In the wake of the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Wednesday morning, many are asking the question: Is this the right time to start removing people's fundamental rights? And if so, what should we do about it?
00:03:06.000I know this isn't the first place that you're tuning into today that's discussing gun violence and the tragedy that had taken place yesterday, okay?
00:03:13.000That's not lost on me, and I know that if I say that I'm praying for the families and my heart absolutely breaks, and I think I speak on behalf of everyone in the studio that that's the case, that a good portion of you are going to comment that, oh, that's not enough, we need to do something, and of course the atheists will comment, spaghetti monster, because they never miss an opportunity.
00:03:32.000So, look, let me lead with that, and let me lead with something here.
00:03:37.000I assume that everyone who's talking about this, outside of the politicians, and even then probably a good portion of them, cares.
00:03:46.000And wants, what's better for this country, wants to limit violence.
00:03:52.000I don't want to get to just gun violence, I don't want to get to just mass shootings, because that's a very small subset of violence.
00:03:59.000It's certainly a very small subset of violence as it relates to human nature throughout history.
00:04:04.000I think that most people want to cut down on violence.
00:04:06.000I think that most of you, whether you're left or right, want to cut down on our kids being killed.
00:04:32.000Is this the right time to start removing people's fundamental rights or changing the very fabric of our Constitution?
00:04:38.000Do you think that's when you have the best judgment?
00:04:41.000I also want to today, look, let me lead with two things.
00:04:44.000We're going to get to the top five myths, the claims that are being made right now in the wake of the tragedy that had just taken place in Texas and has taken the life of, at the time of this filming, 19, if I'm not mistaken, is it 19 people now?
00:04:57.000Or is it 19 children and then plus two teachers?
00:05:32.000Let's set the stage with that, and then we'll get into the tired, recycled claims that are being brought out right now, specifically as it relates to this shooting.
00:05:40.000And there are a handful that come from former Vice President Joe Biden, and of course are being echoed on Twitter.
00:07:05.000And today, I'm just, I'm angry that, I'm more sad, honestly, but I get angry and frustrated with the people who think that they have the corner on being angry and frustrated.
00:07:16.000It's like being in a marriage, with Amber Heard, where only one person can have an emotion.
00:08:24.000Maybe putting someone on puberty blockers and cutting off their penis when they're six might actually not be most beneficial to people's mental health.
00:08:34.000It's heavy, but look, you can either laugh or you can cry, and I choose to laugh a little bit and get some of the stuff out, but I think we're gonna have some Fiery conversations when we get there.
00:09:10.000And yeah, Friday and Saturday we'll be in Emily, Minnesota doing Big L's, and then we're gonna do this on Sunday, help raise some money for the people affected by the tornado.
00:09:18.000And I did cry a little, but I sat on a pencil.
00:10:17.000When you look at the conversations, when you look at trying to uninvolve and detach the parents from these children's lives, when you're looking at transitioning children, when you're looking at browbeating young white boys for something they've never done, look, I think that it's a breeding ground for evil.
00:11:06.000Well, I believe it was the 50s when there was a lot more God-fearing than there is now that they, uh, asked a group of people if they would save them- hurt another person to save themselves.
00:11:48.000So before we get to that, a little bit of levity here, and we're going to try and keep levity, but we're going to do, I know a lot of you said that you liked the Claim Fact format, which we're going to do today, because it's sorely needed, and all references are available at loudmouthcrowder.com.
00:11:59.000So, child abuse, I don't know if you know this, it's very hot right now.
00:15:46.000Hey, let me ask you something really quickly before we move on to this, because the rest of the show is going to be debunking these gun myths.
00:15:53.000So it's a pretty thorough show, just to let you know.
00:15:55.000So I want to hit this off the top, the rest of this.
00:15:58.000Trans person in the United States, more at risk being the victim of a mass shooting or suicide?
00:16:03.000One's a 42% attempted rate, both pre and post-op.
00:16:08.000And the other is, you know, single-digit percentage of one percentage point.
00:16:28.000Man's Search for Meaning is a great book and it's about a guy, I mean it's a true story of somebody who lived through the Hollywood, kind of the same, Holocaust and had a Freudian slip.
00:16:40.000Hollywood is the 9-11 of entertainment.
