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00:00:16.000Obviously, the tragedy of the Parkland school shooting is still on everyone's mind.
00:00:21.000And every time there's a massive shooting like this, whether it's Las Vegas or whether it is Sandy Hook, we now go into a predictable cycle of outrage, where folks say things that are ridiculous, they impute motives to other people that are ridiculous, and then those people fire back, and it becomes highly irritating.
00:00:37.000Well, we're going to talk a little bit about some of those arguments today.
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00:02:32.000It's the circular argument that has become highly irritating to everybody involved, in which people on the left scream, do something, people on the right say, well, what would you have us do?
00:02:39.000And then people on the left say, well, if you're even asking that question, it means you don't want to do something.
00:02:43.000That seems like the cycle of logic that is applied here.
00:02:46.000So Jimmy Kimmel, of course, is the leader in being the sort of emotional
00:02:53.000So he goes on his show last night and he of course talks about the shooting and pushes hard for gun control with his usual caveats and freak outs about the NRA.
00:03:03.000Another senseless shooting, this time at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman, a former student, opened fire yesterday.
00:03:11.000Again, 17 lives have been lost, more than a dozen people are hospitalized.
00:03:15.000Tell your buddies in Congress, tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws, real laws, that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids.
00:03:37.000Okay, go tell people what to do, and what we need laws, and what are these laws going to be, and the Congress works for us, they don't work for the NRA.
00:03:45.000This is one of the things that he was pushing, the idea that the NRA was responsible.
00:04:01.000We just want reasonable gun legislation.
00:04:03.000But then they can never name what the reasonable gun legislation is, because if they were to ban assault rifles, the reality is the vast majority of killings that are done with guns in the United States are not with assault rifles.
00:04:11.000Assault rifles are responsible for less murders in the United States than hands or knives.
00:04:16.000When people on the left say, well, what if we would just do better background checks?
00:04:20.000We have full background checks in the state of California, and that has not stopped the Isla Vista shooting.
00:04:24.000It did not stop the San Bernardino shooting.
00:04:26.000Again, the problem with these targeted gun laws is that what people on the left really want, if they were honest about it, they would say this.
00:04:32.000Piers Morgan, when I was on with him in 2013, he refused to say it, but then he finally came out and he was honest about it.
00:04:37.000What they really want is a UK-style government
00:04:59.000In the United States, if you're a grandfather in, all of the guns that still are there, there are 300 million guns in the United States.
00:05:04.000So that would not actually solve the problem you're talking about, because a lot of the guns that are in the hands of people who are going to commit school shootings in the future are already in those hands.
00:05:14.000So you'd actually have to go around conferences getting guns.
00:05:15.000Good luck trying to take guns away from 42% of the American public who say, 42% of households say that there's a gun in the house.
00:05:48.000Now, I don't know what that's supposed to mean, no more guns.
00:05:51.000Are you going to take away the ones that people already have?
00:05:53.000Are you going to take away from law-abiding citizens?
00:05:56.000And then CNN, the rest of the media, they spend an awful lot of time bringing on victims of shootings to talk about what gun policy should be.
00:06:05.000I'm never in favor of this, by the way.
00:06:06.000I think that it's always a mistake to have grieving people talk about policy because I don't think that your grief is relevant to the policy considerations at issue.
00:06:15.000It's a form of emotional identity politics.
00:06:17.000You do not have added legitimacy on a topic because as a blank, right, this is what Steven Pinker suggests as identity politics, as a white man, as a black woman, as a grieving mother.
00:06:28.000As soon as you say that a grieving mother has more moral legitimacy to speak on gun control than somebody who's studied the issue all their life, then you are throwing away reason in favor of emotion.
00:06:37.000In any case, here's this mother, and obviously you have nothing but sympathy for the mom, and that's why CNN is putting her on the air.
00:06:44.000President Trump, you say, what can you do?
00:06:47.000You can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands!
00:06:52.000Put metal detectors at every entrance to the schools!
00:07:25.000Yeah, obviously, it's horrifying to watch.
00:07:27.000I mean, it's just terrible to watch this grieving mother.
00:07:30.000But when she's screaming at Trump to do something, what—the question is what Trump is supposed to do.
00:07:34.000The president of the United States doesn't have unilateral authority to seize guns in the United States.
00:07:38.000The president of the United States does not have unilateral authority to put even metal detectors, which is, by the way, a proposal I agree with, on school grounds.
00:07:45.000I think that security should be upped at all schools, as I said yesterday.
00:07:49.000Having armed guards at every school is not a—I fail to understand why this is even remotely controversial.
00:07:54.000But the reason that CNN—the bigger question is not about the mom.
00:07:56.000I understand where the mom is coming from.
00:07:58.000Everyone with a heart understands where the mom is coming from.
00:08:00.000The question is, why is CNN spending airtime on this?
