A Democratic congressperson targets his own constituents for donating to President Trump, a Democratic congresswoman targets her own constituents, and Republicans pursue a serious piece of gun control? All of this and more on today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Plus, Mika Brzezinski apologizes for saying that President Trump wants to "exterminate all the Latinos." Is it okay to deduce that at this point in time, it's okay to say that this is what Trump actually wants? Is it not enough to call him a racist, white supremacist, and a homophobe, but a racist and white supremacist who wants to kill all the people of color in the United States because they don't get their fair share of the country's wealth and opportunity? And is it not time to stand together and fight against hate crime, hate crimes, and white supremacy, in the face of a president who seems to want to do exactly what he says he wants to do, and is willing to do it in order to get his point across to the American people? If he doesn't call it off, then he's not doing this, and we're all going to be a part of the problem, and that's what we need to do something about it. . Ben Shapiro's full take on all of that and much, much more on this episode of today's show, including his thoughts on the mass shootings in the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Texas. and the lack of unity in the pro-Trump response to the shooting in the day after the attack in response to it happened in the aftermath of the latest episode of CNN's Rachel Maddow's New York Times article on MSNBC's "MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on CNN's "Rachel Maddow and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough's "The Five" on the latest on the attack on Trump's comments on the Trump administration's reaction to the attack. on Trump and his response to what happened in Dallas, and why it's time to unify together to fight hate crime and stop hate crime in America. the next time we all stand together and why we should all be unified in the fight against this. against hate crimes and white supremacism and white supremacists and racism in America, not just in the streets in a time when we should be uniting to stop hate crimes against white supremacist white supremacists, white supremacists.
00:00:00.000A Democratic congressperson targets his own constituents for donating to President Trump, Democrats ramp up their policy extremism, and Republicans pursue a serious piece of gun control.
00:00:25.000That is the short story for today, because in a time, as I've been saying for the past several days, when we should all be unified, because this isn't tough.
00:00:40.000We should all be getting together and mourning and figuring out the best way to move forward.
00:00:43.000Instead, there's a political war going on where folks are so bent on savaging the other side that they are undermining any possibility at real change that actually would be a good idea.
00:00:56.000So we begin today with President Trump preparing to head to El Paso.
00:00:59.000Now, naturally, this is going to be divisive.
00:01:01.000The reason that it's divisive is because President Trump has made comments in the past that are incredibly divisive.
00:01:06.000But just as importantly, maybe more importantly at this point in a time when the president should be called upon to unify everybody, Democrats are more focused on blaming Trump for the actual shooting, as though Trump is either a white supremacist, which he is not, or as though he wanted to actually There are actual commentators on television the last couple days who are actually suggesting that what Trump wants is to kill Latinos.
00:01:33.000And this is the tone and tenor that we are now operating under thanks to a mainstream media that has a narrative to push.
00:01:42.000So we have Nicole Wallace yesterday on MSNBC who suggested openly that the president wanted Latinos exterminated.
00:01:49.000She then had to come out Do we actually have the clip of Nicole Wallace talking about this?
00:01:53.000She then had to come out and apologize for all of this.
00:01:56.000She said, I misspoke about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos.
00:01:59.000My mistake was unintentional, and I'm sorry.
00:02:02.000Trump's constant assault on people of color and his use of the word invasion to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant.
00:02:08.000So in other words, I'm sorry, but not sorry.
00:02:09.000Sorry, I said he wanted to exterminate all the Latinos.
00:02:11.000But really, he kind of wants to exterminate all the Latinos.
00:02:15.000Do we actually have the clip of Nicole Wallace talking about this?
00:02:18.000What do you do when, certainly the last Republican president fought for, sought, and it's not ideal, but had 44% of the Latino vote.
00:02:28.000It was so politically powerful inside the last Republican administration.
00:02:34.000President Obama used the power of the presidency to try to pass comprehensive immigration reform with the Latino community, Latino leaders at the table.
00:02:42.000You don't have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating Latinos.
00:03:11.000Joe Scarborough suggested in January of 2016 he might run as Trump's running mate in January 2016, a month after Trump put forward that statement calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
00:03:39.000Isn't it okay to deduce that at this point, this is what he wants?
00:03:45.000He is inciting hatred, inciting violence, inciting racism.
00:03:50.000If he doesn't unequivocally call it off and say, this is wrong, and we stand together against this, and we are doing this, this, and this to help fight hate crime.
00:04:02.000I mean, this is a president who Seems to want these things to happen.
00:04:08.000Once, once Latinos shot up in a Walmart, that's the... Okay, so we go from Barack Obama ripped on police departments around the country and called them systemically racist, and an evil Black Lives Matter associated activist went out and shot cops.
00:04:22.000Barack Obama was not responsible for that.
00:04:24.000Bernie Sanders suggested that Republicans wanted to kill millions with their health care reform plans.
00:04:29.000And one of his supporters went out and shot Congress people.
