In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a school in Aurora, Colorado, the boys and girls were given a day to reflect on the events that have transpired over the past 24 hours. They discuss the lack of support for gun control in Congress, and the cowardice shown by some of the politicians who voted against a bill that would have made gun control a reality.
00:02:38.000We'll try and start with levity because it is a dark day.
00:02:41.000It's a dark day in American history, and if we can make today fun for you, if we can make today entertaining, well then, I guess we're not the failures that our parents thought we were.
00:03:14.000All worms are spineless, that's redundant.
00:03:16.000And break down why things that sound good on their surface, why they hurt you.
00:03:21.000And I don't mean in a figurative sense, I mean in a very real, literal sense.
00:03:25.000Could cause you grave physical harm, not to mention strip you for constitutional rights.
00:03:29.000And that's sort of the theme today because we now also see what happens when good guys with guns, meaning law-abiding citizens, cannot protect themselves when they are not allowed their God-given rights.
00:03:39.000We have an Ivalde update with the police.
00:03:52.000We have a cowardice problem in this country.
00:03:56.000We have a cowardice problem with Republicans and the gun control bill.
00:03:58.000We have a cowardice problem with police.
00:04:01.000And even if some police wanted to go in there, into the unlocked door where they had ballistic shields, by the way, and we'll get to all these details, even if they wanted to, they were too afraid to stand up to their boss.
00:04:12.000They're too afraid to stand up to police unions, which is something that people don't want to mention.
00:04:16.000Sure, I back the blue in many ways, but you don't back all of the blue.
00:04:21.000You know, maybe there's some racist cops out there, too.
00:04:22.000Maybe there are, and maybe the unions help cover it up sometimes.
00:04:30.000Police lie to protect themselves, just like everyone lies to protect their jobs.
00:04:33.000The problem is when you're dealing with municipal employee unions who are funded by your tax dollars and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:04:40.000And it's a pretty tough pill to swallow when your kids are dying behind doors in a school.
00:04:45.000And they even stop a dad trying to save his dying wife.
00:04:48.000That's another story that just came out, by the way.
00:06:23.000The good thing is here, before we get to what's going on with the gun control bill and our children dying as a result of Cowardice and, by the way, just forbidding people of their fundamental... What is a gun?
00:09:13.000Talk to me, Z. Now there's a new training video designed to create safe spaces in our Navy using what is most important in the field of battle, uh, appropriate pronouns.
00:09:23.000Hi, my name is Johnny and I use he, him pronouns.
00:09:25.000Hi, and I'm Conchie and I use she, her pronouns.
00:09:28.000And we're here to talk about pronouns.
00:09:54.000A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language.
00:09:57.000Instead of saying something like, hey guys, you can say, hey everyone, or hey team.
00:10:03.000We're making sure America isn't a safe space.
00:10:05.000Another way that we could show that we're allies and that we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails or, like we just did, introduce ourselves using our pronouns.
00:19:02.000Because it used to be for husbands, wives, the term dating relationship means a relationship between individuals who have or have recently had a continuing serious relationship of a romantic or intimate nature.
00:19:25.000They're going to tighten the regulations for trafficking weapons, performing straw purchases, and by the way, includes many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many billions of dollars in unnecessary spending.
00:19:39.000Okay, so let me go through this a little bit.
00:20:18.000There has to be something you have to be ment... For example, right now we have a clear... We have a clear hurdle that needs to be cleared.
00:20:24.000You know, you have to be adjudicated mentally defective.
00:20:44.000Oh, wait a second, the bill just says there must be punishments, but, you know, it goes to the states.
00:20:49.000So, New York, maybe, for example, they can violate, they can remove your constitutional right to carry a firearm, to defend yourself, because some, I don't know, some scorned lover, someone you had a one-night stand with is mad at you, you lose your right to defend yourself, and then it's whoopsies, what, New York may implement a fine?
00:21:54.000No, it's not a state issue because this is not some random law that was passed by Congress 15 years ago and upheld by the Supreme Court erroneously.
00:22:01.000This is something in our founding documents that we've said is important to us existing as a country.
