Louder with Crowder - Texas School Shooting TRAGEDY: What Needs to be Done | Louder with Crowder

00:00:00.000 I woke up, all today I woke up, night all

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00:00:16.000 My nose is so stuffed It's just gotta be COVID.

00:00:20.000 Well, your test came back negative for COVID, but your nasal cavities are clogged with Parmesan cheese.

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00:00:27.000 I thought it was cocaine.

00:00:29.000 Good for you.

00:00:30.000 Let's try Clear, Hunter.

00:00:33.000 It's Clear?

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00:00:35.000 It's made by Clear Inc., which is recognized as the leading manufacturer of xylitol-based products in North America.

00:00:41.000 And this nasal spray is all-natural.

00:00:44.000 All-natural?

00:00:45.000 What does that mean?

00:00:47.000 Well, that it's drug-free.

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00:00:50.000 That sucks. 0.98

00:00:51.000 Parmesan is also drug-free. 0.98

00:00:53.000 Just try the spray.

00:01:00.000 Wow!

00:01:02.000 I can breathe!

00:01:03.000 Right?

00:01:04.000 Breathing is important for a person.

00:01:05.000 Unless that person has dirt on you, right?

00:01:09.000 Wow.

00:01:10.000 Let's just be glad that it worked.

00:01:12.000 It sure did.

00:01:13.000 Thanks for showing me the clear way, Doc.

00:01:16.000 It's my pleasure.

00:01:17.000 Can you do one more favor for me?

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00:01:20.000 Hold on to this laptop for me?

00:01:21.000 Uh, no.

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00:01:26.000 Deal.

00:01:26.000 How about a quick prescription of 200 Percocet?

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00:01:35.000 I told you to quit smoking Gouda!

00:01:38.000 This is Guy Fieri, and he's rolling out.

00:01:41.000 Are you a trucker?

00:01:49.000 You are not welcome at Buc-ee's. 1.00

00:01:51.000 No trucks.

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00:01:55.000 This is what I brought, you may forget me.

00:01:58.000 I promise you my heart just promised to sing.

00:02:01.000 Kiss my eyes and wave me to sleep.

00:02:05.000 Kiss my eyes and wave me to sleep.

00:02:08.000 Sorry to keep you here.

00:02:11.000 One, two, three, there you go.

00:02:13.000 Thank you, thank you so much.

00:02:14.000 Thank you.

00:02:15.000 Thanks for coming out.

00:02:16.000 Yeah, of course.

00:02:17.000 Thank you.

00:02:19.000 I'm sorry.

00:02:20.000 Thank you.

00:02:23.000 You're a stranger in my life.

00:02:32.000 That's what I know.

00:02:35.000 You're a stranger in my life.

00:02:39.000 I have to follow.

00:02:42.000 I'm gonna be speeding.

00:02:45.000 I have to follow. 0.98

00:02:55.000 That's called a hold on to your butt sip. 1.00

00:02:57.000 Mm-hmm. 0.55

00:02:58.000 Because today is a...

00:02:59.000 Hold on a second, I'm gonna get rid of this paper.

00:03:01.000 I'm definitely gonna be doing some note-taking today.

00:03:04.000 Look.

00:03:06.000 I know this isn't the first place that you're tuning into today that's discussing gun violence and the tragedy that had taken place yesterday, okay?

00:03:13.000 That's not lost on me, and I know that if I say that I'm praying for the families and my heart absolutely breaks, and I think I speak on behalf of everyone in the studio that that's the case, that a good portion of you are going to comment that, oh, that's not enough, we need to do something, and of course the atheists will comment, spaghetti monster, because they never miss an opportunity.

00:03:32.000 So, look, let me lead with that, and let me lead with something here.

00:03:37.000 I assume that everyone who's talking about this, outside of the politicians, and even then probably a good portion of them, cares.

00:03:46.000 And wants, what's better for this country, wants to limit violence.

00:03:52.000 I don't want to get to just gun violence, I don't want to get to just mass shootings, because that's a very small subset of violence.

00:03:59.000 It's certainly a very small subset of violence as it relates to human nature throughout history.

00:04:04.000 I think that most people want to cut down on violence.

00:04:06.000 I think that most of you, whether you're left or right, want to cut down on our kids being killed.