00:05:04.000Frank Figliuzzi, who I'd never heard of before, apparently he's a regular on MSNBC and also a former FBI analyst.
00:05:11.000So one of our intelligence operatives, he said yesterday, That when President Trump ordered the American flag flown at half-staff, and then ordered it to be flown at half-staff until August 8th, which would be tomorrow, so for half a week, that this is actually Trump signaling to Neo-Nazis, because August 8th is 8-8, and 8-8 is the last half of 14-88, and for those who don't know Neo-Nazi parlance, 14-88 is supposed to be the 14th, it's supposed to be
00:05:40.0008-8 is Heil Hitler in neo-nazi parlance because the 8th letter of the alphabet is H. Okay, so he's suggesting that, just to get this straight, it's not a conspiracy theory, right?
00:06:12.000Now, I'm not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that's being demonstrated by the White House.
00:06:21.000The numbers 8-8 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement.
00:06:40.000By the way, the 14 in 1488 is the so-called 14 words that were coined by George Lincoln Rockwell.
00:06:45.000We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.
00:06:48.000Lincoln Rockwell, of course, was the leader of the American Nazi Party, one of the more evil human beings to walk the planet over the last half century, or the last three quarters of a century.
00:06:57.000And second, we're going to get to what President Trump is actually saying, and then we're going to get to what he's been saying on Twitter, we're going to get to the egregious extent to which the left is going to push the narrative that everybody who disagrees with them is actually in league with a person who shot up innocents At a Walmart in El Paso.
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00:08:33.000Okay, so, President Trump is about to head to El Paso.
00:08:38.000And he made a statement this morning, he was about to get into the helicopter, and he made a statement about white supremacism that is entirely appropriate and naturally the media went nuts over it because this is what we do now.
00:08:49.000I am concerned about the rise of any group of hate.
00:08:54.000Any group of hate, whether it's white supremacy, whether it's any other kind of supremacy, whether it's Antifa, whether it's any group of hate, I am very concerned about it, and I'll do something about it.
00:09:09.000There is nothing wrong with that statement.
00:09:11.000That is not him downplaying white supremacy.
00:09:12.000That is not him saying that there are good people on both sides of a march.
00:09:17.000That is him explicitly saying that he hates white supremacy and he's going to fight white supremacy.
00:09:21.000That's what Mika Brzezinski was calling on him to do.
00:09:24.000But the left doesn't want to accept that Trump is making those moves, specifically because it undercuts the narrative that they are painting, which is that President Trump is actually an expositor of white nationalism and white supremacism.
00:09:35.000The argument the left is now making, and it is a disgusting, vile, divisive, polarizing, horrible argument, is that if you are anywhere to the right of Elizabeth Warren, then you are complicit in a shooting at an El Paso Walmart of Hispanics.
00:09:58.000Today, the president went on Twitter, and his worst nemesis, he went on Twitter and he started ripping into Beto O'Rourke.
00:10:05.000So Beto, who has been saying that he doesn't want Trump to come to El Paso, is obviously mouthing off in what I think is an inappropriate way, Trump is still the president of the United States.
00:10:14.000And him coming to El Paso in the midst of a tragedy makes perfect sense.
00:10:30.000I know that's not Trump's MO, but guess what?
00:10:33.000It should be in a time when all of our minds should be with the victims in El Paso and not on the political infighting that Democrats seem to want to promote here.
00:10:40.000Trump tweeted out Beto, phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage, O'Rourke.
00:11:09.000And the media are running with all of this, that Trump is a divisive figure, that he shouldn't show up, so CNN has a headline today, critics question whether Trump visit to El Paso and Dayton will help healing.
00:11:20.000I mean, of course they're questioning that.
00:11:23.000This is part of the narrative, and it's also part of the entire debate.
00:11:26.000According to CNN, Trump will travel Wednesday to the scenes of back-to-back mass shootings that stunned the nation and left at least 31 people dead.
00:11:32.000But his planned appearances in Ohio and Texas aren't being well-received by all local officials, some of whom say it would be best if the commander-in-chief avoided their grief-stricken cities.
00:11:41.000Exact plans for Trump's visits to Dayton and El Paso haven't been released and were still being finalized by the White House advance teams on Tuesday afternoon.
00:11:48.000There was the same sort of hubbub in the run up to President Trump visiting Pittsburgh in the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting.
00:12:38.000It is also true that Barack Obama was a highly divisive president, just in a very different and more subtle way.
00:12:42.000I'm not going to equate the level of the rhetoric of the two, but there is no question that Barack Obama was deeply divisive, and people had similar questions specifically.
00:12:51.000I mean, he showed up to Dallas after the Dallas police shooting and nobody said he shouldn't.
00:12:59.000What all of this leads up to is the conclusion that for a lot of folks on the left, they're actually unhappy at Trump now trying to do the unity routine.
00:13:07.000They're unhappy about it because what they would prefer is that unity not take place.