00:16:43.000But, and you know, kept a certain positive attitude and that's a very, I can't even
00:17:22.000So you have this kid and then you have two and a half years.
00:17:30.000Of hiding faces, locking people inside, making them feel worthless, collapsing the world, collapsing the economy, making it difficult, not giving anybody the proper access to the treatment they need, worrying more about doing surgery that is completely unnecessary on people that do need help, and you wonder why this kind of thing happens, and we're gonna go ahead and blame guns.
00:18:10.000Well, when you look at people like Abraham Lincoln, when you look at people like Winston Churchill, when you even look at people like Ricky Gervais or Dave Chappelle, it's about taking the one aspect that you don't like of somebody, the worst aspect, and defining them that way.
00:18:21.000Winston Churchill, flawed, sure, drank a lot, cheated on his wife.
00:18:25.000Also the man who stood between Hitler and the rest of the free world.
00:18:30.000Shouldn't he be recognized a little bit more for that?
00:18:32.000And you don't think that, and then you demand that we not be judgmental.
00:18:36.000What kind of mental health issues do you think that's going to create for young men?
00:21:38.000But we need to course correct and understand in our country what the Constitution means, and if it means anything at all.
00:21:44.000Because you do have one party in this country that wishes we were like all of the other countries, and we'll get to that in a second, that don't have the Constitution we have.
00:21:52.000It is a different country by design, for a reason.
00:21:54.000So he says that, that's how you know it's grandstanding, he says, I'm gonna get on my hands and knees.
00:24:09.000So I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings, I ask you, are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our churchgoers?
00:25:00.000The only way they would maintain power Is people voting for them.
00:25:04.000The easiest way to get a grip on power is to be like a Joe Biden who's never held the same view twice on an issue.
00:25:10.000So how is someone like a Ted Cruz, based on your premise, how is someone like a Rand Paul making a decision to protect the Constitution just to try and maintain their grasp on power when you say that it's an incredibly unpopular viewpoint and they have to be elected?
00:25:39.000You get angry, you get frustrated, and of course everybody wants this to stop, but you don't have the information.
00:25:44.000All you have is the left once again virtue signaling and saying, common sense gun reform, background checks.
00:25:51.000Every single- How many times do we have to debunk this?
00:25:54.000How many videos do you have to make where you go and improve to people that you can't get a gun at a gun show without your gun contract from a dealer?
00:26:01.000I have to do it again because- How many times?
00:26:02.000If you search, top AR-15 myths, even though we have videos that have many, many, I think over 10 million plays, 15 million plays, it won't show up.
00:26:08.000You'll see something from PBS talking about how dangerous AR-15s are.
00:26:11.000So we have to continually go through these points because the left is allowed to recycle their points and everything they say- Unchallenged.
00:27:22.000by firearms in the United States that are taken, 94% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones, and decreasing gun ownership, increasing strict gun laws in states does not lead to decreased crime.
00:27:34.000These are facts that you need to start with, and then we can get into some specific claims.
00:27:38.000Let me give you, for those who don't know, I mean I'm sure you've seen this ad nauseum, but what we know at this point, shooter, 18 year old Hispanic male, Is it 22 victims right now?
00:28:23.000How has every single mass shooting that was stopped, meaning one that didn't just continue until the perpetrator got away or tired, how is every single one of them?
00:28:31.000What's a 100%, maybe let's call it 99% constant?
00:28:51.000Now, let me just back that up a little bit, because there are solutions being offered on both sides.
00:28:56.000And of course, this side, the left, claiming that they want to find common ground
00:28:59.000is dismissing those on the right as, that's just crazy, that's asinine.
00:29:02.000Okay, so you know that all of these mass shootings, all these people, all these criminals,
00:29:07.000these homicidal maniacs, when they commit these crimes, the only way to stop them is by someone
00:29:11.000who has equal or greater force, someone else with a gun.
00:29:14.000You call on them, the police, but you've heard an ounce of prevention
00:29:19.000is worth a thousand pounds of defense or cure, depending on which, you know, in sports we'll say
00:29:23.000an ounce of prevention is worth 10,000 tons of defense in wrestling.