00:08:03.000And the reason that CNN is spending airtime on this is because CNN wants to manipulate viewers into responding emotionally to an issue that actually requires thought and reason, as opposed to an issue that requires emotional response.
00:08:15.000You notice that CNN never does this, by the way, with victims of terror attacks.
00:08:18.000CNN will never go to victims of terror attacks after there is an Islamic terror attack, for example.
00:08:22.000And they won't have the victim of the terror attacks family go on TV and say, we need a travel ban.
00:08:26.000And CNN will never do that because that doesn't agree with CNN's agenda.
00:08:30.000The point here is that it's exploitative for the media to put grieving people on television simply in order to make a certain political point.
00:08:37.000It's something I object to generally, it's something I object to on a specific level, and I think that it's something that really needs to stop.
00:08:44.000And again, they were doing this with students as well.
00:08:45.000CNN put a student on TV to talk about why this is somehow on Rick Scott, rather than MSNBC doing this.
00:08:52.000You know, again, it's a flu of emotion.
00:08:57.000And I've just been trying to channel those all together into some sort of mad inspiration.
00:09:02.000I'm trying to get the message out that it is important to grieve, but it's also important to make sure the bad guys feel this in the polls, and make sure everybody knows that their votes count on this.
00:09:14.000It's my astute belief that the blood of those 17 people is on Rick Scott's hands.
00:09:19.000OK, so somehow it's not Rich Scott, it's Rick Scott.
00:09:22.000It's somehow the blood of people who died in Parklands on Rick Scott's hands.
00:09:25.000Why is it on Rick Scott's hands when a nutcase—who apparently the police were called to the house 39 times.
00:09:32.000The police had gone to this guy's house 39 times, and there was no involuntary commitment of this person, who apparently when he was a child was even put in a facility for violent juveniles.
00:09:44.000But what that has to do with gun control is a little bit beyond me.
00:09:48.000Now, folks on the left, if they're really honest, they will say what they really mean.
00:09:51.000What they really mean is they want to confiscate all the guns.
00:09:53.000So let's talk about that in just a second, whether or not all the guns should be confiscated.
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00:11:09.000OK, so there are some folks today who are being a little bit more honest about what it would take to really get to the gun-free utopia they want.
00:11:16.000And that, of course, is repeal of the Second Amendment.
00:11:18.000So Barry White, a reporter, a staff writer over at The New York Times, who was ripped earlier this week.
00:11:24.000She was ripped earlier this week for being supposedly too conservative, for saying that immigrants get the job done
00:11:30.000After she—and she tweeted that about the daughter of immigrants rather than immigrants themselves, and she was ripped up and down by members of The New York Times staff.
00:11:36.000Well, she tweeted out, repeal the Second Amendment.
00:11:38.000And then she tweeted out a column that was written by Bret Stephens a year ago, in October of 2017, a few months ago, in October 2017, after the Las Vegas shooting, I believe.
00:11:47.000And that column was titled, Repeal the Second Amendment.
00:11:49.000So, let's go through that column, because it's about as good an argument as you will hear for repealing the Second Amendment, and it is not a very good argument at that.
00:11:55.000So, Bret Stephens starts off that column by deriding what he calls the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment.
00:12:00.000So why exactly would conservatives support a private right to own weapons for the protection of life and liberty?
00:12:05.000After all, Stephens says, quote, from a law and order standpoint, more guns mean more murder.
00:12:11.000More guns in certain places mean more murder.
00:12:14.000More guns in Vermont do not mean more murder.
00:12:16.000More guns in rural Texas do not necessarily mean more murder.
00:12:19.000Steven cites a study in the American Journal of Public Health from 2013 to show that, quote,
00:12:29.000But there's only one problem with the study.
00:12:31.000This examines the statistics on a state level, which doesn't make any sense, given that virtually all murder in the United States takes place not in rural areas of states, but in the big cities.
00:12:41.000And in those big cities, there are very harsh gun laws.
00:12:44.000In the big cities, that's where nearly all murder in the United States takes place, in big cities.
00:12:48.000So there's very little link, actually, between state law and state homicide rate, as Eugene Volokh of The Washington Post pointed out.
00:12:57.000Beyond that, that same study that he's citing that says that states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicide, there's one problem with the study.
00:13:05.000The single largest variable when it comes to murder rate is not actually gun ownership in these various states.
00:13:10.000The single largest rate, which the study tries to bury, the single largest problem is that the highest correlation is between the number of black people in a particular state and the number of homicides.
00:13:27.000But if you're going to look at what is statistically relevant, and you're going to look at factors that are statistically relevant, the number of black people in a state are more statistically relevant than the number of guns in a state.
00:13:55.000The study tried to bury that data by not showing it in the actual text of the study.
00:13:59.000So if you love that study so much, then you should recognize that there are variables that have significantly more impact than gun ownership rate.