00:04:13.000 Okay, so let's start from that.

00:04:16.000 That being said, let me ask you this.

00:04:19.000 Here's my question of the day, because you see people like Steve Kerr out there saying, do something, right?

00:04:23.000 That's the, do something!

00:04:25.000 Do you think you make your best decisions when you're angry and emotional?

00:04:30.000 In the heat of the moment?

00:04:32.000 Is this the right time to start removing people's fundamental rights or changing the very fabric of our Constitution?

00:04:38.000 Do you think that's when you have the best judgment?

00:04:41.000 I also want to today, look, let me lead with two things.

00:04:44.000 We're going to get to the top five myths, the claims that are being made right now in the wake of the tragedy that had just taken place in Texas and has taken the life of, at the time of this filming, 19, if I'm not mistaken, is it 19 people now?

00:04:57.000 Or is it 19 children and then plus two teachers?

00:05:00.000 I believe it's 19 plus two.

00:05:02.000 19 plus two.

00:05:02.000 Dear God, I hope that does not include the shooter in there.

00:05:02.000 Yes.

00:05:05.000 They used to do that.

00:05:05.000 No, it does not.

00:05:06.000 Yeah, they did.

00:05:07.000 So let me preface it with this.

00:05:10.000 Um, guns, firearms, save far more lives, and by that I mean many, many millions more lives each year in the United States than they take.

00:05:18.000 Okay?

00:05:20.000 That's a fact.

00:05:22.000 And nine, depending on the stat, you use 94 to 97, we'll take the low stat, 94% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones.

00:05:30.000 Marley was dead to begin with.

00:05:32.000 Let's set the stage with that, and then we'll get into the tired, recycled claims that are being brought out right now, specifically as it relates to this shooting.

00:05:40.000 And there are a handful that come from former Vice President Joe Biden, and of course are being echoed on Twitter.

00:05:43.000 But let's start with that.

00:05:46.000 Do something, okay?

00:05:47.000 Three million defensive uses of firearms a year versus in the teens of thousands as far as homicides, depending on the year.

00:05:53.000 Far more lives are saved by firearms in this country than are taken.

00:05:56.000 That's an irrefutable fact.

00:05:58.000 If it saves one life.

00:05:58.000 How?

00:05:59.000 If it saves millions of lives.

00:06:02.000 94% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones.

00:06:05.000 If it saves one life, okay, 94%.

00:06:06.000 If we're going to talk about doing something, we need to start with the highest percentage plays.

00:06:13.000 Let's just all assume that we don't have causation here, but we have to look at the strongest correlations.

00:06:20.000 Gun-free zones, fatherless households, We can look at these. 0.94

00:06:26.000 Then we go way, way, way down the list.

00:06:27.000 Oh wait, there's a correlation that it's always an AR-15.

00:06:29.000 It's not even close.

00:06:31.000 It's not even close.

00:06:33.000 So just to forward everyone here the same assumption that we are forwarding you right now.

00:06:38.000 That you care and that we care.

00:06:41.000 And that being said, if today's show is funny, then we are really, really good at our jobs.

00:06:51.000 I don't know.

00:06:52.000 That remains to be seen.

00:06:54.000 Yeah, I'm mad, and I was mad yesterday.

00:06:55.000 I was just mad at Europe.

00:06:55.000 Think about it.

00:06:58.000 I was mad at Europe in general.

00:06:59.000 People were like, what are you mad about today?

00:07:00.000 I remember I walked in, I was like, Europe?

00:07:01.000 You're like, what?

00:07:02.000 Why?

00:07:03.000 Why not?

00:07:04.000 Do I need a reason?

00:07:05.000 And today, I'm just, I'm angry that, I'm more sad, honestly, but I get angry and frustrated with the people who think that they have the corner on being angry and frustrated.

00:07:16.000 It's like being in a marriage, with Amber Heard, where only one person can have an emotion.

00:07:21.000 No.

00:07:22.000 Everyone can feel something right now.

00:07:23.000 That's okay.

00:07:24.000 That's natural.

00:07:25.000 Or two people can not have an emotion.

00:07:26.000 That's true.

00:07:27.000 Like the Amber Heard marriage.

00:07:29.000 Yes.

