kind of prohibition where they'll put you 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.079 in a cell. They're going to lock you up because 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.760 you have a ten round magazine. Is that they think 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.360 that's fair, that's just it's absurd. But these are the 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.120 kinds of laws they like to push. And if they're 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.080 not willing to enforce those laws, then what's the point. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.800 You have to ask that question too. If there's no penalty, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.040 it's not really a law. So they are willing to 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.840 take a law abiding person who's done nothing wrong, who 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.000 refuses to hand over his semi automatic rifle. They're willing 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.439 to take that person and take away their freedom, make 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.240 them a convicted felon, ruin their lines because they think, oh, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.240 we'll do this to millions and millions of people. Maybe 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.760 it stops one shooting. It really does start to sound 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.800 like a lot of the COVID policy that we've we've 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.360 been through. Sure it's not very effective. Sure there's all 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.040 kinds of loopholes and lockdowns, and there's essential workers, and 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:02.840 there's all these other stuff. You know, this mask up 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.920 between bites, all this stuff. But there's no amount of 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.920 irritation frustration that we can put you through that's too much. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.000 If it saves just one life, that's what they'll tell you. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.560 If it saves just one life, that's all that is 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.280 necessary to justify whatever infringement on your freedom. And it's 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.920 not that it has saved or will save if it could. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.160 If it could save one life, that's enough for a 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.360 leftist in America today to justify any infringement upon your 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.960 freedom they desire. And this is one of the reasons 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.280 why I've been so concerned about how COVID policy and 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.920 the mentality around it is going to bleed into the 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.760 rest of society is going to spread well beyond the 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.160 area of public health. And I believe that it is possible, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:53.240 it has to be possible, that people agree that these 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.000 slaughters have to stop. And this is again, reject the 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.960 false choice and stop pushing it for stop pushing the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.480 false choice that this means everybody's trying to come after 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.880 your guns. That is not what we're talking about. No, no, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:11.240 they have no interest in doing that. They don't speak 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:17.000 longingly and with great affection about Australia's mandatory buyback program. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.080 That they don't point to places like Japan where individual 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.960 ownership of guns is almost impossible and basically doesn't exist. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.520 They don't point to those places and say, look how 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.080 much better that would be. Why don't we do that here? No, No, no, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.920 of course not No, it's not like they've been taking 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.320 an incremental approach to this for a very long time. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.480 And it's not like they even will take a step 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:46.240 back and admit and recognize that there are many, many 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.880 laws on the books already about all these things. It's 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.920 not like we have some society where, despite what they're 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.080 telling you about how it's easier to buy a gun 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.080 than to vote in all this, that's a lie. There 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.400 are a lot of laws, a lot of regular lations 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.840 around gun purchases. I mean, I live in New York City, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.160 which is a place where they've effectively made gun ownership 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:12.120 so onerous and so complicated as to be effectively banned. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.880 I mean, yeah, sure, you can get your premise permit, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.920 which will allow you to have a handgun in your 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.640 home after you go through a six month long period. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.400 Now I believe the weight is more like eighteen months 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.200 to two years because of you know, the bureaucratic log 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.120 jam over as a result of all the COVID stuff. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.960 But you have to pay hundreds of dollars, you have 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.760 to keep renewing it every two years, and you have 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.720 to keep it in a lockbox with a trigger guard 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.000 on it and separate ammunition in a different lockbox. I mean, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.920 the ammunition in a different lockbox, and you can't necessarily 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.840 even take it out of the city. You can take 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.440 it too and from ranges. That's what they tell you. Yeah, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.560 that sounds like my Second Amendment rights. That sounds like 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.720 I'm really able to protect myself and be an armed citizen. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.000 So you know, I see how they do this, and 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.720 that's their preferred outcome. And of course you would look 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.200 at this and say, hold on a second. There are 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.520 still a lot of shootings in New York. Not as 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.040 many as per capita as Chicago and some other places, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.080 but there are shootings that happened here. Haven't those people 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.680 read the laws about how they have to go through 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.720 a permitting process, and don't they know about the lock 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.600 on the trigger guard. Don't they know that they're breaking 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.840 all kinds of rules and regulations and they could face 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.120 prison time. I doubt they think about that before they 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.840 fire off, you know, ten rounds into a crowded, crowded 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.360 park area because they're having a drug dispute and they 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.680 you know, they hit a child. I don't think they're 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.640 considering the latest legislation from the New York State Assembly 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.399 at about guns and how they say it's going to 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.960 protect lives. I think they don't care. I think we 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.360 all know they don't care. And so here we are 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.520 still being told that if only there were more laws, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.159 this would go away. There's a dishonesty here. There's a 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.639 dishonesty because we had gun control in the nineties. We 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.280 had the assault rifle, the so called assault rifle band, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.760 and there are still millions of assault rifles that are 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.680 in circulation to this day. They're very rarely used in 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.520 day to day crimes, and they're used mostly in these 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:18.000 high profile mass shooting incidents. And they banned them, so 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.720 to speak, in the nineties, and Joe Biden was a 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.560 part of that, and it didn't result in the drop 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.520 in violence that they said it when it didn't result 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.960 in people being safer. There are plenty of mass shootings 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.200 that don't involve long guns. As you know, the Ford 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.479 Hood shooter, Nidal Hassan, those were two pistols with extended clips. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.480 By the way, the Virginia Tech shooter was using a 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.600 semi automatic pistols. I think one of them was like 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.159 a Tech nine type gun, but you know, he was 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.639 not using a long gun. There have been plenty of 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.760 mass shootings that did not involve long guns. So what 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.400 do you what is really accomplished here? If somebody wants 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.080 to go on a shooting spree and you say that 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.440 they can't have a semi automatic rifle on, they could 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.399 still achieve it, possibly illegally, in two a pistol or 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.639 two will accomplish the exact same task. And what's what's 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.960 really done? What? What does this really serve as a purpose? Well, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.520 it makes democrats who are in a panic. It makes 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.600 those democrats who are in a panic and who also 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.119 want to control people feel like they're doing something. And 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.760 that feeling of just doing something is very intoxicating to 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.159 people who believe that the government, believe that the state 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.359 is on there. The state is a tool for bringing 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.960 about a utopian society. If only we give the state 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.040 more powerful, only we give the state more authority, we 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.720 will be in a place where we don't have to 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.679 worry anymore because they will protect us. That's been the 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.199 thought about COVID the whole time too. That's been the 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.800 thought about all of this that's been going on around us, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.200 with the lockdowns, and it's wrong. That's actually not how 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.800 governments work. That's not how society works, That's not what 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.359 his street tells us. But this is a very deeply 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.680 ingrained belief in people. They want to think that there 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.639 is some higher power of the state, not of God, 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.480 that is protecting them. And that's what we have to 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.959 grapple with now when we're talking about what's going on 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.800 with this gun control effort. It has been remarkable to 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:24.520 see the shift in tone after the identity and some 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:30.520 of the background information about this shooter came out. Initially, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.720 it was all about white supremacy. They told us. This 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.560 was in the media. This was people who have prominent platforms. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.840 I know it wasn't everyone, but they were ready to 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.480 report on this, and there certainly was that CNN clip 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.040 from the initial hours afterwards where they wanted to establish 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.399 very much the shooter was white, and there are all 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.800 these people who were saying on social media, oh, another 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.879 another white guy engaged in a mass shooting. This is 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.600 what always happens, which of course is not true. It 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.440 turns out that mass shootings are in general pretty dispersed 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.120 among the general population in terms of ethnicities. There are 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.840 plenty of mass shooters who are of different ethnic backgrounds. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.120 If you go back and look at the real data, 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.879 and especially when you start to add in a shooting 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.960 that involves three or four or more people as victims, 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.080 then all of a sudden, it becomes a very diverse 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.840 group of perpetrators. But they initially wanted this to fit 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.480 into a narrative because people are very they're very angry 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:32.760 in this country right now. There are a lot of 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.760 people who are very upset about what's going on around us, 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.560 but they don't really know why. And they won't blame 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:40.960 the government for taking away their freedom, separating them from 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.360 loved ones and all of that. 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