00:22:43.000Seems to me that maybe in a place like California, where these blue states will obviously enact incredibly restrictive gun laws, might make it harder for them to defend themselves.
00:22:51.000They might have a word or two about that.
00:24:04.000My question is what constitutes, we know right now that it already exists if you're convicted.
00:24:09.000Right now, if you're convicted of domestic abuse, you can't own a firearm if you domestically abuse your wife or domestically abuse your husband.
00:24:20.000It allows the states to expand it to any degree that they want where it just can be a serious partner, which can really just mean anyone you've dated.
00:24:32.000Someone can just get a restraining order by going before a judge and saying, hey, he hit me, and abuse that system, and you lose your right to defend yourself.
00:24:39.000But we've never seen that, Mattress Girl.
00:24:46.000That's a very real scenario where, let's say if they lived stateside, as opposed to their castle, their chateau in France, where Johnny Depp Could have had his right to own firearms removed because of something that we know is false from Amber Heard.
00:25:09.000Well, the process to get it back is painful.
00:25:12.000Well, the process to get it back if you're convicted is very long, but that's... That, yes.
00:25:18.000But even if you're innocent, this is one of those things you're guilty until proven innocent, almost.
00:25:23.000Like, somebody can go and make an allegation against you, and then you can have your gun rights taken away, and then you have to go and prove No, wait a minute.
00:25:46.000They were having a really hard time defining this and they couldn't come up with a good way to do it.
00:25:49.000So instead of actually doing their jobs and figuring out a way to define this to make sure that it wasn't put onto the states, they just said, we have no idea.
00:27:30.000Let me put you in this picture, because let's be honest.
00:27:32.000Statistically, women are more likely to be domestic abusers, but women are far more likely to file restraining orders and abuse a system to accuse someone of being a domestic abuser.
00:28:10.000And then, if people violate other people's constitutional rights through force, if people violate the law, not new laws that you create, but constitutional laws, that's the only way that someone would forfeit any right to a firearm.
00:28:23.000By the way, I love how they say, this would not affect law-abiding citizens at all.
00:28:55.000They just did it because it's like, oh, because the last couple of times we've chased people that pulled guns on us, we shot and defended ourselves.
00:29:53.000People try and act as though that's a gun show loophole where you simply go to a gun show or you go online and just a bunch of people are transferring you firearms.
00:30:01.000It is already illegal, just to be clear, for example, let's say I had an old single-action revolver, like an old Navy revolver, and transferred it to my dad as a gift, okay?
00:30:10.000It would already be illegal for me to do that if he cannot legally own a firearm, meaning if he's a felon, right?
00:31:38.000And I'm someone who believes that the states are great, great little science labs where you can just, fine, you guys want to legalize hallucinogenic mushrooms?
00:32:08.000People will say, oh, rights are just a...
00:32:10.000Rights are just an illusion, the idea of God-given rights.
00:32:13.000Well, look, even if you think that, that's still how we recognize them here in this country, and it's a very different form of recognition than in other countries.
00:32:18.000That's why we're the only one with the First Amendment, and we're the only country with the Second Amendment to protect it.
00:32:58.000You believe the TSA can actually stop a terrorist attack?
00:33:01.000You have any idea how easy it would be?
00:33:05.000Do you think the FBI is keeping you safe?
00:33:08.000Security here in the United States, which is the constant, it's the constant cloud of security threats that allows this government to violate you of your fundamental rights.
00:33:19.000Does anybody really believe that this government can keep us safe?
00:33:23.000Keep us safe both from external threats with the military that uses the proper pronouns, and by proper I mean improper pronouns, and from internal threats like, I don't know, school shooters who leave doors unlocked and police are too big of a pu- they're too big of a of a troop of pussies to do anything about.
00:33:35.000You really think that security is real?
00:33:37.000So look, if you want to say that freedom is an illusion, and you hear this and I was taught this in college, okay, but you know what?
00:33:43.000If the government says that I'm free from their shackles, I'm not enslaved to the government, at least that allows me the illusion of being enslaved to God.
00:34:10.000Well, and they've never been able to do that.