00:13:12.000What they would prefer is the continuing narrative that Trump is a white supremacist and his supporters are white supremacists.
00:13:17.000This is why Joe Biden is planning an entire address in Iowa today about white supremacism in which presumably he will blame President Trump for the shooting in El Paso, Texas.
00:13:29.000Over the last 24 hours, something truly egregious has been done by a congressperson named Joaquin Castro.
00:13:34.000So, Joaquin Castro is the congressperson from San Antonio.
00:13:39.000And he is engaged in the widespread myth-making now on the part of members of the media and on the left, that everyone on the right is supportive of a mass shooting.
00:13:56.000Trump is responsible for the El Paso shooting.
00:13:58.000Then they say, therefore, anyone who supports Trump is, by the transitive property, responsible for the El Paso shooting.
00:14:05.000So Joaquin Castro is Julián Castro's brother.
00:14:07.000He's a congressperson from San Antonio.
00:14:10.000And he put out a target list, basically.
00:14:13.000He tweeted out, sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump, the owner of Bill Miller Barbecue, owner of Historic Pearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc.
00:14:23.000Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as invaders.
00:14:28.000And then he put out a full list, a list of 44 different people.
00:14:33.000I don't believe that's the actual full list of everybody who maxed out to Trump in San Antonio.
00:14:37.000I've seen the list from the FEC and it's a little bit longer, but in any case, he puts out a list of 44 people in his own district with their names who are funding Trump.
00:14:48.000The idea being that he would like to see them bear some sort of public scrutiny, that he would like to see them harassed, that he would like to see something bad happen to them.
00:14:56.000Now, people are saying, well, it's publicly available information.
00:15:51.000This is making the country a worse place because not only is the suggestion that people are responsible for the shooting, who are not responsible for the shooting, the idea is we are now going to publicly put their faces out there and make them targets.
00:16:03.000Because, I mean, basically, Joaquin Castro is calling these people accessories to murder.
00:16:08.000He's saying Trump is an accessory to murder, and then these people are accessories to Trump.
00:16:18.000How do you think people are going to react to that?
00:16:19.000You want to talk about heightening rhetoric and incitement?
00:16:22.000This is a lot closer to that than anything that Trump has said about illegal immigration.
00:16:26.000His statements about illegal immigration are generalized and somewhat vague.
00:16:29.000They are not targeted at specific individuals.
00:16:32.000What is being done right here, I mean, the media went nuts when Trump just said Elijah Cummings is a crap congressperson.
00:16:38.000The media went crazy when someone took a picture of AOC eating a burger in public.
00:16:43.000And now the media are covering for this.
00:16:45.000They're covering for Joaquin Castro, putting out a target list of people who donated to Trump, which is specifically designed to incite action against those people.
00:16:53.000There's no other reason to put out the list.
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00:18:30.000Okay, so, Joaquin Castro tweets that out.
00:18:33.000Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, he tweets back, "Targeting and harassing Americans because of their political beliefs is shameful and dangerous.
00:18:40.000What happened to when they go low, we go high?
00:18:43.000Or does that no longer matter when your brother is polling at 1%?
00:18:45.000Americans deserve better." Joaquin Castro then fired back and he said, "No one was targeted or harassed in my post.
00:19:04.000We've seen this sort of stuff in California before.
00:19:06.000In California, after Proposition 8, there were gay activists who decided to go after anyone who had donated to the proposition in favor of upholding traditional marriage.
00:19:15.000All of that ended with the firing of Brandon Eich from Mozilla.
00:19:18.000It ended with the undermining of a restaurant in Hollywood where one of the founders had given money to the Prop 8 cause, holding the same position on traditional marriage at the time that was held by one Barack H. Obama.
00:19:28.000Okay, so that was the traditional position in the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party.
00:19:36.000Don't pretend that you're putting out this list out of a good-hearted attempt to simply say to these people, guys, why are you giving to Trump?
00:19:46.000Just because these people gave money to somebody you oppose does not mean that you outing them publicly and then attempting to drive ire at their businesses.
00:19:55.000To drive boycotts at their businesses, which is what this is about.
00:19:57.000Let's be very real about what is going on here.
00:19:59.000And the left has been doing this with everybody on the right for years.
00:20:03.000Folks on the left have been attempting to boycott advertisers on shows like mine.
00:20:07.000They've been attempting to go after businesses of people who are on the right.
00:20:10.000I've never seen anything like this from the right to the left, by the way.
00:20:12.000It's very rare you see something like this from the right to the left.
00:20:14.000And usually, many people on the right look askance at folks when they do this sort of stuff.
00:20:19.000But on the left, this is apparently celebrated by public officials.
00:20:22.000So Joaquin Castro tweets out, You know that.
00:20:28.000You're trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP and the fact that President Trump spends donor money on thousands of ads about Hispanics invading America.
00:21:32.000And Scalise, of course, has some experience with folks who have taken leftist rhetoric so seriously that they shoot him and almost kill him.