00:29:26.000Look, you're saying after the fact, call the guy with the gun.
00:29:29.000When we say, hey, instead of after the fact, how about having someone with a gun there beforehand?
00:29:35.000Can you believe that Republicans are suggesting that there should be armed police or that teachers should be allowed to... You're calling a guy with a gun after the fact!
00:30:13.000In Ohio, if I remember correctly, and by the way, I just want to clarify, 19 children dead, 2 teachers dead, if you throw in the grandmother being shot as a victim as well, that's the 22 number right now.
00:30:48.000Let's turn it into everything else except for what the actual thing is.
00:30:51.000Anybody who has a child going to school, it even had, you know, a dad from Parkland, but anybody with a child going to school.
00:30:59.000You're gonna tell me that you wouldn't feel safer knowing that there was a guard even on, you know, just, you know, he doesn't have to wear a uniform, just somebody that you know is there?
00:32:42.000This was not something that could not have been prevented from the very beginning.
00:32:45.000That's like one of those things where they say, I don't know, he was an A student, he was really quiet.
00:32:49.000It's like, no, no, no, no, this is a guy who wore eyeliner, who said, kids be scared on his social media, and who crashed his car and loitered around for 30 minutes, probably yelling insanely, like, oh, we wish we could have known!
00:33:01.000Well, no, they said he was, I mean, he was in the building for half an hour, you know, during this shooting process, but they're like, oh, he abandoned his car.
00:33:07.000I'm like, I thought he parked on the grass!
00:33:19.000You're telling me somebody in the administrator's office, which is typically, if you've never been to an elementary school, I just want to let you know how this works.
00:33:57.000And then we'll go into the debunking of five claims that are being made right now that you are most likely to hear if you're on Twitter, if you're on Facebook, or if you're listening to or watching any legacy media.
00:34:59.000Now, here is, uh, and this comes straight from the former Vice President Horst's mouth, gave a speech yesterday and he immediately pivoted to gun control, which has eluded him his career.
00:35:09.000So, the first claim that they're making is that this shooting is the fault of the gun lobby.
00:37:31.000We're just starting this off because this is how lazy the left is.
00:37:34.000It's whip you up emotionally, and then here's a target, the gun lobby.
00:37:39.000And do me a favor, don't invoke God's name the week after coming out on abortion and saying, yes, this should be the law of the land for everybody.
00:37:45.000I know we're not tying these two issues together, but please don't tell me what God wants in this situation when you have no clue, obviously, and should be denied community if you're a Catholic.
00:37:54.000Nancy Pelosi, that was the right decision?
00:38:40.000I just want to make sure that I understand, because we have far more crime overall, which is what I'm more concerned with, violent crime, not just the tool.
00:40:26.000Well, because those countries are shitholes!
00:40:29.000Do you mean to say they're third world so it's not fair to compare it?
00:40:32.000Well, good thing is we have another statistic here.
00:40:34.000We're not even the country with the most mass shootings per capita, even among the...
00:40:39.000First world countries, which I guess is the term that we would have to use now.
00:40:43.000If you look at the death rates per million from 2009 to 2015, you have Norway, you have Serbia, you have Macedonia, the United States is 11th.
00:40:49.000But here's the thing, let's even assume that there is an outlier trend of mass shootings in the United States, okay?
00:41:56.000Yeah, well and I remember after, I'm trying to think of the city name, for some reason it's eluding me, but the Hands Up Don't Shoot, right?
00:44:33.000Customers at licensed dealers, sorry, yeah, it's the truth I should have said.
00:44:36.000Licensed gun dealers in the state of Texas are required to pass an FBI background check, and by the way, the shooter purchased his firearm that way, through background check.
00:45:10.000And do me a favor and show me what shooting would have been stopped by a background check.
00:45:14.000I mean, maybe there's a handful, maybe there's a couple, but you're saying there's been 200-plus mass shootings this year so far?
00:45:20.000How many of those are stopped by your end-all be-all solution?
00:45:24.000And that's, by the way, that's assuming, this is predicated on the idea that the criminals who are willing to commit mass murder would obey the laws of a background check.
00:45:31.000So even assuming that, the numbers still don't hold up.
00:45:34.000And by the way, this was such a pervasive myth.