00:07:30.000 Well, I think Johnny Depp started with emotion and then he was dead inside.

00:07:33.000 Right.

00:07:34.000 Or she just started with none. 0.80

00:07:34.000 Or she killed him. 0.80

00:07:35.000 Because I like Johnny Depp.

00:07:38.000 Well, I don't know.

00:07:39.000 I mean, you know, look.

00:07:40.000 Once you poop in a bed, it's pretty hard to feel.

00:07:43.000 It's her bed, too.

00:07:44.000 I've always said that's fine.

00:07:44.000 Unless you're drunk.

00:07:45.000 Yes. 0.99

00:07:47.000 Not if you're a woman, because women do not poop. 1.00

00:07:50.000 So, my question is, what do you think we can do, and should we hold a bit before we make some decisions? 0.94

00:07:59.000 That's a genuine question.

00:08:00.000 Because everyone right now is yelling, do something, do something, do something.

00:08:03.000 Great!

00:08:03.000 I get it.

00:08:04.000 You're angry.

00:08:05.000 Then?

00:08:06.000 Let's try and examine it a little bit more.

00:08:08.000 Let's go a little further down the trail than I FEEL something!

00:08:11.000 Got it!

00:08:12.000 We can't only be a nation of feelings. 1.00

00:08:14.000 That's how you end up with six-year-olds cutting off their penis and then... 0.99

00:08:18.000 Declaring a mental health crisis as it relates to firearms in this country. 0.99

00:08:23.000 Hold on a second.

00:08:23.000 Well, you know what?

00:08:24.000 Maybe putting someone on puberty blockers and cutting off their penis when they're six might actually not be most beneficial to people's mental health. 0.99

00:08:29.000 We'll get to that, too. 0.99

00:08:30.000 Hey, Gerald A. is here.

00:08:32.000 I'm okay.

00:08:32.000 How are you, sir?

00:08:33.000 I'm okay.

00:08:34.000 It's heavy, but look, you can either laugh or you can cry, and I choose to laugh a little bit and get some of the stuff out, but I think we're gonna have some Fiery conversations when we get there.

00:08:44.000 If you cry, you're fired.

00:08:45.000 I won't cry on air.

00:08:46.000 I just mean in general when you have a lot of emotion, you can laugh or you can cry.

00:08:49.000 I mean, there's other things you can do, but I choose those two. 0.94

00:08:51.000 You can poop in a bed.

00:08:52.000 And we also have, you know him, you love him, the quickest man on his feet.

00:08:55.000 And when I say that, people are like, oh, you mean in the studio?

00:08:57.000 No, I mean ever.

00:08:58.000 And he is on tour with me, loudearthecredit.com slash tour, and he's doing his own show here May 29th.

00:09:04.000 An important show.

00:09:05.000 Gaylord, Michigan.

00:09:06.000 It's Fuel Fest.

00:09:07.000 All the proceeds are going to those affected by the tornado.

00:09:09.000 That's correct, yes.

00:09:10.000 And yeah, Friday and Saturday we'll be in Emily, Minnesota doing Big L's, and then we're gonna do this on Sunday, help raise some money for the people affected by the tornado.

00:09:18.000 And I did cry a little, but I sat on a pencil.

00:09:21.000 Ah, there you go.

00:09:22.000 Well, that's okay, then.

00:09:23.000 If Dave doesn't like it, he can sit on a pencil.

00:09:26.000 Sit on a pencil.

00:09:26.000 Ow!

00:09:27.000 The tech.

00:09:28.000 Yeah, that seems a little bit, it seems like it's not really severe enough when they're talking about Satan.

00:09:32.000 If the devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tech.

00:09:35.000 Hold on a second.

00:09:37.000 You're talking about torture, rape, enslavement, all the evil of humanity. 1.00

00:09:41.000 You go sit on a tack, you big jerk. 1.00

00:09:43.000 You know how that doesn't feel good. 1.00

00:09:45.000 Yeah.

00:09:47.000 Oh no.

00:09:48.000 Not again.

00:09:49.000 Meanwhile, he's making another guy sit on a throne of butcher knives.

00:09:52.000 He's like, you sit on a tack.

00:09:53.000 Oh, okay.

00:09:54.000 Is she having a pineapple in someone? 1.00

00:09:56.000 Yeah.