00:34:11.000They've never been able to do it, and our founding fathers knew it, and that's why they said, you have to have the right to do this, and also to make sure that these guys don't get too big of a head and think they can just tell you to do whatever they want, which is what they're doing right now.
00:34:22.000And a lot of Republicans, if you're out there and you're a conservative and you're saying that this is, a step needs to be taken, there's a reason that there's been a logjam with gun bills, because the last one didn't really do anything, even though they'll tell you that it did.
00:34:34.000We have stats to prove that it didn't.
00:34:36.000And if you're going to start to try to make a difference with guns in America, start with criminals.
00:34:43.000All you're doing is taking guns out of law-abiding citizens' hands, or at least people that you can just throw under the bus and say, because of a red flag, we're gonna make sure you don't have a gun.
00:36:40.000It's about time now that, and I'm a cultural guy, going to use this platform to make sure, don't care who you are, don't care if you've been on the show, don't care if you're a friend, if you are on board with these red flag laws, if you are on board with what is in this bill, if you even so much as allude or infer anything other than total opposition, we're going to make sure that every single person watching and listening knows your name.
00:37:02.000I just want to be clear, the game has changed.
00:38:03.000to go and save his wife. Can you imagine getting a phone call from your spouse or from somebody
00:38:09.000that you love dearly if you don't have a spouse. Hey I've been shot and I'm dying. I know you're
00:38:14.000probably 50 feet away in the hallway. This is what turns law-abiding citizens, no law-abiding
00:38:19.000citizen. Well guess what? I'm just gonna, if that man, let's just be honest here because people will
00:38:24.000try and say I'm an extremist with this comment and I want everyone in this room right now to answer
00:38:28.000honestly because I'm going to step on a limb.
00:38:29.000If you're that man and your wife is calling you, or your child is calling you saying, I am dying, and you are on the other side of that door, and you have a gun, and someone is trying to detain you, would you hesitate to shoot that person out of the way?
00:38:43.000Whatever I have to do to get in there.
00:38:45.000Because they just turned you into a criminal.
00:38:47.000They just turned you into a criminal by trying to save your wife's life, or at least be able to speak some last words to her.
00:38:54.000I'm not saying you should go around shooting cops at all.
00:38:57.000What I'm saying is that guy, who was an officer, was now forced to decide between last words with his wife, the love of his life, or Well, you know, you just hear these stupid people at the NRA, the idea of a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun.
00:39:46.000And that's in a place, guess, we were talking about a lot of places like New York where people don't own guns.
00:39:51.000That's where a lot of these mass shootings take place.
00:39:55.000And that number would be higher if more people were carrying firearms.
00:39:58.000Not to mention the two to three million defensive uses of firearms each year, compared to tens of thousands of homicides, mostly gang-related.
00:40:06.000And to hear right now, to shut this down forever, I just had, and Kevin here, a researcher, did some really fantastic work, because we've gone through how many examples there are of good guys with a gun, but these are just a few examples here within the last week or so.
00:44:05.000It's Colonel Steve McGraw, he called the police chief's response, that's right, he called it an abject failure here before Texas Senate special committee hearing.
00:44:15.000And then we'll get into, this is important, the claims that were made, and I'll need you to admonish me, and I'll explain to you why, the claims that were made then, that everyone believed, including people in this room, versus what we know now.
00:44:29.000Because this, you don't need a conspiracy To see the ugliest side of humanity.
00:44:50.000There's compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary It was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we've learned over the last two decades since the Columbine Massacre.
00:45:04.000Three minutes after the subject entered the West Building, there were a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject.
00:45:16.000The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander.
00:45:24.000Who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.
00:46:21.000I don't mean through some sort of abstract idea of a law somewhere.
00:46:26.000I mean, no, there were people there with the equipment they needed to stop a threat, to stop a murderous psychopath from killing children, and they didn't.
00:46:35.000So let's go through exactly what that is.
00:46:56.000And I remember even talking about this thing, well maybe we need to make some kind of breaching tool to be standard with police officers as opposed to having to wait for SWAT.
00:47:03.000We'll get to that too because I was also wrong about that.