00:45:37.000That after we had to change my mind on a campus, I took two girls to a firing range and then went through the process to purchase a firearm with them because these girls were anti-gun and they had never actually learned anything about firearms.
00:45:51.000And they were shocked to find out they had to fill out paperwork and pass a background check.
00:45:56.000We did this as an entire, like, 30-minute video.
00:45:58.000How about we just go through the background check?
00:48:21.000Legislation will never get people to stop being evil.
00:48:24.000You're never going to get all guns out of America, so why don't you just let people protect themselves?
00:48:29.000Why don't you make sure schools are safe?
00:48:31.000Why don't you get rid of gun-free zones and soft targets?
00:48:34.000I want a shooter, if he ever walks into a church or a school, to have his head on a swivel not knowing when it's going to get blown off by somebody coming out of a classroom.
00:48:42.000Not walking around willy-nilly for half an hour!
00:50:07.000Now, we can put everything in place that we want to to try and prevent rape, but let's assume that there will be a rape happening at some point.
00:50:30.000It's the same thing if you decide no one in school should be allowed to have the only defensive tool that would be able to stop an attack Okay, so what do you propose?
00:50:40.000Well, there are all these other laws that really wouldn't do much.
00:50:42.000And then, of course, you call the cops afterwards with the tool that would be needed to stop the attack.
00:52:36.000Gun violence was already on a downward trajectory before the ban in 1994, and then when it was rescinded in the early 2000s, it continued to fall.
00:52:48.000Actually, if you look really closely at the data, Barack Obama was pushing that, oh, hey, we used to have this ban on assault weapons and it was fantastic, it lowered all the gun crime.
00:52:56.000No, it actually went up during that specific period of time, after the ban was in place, and it has settled out since.
00:53:02.000And that's why they try to hide behind terms like mass shooting specifically, as opposed to homicide or gun crime, because the term isn't necessarily defined consistently.
00:53:09.000Some places define it as four deaths or more.
00:53:23.000So it really depends on what's most convenient.
00:53:24.000What you need to look for, what is a constant, is violent crime, homicide, and then if you want to look at gun crime because you believe that you would stop all the rest of homicides and violent crime without a gun.
00:53:33.000But if you want to say not only violent crime, not only homicide, not only gun crime, but specifically mass shootings, which are such a small subset of the problem, then just admit that you don't want to solve the problem.
00:53:44.000You are losing the argument, so you're trying to score some political points.
00:53:48.000By the way, let's be really clear again.
00:54:39.000You used to be able to not buy a... I just looked it up before the show.
00:54:41.000I'm not 100% sure if I'm 100% right, but... Well, because those girls, those girls that they wanted to purchase actually a Walther, and they couldn't because they weren't 21.
00:54:50.000I thought they'd reduce the age to 18, but it could just be the rifles.
00:54:55.000I was looking at the code just a little bit before we came on air, just to make sure, because he did buy the rifles legally, because former Vice President Joe Biden said that he bought the rifles legally, and I was like, you sure?
00:55:06.000But then it's the handguns that you can't until you're 21.
00:55:09.000Is that more of the concealed idea as well?
00:55:12.000That they lowered it, or is there a specific... I think it has more to do with the history of hunting, you know, where people would hunt pretty young, you know, kids would hunt younger.
00:55:37.000By the way, also, they talk about assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, which is the silliest thing because, again, it's just arbitrary.
00:55:44.000Hey, what number is too many for rounds?
00:57:05.000They will never be in a public school.
00:57:08.000Because they're evil factories and I'm not even just talking about firearms.
00:57:11.000I don't want my child to go to school and be told by a teacher that they should affirm whatever gender they feel like because they happen to be trying to look up the Barbie skirt and they believe that my son is now a woman.
01:01:04.000What they try and often argue, and then I want to get to what the actual Second Amendment means, but they say, oh, you know what, if the Second Amendment, if they knew that people would have these high-capacity guns, and they never would have, they would have, they would have not allowed, okay, first off, On a pragmatic level, that's not true.
01:01:18.000There were plenty of guns that weren't just muskets.
01:01:51.000So, James Madison, that's right, this is Overlay N, he wrote a letter of mark explaining to, this is Overlay N there, Kevin, I know Tokunawa's not here, so Overlay N, I'm not going in order.