00:21:40.000Steve Scalise, the House Minority Whip, he says, Which is, of course, true.
00:22:08.000They think the only way to heal the nation is to excise the cancer, and the cancer would be anybody who's on the right or who supports President Trump or both.
00:22:15.000Rashida Tlaib tweeted out in support of Joaquin Castro.
00:22:18.000Chairman Castro, they don't like it when you name their donors.
00:22:21.000The public needs to know who funds racism.
00:22:23.000This comes from a woman who is publicly associated with people who are open terror supporters, Rashida Tlaib.
00:22:29.000And there are pictures of her with people who support Hamas.
00:22:31.000This is not, and she's celebrating with them.
00:22:33.000Like one of them gave her a picture upon her swearing in.
00:22:37.000So Rashida Tlaib supporting that as well.
00:22:41.000And Joe Scarborough came out in dramatic support yesterday.
00:22:45.000He tweeted about this, quote, any business that donates to Trump is complicit and endorses the white supremacy he espoused in Charlottesville with his send her back chance.
00:22:54.000And by laughing at shouts that Hispanic immigrants should be shot, donors' names are on FEC reports.
00:23:03.000Anybody who donates to any political cause is now responsible for people who are evil, who take political messages and use them as impetus to go commit a shooting, even if they say in their manifesto that it's not Trump's fault, right?
00:23:44.000And it necessitates me bringing up the fact that Joe Scarborough really pushed President Trump extraordinarily hard in 2016, early in the primaries, was sitting there laughing with him, was in his campaign suite when the primary results were rolling in from Iowa.
00:23:57.000Joe Scarborough told Hugh Hewitt in January 2016 he would consider being on Trump's ticket as his running mate.
00:24:06.000So Scarborough says if your business funds Trump's campaign, you're supporting white supremacy full stop, look at his rallies, listen to the chants of send her back, here are the calls of shoot them, your money funds that, your business supports that, you are complicit.
00:24:19.000Hey by the way, Trump never said shoot them, that was a member of the audience, and he responded jokingly because he always plays to the crowd.
00:24:25.000Does anyone seriously believe that Trump wants people shot at a Walmart in El Paso?
00:24:29.000Like is there one honest person in America who believes that that is the case?
00:24:35.000The answer is obviously no, but this is the narrative and the narrative must be pushed.
00:24:39.000And it's being pushed by folks like Reza Aslan, who came out yesterday and suggested that I, I who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in self-defense because white supremacists would like to kill me, that I am a white supremacist.
00:24:51.000And by the way, not just Ben Shapiro, all of you are white supremacists because if in any way you have ever supported anything Trump did, you're a white supremacist too.
00:25:01.000So Reza Aslan, pushing forward that narrative, he tweeted out, Let me just clear this up.
00:25:04.000Yes, all Trump supporters are culpable.
00:25:06.000If you support a racist, you are a racist.
00:25:07.000whether I believe that all Trump supporters are culpable in the white nationalist terrorism he's inspired.
00:25:40.000They're upset that Trump is saying the right things this week.
00:25:43.000And the reason they are upset is because it undermines the narrative they are trying to draw, which is that everybody on the right is complicit in a terror attack, a white supremacist terror attack on Latinos.
00:25:53.000That is the narrative and they are going to push it.
00:26:44.000Elizabeth Warren then tweeted out, Donald Trump is enabling white supremacy and Republicans are enabling him.
00:26:49.000And when Congress and the American people have tried to fight the gun violence epidemic, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has put the NRA first.
00:26:55.000Okay, again, this is one of the more egregious gun control lies on the left, is that people on the right support the Second Amendment because of the NRA.
00:27:02.000That the NRA doesn't exist because people support the Second Amendment.
00:27:08.000It is the same thing as saying that union leaders, that union power is the reason that Democrats support unions, not that unions support Democrats because Democrats are pro-union.
00:27:35.000It is dangerous, number one, because now you have members of Congress, members of the left openly espousing, openly pushing the idea that if you donate to a political cause they don't like, you're complicit in murder.
00:27:45.000And then they are naming your name and putting your face out there and suggesting that people show up at your house, basically.
00:28:35.000But if you agree that rhetoric can lead to incitement, even if it just triggers one person to do something terrible, does it give you any pause about putting these people's names out in public?
00:29:24.000So President Trump mentioned this the other day.
00:29:25.000These are gun violence restraining orders.
00:29:27.000Now, there's been a divide that has opened up in the pro-Second Amendment community about red flag laws.
00:29:32.000The case for red flag laws is that if there's somebody in your immediate community, somebody that you know, close family member who is acting dangerous, who's a threat, that you should be able to go to a judge and temporarily, with a showing of evidence, have their ability to own a gun or carry a gun removed from them, and that should sunset, and then you should have to show new evidence that the person shouldn't have their Second Amendment rights restored.