00:09:59.000 Also voluntarily.

00:10:00.000 Yes.

00:10:01.000 And you know what?

00:10:02.000 We have evil at play right now.

00:10:04.000 Look, I think that's what we need to acknowledge.

00:10:05.000 There is evil in this world that will always be amongst you.

00:10:08.000 And you know what?

00:10:09.000 I think that our public schools are a breeding ground for evil.

00:10:12.000 I'll say that.

00:10:13.000 I really do.

00:10:14.000 I really do.

00:10:15.000 You can't just silo everything.

00:10:17.000 When you look at the conversations, when you look at trying to uninvolve and detach the parents from these children's lives, when you're looking at transitioning children, when you're looking at browbeating young white boys for something they've never done, look, I think that it's a breeding ground for evil. 0.99

00:10:33.000 Okay.

00:10:34.000 I think it's long before you get to the point of a bunch of policies that won't work on an inanimate object.

00:10:39.000 Let's understand human nature, and that's if you're a conservative or a liberal.

00:10:42.000 Dennis Prager talks about that.

00:10:43.000 Do you believe that human beings are all inherently good or all inherently evil?

00:10:47.000 Let's remove the term evil because some of you agnostics are uncomfortable with it.

00:10:49.000 Okay, selfish.

00:10:52.000 All that's required for someone to be a sociopath or a narcissist is just to only think of themselves, is to be selfish.

00:10:58.000 We often think that they have to go out and, you know, they're pulling wings off dragonflies.

00:11:02.000 No!

00:11:03.000 You just have to be selfish!

00:11:04.000 That's how it starts!

00:11:06.000 Well, I believe it was the 50s when there was a lot more God-fearing than there is now that they, uh, asked a group of people if they would save them- hurt another person to save themselves.

00:11:16.000 And it was like 65% of them said yes.

00:11:19.000 Hmm.

00:11:19.000 So think about what that number's probably raised to today.

00:11:22.000 Yeah, it's gotta be, what, 99.9.

00:11:22.000 I'll say 100.

00:11:24.000 Would you hurt another person?

00:11:25.000 Yes!

00:11:26.000 They answer too quickly.

00:11:27.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:11:28.000 It's to save- I don't care.

00:11:29.000 I would hurt the other person.

00:11:30.000 You know this poll is public, sir.

00:11:31.000 Yes.

00:11:32.000 I don't care.

00:11:33.000 We have video of you.

00:11:34.000 Can you tell my neighbor that I said this?

00:11:36.000 Maybe he'll start trimming his hedges.

00:11:37.000 His name's John.

00:11:38.000 He keeps stealing my packages.

00:11:39.000 Keep waxing your boat, but not cutting your lawn, John.

00:11:43.000 And stop screwing with my mail!

00:11:44.000 It's a federal offense!

00:11:48.000 So before we get to that, a little bit of levity here, and we're going to try and keep levity, but we're going to do, I know a lot of you said that you liked the Claim Fact format, which we're going to do today, because it's sorely needed, and all references are available at loudmouthcrowder.com.

00:11:59.000 So, child abuse, I don't know if you know this, it's very hot right now.

00:12:05.000 Yeah, I said levity.

00:12:07.000 I know.

00:12:08.000 Both mental and physical, especially among the trans lobby.

00:12:10.000 Here's a trans dad.

00:12:13.000 I should probably warn you, if you have kids, it's not like it's anything really vulgar, but they're not going to want to see this. 0.93

00:12:19.000 It's a trans dad who's now crowdfunding to help in perpetrating child abuse. 0.98

00:12:24.000 Here we go.

00:12:24.000 I'm raising money to help fund my son's transition-related costs.

00:12:30.000 Um, basically, we already have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria for him.

00:12:34.000 We have gotten his blood work done, and we need to start him on puberty blockers as soon as possible.

00:12:41.000 Yes, it's an emergency. That boy has testosterone in his body.

00:12:43.000 I have already exhausted most of my...

00:12:49.000 Good.

00:12:50.000 What'd you spend that money on?

00:12:52.000 Hair dye.

00:12:52.000 Nose piercings.

00:12:53.000 Good!

00:12:53.000 to help cover his traditional costs as um, it's very difficult to come up with that sort

00:12:59.000 of money on short notice.

