WEBVTT - Time For Action 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.880 Mr garbusch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.319 us where you were with the terrorists. If you got 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.239 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you're 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.600 satisfied with is not. When President of the United States 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.080 take it to the bank. Together, we will make America 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:36.760 great again. It's what you've been waiting for all day. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.920 The Buck Sexton Show joined the conversation called Buck toll 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.920 Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck, that's eight 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.040 four four nine hundred to eight to five the Future 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:54.279 of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Saxton Show. Everybody, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.880 Thank you so much for joining, and honor and a 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.360 privilege to have you with me here in the Freedom Huh. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.479 We have much to discuss, much to get into today. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:09.959 I want to first create, if I could, a h 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.040 a breakdown of where we'll go in the whole gun 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:19.640 control discussion here, because to me, there's really two movements 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:25.720 going on in the country. There are two simultaneous you 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.560 could say, conversations. On the one hand, you have an 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.960 effort at the White House is engaged in as well, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:39.119 you have an effort to listen, to hear people out, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:45.200 to exchange ideas and to Also, I think heal one 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.480 of the reasons why President Trump gathered together for a 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.800 listening session with students and parents, including parents of those 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.520 who had lost their children in school recent school shootings, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.080 at the White House. He's doing a listening session, I 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.400 believe he's actually just just doing it while we're on air, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.880 and doing it a bit before. So he's hearing out 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.799 people that want to share their views on this issue. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.600 And he's also expressed that this time it will not 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.880 just be a knee jerk response out of partisanship. He'll 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.840 at least listen to what is going on and be 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.919 doing very strong background checks, very strong emplusis on the 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.920 mental health with somebody, and that we are going to 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.360 do plenty of other things again next week, the governors 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.360 are coming in from most of the stakes and avery 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:48.440 serious talk about what's going on, the schools safety, very good, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.720 and the covered every aspect of the many ideas that 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.680 I have to have, many ideas that other people have, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.200 and we're gonna pick out the strongest ideas, the most 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.200 important idea of the ideas that are gonna work, and 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.560 we're gonna get him done. It's not going to be 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.760 taught like it has been in the best. It's been 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.919 going on too long, too many instances. We're gonna get 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.400 it done. The President is saying this time is going 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.080 to be different in that there will be action taken. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:20.200 This is not just a situation that we've seen in 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.359 the past where there's a temporary surge of interest and 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:31.320 and passion over the issue of violence in school. School shooting, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.119 specifically mass shootings is really what we're talking about here. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.160 He's saying that there will be This is a time 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.160 for us to listen to all the different ideas that 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.200 are out there. Now. I think this is, from the 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.360 President's point of view, a smart move. I think it's 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.840 the right move. I think it's a smart move. Listen 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.880 to the other side. No harm in listening. A lot 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.520 of people should just be heard so that the American 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.560 people know their stories. Um, I I agree with that. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.120 I agree that we should be um that we should 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.760 be hearing stories, For example, from from this father who 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.440 was at the listening session. Play because my daughter has 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.359 no voice. She was murdered last week and she was 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:22.520 taken from us, shot nine times on the third floor. Now, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.920 we as a country failed our children. This shouldn't happen. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.000 We go to the airport. I can't get on a 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.080 plane with a bottled water, but we leave it. Some 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.520 animal could walk into a school and shoot our children, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.000 and so it's just not right and we need to 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.360 come together as a country and work on what's important, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:53.000 and that's protecting our children in the schools. I think 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.520 everything that father says, and you know, it's it's heartbreaking. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.719 You can just hear the painters voice. He just lost 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.240 his is as a little girl last week in that shooting. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.119 But I think everything he says is completely reasonable, and 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.440 I agree with him. We should come together and find 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.080 a way to protect our kids. We should hear out 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:20.520 all the different proposed, if not solutions, at least means 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.360 of addressing this problem, lessening the threat, doing whatever they 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.040 can so that there are fewer of these I want 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.359 to hear all of that, but that doesn't mean that 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:36.279 we will cast aside judgment of the proposals. It would 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.400 be fantastic. It's certainly a praiseworthy goal to try and 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.520 find a way to protect our kids in schools, and 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:52.080 to do so with a success. I think it's almost impossible. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.359 It is impossible, actually to do it at a hundred 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.760 percent success, and with each proposal that they put forward, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.719 we will have to think, well, what is the counterbalance 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.680 of this, what comes out of this that we may 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.760 not want to give up, What are the unintended consequences 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:15.480 of this action? And that's where you when you push 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.400 a little harder on this issue, when you dig a 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.159 little deeper, that's when you start to run into the 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.320 other side of this conversation. Right now, as I said, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.680 there are those who want to talk about solutions and 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.920 and I also believe that President Trump sitting with parents 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.799 and and students, teachers and others who want to discuss 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.839 this issue is part of a national healing that is 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.440 something we should do right now. But on the other 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:47.360 side of it, there's also a clearly partisan and deeply 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:53.359 politicized effort to make this yet another part of the 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:58.440 hashtag resistance, to make this a partisan battle that is 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:07.080 very very comfortable smearring. It's its opponents, defaming people, saying 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.720 terrible things. As I mentioned, you know the billboard in 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.520 Louisville kill the n r A. I mean, that's just 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.080 one example. But this refrain you're here, you're with the children, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:21.120 you're against them. That's not helpful. That's not constructive. So 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.560 we should and will talk about the other side of this, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.640 which is that there are people out there right now, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.440 many of them across the country, who see this as 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:36.480 an opportunity not to save kids, but to help the 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.120 Democrat Party and to harm the Trump administration and the 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:45.880 Republican Party's political fortunes. That level of opportunism should make 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.240 us all feel like we need a long shower. It 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:56.040 is gross, but it is happening, and you are seeing 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.080 this now with the talking points that are out there. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.120 We the way that uh, some of the networks are 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.640 choosing to go about this, um, choosing to to cover 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.640 this issue, it is an absolute disgrace. Do we have 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.080 the woman who was approached by CNN on the front lawn, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:20.560 which h this is this is astonishing, folks. I mean, yeah, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.720 you have a woman who well that's on I'm sorry, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.480 that's on Russia. We'll get to this in a little bit. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:31.000 You have a whole bunch of different media outlets though 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.600 that's a rush up component. I was looking on my 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.800 list here for a second. You have a whole bunch 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.120 of different media outlets that can't seem to find an 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.760 articulate and uh, well versed defender of the Second Amendment 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.400 to put on TV. You can't seem to find, you know, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:50.840 I know, a whole bunch. I could sit here and 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.200 rattle dozens of them off the top of my head, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.520 one after another, to have a really serious discussion about this. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.680 But instead there's a lot out of let's find the 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:08.000 most inept Republican congressmen possible and put him on TV 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.480 and bash him and say that he's, you know, he's 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.439 being disingenuous on the issue, that he doesn't stand with 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.320 the with the kids. And this, I think is where 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.559 we start to see that there's just no real bipartisan 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.760 good faith and not at the congressional level that goes 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.600 into this whole issue trying to fix gun control. It 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.560 just doesn't It just doesn't really exist. Um. I think 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:38.080 it is troubling to see. And you've got oh, here's 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:45.320 here's CNN weighing in that they've been. They've been just 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.559 as bad on this as I've seen has seen them 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.920 on anything. I mean, they're they're weighing in. They're using 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.200 kids and the questions they asked them to make this 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:02.760 explicitly about Trump children are dying. Did you hear from 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.920 any leaders. Did you hear from anybody in power after that? Yesterday? 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.720 President Troup has been known to watch cable news on occasion. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.680 If he were watching right now, what would you want 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.480 to say to him? I want to read one of 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.720 the President's tweets from over the weekend. Do you have 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.800 a message for the lawmakers? Do you have a message 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.160 for Congress? For the president? You know, President Trump made 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.199 some statements about this, uh yesterday he spoke about it, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.800 but he didn't mention gun Look, and we have examples 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.000 of other countries that have done more and have passed 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.760 the national gun control laws. And guess what gun violence 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.439 wept down. There's someone the right that they're attacking students personally. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.600 They're saying that you're tools of the anti gun lobby. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.000 How do you respond to that kind of poisonous environment. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.679 You'll notice with a lot of those questions, it's you know, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.600 so so those evil Republicans have they Have they done 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.520 what you want them to do? Yet? You know, this 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.400 is if we were in a court, you could say 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:00.920 they were they were leading the witness, leading the witness. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.800 And it's quite clear what many of the journalists out 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.320 there think about the n R a about the gun 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.679 control issue. And in case you needed any additional refresher. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.400 You know, for a lot of people, even those who 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.040 are grieving with these kids in this community, when they hear, oh, well, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.400 you know, the n r A is a terrorist organization, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.560 you know what they're going to hear that There was 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.680 a lot of people who don't believe that that was 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.839 that was one upset teenager who was speaking there, and 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.679 that that's relatively I think they're allowed to use those 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:36.559 kinds of I mean, I think it actually might be effective. Yeah, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.199 it might be effective to call the n r a 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:43.000 terrorist organization. It's wildly unfair and irresponsible and inaccurate, but 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.920 you know, maybe it's effective. You'll notice though that was 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:50.720 actually a that was something of a revelation there from 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.480 a Camarado over at CNN. That's the point of this. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.040 What's effective, what gets the message across. It's not about 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.600 what's reasonable, what's fair, what's honest. It is to force 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.720 the right in this case, to bend the kneel on 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.080 this issue. That's what's motivating somebody, the journalists and everyone else. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.080 That's what is this world they really think they're gonna 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.240 be living in where there's something that the President of 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.160 the United States could do to stop kids from getting 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.760 shot in school, and he just doesn't want to do it, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:27.200 just doesn't care. How how do they really formulate that 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.360 in their minds? I know that's a belief that a 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.840 lot of leftists have that Republicans, the n RA, etcetera, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.199 they don't care about this. It's a really terrible thing 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.760 to believe about a fellow human being, never mind a 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.679 fellow American. And yet this is the rhetoric, this is 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.800 what's out there you're either with. I don't even know 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.120 what the policy is they're advocating, yet it's in some 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:54.160 ways it reminds me in that sense of Occupy Wall Street, 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.120 Black Lives Matter, I mean, groups that came together left 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:03.640 wing political activism of the moment and they had a 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.880 rallying cry, but not a specific policy platform. Maybe that 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.640 will change, And I don't know if that will be 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.760 from the grassroots level or if that's going to be 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.480 handed to these protests groups that are popping up now 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.280 all across the country. Um, but as I was saying, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.320 there's the administration willing to listen on this issue. The 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.200 administration is trying to do what it can in order 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.440 to hear out both the people affected by this and 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.800 give them a national platform, and I think it is 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:41.079 a helpful part of the nation healing um. But then 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.520 there's also the well, what are we actually gonna do 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.040 what comes from this that we'll have impact in it's worthwhile? 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.559 And why is there so much animosity against the president 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.760 who's been in office. I mean, you know the answer 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.880 to this, but it's worth asking anyway, so much animosity 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.040 on this issue against Trump. He's been in office for 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.240 a year, and it's like the gun problem is his 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:07.160 fault and his doing. And on the in the real world, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.640 when we're listening to what the president says and what 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.400 the White House is up to, we know that this 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.760 is actually a president who's not shutting down discussion, who's 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.120 not dismissing any of this out of hand. I think, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.120 to the surprise maybe of some on the right, he's 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.960 really considering some restrictions on firearms. He's really considering some 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.160 of these proposals. And Harris Faulkner over at at Fox 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.200 was speaking to uh, one of the most well known 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.680 of the student protesters as student activists, and I think 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.280 she asked me a very important question President Trump right now, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.600 and and in fact, one of his early tweets because 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.200 about mental health. So he is now putting a plan 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.760 into action that he would like to see lawmakers and act. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.840 Of course, he can't do it all himself, so he 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.520 has come some distance where other presidents have not. I 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.800 want to get your thought on that. So the way 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.000 that I think President trym might do things differently, if 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.200 at all, is I don't know, honestly, I really don't. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.560 It's kind of it's a similar situation as to where 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.960 it was a few years ago, where his party is 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.640 in control of about the House and Senate. It's a 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.360 question of whether or not they can actually get something 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.520 done because we're sick and tired of the promises of 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.240 politicians that they're gonna send up their prayers and their 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.760 condolences when we have no action. And that's why you're 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.280 hearing those cheers behind me no action. What is the 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.080 action supposed to be? I would also note, and some 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.840 of you listening, I just want to I want to 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.920 put this out there. You're listening, probably thinking this and 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.480 feeling this right now. Why is it different this time? 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.440 What's different now? When we're talking about policy what's different 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:52.280 now than after San Bernardino, the Pult nightclub shooting, New Town, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.000 any number of other school shootings that we can talk 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.800 about them that have occurred in recent years. Why not? 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.840 I think some of you are asking that question. I 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.920 know I've seen people asking it, and I don't have 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:10.840 a good answer. Seems like the emotional import of the 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:16.200 moment is pushing the conversation. Well, is that the way 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.520 we want to make national policy? Mhm? What do you think? Folks? 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.840 Do you do you think that Trump's making the right 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.400 move here by sounding like he's got I mean, I 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.800 think he already said bump stocks, he wants something in 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.720 bump stocks. You think he's making the right move? Or 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.360 is this just bound to be another politicized moment where 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.760 the left doesn't want to actually get anything that makes 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.800 anything better. They just want to make the right bend 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:47.160 the knee. We'll see eight four, four to five. Let 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.640 up those lines of my friends will be back with 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.080 more in second hour. We'll get into some of the 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.480 latest on Russia stuff, because there's a lot to stay 0:16:52.520 --> 0:17:00.280 with me. He want to learn everything we can learn, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.880 and we're going to go starting about two minutes after 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.600 this meeting. We're going to work because this is a 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.119 long term situation that we have to solve. We'll solve 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.840 it together. And you've gone through extraordinary pain and we 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.920 don't want others to go through the kind of pain 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:22.280 that you've gone through. President Trump is coming across in 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:28.399 every way with this discussion as open minded, reasonable, wanting 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.879 to solve problems, not just throw them one at the 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.840 other side or throw up a wall and be obstinate. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.800 But he wants to find ways to make things better. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.000 We have been discussing on this show here what some 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:46.760 of those proposals involved. But there's another component of all 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.960 this too, and that is that you have a lot 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:54.800 of activism now going on. You have people who are 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.720 marching who aren't from the high school, and question, do 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.840 we have the audio of the kids in dcen to 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.159 marching Montgomery County schools. Uh, there was a bunch of 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.960 a bunch of students. They're doing walkouts demanding yeah, yeah, 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:40.000 play it, go for it. If our government is not 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:55.400 protecting us, what is he doing? You You get the idea. Hey, look, 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.760 we live in a culture now that there's really a 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:05.600 subculture of activist hashtag activism and the YouTube and twitterification 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:10.119 of all political ideas. You know, everyone now is everyone 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 now is a pundit, everyone now is building a following. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.679 And you've got kids now from all across the country. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.320 So not kids that were nearer shooting, involved in a shooting, 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.240 or anything like that, just kids who want their opinions 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.399 to be heard making demands. And you know, this is 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.600 where we run into some trouble with just listening and 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:33.440 not responding, because the truth is they're talking about gun control. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.600 They're not talking about just what goes on in schools. 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.480 This is just about schools at all. This is about 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.240 guns everywhere and every for everyone else across the country. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.520 If they get their way, I'm sorry, but there is 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.439 no other issue that anybody would say. Let's listen to 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:57.520 what all of the marching, screaming teenagers say. He's holding 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:12.679 the line for America Bucks. Next thing is back welcome 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.240 back teams. So, as I was saying, there's a uh, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:24.080 there is a lot of cultural back and forth that 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:28.560 comes into play with the gun controlled debate. Most of 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.439 the reason that you see journalists so uniformly opposed to 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:37.240 the Second Amendment and gun rights comes from their disdain 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.719 for people who they think generally owned guns in in 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.920 civilian private life. Right. There's a tweet here from a 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.679 blue check, which means they're one of those verified you know, 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.080 real people on Twitter, or you know they've said you're real, 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.800 not that there are other real people. And I'm not 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.240 gonna name him because I don't want to give them 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.200 the free publicity he's got like seventy thousand Twitter followers. Though, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:00.840 this is the kind of stuf off as you expect 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:06.000 from commentary and common commentators and journalists on the left. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:11.239 Everyone has fantasies, this is this guy. Leftist journalists who 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.080 will remain unnamed. Quote. Everyone has fantasies. Some of mine 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.080 involve ripping guns from the hands of pathetic bubba's who 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:22.760 think firepower equals manhood. I want to rip their guns 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.040 from them in front of their children while they scream 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:30.000 and wail about their freedoms and evil government. Sorry not sorry. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:37.080 End quote. That's a pretty accurate description of how a 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:43.119 lot of national journalists feel about this issue. They don't 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.080 like people who own guns, and this is an opportunity 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.240 to stick their thumb in the eyes of those who 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:56.000 do own guns. Um, and that's what this is really about. 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.240 There's that. There's also the sense of a political mobilization 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.760 against Trump. I played some of the I played some 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:10.239 of the students that have been marching and yelling for 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.560 gun control, gun changed. Still not clearing what they want exactly. 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.879 As I said, there's not a specific policy. They just 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.679 want something to be done. But when the other side, 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.000 in this case, the I guess we could say broadly 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.040 termed the right the second amend and crowd when they 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.720 come back with okay, here's an idea, well she here here, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.120 here's the president himself saying it concealed carey for teachers 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.600 and for people of talent, of that type of talent. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.200 So let's say you had of your teaching force, because 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:44.720 that's pretty much the number, and you said it. Uh. 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:50.520 An attack has lasted, on average about three minutes. It 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:55.000 takes five to eight minutes for responders for the police 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.960 to come in, so the attack is over. If you 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:03.720 had a teacher with who's adept at firearms, they could 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.240 very well end the attack very quickly. This is the 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.560 present working through reality as to what it means to 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:15.760 be dealing with a school shooting. Is the present saying okay, look, 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.200 you want to be able to stop an active shooter 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:22.960 in a school first responder times, I mean, to get 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.080 it under five minutes. You basically have to have an 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.720 armed guard in every hallway, on every floor of every school. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.920 That's just and at that point, well, why not arm 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.040 all the teachers. You've you've got people in and practically 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:42.520 every classroom who are armed anyway. But now you see 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.080 whether they're being serious on the other side of this 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:50.520 argument or not when you put forward arming teachers as 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.679 a an action to take, not a solution. We're not 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:55.840 talking here because they're not gonna solve this, and I 0:23:55.880 --> 0:24:00.240 gonna go away when you talk about arming teachers. Sure enough, 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.480 the other side goes, no, they don't want that. That's 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:06.439 not what they want. That's not what they're calling for. 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.080 It makes some monk. I just saw one of the 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:14.199 CNN UH anchors sharing some tweet about how you know 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:19.359 students don't want teachers to be armed. Well, you know, 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.840 this is a complicated issue, and it's one thing for 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.160 students to mobilize and say we want to be protected. 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:26.840 It's an nothing to say we want to be protected. 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:30.640 And here's how it has to be done. Because there's 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:32.720 a reason we have a government we have a legislature, 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:37.960 we have elected representatives, we have federal law enforcement, local 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.600 law enforcement, people that are paid and that have expertise 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:44.199 in these matters trying to come up with ideas and solutions. 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:47.600 There are reasons for that. It's not just what did 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:53.120 the kids think that they need in this case? Now 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.480 that's this is now also a big game on the 0:24:56.520 --> 0:25:00.840 left where they're trying to tempt people into overstepping. And 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:03.159 I will say there have been some conservatives, one or 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.320 two in particularly come to mind, who are very publicly 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:13.840 uh debased their reputations by personally attacking these kids. It's 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:16.639 not it's not. This is not personal. It is not 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:22.280 about mocking individuals who are stepping forward to say to 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:24.560 say that they believe that this is a necessary gun 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:27.920 control policy, or that's necessary, whatever the case may be. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:31.680 It's not about that. But it's also not we're gonna 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:34.160 sit here while national laws are ching, you know, while 0:25:34.200 --> 0:25:38.280 federal laws are changed, national policy is shifted, and do 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:42.840 all that in silence, just because because we feel bad. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:45.879 I wonder there is a part of me that thinks 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:50.840 that the Trump administration here, you know, he's hearing everything out, 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:56.200 but bump stocks Okay, that was a post Las Vegas 0:25:56.200 --> 0:26:01.560 shooting concession, to which I will note will stop no 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:05.520 shootings whatsoever. And the bump stock thing is, it's such 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:10.560 a it's such a non action in the sense that 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.879 it's hard to be opposed to it because it's it 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:18.960 falls into the well, it's minutia of the of even 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.080 the gun control debate, which often gets bogged down in 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:24.560 the minutia. But that's really way down the scale. I 0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:27.600