00:29:56.000And in emergency cases, you can do this, you can have these rights basically revoked for 72 hours if it looks like something violent is going to happen in the immediate future.
00:30:05.000That is the basic proposal that is on the table with regard to the red flag laws.
00:30:08.000I want to talk about what the actual red flag laws say and what the objections to the red flag laws is and how the left is actually underscoring that objection in just one second.
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00:33:22.000Well, effectively, what they would do is allow people to go to a judge and request that gun rights be revoked for people who they can show evidence are dangerous.
00:33:33.000In Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine was shouted down on Sunday by mourners in Dayton demanding that he do something on Tuesday.
00:33:38.000He urged fellow Republicans in the state legislature to pass measures establishing red flag powers and expanding background checks.
00:33:45.000Representative Michael Turner went further, he said, Now, again, I think that those gun control measures, the assault, rifle, ban, all that kind of stuff, that's dumb, it's bad policy, it's not going to accomplish the goal that it seeks, and it's going to invade the rights of millions of Americans.
00:34:09.000But, red flag bills are a little bit different.
00:34:12.000So, red flag bills, as I say, are designed to prevent people who are dangerous from having guns.
00:34:20.000Universal background checks have been a failure.
00:34:22.000And then we have them in California, they're a failure.
00:34:25.000They are a failure generally simply because there are a lot of people with no criminal history who are able to purchase a gun legally.
00:34:31.000But more than that, the red flag stuff is more about trying to tailor a solution to the problem.
00:34:36.000It's trying to find the ability to look at people who are dangerous on incipient level and then target them to take away their Second Amendment rights, at least temporarily.
00:34:46.000The laws authorize courts to issue orders allowing police to temporarily confiscate firearms for a person deemed by a judge as posing a risk of violence.
00:34:54.000Often requests for the orders come from relatives and friends concerned about a gun owner who expresses suicidal thoughts or threatens to harm others.
00:35:02.000The NRA has been fighting extreme risk protection orders in the states for years.
00:35:06.000That is because they are worried about due process protections.
00:35:09.000An NRA spokesperson, Katherine Mortenson, said that such orders, quote, at a minimum, must include strong due process protections, require treatment, and include penalties against those who make frivolous claims.
00:35:20.000If you make a frivolous claim to try and deprive somebody of their Second Amendment rights, then there should be blowback upon you.
00:35:27.000There's a push for more of the background check expansion.
00:35:31.000That would be the Manchin-Toomey bill, for example.
00:35:34.000Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat, said the idea of a red flag law is okay, but it doesn't substitute for a background check bill.
00:35:39.000Actually, it's much more effective than a background check bill.
00:35:42.000The evidence for whether extreme risk protection orders work to prevent gun violence is inconclusive, according to a study by the RAND Corporation on the effectiveness of gun safety measures.
00:35:51.000One of the reasons is because mass shootings are statistically rare.
00:35:55.000And while they are far too common in the headlines, statistically speaking, compared to the vast bulk of shootings, they are very rare statistically.
00:36:00.000And so the sample size is just not enough to be able to really dedicate studies on trends to it.
00:36:06.000Jeffrey Swanson, professor of psychiatry at Duke, says that the laws could make a difference, even if they didn't prevent mass shootings.
00:36:15.000Now, again, I've been supportive of red flag laws, but the counter argument that is being put forth by the NRA and friends of mine like Dana Lash is that you cannot trust people to be able to take away other people's gun rights because there are too many people who are going to use that in bad faith.
00:36:31.000And there are too many judges who are willing to impose such orders in bad faith, meaning And meaning that you'll have somebody like David Frum.
00:36:38.000David Frum is a columnist over at The Atlantic, and David Frum is very, very dovish on gun rights, to say it mildly.
00:36:46.000So he put out a picture this morning on Twitter, and it's just a picture of like a 10-year-old holding a gun, and he tweeted out, Well, no, that's not a red flag.
00:36:55.000What is your proof that the person is actually a danger to himself or others?
00:36:59.000There are lots of 10-year-olds who are trained to use guns, particularly in the middle of the country.
00:37:05.000So a lot of folks on the right are saying, I don't want to give anybody the ability to take away my gun because I don't trust these people to act in good faith.
00:37:13.000This is why I say that when the left targets everybody on the right as a potential shooter or a supporter of a shooter, they're undermining the ability to actually pass laws that could actually do something about this stuff.
00:37:23.000So normally, we should all be able to agree on a red flag law.
00:37:28.000You know, I've got a brother, and my brother is a paranoid schizophrenic, and he's been acting out violently against members of his family.
00:37:36.000I need to go to a judge and prevent him from buying a gun.
00:37:38.000He's been suggesting he wants to buy a gun.
00:37:40.000I need to go to a judge and issue a temporary restraining order.
00:37:43.000I think we can all agree that that would be a proper measure to take.
00:37:50.000What if I believe, as somebody on the right, that my next door neighbor, who's a Bernie Sanders supporter, and who hates me, and who thinks that President Trump is a white supremacist who wants Latinos shot at an El Paso Walmart, He lives next door to me.