00:14:06.000And that has to do, and we can talk about why there's a higher homicide rate in the black community than there is in the white community.
00:14:11.000A lot of it has to do with under-policing the black community that has been a matter of systemic discrimination since the 1800s, where white communities basically said that black communities fend for yourselves, and that's been inculcated in particular areas of the culture.
00:14:25.000The point that I'm making is that if you are going to suggest that gun ownership is highly correlative with gun death, then you have to look at other factors that are highly correlative with gun death and see that these statistics are not nearly as significant as you think they are.
00:14:38.000Stevens continues by stating, quote, from a personal safety standpoint, more guns means less safety.
00:14:43.000He then cites the fact that more people are killed every year in accidental firearm death than in self-defense shooting situations.
00:14:49.000But that's not a proper statistic either.
00:14:51.000Because the times that people use a gun in self-defense far exceed the number of times you actually shoot somebody to death in self-defense.
00:14:57.000The goal of having a gun in your home is so that you can pull it out.
00:15:00.000I mean, I know there's a woman around the corner, and she was at home, and there's a guy who tried to break into her house.
00:15:06.000She went and got the shotgun from the back room.
00:15:23.000Now, that would not show up in any of the statistics that are being measured by the CDC.
00:15:26.000It would not show up as a use of a gun in self-defense, because you didn't actually point it at somebody, you didn't actually shoot somebody, you didn't actually wound somebody.
00:15:33.000But this sort of stuff happens all the time.
00:15:35.000And there's a widely varying set of statistics on how often people use guns in self-defense this way.
00:15:40.000According to the National Self-Defense Survey extrapolations,
00:15:43.000People use firearms in self-defense millions of times a year.
00:15:46.000Brian Doherty at Reason has an exhaustive analysis of whether it's hundreds of thousands of times a year or millions of times a year, but it's certainly not 268 justifiable homicide by firearms.
00:15:57.000That is not the full measure of the number of times people actually use guns in self-defense in the United States.
00:16:02.000So Stephen then moves on to deriding the philosophy of gun ownership.
00:16:07.000He says that the idea that we can protect liberty by having guns in the United States, that we can protect from foreign threat by having guns in the United States, is a quaint idea.
00:16:14.000Well, I wonder if it's such a quaint idea after Afghanistan, after Vietnam.
00:16:17.000The fact is that small arms gun ownership and guerrilla warfare have been successful at thwarting some of the greatest powers in the history of humanity—the United States in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and the Russians in Afghanistan, for example.
00:16:27.000Those have been thwarted by IEDs and small guns.
00:16:30.000These are not being thwarted by necessarily top-level military weaponry.
00:16:35.000Finally, he goes on and he says that the idea that an armed citizenry is the ultimate check on the ambitions and encroachment of government power is silly.
00:16:43.000And then he says, well, look at the Whiskey Rebellion.
00:16:45.000That wasn't a check on government power, except that it sort of was.
00:16:48.000The Whiskey Rebellion, which happened in the late 1790s, it was directed at an internal whiskey tax placed by the federal government.
00:16:56.000There were a bunch of people who grew corn for whiskey, and they were very upset that the whiskey tax was affecting them, and there was an armed revolt.
00:17:04.000And so he says, well, that showed that there was a failure of armed insurrection.
00:17:08.000Except for the fact, of course, that President John Adams may have lost the presidency in 1800 based on that, and that President Thomas Jefferson then immediately went about revoking the whiskey tax.
00:17:16.000So it obviously had a pretty significant
00:17:23.000There's nearly an armed standoff with the federal government over Cliven Bundy's territory, where Cliven Bundy wanted to feed his cattle on land that he historically grazed cattle on, and the Environmental Protection Association, the EPA agency, rather, they came in and they said that this was terrible, that he couldn't be grazing his cattle on this area, and they tried to fine him, then they tried to seize his farm.
00:17:43.000And Clive and Bundy refused to go along with the arrest, and a bunch of people showed up and refused to go along with the arrest as well.
00:17:49.000Well, there was just a jury nullification that happened, and Clive and Bundy went free.
00:18:04.000The Civil War was a terrible, terrible thing.
00:18:06.000But the idea that having lots of people with guns does not somehow check the ambitions of the federal government is obviously nonsensical.
00:18:11.000The reason that we're not really talking in serious terms about full-scale gun confiscation is because you try that crap in Texas, it ain't gonna go well.
00:18:19.000Stevens then turns to the active shooter phenomenon.
00:18:21.000He says that such situations are extremely rare in the rest of the world, which is true.
00:18:26.000It is also true that they are extremely rare here in the United States as well.
00:18:30.000So John Lott's website, the Crime Prevention Research Center, he goes through the annual death rate from mass public shootings comparing the European countries to U.S.
00:18:37.000and Canada, and he did it on a per capita basis.