00:13:01.000 I know that I'm asking a lot, but I would do anything to make sure that he is able to

00:13:10.000 continue his transition seamlessly.

00:13:12.000 It's very hard to come up with that amount of money.

00:13:14.000 First off, there's a problem.

00:13:16.000 Why can't you come up with money on short notice?

00:13:18.000 Why short notice for a child's transition?

00:13:20.000 See what they do?

00:13:22.000 They need access to necessary medical care. 1.00

00:13:25.000 A fake vagina is necessary? 1.00

00:13:27.000 I don't know. 0.98

00:13:28.000 This is the problem when everything is a human right except for actual human rights like the right to self-defense.

00:13:32.000 I need the money!

00:13:33.000 I need it now!

00:13:35.000 Wentworth commercial!

00:13:35.000 This isn't a J.G.

00:13:37.000 Well, how about the fact that it's gender dysphoria, which you're trying to say isn't a thing.

00:13:41.000 Yeah.

00:13:42.000 That was the whole narrative before.

00:13:43.000 Now you're saying it is a thing.

00:13:44.000 Okay.

00:13:45.000 So you can treat this if you think that it's a problem.

00:13:48.000 Right. 1.00

00:13:48.000 Your choice is to treat it with puberty blockers and cutting off his penis. 1.00

00:13:53.000 Yes. 1.00

00:13:54.000 Well, don't forget getting breasts. 1.00

00:13:56.000 He wants breasts. 0.99

00:13:57.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 0.98

00:13:58.000 Right.

00:13:59.000 Yeah.

00:14:00.000 I thought it was silly for a moment.

00:14:02.000 Yes.

00:14:04.000 For a moment, I was worried.

00:14:07.000 Look at that guy.

00:14:08.000 That's a man.

00:14:10.000 Is it?

00:14:11.000 Well, no, it's supposed to be.

00:14:12.000 I don't know.

00:14:13.000 I'm honestly saying I really don't know.

00:14:15.000 Yeah, I don't want to get banned right off the bat.

00:14:16.000 Who's sending money to that?

00:14:17.000 I think it's a trans... Do we know what the GoFund... Is it GoFundMe that he was using?

00:14:22.000 Well, he wants to be a man.

00:14:23.000 I would love to see how much they've raised.

00:14:26.000 Was it GoFundMe that removed the Canadian truckers?

00:14:28.000 But that abomination... Totally fine.

00:14:33.000 Should we plug Rumble?

00:14:34.000 Oh yeah, by the way, it's a good call.

00:14:36.000 If we could ever get removed here on YouTube.

00:14:39.000 And if we don't leave, by the way, we have no show on Memorial Day, just right, you know, on Monday, of course, it's a federal holiday.

00:14:43.000 And we honor those, the troops, people who fought, you know, people who've actually been through trauma.

00:14:48.000 Yes.

00:14:49.000 That's real.

00:14:51.000 You know, not, my son needs puberty blockers now.

00:14:54.000 And breasts, yeah. 0.97

00:14:55.000 And the very brave small soldiers that were put on puberty blockers.

00:14:58.000 Yes, while they fought the Gorgonauts.

00:15:03.000 That was a very mediocre film, but I still liked it.

00:15:05.000 I liked it!

00:15:06.000 It's like Neverland.

00:15:07.000 Right. 0.99

00:15:08.000 But, you know, it's my genitals. 0.98

00:15:09.000 Yes, exactly. 0.99

00:15:10.000 It's the freak show in the cupboard. 0.99

00:15:12.000 The ghost of penis has passed. 0.99

00:15:14.000 Rumble. 1.00

00:15:15.000 You can go to Rumble or you can go to loudmouthcrowder.com slash Mug Club Monday through Thursday at 10 a.m.

00:15:19.000 Eastern.

00:15:20.000 Eastern, Monday through Thursday, if ever we get removed from YouTube.

00:15:20.000 10 a.m.

00:15:23.000 If we don't tell you that there is no show, it means there is a show.

00:15:25.000 You can just tune in live there.

00:15:28.000 No show Monday.

00:15:29.000 I don't want to hear you complaining, go to the beach or the pool and enjoy yourselves.

00:15:29.000 Consider yourself warned.

00:15:35.000 Yes.