00:38:04.000I've got a Trump sign on my lawn, and he thinks that that Trump sign is innately violent and terrible, and so he just puts together some sort of claim, goes to a judge, and next thing I know, the police are hauling my guns out of my house.
00:38:17.000There are a lot of people on the right who are worried about this, and I think that that worry is not an unreasonable one, given the way that the left is treating the right right now, given the way that Democrats are treating anyone who says they will vote for Trump, given the way they are lumping in everybody who is on the right with white supremacists.
00:38:32.000I think that it undermines the capacity to form legislation.
00:38:35.000You know, one of the things that you find, especially, it works in the context of guns too.
00:38:39.000When there are high levels of social capital.
00:38:41.000Social capital is the amount of trust that we have in one another.
00:38:44.000When there are high levels of social capital in a community, pretty much any policy works.
00:38:49.000Even redistributionist policies tend to work when there's high social capital, at least for a period of time before you have a free rider problem.
00:38:56.000This is what's happened in Norway, for example.
00:38:58.000So people like to talk about Sweden and Norway.
00:39:00.000Those are countries that by studies have very high levels of social trust and social capital.
00:39:04.000Socialism tends to undermine that because you end up with a lot of free riders, but temporarily, because people trust each other, they don't seem to mind redistributionism as much.
00:39:22.000And you like that because there's high levels of social capital.
00:39:25.000The same thing holds true when it comes to gun violence more generally.
00:39:28.000In areas of the United States with high levels of trust in your neighbor, gun violence is not a problem, even if everybody owns a gun.
00:39:34.000And this is true in New Hampshire, for example, or Vermont.
00:39:36.000In areas where there is very little social capital, meaning you can't trust your neighbor, where crime rates are extraordinarily high, where there are lack of masculine influences, for example, where police presence is not high enough and law enforcement presence isn't high enough, Then, presence of guns will lead to additional violence, or at least contribute to problems of additional violence, and this is what you see in, for example, Chicago every weekend.
00:39:57.000Social capital lies at the root of the ability to effectually provide legislation that works.
00:40:04.000As we continue to undermine the social capital and imply that people who live next door to us are nascent shooters and nascent white supremacists, and everyone who disagrees with you is a crazy person about to shoot up a Walmart, Why would any of those people then say, OK, I'm going to grant government the power to come and take away my guns at your word?
00:40:22.000So as I say, I agree on a general level with red flag laws, I do.
00:40:27.000But I certainly hear the critique in a time when Joaquin Castro is suggesting that anyone who donated to Trump needs to be targeted.
00:40:34.000And in time when I am paying out of my pocket for personal security because I'm being targeted by both white supremacists and Antifa and then being called by mainstream figures on the left, a white supremacist.
00:40:45.000In that time, listen, I'm not too sanguine about handing more power to government at the word of these people either, at the word of these jokers.
00:40:52.000It undermines the ability to actually make good legislation.
00:40:56.000And you know what else undermines the ability to make good legislation?
00:41:00.000The fact that there is distrust of the left and where they want to stop here.
00:41:04.000Because as it turns out, the left's attempts to cut down on the Second Amendment are matched only by their attempts to cut down on the First Amendment.
00:41:12.000So when you listen to the Democrats talk about the Second Amendment, they do so with the sort of snide nastiness that they usually reserve for actual evils.
00:41:22.000So you end up with Kamala Harris declaring herself dictator.
00:41:25.000So Kamala Harris is proposing gun control.
00:41:27.000Her gun control is basically that she is going to do whatever she wants.
00:41:31.000And then the lightning shoots out of her fingers.
00:41:33.000Kamala Harris tweeted out, as president, I will take executive action to revoke the licenses of gun manufacturers and dealers that break the law.
00:41:41.000Maybe she should start, by the way, with all of the dealers that Eric Holder allowed to involve themselves in straw purchases in Fast and Furious.
00:41:51.000She says, require anyone who sells more than five guns a year to run a background check on all gun sales and ban the importation of AR-15 style assault weapons.
00:42:00.000Okay, so I'm glad that she is just going to declare this stuff as president.
00:42:03.000Because, as we all know, the president is a dictator.
00:42:05.000I'm not fearful at all that she's coming for my guns.
00:42:07.000Because she just declared herself dictator as soon as she's elected.
00:42:37.000Instead, we elect a big man or a big woman and they're supposed to do all the things we want and they're supposed to take revenge against our political enemies.
00:42:44.000We're moving in some really dangerous directions in this country.
00:42:50.000So as I say, it's not just crackdowns on the Second Amendment that folks on the right are worried about.
00:42:54.000It should be crackdowns on the First Amendment.
00:42:56.000There's a piece in the New York Times today, a news piece by Melissa Eddy and Aurelien Breeden, saying the El Paso shooting revived the free speech debate.