00:18:39.000So one of the things that happens is that the United States is compared to Britain, for example.
00:18:44.000You say, oh, there are lots more shootings here than there are in Britain.
00:18:45.000Right, we're a much larger country than Britain.
00:18:47.000When you actually look at the death rate per million people from mass public shootings from 2009 through 2015, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, the number one country was Norway because they had that horrible Andres Breivik shooting.
00:18:58.000And then it's Serbia, France, Macedonia, Albania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Czech Republic, and then the United States.
00:19:07.000How about frequency of mass public shootings?
00:19:09.000So if you look at the frequency of mass public shootings from January 2009 to December 2015 per million people in order, it's Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Switzerland, Norway, Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, France, and then the United States.
00:19:23.000The average incident rate for 28 EU countries is 0.0602, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.0257 to 0.09477.
00:19:34.000rate is 0.078 higher than the EU rate, but the U.S.
00:19:38.000and average for EU countries are not statistically different.
00:19:41.000In other words, we're having about the same number of mass shootings as are happening in other countries, and we have significantly more guns.
00:19:48.000So this idea that everything lines up is just not statistically correct.
00:19:52.000Again, the case for full-scale gun confiscation is particularly weak, especially in a country where you have, as I say, some 300 million guns and 100 million gun owners.
00:20:03.000Finally, he says that leftists are losing the gun control debate when they lie about the facts, which is true, and that they should stop talking about quote-unquote common-sense gun control and they should just repeal the Second Amendment.
00:20:13.000He says gun ownership shouldn't be outlawed.
00:20:14.000It doesn't need a blanket constitutional protection either.
00:20:18.000It never occurs to Stevens that the fundamental argument in favor of
00:20:21.000Owning a gun is protection of life, which is the fundamental right that you have in a state of nature according to both the Founding Fathers and John Locke, and that the reason you have a gun is to protect your own life and protect your own liberty.
00:20:31.000And a state powerful enough to confiscate weaponry on a grand scale is a state powerful enough to end your rights as well.
00:20:37.000Other rights, not just your First Amendment rights.
00:20:40.000Stevens finishes by saying, But that's not true at all.
00:20:49.000The true foundation of American exceptionalism is the idea that we built a system on unchanging human nature.
00:20:55.000And the idea of handing a complete monopoly on gun ownership over to the federal government is a scary one, or should be a scary one, to anyone who loves liberty.
00:21:04.000Okay, when we continue here in just a second, I want to talk
00:21:08.000about the NRA because the left is going nuts over the NRA.
00:21:44.000So we have to be bold, we have to go forward, and we cannot let the National Rifle Association and its many, however they get their money, and that's another subject, to decide what the character of America is.
00:22:00.000This sort of kabuki theater in which Democrats participate is quite gross.
00:22:05.000They did control the Congress with 60 votes in the Senate, as well as a majority in the House and the presidency from 2009 to 2011.
00:22:10.000And here is the grand total number of major gun legislation pieces they passed.
00:22:40.000Democrats have been saying that illegal immigration, DACA, deeply important things, they didn't do anything on illegal immigration while they had control.
00:22:46.000And now that Republicans have control, they're railing against Republicans.
00:22:49.000But I want to go to a core view that she's talking about here, and it was repeated across the media, that the NRA is in control of our politics.
00:22:55.000That the reason that we haven't had a vast gun confiscation or new gun laws passed is because of the evils of the NRA, which is paying people off.
00:23:02.000MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle said the same thing.
00:23:05.000She suggested that it's just because Republicans are being paid off by the NRA.
00:23:09.000President Trump tweeted his prayers, adding, no child, teacher, or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school.
00:23:19.000Well, the NRA spent more than $21 million supporting President Trump in his 2016 election, almost $10 million in ads and other pro-Trump material, and $12 million attacking Hillary Clinton.
00:23:32.000The thoughts and prayers are with the victims.
00:23:34.000The dollars and cents are another story.
00:23:38.000Yeah, so the idea, again, is that the NRA is responsible for everything bad happening in Congress because they've been paying people off.
00:23:44.000Jimmy Kimmel said the same thing last night.
00:23:46.000He had said that the NRA had Congress's balls in a money clip, which is just absurd.
00:23:51.000Last night, he said, somewhere along the line, these guys forgot they work for us, not the NRA, us.
00:23:56.000And this time, we're not going to allow you to bow your head in prayer for two weeks until you get it all clear and you move on to the next thing.
00:24:00.000We're going to make sure you do something this time.
00:24:02.000Well, no you're not, because the vast majority of the public is not in favor of the do-something mentality.
00:24:06.000The vast majority of the public is in favor of perhaps some measures that would do something here, but you have to name the measures.
00:24:13.000But let's discuss the underlying claim.