00:15:36.000 Leave us alone.

00:15:37.000 Careful, not everyone is pool privileged.

00:15:39.000 Let's just think about that for a second, then we're going to have a discussion about mental health in this country.

00:15:41.000 When people say work, I think we can find common ground.

00:15:44.000 Okay, common ground.

00:15:45.000 We're discussing mental health.

00:15:46.000 Hey, let me ask you something really quickly before we move on to this, because the rest of the show is going to be debunking these gun myths.

00:15:53.000 So it's a pretty thorough show, just to let you know.

00:15:55.000 So I want to hit this off the top, the rest of this.

00:15:58.000 Trans person in the United States, more at risk being the victim of a mass shooting or suicide?

00:16:03.000 One's a 42% attempted rate, both pre and post-op.

00:16:08.000 And the other is, you know, single-digit percentage of one percentage point.

00:16:11.000 We're in a mental health crisis!

00:16:13.000 Okay?

00:16:15.000 American slaves.

00:16:17.000 Jews in the Holocaust didn't have that kind of an attempted suicide rate.

00:16:20.000 You want us to believe that it's because they can't take a dump in their preferred bathroom of choice at a Walmart?

00:16:25.000 I don't buy it!

00:16:27.000 Just me.

00:16:28.000 Man's Search for Meaning is a great book and it's about a guy, I mean it's a true story of somebody who lived through the Hollywood, kind of the same, Holocaust and had a Freudian slip.

00:16:40.000 Hollywood is the 9-11 of entertainment.

00:16:43.000 But, and you know, kept a certain positive attitude and that's a very, I can't even

00:16:47.000 imagine how difficult that is.

00:16:49.000 But with this particular kid and you're talking about mental health, okay, let's look at,

00:16:53.000 just to say real quick, the shooter.

00:16:56.000 Not saying that you have to have any empathy or whatever, but you're looking at a kid with

00:17:00.000 abandonment issues who lived with his grandma, killed his grandma, you have all these things

00:17:04.000 Shot her, I think she's still alive. 0.97

00:17:05.000 Okay, I'm sorry, shot her. 0.99

00:17:06.000 Is she still alive? 0.74

00:17:07.000 I think the last I heard she was still alive.

00:17:09.000 Good, that's a tough old bird.

00:17:10.000 Okay, I didn't mean to... Sorry, YouTube, for any misinformation you pieces of shit. 1.00

00:17:15.000 So... 0.99

00:17:20.000 We've acknowledged this.

00:17:22.000 So you have this kid and then you have two and a half years.

00:17:30.000 Of hiding faces, locking people inside, making them feel worthless, collapsing the world, collapsing the economy, making it difficult, not giving anybody the proper access to the treatment they need, worrying more about doing surgery that is completely unnecessary on people that do need help, and you wonder why this kind of thing happens, and we're gonna go ahead and blame guns.

00:17:53.000 Right.

00:17:53.000 It's insane to me that we're getting to this point.

00:17:56.000 And I speak honestly from my heart as somebody who deals with mental illness.

00:18:01.000 Myself too, I've talked.

00:18:01.000 Right.

00:18:02.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:18:03.000 It's tragic.

00:18:04.000 Yeah.

00:18:05.000 And you know what else?

00:18:06.000 Think about People use the term cancelling.

00:18:09.000 What is cancelling, really?

00:18:10.000 Well, when you look at people like Abraham Lincoln, when you look at people like Winston Churchill, when you even look at people like Ricky Gervais or Dave Chappelle, it's about taking the one aspect that you don't like of somebody, the worst aspect, and defining them that way.

00:18:21.000 Winston Churchill, flawed, sure, drank a lot, cheated on his wife.

00:18:25.000 Also the man who stood between Hitler and the rest of the free world. 0.90

00:18:30.000 Shouldn't he be recognized a little bit more for that?

00:18:32.000 And you don't think that, and then you demand that we not be judgmental.

00:18:36.000 What kind of mental health issues do you think that's going to create for young men?

00:18:38.000 Yeah.

00:18:39.000 You're trapping them!

00:18:39.000 They feel trapped!

00:18:40.000 They can do no right!

00:18:42.000 They have no out!

00:18:44.000 They're told they're not needed.

00:18:46.000 Right!