00:43:05.000So now you have the New York Times running full pieces on why we should limit the First Amendment, why we should limit freedom of speech.
00:43:13.000No, I've said before, I again, I don't know how many times I have to say this, considering that I've been the subject of white supremacist death threats, probably more than most people, more than most people, more than nearly anyone in the United States.
00:43:24.000OK, given the fact that, again, I have personal security 24-7 around the clock, my family has security.
00:43:30.000Given that fact, I think it is fair to say that I understand the wages of free speech.
00:43:34.000I understand the wages of people saying evil things.
00:43:36.000There are people on the internet right now who are ranting and raving about what a terrible evil person, what a cuck I am for ripping on white supremacy and threatening me.
00:43:46.000This is happening like right at the moment.
00:43:50.000I also have said that free speech shall not be infringed.
00:43:54.000The First Amendment is a very good thing.
00:43:56.000If you want a free country, you have to accept the fact that there are going to be people who misuse their rights.
00:44:00.000Now, when that crosses over into actual threats, into legal incitement, then the police do something about it.
00:44:06.000So, when somebody from Antifa threatens to come to my house, I call the cops.
00:44:09.000And when somebody threatens to come and kill me and my family, I'm gonna call the FBI.
00:44:14.000And there will be an arrest, as there has already been, in at least one case.
00:44:18.000But the fact that the New York Times is now the New York Times.
00:44:22.000Weren't they the people who like the case New York Times versus Sullivan about the broad scope of what is publishable in the United States without liability?
00:44:32.000I thought that that case included the New York Times, like that's why it was in the name New York Times v. Sullivan.
00:44:36.000Well, now the New York Times is openly calling for European style restrictions on the First Amendment.
00:44:40.000In Europe, lots of types of speech are banned.
00:44:44.000You think that the left isn't coming for your free speech?
00:44:46.000The hard left isn't coming for your free speech?
00:44:52.000It is only a matter of time until this comes to the United States in full force.
00:44:56.000Not just attempts to curb corporate spending, which is indeed a violation of free speech, but attempts to suggest that hate speech, quote-unquote hate speech, ill-defined should be outlawed.
00:45:08.000That if you call a biological man a man, it should be outlawed.
00:45:12.000You already see a lot of corporations doing the dirty work of these activists, these anti-free speech activists, by banning speech that they don't like.
00:45:21.000Not illegal speech, just speech that they don't like.
00:45:24.000They're private corporations, they can do what they want, but it contributes to a feeling that free speech Is really not in its healthiest moment in the country, for damn sure.
00:45:33.000In any case, the New York Times reports, The massacre of 22 people in El Paso, an attack announced in a hate-filled manifesto about an immigrant invasion, has revived debate about the limits of free speech protected by the First Amendment.
00:45:44.000But in Europe, where history has proved that domestic threats can be as devastating to democracy as those from abroad, freedom of speech, while a constitutional right, comes with certain caveats, where it's not going to be a threat.
00:45:54.000Restricted in scope and linked to specific threats, these limitations are based on the premise that protecting certain ideals, such as the public good or human dignity, Can justify curbing what individuals are allowed to say.
00:46:07.000Way more dangerous to the future of the country than white supremacists ranting online.
00:46:12.000It is significantly more dangerous to the future of the country if we start curbing free speech on a broad level on the basis of quote public good or human dignity.
00:46:20.000Then it is to have people ranting on 4chan.
00:46:22.000And again, the people ranting on 4chan should be monitored by the FBI.
00:46:25.000They should be arrested if they are getting violent.
00:46:27.000Obviously, because that is a violation of free speech.
00:46:30.000But in the long run, what is going to actually collapse the democracy in the United States, collapse the small r-republic of the United States, is not going to be evil people who commit isolated acts of violence.
00:46:41.000What is going to take down the United States is a broad governmental level attempt to shut down speech that is considered unpalatable.
00:47:16.000Now, the Europeans in the aftermath of World War II instituted all sorts of curbs on the sort of speech that could be used because they were afraid that that speech could be used and lead to the rise of Nazism.
00:47:26.000And in order to protect democracy, you had to engage in a sort of repressive tolerance where everybody who didn't agree with you, at least on a broad level, was shut down.
00:47:37.000You understand it more in the European context.
00:47:39.000But the fact, again, remains that in the United States, in the United States, There is no white supremacist takeover of the national government that is even close to happening or remotely possible happening.
00:47:53.000And so if the idea is we have to curb free speech because of 8chan, not on board with that.
00:47:58.000And I think a lot of people in the United States are quite fearful that the same left that labels everyone on the right a member of the 8chan community, that they are happy to use vague terms like public good or human dignity to simply shut down speech they don't like.
00:48:35.000I think there are a lot of people who are not using this as a first step toward an ultimate goal of curbing free speech or curbing Second Amendment rights.
00:48:44.000But then you should be actively fighting the people who obviously are.
00:48:46.000The New York Times runs this- I mean, it's unbelievable.