00:24:46.000Because in their crusade to make it seem that the NRA wants to get guns in the hands of bad people, they ignored the fact that the NRA ensures that good people can have their hands on guns.
00:25:45.000They're spending money on ads in the amount of $144.3 million plus another $45.9 million on lobbying, which is a grand total of $203.2 million on political activities over 18 years, or approximately $22.6 million per two-year election cycle.
00:25:59.000The NRA does spend a lot more during presidential election cycles.
00:26:02.000According to Open Secrets, the NRA spent some $54 million in 2016 on politics.
00:26:07.000That would be on issue ads across the country, that would be on lobbying, that would be on organizing, all the rest.
00:26:12.000So, that sounds like a lot of money, right?
00:27:13.000That the unions are paying off Democrats in corrupt fashion.
00:27:16.000And there's a lot more evidence of that than there is that the Republicans are being paid off by the NRA.
00:27:21.000The Republicans are being elected by the NRA to presumably be pro-gun.
00:27:26.000But they were pro-gun before the NRA was there.
00:27:28.000If the NRA disappeared overnight, there'd be five million gun owners who joined another gun organization, and that gun organization would be lobbying.
00:27:34.000When it comes to the unions, it's a different story.
00:27:36.000Unions are very often in the business of giving money directly to candidates and then sitting there and actually making deals with the candidates for their union members, which seems a lot more corrupt to me.
00:28:35.000But it's always easy to have this ridiculous theory that there's someone out there, some evil, nefarious force, who's spreading money in the back room.
00:28:42.000And that's why gun control hasn't prospered.
00:28:45.000The reason gun control has not prospered in the United States is because it's deeply unpopular when you come down to the specifics.
00:28:52.000The NRA is popular because people don't want large-scale gun control.
00:28:57.000It's not that people don't want large-scale gun control because the NRA has lots of money.
00:29:02.000Folks, for all the talk about gun control and a piece of breaking news from the Wall Street Journal, the FBI has now said it mistakenly didn't investigate a credible and specific tip about the teenager charged with storming into the Florida high school and killing 17 people.
00:29:16.000In a statement, the FBI said it received a call on a tip line from a person close to the shooter.
00:29:21.000The caller provided information on, quote, his gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.
00:29:29.000The information should have been assessed as a potential threat to life.
00:29:32.000It was not forwarded for investigation to the FBI's Miami field office, and no further investigation was conducted.
00:29:39.000So, well done, FBI, for all the talk about how the government is necessary in order to remove guns from 300 million—300 million guns in American society, remove guns from 100 million people across the country.
00:29:51.000The FBI can't even track down one damn lead that says everything you need to know about the guy who went in and shot up a school.
00:29:58.000You want to talk about government malfeasance and government incompetence?
00:30:15.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to talk about immigration proposals that happened yesterday, plus the president doing some serious King David-ing in a little while.
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00:31:03.000All right, so I just want to give you a brief update on what happens on immigration.
00:31:07.000So March 5th is when DACA is supposed to expire.
00:31:10.000DACA, that is when supposedly deportations begin for people who have not registered through the DACA system, or when deportations could begin for even those who have registered with the government through the DACA system.
00:31:22.000In all reality, not much is going to change on March 5th, except that people will not be given new work permits, essentially, in the United States if they are illegal immigrants.
00:31:29.000There were four bills that were brought up yesterday in the Senate.
00:31:44.000That basically was a proposal to give permanent residence to recipients of DACA immigration program in return for $110 million annual grant for increased border security.
00:31:55.000It specifically excluded any funding for construction of a wall on the southern border.
00:31:59.000That one did not make it out of committee.
00:32:00.000Second proposal was Pat Toomey's proposal from Pennsylvania, Republican.
00:32:05.000cut off funding for sanctuary cities and sanctuary states like California until those cities and states agreed to share current information with federal immigration authorities, according to Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.
00:32:15.000Fifty-four senators voted to put that bill to a full Senate vote, but Toomey couldn't get any bipartisan support and it died in debate.
00:32:21.000And then there were two more proposals that actually came up for a formal vote.
00:32:24.000The final two proposals were dueling agreements on DACA and the border wall.
00:32:27.000One was from the White House, and one were from Senators Mike Rounds, Republican from South Dakota, and Senator Angus King, independent from me, but he's really a Democrat.
00:32:35.000The bill traded a path to citizenship for DACA recipients for border enforcement and even $25 billion for southern border security construction projects, but included a conditional amnesty for DACA parents.
00:32:46.000And it was popular among members of both parties, but 54 senators only voted for the bill because Trump came out and said that he was not in favor of the bill.
00:32:52.000Listen, that is dramatically to the left of where Barack Obama was.
00:32:55.000Barack Obama in DACA, which was executive amnesty, it was illegal, it was unconstitutional, DACA covered 690,000 people.