00:47:59.000There's nothing a teacher could do to lock the door inside the classroom.
00:48:01.000The teacher can come outside the classroom, as the requirement is, to lock the door with a key, only with a key, and this right here, by turning it, you know, and locked into the locked position. And I can
00:48:16.000actually have the door of another, this is this came from the west building, one of the doors
00:48:21.000right here, and I can demonstrate that if you'd like at this time, Mr. Chairman. So the teacher
00:48:26.000could not even lock the classroom door from the inside? That's correct. There's no way to lock the
00:48:31.000door from the inside. There's no way for the subject to lock the door from the inside. I just
00:48:36.000have to make a point really quickly here, because he's hiding behind the fact that, oh, I was waiting
00:49:56.000When weak—you know, Jordan Peterson has said this, and we've all talked about it—when weak people get into positions of power, that's a weak man, Chief Arradondo.
00:50:03.000And unfortunately, because you have a chain of command, people have to follow a weak man.
00:50:09.000By the way, also, even if the door had been locked—okay, here's another thing that we know—now, even if the door had been locked, they actually had—you can hit the no—they had a Halligan crowbar.
00:51:21.000How about a motivated person with a gun?
00:51:23.000Not motivated by a pension, a Cadillac pension with benefits, so long as they make sure to stay away from the calamities of the world that they're paid to serve and protect.
00:51:46.000How about we put the 19 parents in that hallway whose kids were in that classroom, and let's see if they waited from 3 minutes to an hour and 14 minutes to go in unarmed.
00:51:55.000Let's just not even give the parents guns.
00:51:57.000Every one of them would have gone into that room to stop this with no weapons at all.
00:52:12.000Guarantee you, I would bet my life on it, pick the parents of the 19 kids, meaning I'm assuming that some of them have never shot a gun in their life.
00:52:27.000I think they probably would have tried to open the door.
00:52:30.000I think they would have been willing to enter the door, I think quite a few of them would have been taken out, and eventually one of them would have gone to the shooter.
00:52:39.000And this is the problem with, you know I've always said this, we all have a worldview.
00:52:47.000And if your worldview includes the belief that human beings are inherently flawed, are inherently sinful, are inherently looking out for their own best interests, then you have to be a conservative because the last thing you want to do is centralize the power of those people.
00:53:02.000At least with a free enterprise system, it's mitigated.
00:53:05.000If someone's corrupt over here, well, guess what?
00:53:08.000You don't have to buy their product or service.
00:54:23.000I mean, you have people leaving the force early, you have good cops that don't want to do it, you have good people that don't want to do it, and you end up with this.
00:54:30.000There's going to be more of this, though, with lower wages.
00:55:19.000Not because you beat some old lady with a crowbar accidentally because she was carrying a firearm and you get paid leave as your punishment.
00:55:27.000We do have a problem with the police here in this country.
00:55:29.000Not all police, but look, just like I talked yesterday about women, white suburban women who are now going, I can't believe the formula shortage, I can't believe it, men competing in women's sports.
00:55:38.000We called out white suburban women yesterday.
00:55:49.000Any cop who doesn't come out now and say, this is disgusting, and we need reform of the police to make sure that this does not happen, you're part of the problem.
00:56:00.000This is one of the few areas where you could actually argue that science equates to actual violence.
00:56:08.000Silence, when you look at it, silence from all those officers who didn't say, hey, hey, maybe we should go in.
00:56:27.000I really do pray that we don't see these officers end up committing suicide, which is not an altogether uncommon likelihood after scenarios like this.
00:56:34.000I know they're dealing with trauma and stress, but you don't get to get off the hook, man.
00:57:30.000If I just came onto this show today and you just heard the themes on it and I just, you said what he's doing, but I don't feel like doing my job today.
00:58:46.000If you raise your hand and you say, I am so glad we're doing the pronouns thing, or thankfully I can have somebody, immediately you are removed from the service.
00:58:54.000We do not require your services any longer.
00:58:57.000If you're putting your tag in the email of my pronouns, if you introduce yourself, hi, I'm Gerald, he, Yeah.
00:59:04.000Nobody's going into combat if that's their thing.