01:02:00.000They were asking, it was a private ship, that said, you know, we have to deal with the trouble on the high seas.
01:02:55.000It says, a well-regulated militia, comma, being necessary to the security of a free state, comma, The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
01:03:09.000So it doesn't say the right of the militia to keep and bear arms.
01:03:13.000It says a well-regulated militia, meaning the country needs a militia.
01:03:18.000Then there are two commas between that and then the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
01:04:02.000We fought a bloody war for our freedom.
01:04:05.000Some other historical context, just so you know.
01:04:08.000If George Washington was the kind of shitty politician like Senator Murphy, who just wanted to, I don't know, as Steve Kerr might say, maintain his grip of power.
01:04:18.000Keep in mind, George Washington is one of the only few people throughout history who was one of, if not the most powerful man in the new world, in the whole world, but certainly the new world.
01:04:26.000People were begging for him to stay and he left.
01:04:28.000And he said, because I'm not immune to power corrupting.
01:04:36.000You think there's the War of Independence and then you think there's a civil war.
01:04:38.000No, there were wars being fought here in the United States because there were some people who, I know, as crazy as this may sound, wanted to be loyal to the crown.
01:05:02.000Because he understood that that is what was necessary to keep the kind of government that they just fled in check, and he also recognized that he could be that kind of a government.
01:05:10.000He could be that kind of, and at that point, really, he.
01:06:18.000These are the same people who require you to get a negative COVID test or quarantine if you're coming back into your own country for I think it's ten days, but you have hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who just ride on through, sir.
01:07:29.000Are right now going to paying for guns for people in the Ukraine so they can be a well-regulated militia which you were insured as your own right at the founding of this country and they want to strip from you.
01:07:42.000Your money is going to Ukraine to pay for their guns.
01:08:09.000You can be arrested in Australia, in Canada, in the UK, for speech!
01:08:15.000I'm not saying that all free speech here is defended with firearms, but it's certainly in the back of people's minds.
01:08:21.000It's certainly in the back of if you have corrupt police officers' minds who would want to go door-to-door arresting you for things that you say, which, by the way, has happened throughout human history and still happens today.
01:08:54.000So now, it's really hard to bitch about white privilege When you actually acknowledge the slavery that is currently taking place in these, and I said, can I say shithole countries about the countries that employ slavery?
01:09:05.000And I said, I bet you liberals are going to be more offended that I referred to these countries that enslave people as shitholes than they will be at the enslavement.
01:09:57.000Senate Dems moved to clear way for votes on background checks.
01:10:00.000All right, let me see what they're doing right now.
01:10:02.000These mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show on the internet.
01:10:05.000So if people want to do that, we can have that debate, but don't link it to these horrible events because they would have nothing to do with it.
01:12:52.000I guarantee you, I guarantee if we sit and watch CNN for 30 minutes, every single claim that we have just rebutted will come up.
01:12:59.000But let's just see this B-League Cory Booker.
01:13:07.000There is a chance of changing the views now of elected Texas Republicans?
01:13:14.000Yeah, I want to thank Will Hurd for that statement.
01:13:17.000I think it takes bravery for him to put that out.
01:13:20.000But from what I've seen from our statewide elected Republicans just in the hours after the shooting yesterday, I don't see a lot of willingness to act.
01:13:30.000And the truth is we have to have a democratic, small d, democratic response to this.
01:13:35.000If folks are not willing You did the president.
01:13:38.000If we put in place policies that will keep our community safe,
01:13:40.000then they shouldn't be in positions of leadership, and they shouldn't be creating these laws.
01:13:45.000You know, we have an 18-year-old here who could not buy a beer,
01:13:49.000who can walk into a gun store and buy two assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
01:13:56.000The shooter in Sandy Hook was 20 years old.
01:15:00.000For example, veterans issues here in my area, who I'm thinking of right now, who may be candidates to talk to about, you know, where can we begin?
01:15:12.000Now, of course, the House has passed legislation and I'm a member of the House.
01:15:17.000And so what we're talking about ultimately is also what can get through the Senate and what can get 60 votes in the Senate.