00:33:20.000Why on earth are Republicans trying to more than double, nearly triple that from 690,000 to 1.8 million?
00:35:34.000And apparently the National Enquirer, because the editor over there is friends with Trump, bought the story and then buried the story, which of course is not shocking either.
00:37:24.000The rhapsody on the theme of Paganini.
00:37:26.000The romantic theme is only about two and a half minutes of that.
00:37:28.000OK, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:37:35.000So, number one, University of Minnesota.
00:37:36.000I'm supposed to speak there week after next, and they have apparently exiled me to a building off campus for safety reasons.
00:37:42.000It's like a 400, 500-seater as opposed to the 1500-seater that was requested.
00:37:46.000They are having a simultaneous event on the main campus at University of Minnesota, sponsored by the Women's Center, about anti-racism in the era of Trump.
00:37:53.000Because I was apparently a Trump supporter and a racist.
00:37:58.000But they're having that in the middle of the campus.
00:38:00.000So apparently, no safety concerns when lefties are holding a counter-event to my event, but serious safety concerns when I hold my event, which means I have to be exiled.
00:38:07.000Once again, demonstrating the heckler's veto in full effect.
00:38:09.000Speaking of the heckler's veto, my friend Steven Crowder apparently has now been banned from DePaul University.
00:38:14.000So just like I've been banned, he and I have both been banned from DePaul University.
00:38:21.000They've said that his comedy videos are obviously intended to demean and insult, which, if you've ever seen Stephen's show, is true, because he's a comedian.
00:38:28.000Name a comedian who did not demean and insult, and I will name you a not-very-funny comedian.
00:38:33.000So, Stephen's been banned from DePaul University.
00:38:35.000So, congratulations to Stephen on joining the list of those of us who can no longer travel to that great university.
00:39:07.000The number one job in America, the point of person, is someone who doesn't understand the people.
00:39:15.000And really don't give a f*** about the people.
00:39:17.000When I was growing up, there were like three jobs that you looked for inspiration or you felt like these were the people that can give me life.
00:39:25.000It was the President of the United States.
00:39:27.000It was whoever was the best in sports.
00:39:29.000And then it was like the greatest musician at the time.
00:39:32.000You never thought you can be them, but you can grab inspiration from.
00:39:36.000I feel like I can be, you know, if it was a neighborhood African-American cop and he was cool as hell coming around, you know, I feel like I could be him.
00:40:00.000We can continue to alert the people that watch us, that listen to us, as this is not the way.
00:40:08.000Now listen, LeBron has every ability to speak out about these things and he's obviously got a big platform and people listen to what he says.
00:40:13.000I don't think it makes him a political expert by any stretch of the imagination.
00:40:17.000When he points out that the president has not done a good job of connecting with a lot of people in the United States, this is obviously true during the election cycle, it was true after the election cycle.
00:40:26.000As a general rule, in favor of people who have not spent a fair bit of time studying politics, speaking with authority about politics, I will say that what LeBron is saying here, there's an element of truth to what LeBron is saying here with regard to the president's capacity to reach out to people.
00:40:41.000He needs to do a better job of reaching out to people.
00:40:44.000It would help if people would also reach out to the president.
00:40:47.000Meaning, if LeBron reached out to Trump and said, you know, I want to start a dialogue with you, I think that would be more useful than him sitting there and griping about Trump, per se.
00:40:56.000Although, listen, he has every right to do it.
00:41:02.000I would urge everybody to go back a couple of days ago.
00:41:04.000I did a long monologue about Black Panther, which I have not seen yet.
00:41:07.000I'm looking forward to seeing it this weekend, I hope, if I have time.
00:41:10.000And then I want to give you my honest opinion about it.
00:41:12.000The entire monologue was critiquing the media's response to Black Panther, because the media was basically suggesting this was the end of the world, right?
00:41:18.000This was the most important thing that has ever happened to the black community, according to members of the New York Times.
00:41:22.000There were two separate major op-eds in the New York Times about the importance of Black Panther as a cultural moment and all of this.
00:42:14.000David says, Well, I don't think there's been a significant deterioration of mental health by statistics, although more Americans are now on antidepressants than at any time in American history, by a fairly significant margin.
00:42:43.000The problem is that whenever you look at these shootings, and then there are studies about the shootings, the sample size is simply too small.
00:42:49.000There are not enough mass shootings for you to gather any sort of trend line other than a rough trend line.
00:42:54.000So what we can see is that a huge number of these mass shootings involve people who are deeply mentally ill and about whom there were red flags.
00:43:00.000So, if there is an increase in school shootings, I'm not sure that you can attribute that to greater rise in the number of people who are mentally ill in the United States, but you may be able to say that where we should be looking if we want to stop school shootings is among people who are severely mentally ill, who are schizophrenic—for example, violent schizophrenics, because not all schizophrenics are violent—and people who have evidenced threats against neighbors, people who have acted oddly.