00:48:49.000Kevin Williamson has a book out about this.
00:48:51.000About the attempt by so many people, particularly on the left these days, to conflate language I don't like with incitement.
00:48:58.000The AOC and the squad, they do it all the time.
00:49:00.000The same squad members like Rashida Tlaib celebrating Joaquin Castro targeting political opponents by name.
00:49:06.000She is the same person who will say that it is incitement if I say that Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic.
00:49:12.000And then presumably should pursue legislation along those lines.
00:49:16.000The New York Times says free speech is constitutionally enshrined in both Germany and France as it is in the United States.
00:49:23.000Emmanuel Pierrot, a French lawyer who specializes in publishing and free speech says, the big nuance between the First Amendment and the European texts is that the European texts allow for possible limitations on speech.
00:49:34.000Yes, that is supremely, supremely dangerous in the American context.
00:49:40.000Trying to conflate violence and speech is one of the habits of the left right now, and it is going to undermine any possibility of living in a republic with one another.
00:49:49.000You're undermining the fundamental rights upon which the polity was based.
00:49:52.000You can't do that without damaging the polity itself.
00:49:56.000And then we'll get to a thing that I hate.
00:49:58.000So, speaking of social fabric and community, there is a great clip that is going around, has probably 30 million views at this point, of a 94-year-old man appearing in traffic court about a school zone violation.
00:50:11.000And the judge, who himself has to be in his 60s, and it's just, it's pretty fantastic because it's a reminder that, at root in the United States, the vast majority of us really nearly everyone is trying to be a good person and do the right things and beneath all of our disagreements there should be a common humanity in a liberal republic
00:50:30.000and here's this clip you are charged with a school zone violation which means that you were exceeding the speed limit in a school zone i don't drive that fast judge i'm I'm 96 years old, and I drive slowly, and I only drive when I have to.
00:50:50.000I was going to the blood work for my boy.
00:51:41.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:51:47.000So according to a new poll, a UK-wide survey, this is from the United Kingdom obviously, reveals the extent to which the younger generation feel disillusioned, is according to the UK Sun, with the majority, 89% of 16 to 29 year olds claiming that their life lacks purpose or meaning.
00:52:02.000Well maybe that is because of a philosophy that suggests that life lacks purpose or meaning.
00:52:05.000It turns out human beings really suck at creating their own purpose and their own meaning, and they will find Tribalism they will find they will find distraction they'll find hedonism that human beings are Born to find meaning and if you don't have social institutions that provide that meaning social institutions that provide meaning in acting in freedom and responsibility social institutions that promote freedom and Liberty, along with duty.
00:52:30.000If you don't have those social institutions, people lack purpose.
00:52:32.000And that lack of purpose has serious consequences.
00:52:35.000It leads to depression, it leads to suicide, it leads to drug use.
00:52:38.000There are actual consequences to believing that there is no purpose in life.
00:52:42.000And unfortunately, secularism has a tough time filling that gap.
00:52:46.000Again, I'm very much in favor of secularism's take on the separation between church and state and government, particularly because I don't think that the state should crack down on church.
00:52:54.000That's really why separation of church and state was created in the first place, so that you didn't have one sect cracking down on other sects.
00:53:00.000With that said, the fundamental attempt to undermine social institutions in the West has led to a meaninglessness, a crisis of meaninglessness that I write about in my book, The Right Side of History.
00:53:11.000It's not just a pitch for the book, but my book really does talk about this at length.
00:53:14.000It's worth reading because it talks about where we used to find purpose and meaning on a community level and on an individual level.
00:53:20.000Okay, here is a thing that I both hate and like.
00:53:23.000Because I think this also goes to the moral quandary that the West is experiencing and its inability to recognize the difference between good and evil.
00:53:31.000The Times of Israel has a report today.
00:53:34.000Interior Minister Aryeh Derry on Tuesday awarded Israeli residency to a Palestinian man who saved the children of a West Bank rabbi in the aftermath of a deadly terror attack in which the father was killed.
00:53:44.000Rabbi Mickey Mark was murdered in a July 1, 2016 shooting.
00:53:50.000Two of their teenage children were also hurt.
00:53:52.000The Palestinian rescuer and his wife, who are residents of Hebron, the Hebron area, helped the surviving members of the Mark family escape their overturned vehicle and administered first aid until first responders arrived at the scene.
00:54:04.000The Palestinian man, who has not been named, received a temporary visa to live and work in Israel after receiving death threats in his hometown near the West Bank city of Hebron.
00:54:13.000The visa was not renewed in August 2018.
00:54:15.000He's been homeless, living in limbo in Israel.
00:54:17.000His plight was revealed recently in a Channel 12 report, and following a campaign by several Israelis, including settler leaders, he was awarded Israeli residency on Tuesday, along with his wife and son.
00:54:28.000Let me just point out that this guy and his wife helped save the family of a Jew during a terror attack and he was met for that trouble with death threats in the West Bank.