01:15:23.000But maybe if we can get enough support for action in the House, that would pressure 10 Republican senators to join us in doing the right thing.
01:15:33.000But, you know, what was said earlier, I think in the earlier segment, about how our inability to act on this is a reflection of
01:15:39.000how broken our politics is, is absolutely true. You know, if we can't protect kids...
01:15:43.000That's predicated on the idea that your action doesn't suck.
01:15:50.000The fact that Republicans, and by the way a good portion of Democrats, don't want to support our bills, which would do nothing, is proof that you shouldn't trust your institutions and then we'll blame you for not trusting your institutions.
01:16:06.000Because we were totally legally brought in.
01:16:08.000Now let me tell you about how we need background checks as I tell you about how this man bought two firearms while going through a background check.
01:18:48.000We're just going to live in this hell until you realize that or we vote your ass out of office, which hopefully will happen soon this year.
01:18:53.000But going to bullet frequency, it's insane.
01:19:55.000You just mentioned something, and you know what?
01:19:57.000I want to leave on this, and then we actually have to go to... Hey, by the way, did they get... did the control room get us... is it 21 for a handgun in Texas?
01:20:06.000Did they do their job and get that to us?
01:21:32.000Because you're now a self-sufficient man or woman.
01:21:36.000Now, when we understand that basic principle, and they try and accuse the Republicans or the right or people like me of wanting to assert power, I don't know how I would do that.
01:21:45.000This is all voluntary, this interaction and transaction here.
01:21:47.000Sorry, no transaction unless you join my club.
01:22:03.000Hey, we want to close the border from illegal immigrants and also, of course, for guns that are being run through drug cartels.
01:22:09.000We want you to be able to own firearms and we want people to be able to carry these firearms in gun-free zones and that we shouldn't be able to take that from you.
01:22:19.000Also, we want to lower your taxes and give you more freedom as it relates to your choices.
01:22:23.000We're going to give you less free stuff But we want to secure the border, and we want you to have guns.
01:22:29.000Oh, and by the way, we also believe in at least deporting the illegal immigrants here who are in our prisons!
01:22:37.000Now, how much power does that person hold over you?
01:22:40.000If that's the world you live in in this country, you have a secure border, you have a firearm.
01:22:45.000Versus an open border, which we know they tried to end Title 42.
01:22:49.000We have more border crossings, more illegal immigrants flooding in than ever before, and we want to take away your guns.
01:22:55.000And by the way, we want to raise your taxes, but we'll give you free, insert whatever it is here, internet, health care.
01:23:09.000So just use the example of a debtor, okay?
01:23:15.000If you owe the bank money, and we forgive your student loan, and by we I mean the taxpayer, and so the government has now raised taxes, but has decided you no longer owe the bank, to whom are you indebted?
01:23:35.000You're now just indebted to the government.
01:23:38.000Every single policy that comes from the left is about enslaving you, economically, Or, I mean really, almost at this point, I would almost say because it's a religion bordering on theologically, certainly they want you to be indoctrinated.
01:23:54.000They don't want you to simply be allowed to express other opinions, and where could I base that?
01:23:59.000Australia, Canada, UK, France, speech laws.
01:24:01.000So let's just look at these two separate worlds.
01:24:05.000Who's trying to get a stranglehold on power?
01:24:07.000The people who say, we want to secure the border and we want you to have guns, we want to lower taxes and give you more choices.
01:24:11.000And I know they don't all do that in practice!
01:24:12.000Or the people who say, no guns, open borders, higher taxes, and you owe it to us.
01:24:18.000For crying out loud, they want to be like an abusive pimp.
01:24:34.000You know, when I actually did that range, I had walking pneumonia, bronchial infection, sinus infection, and I think that was when I started using this, the X-Clear nasal spray.
01:24:46.000Every time I go to a gun range, I use it because I get gunpowder residue.
01:24:49.000You ever go to the range and your nails... You have to wash your hands, and you think about washing your hands, but you're also... Wash your nose!
01:25:03.000And by the way, there are published clinical studies and trials as it relates to allergies, COVID, and all kinds of other respiratory illnesses.
01:25:13.000You wash your face, you wash your hands, you wash your balls, but you don't even... Do you have any idea what you're breathing in every day?