00:43:23.000The question is, what's the goal of the study?
00:43:24.000If the goal of the study is to suggest measures by which we stop mass shootings, then we ought to be looking at what best fits the trend line as opposed to broad societal trends.
00:43:33.000Because let's say that it were single motherhood, for example.
00:43:36.000Single motherhood does correlate highly with general crime, but it doesn't correlate as highly with mass shootings, for example.
00:43:42.000Well, the way that you keep your competitive lead is through a purist approach to free trade.
00:43:45.000It means that all the inputs in your industry are cheaper.
00:44:04.000So, let's say, for example, that we put no tariffs on anything, but China tariffs the crap out of our products.
00:44:13.000And let's say they tax their own citizens to dump all of that money into steel, undercutting our domestic steel industry, which is kind of what's happening.
00:44:20.000So now steel is cheaper on the American market.
00:44:22.000So that means that American auto manufacturers are using that steel to make products cheaper than they will be able to make those products in China.
00:44:28.000In other words, protectionism is almost universally linked with subsidies to a particular industry.
00:44:32.000Subsidies to a particular industry mean taking from one potential industry and giving to another potential industry.
00:44:37.000It means you're taking, China is taking money from an industry that would thrive on free trade and is instead giving that money to an industry that does not thrive on free trade, namely the steel industry, for example.
00:44:50.000Maybe good for China's steel industry.
00:44:51.000It's not good for China's overall economy.
00:44:53.000What is better for an overall economy is to take cheap inputs and use that to make the most competitive products and then out-compete people despite tariffing.
00:45:01.000By the way, if you tariff your own country, if you raise tariffs to a high level, that does not make your country stronger.
00:45:08.000If you tariffed everything at 100% in the United States, meaning that everything you buy had to come from the United States, we would all be significantly poorer because we'd all have to spend a lot more money on products we are used to getting for cheap.
00:45:45.000If you want to watch the show, you watch the show.
00:45:47.000It's not that there's somebody who had to green-light me over at a network.
00:45:50.000That demonstrates, I think, the cultural shift, and it's happening in entertainment terms as well.
00:45:53.000Fewer people going out to see the media-approved movies, more people staying home and watching what they want to watch, taking movies that weren't hits and making them hits on the back end.
00:46:29.000This creates tremendous instability in these systems, and it means that it's very hard to get anything done.
00:46:34.000Yeah, there's a fair bit of gridlock, particularly around dismantling social programs, for example, because there's so many particular interests represented.
00:46:42.000So, there are costs and benefits, is what I would say there.
00:46:45.000Panagiotis, is that how it's pronounced?
00:46:47.000Hi, Ben, I'm a high school student in Canada, and most of my political education is colored by a certain point of view.
00:46:51.000Could you explain to me what a right-wing dictator would look like?
00:46:53.000Is there credence to the idea that Hitler was a right-winger?
00:46:55.000Okay, so, in order to explain what a right-wing dictator would look like, you have to distinguish between the right-wing in Europe and the right-wing in the United States.
00:47:02.000Conservatism in the United States, it is impossible for there to be a conservative dictator in the United States because conservatism is essentially classical liberalism, meaning small government is baked into the cake.
00:47:13.000You could theoretically have a dictator who said, I'm not going to control everything.
00:47:17.000A right-wing dictator would look like a minimalist king, maybe.
00:47:20.000And somebody who says, go about your daily business and I'm just here to make sure that you don't kill each other.
00:47:26.000That's what a conservative dictator would look like.
00:47:28.000But it's very difficult to think of that actually happening because typically in monarchies, the idea of a small government monarchy is extraordinarily rare.
00:47:36.000In fact, I can't name a single instance in which that has happened.
00:47:40.000Usually when people say right-wing dictator, they really mean people who are anti-communist.
00:47:43.000So Hitler was considered anti-communist and he was right-wing when you compared him to the left in Germany.
00:47:49.000But Hitler's policies were fully in favor of national health care.
00:47:53.000His policies were fully in favor of gun confiscations.
00:47:57.000I think that the basic gap between how politics works in Europe and how politics works in the United States, there's a serious lack of classical liberalism in Europe.
00:48:08.000American conservatism is based on classical liberalism.
00:48:10.000So what's defined as right-wing in Europe is basically anything that's anti-communist, even if those people are, in some parts of their program, socialist.
00:48:18.000So, by American standards, Hitler was not a conservative.
00:48:21.000By German standards, Hitler was a right-winger, and he allied with right-wingers in his government.
00:48:26.000So, in politics—I can name a lot of people in politics because I was always into history—it was usually historical figures.
00:48:37.000It was usually John Adams or Winston Churchill.
00:49:44.000Do those food stamps enervate a population?
00:49:46.000One of the reasons to have work requirements for all of this is to create an incentive scheme whereby you are getting people off of food stamps.