00:18:47.000 Well, they're told that they're actually a burden on society, a lot of them.

00:18:49.000 Plus, if you're wearing the mask, how are you going to show everyone your Hot Topic mascara and lipstick?

00:18:56.000 And it looks good on you.

00:18:58.000 I mean, when I'm not here, you would not recognize me.

00:19:00.000 I just look like I'm the lead singer from Under Oath back in 2004.

00:19:03.000 So, let's look at some of the reactions here to this shooting.

00:19:09.000 Um, this happened in Texas.

00:19:11.000 How do you pronounce the city correctly?

00:19:13.000 Uvalde?

00:19:14.000 What?

00:19:14.000 Is it Uvalde?

00:19:15.000 Is it Uvalde?

00:19:15.000 I've heard also people say Uvalde.

00:19:18.000 I don't think it's Yuvald either.

00:19:18.000 I don't think it's Yuvald.

00:19:19.000 I thought it was Yuvald.

00:19:20.000 But I don't know.

00:19:20.000 I just wanted you to be on the hook for it.

00:19:21.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:19:22.000 Yeah, it wasn't, I'm not sure.

00:19:24.000 Is it near, closer to Houston?

00:19:26.000 No, it's near the border.

00:19:27.000 Or San Antonio, right?

00:19:28.000 Yeah, closer to the border.

00:19:29.000 Closer to the border.

00:19:29.000 San Antonio, yes.

00:19:30.000 Well, we talk about guns.

00:19:31.000 That's a good point, yeah.

00:19:31.000 Closer to the border, we talk about guns and wouldn't have a problem with that with open borders.

00:19:36.000 No gun running.

00:19:36.000 No.

00:19:37.000 Nary a gun runner to be found.

00:19:38.000 No, no, no, no.

00:19:39.000 What was that program where they ran guns?

00:19:41.000 Yeah, I can't remember the name of the program.

00:19:43.000 Fast and Furious?

00:19:44.000 Fast and Furious!

00:19:45.000 There we go!

00:19:45.000 Oh, I was thinking Sons of Anarchy.

00:19:47.000 Well, that's a show.

00:19:48.000 Actually, there are a lot of them.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, Fast and Furious seems spot on to how it really works.

00:19:52.000 Wait a minute, Fast and Furious is also something.

00:19:54.000 Yeah.

00:19:55.000 Because you can fit a lot of illegal, unmarked rifles in the back of a Honda Civic with nitro.

00:19:59.000 You can!

00:20:00.000 They're just street racing.

00:20:01.000 Listen, yeah, you can grappling hook a truck.

00:20:03.000 That's how they do it.

00:20:05.000 This is Brazil!

00:20:06.000 Well, you can if you're Ludacris.

00:20:08.000 Yes, that's true.

00:20:10.000 First name Ludacris.

00:20:11.000 Last name Ludacris.

00:20:12.000 Yeah, not that guy.

00:20:13.000 Just the actual term Ludacris.

00:20:16.000 Hey, you know what?

00:20:16.000 I want to go to Chris Murphy before we go to Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors.

00:20:19.000 So how do you know that there's political grandstanding going on?

00:20:23.000 Like I said, I believe that you care, we care, not necessarily all the politicians.

00:20:26.000 They see this as an opportunity, unfortunately.

00:20:28.000 And then it'll bring us to Steve Kerr because he doesn't understand how a constitutional republic works.

00:20:31.000 But here is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy saying something and very clearly not meaning it.

00:20:38.000 How do I know?

00:20:39.000 Because he says he's going to literally do something and then doesn't do it.

00:20:44.000 But I'm here on this floor To beg.

00:20:47.000 To literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues.

00:20:53.000 Turns out he only was on his knees in the green room.

00:20:54.000 Yes.

00:20:56.000 He saw it kinda like he was gonna go down.

00:20:58.000 He was gonna go and he was like, I don't want people to have that picture of me.

00:21:00.000 That's gonna be photoshopped city.

00:21:02.000 So then he just stayed standing.

00:21:03.000 Yeah, it's hard.

00:21:03.000 You have to beg.

00:21:04.000 Usually you don't even have to ask.

00:21:05.000 Yeah.

00:21:06.000 Usually you just have to say yes.