00:49:52.000The goal of food stamps should be not just to feed people, it should be to get people off of food stamps.
00:49:55.000The goal of welfare should be to get people off of welfare.
00:49:58.000In other words, make a plan and the system should be responsive to the plan that you make so that it's not a permanent handout, it is in fact a hands up if you're going to have these programs at all.
00:50:07.000This is why I think private charity is much better because
00:50:09.000If you are face-to-face with someone and you say, I want some of your money, it's a lot easier for that person to say, well, why do you deserve my money?
00:50:14.000And then you actually have to come up with a plan for success.
00:50:17.000If you have a nameless, faceless system that hands you a check every month, very often that is going to actually create an incentive for you not to have a plan, because that check is just going to be there no matter what.
00:51:22.000Those are probably the ones that come immediately to mind, but I actually tend to favor older comedies over newer comedies, and some that are kind of obscure.
00:51:29.000There's one called Ruggles of Red Gap with Charles, what's his name now?
00:52:32.000They're not beholden to any group that wants to make a... You have to be moral, regardless of what other people in your class are doing.
00:52:38.000These are values, and I'm sure your wife would probably agree these are values that actually have to be inculcated, essentially, from the time the kids are born.
00:52:44.000Those actually have political ramifications.
00:52:46.000The separation between politics and values is the death of civilization.
00:52:49.000Matt says, Ben, I recently heard a friend of mine who is majoring in English education talking about how one of her classes was teaching about how there is no proper English and that it is racist and oppressive to correct grammar and pronunciation, specifically of black students speaking in Ebonics.
00:53:00.000What do you say to someone who claims that any language is proper as long as it gets the point across?
00:53:14.000There are ways of communicating that do not involve proper English.
00:53:16.000That is still a form of communication.
00:53:18.000But this is like the folks who say there's no such thing as good art and bad art.
00:53:21.000Yes, there are things such as good art and bad art.
00:53:24.000And there are elements of sentences, like verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
00:53:27.000And if you use them interchangeably, your sentence makes no sense.
00:53:29.000So even folks who believe that Ebonics is
00:53:32.000Sort of traditional English, their equivalent.
00:53:34.000Even those people would acknowledge that there are certain ways that words are used in sentences, that if you use them in different ways, the sentence would make no sense.
00:53:40.000Well, there are other rules as well, and those rules include how to spell words, they include how to pronounce words, they include how sentences are constructed and paragraphs are constructed.
00:53:52.000There is a better English and there is a worse English.
00:53:54.000And there are different forms of English.
00:53:56.000But if you want to proclaim that all forms of English are equivalent, that's really, really dumb.
00:54:00.000I mean, Yiddish is not the same as English.
00:54:03.000If it is used in a... Either it is a...
00:54:07.000Different form of English that is not as proper in the sense of actually abiding by the normal rules of English, or it is a separate language entirely, which is what some Ebonics advocates suggest.
00:54:18.000It's a little bit hard to tell, honestly, because some of the people who are making the allegations are his political opponents.
00:54:28.000One of the people testifying against him is Yair Lapid, a guy who could become prime minister if Netanyahu is ousted.
00:55:16.000The growth of the 1990s was largely an after effect of the growth of the 1980s, and you can see that because you can see how the economy was contracting up until about 1983 when it turned around.
00:55:39.000And I'm curious to ask, how do people of the Jewish faith and community handle homosexuality and people who have unwanted same-sex attraction?
00:55:45.000Well, I mean, the way that we handle unwanted same-sex attraction would be the same way that you handle unwanted sexual attraction to people who are not your wife, meaning that attraction is something that we all have to struggle with.
00:55:56.000Attraction to things that we can't have or that we maybe morally oppose, that's something that we all struggle with on a real basis.
00:56:03.000That doesn't mean all those struggles are equivalent, obviously.
00:56:05.000If you have same-sex attraction, that's not equivalent in kind to me having struggles with being attracted to women who are not my wife, for example, as every man
00:56:15.000Every single man is built for polygamy, and every single man who is moral aims toward monogamy.
00:56:20.000But the idea here is that behavior and attraction are two separate things, and I'm not going to make light of the struggles that somebody has with attraction.
00:56:29.000Do I think that homosexuality is necessarily entirely genetic?
00:56:36.000How you choose to deal with it, obviously, is your individual choice in a free country.
00:56:39.000But if you want to have a wife and you want to have kids, then I would recommend that you keep away from situations in which you would be tempted to act on attraction.
00:56:48.000Again, the same advice that I give to men who don't want to have an affair.
00:56:51.000Stay away from situations where you'd be tempted to act on an attraction.
00:56:54.000Stay away from things that attract you if it's something that bothers you and if that's the way that you want to live your life.
00:56:59.000Okay, so we'll be back here on Monday with much, much more.