00:21:09.000 I am literally on my hands and knees to beg anyone.

00:21:11.000 I'm saying, we can find some kind of common ground.

00:21:13.000 This is what they always... Okay, common ground.

00:21:15.000 All right.

00:21:16.000 Like what?

00:21:16.000 Background checks.

00:21:17.000 It's already a thing.

00:21:18.000 Hey, Hansen, we find common ground.

00:21:18.000 Yeah.

00:21:20.000 You say necessary medical care is chopping off the penises of boys. 1.00

00:21:23.000 Where's the common ground at that point? 0.99

00:21:25.000 We are so far beyond common ground.

00:21:28.000 We need to course correct.

00:21:29.000 When people say, oh, we've divided more.

00:21:31.000 No, no.

00:21:32.000 Democrats have gone left and Republicans have gone left.

00:21:35.000 And then maybe some less left.

00:21:38.000 But we need to course correct and understand in our country what the Constitution means, and if it means anything at all.

00:21:44.000 Because you do have one party in this country that wishes we were like all of the other countries, and we'll get to that in a second, that don't have the Constitution we have.

00:21:52.000 It is a different country by design, for a reason.

00:21:54.000 So he says that, that's how you know it's grandstanding, he says, I'm gonna get on my hands and knees.

00:21:58.000 Do it.

00:21:59.000 I wasn't actually gonna get on my hands and my knees, but you said you literally were.

00:21:59.000 Go ahead.

00:22:02.000 I meant figuratively.

00:22:03.000 But you said literally.

00:22:04.000 I meant literally figuratively. 1.00

00:22:05.000 You're a dick. 1.00

00:22:06.000 Yep. 1.00

00:22:09.000 It's just grandstanding.

00:22:12.000 How long are we going to be held captive to our politicians?

00:22:15.000 How long until we actually change something and do something?

00:22:19.000 Voluntarily captive.

00:22:21.000 We are imprisoning ourselves. 1.00

00:22:24.000 We're listening to the stupidest people ever. 1.00

00:22:28.000 And they're running our country. 1.00

00:22:30.000 Yeah, it is pretty apparent when you watch AOC. 1.00

00:22:32.000 You're like, this is a really dumb person. 1.00

00:22:34.000 Yeah, please tell us your thoughts on gun control, you moron. 1.00

00:22:37.000 Yes. 1.00

00:22:37.000 Well, googly eyed idiot. 1.00

00:22:39.000 I wrote a bill. 1.00

00:22:40.000 It's not a hard argument to make.

00:22:43.000 No, that's how it's mad that you're just reading the police description.

00:22:46.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:47.000 Crazy lady with eyes that are googly. 1.00

00:22:49.000 I repeat, googly. 1.00

00:22:50.000 We need a sketch artist. 0.92

00:22:51.000 I'm surprised she doesn't come out of a clock every time she talks.

00:22:54.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:22:55.000 You read a police report, you're like, are you describing someone from Sesame Street?

00:22:59.000 That's a congresswoman! 1.00

00:23:01.000 Her eyes go both ways? 0.84

00:23:02.000 That's not possible, is it?

00:23:04.000 Oh, it is.

00:23:05.000 They just turn around a picture, like, snuffle up, I guess?

00:23:07.000 No, no, it's AOC!

00:23:09.000 And her catchphrase is, my boyfriend's feet?

00:23:13.000 Not really a catchphrase, just something she sort of laments repeatedly.

00:23:18.000 And now let's go to the Golden State Warrior coach, Steve Kerr.

00:23:21.000 Everyone's talking about this, it's gone viral, because it's impassioned.

00:23:24.000 Great!

00:23:25.000 But passion in the absence of information or education is of no value.

00:23:32.000 So let's watch.

00:23:33.000 When are we gonna do something?

00:23:37.000 I'm tired.

00:23:38.000 I'm so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there.

00:23:46.000 I'm so tired of the... Excuse my... I'm sorry.

00:23:49.000 I'm tired of the moments of silence.

00:23:52.000 Enough! 1.00

00:23:54.000 There's 50 senators right now who refuse to vote on H.R. 0.98

00:23:59.000 8, which is a background check rule that the House passed a couple years ago.

00:24:03.000 It's been sitting there for two years.

00:24:05.000 And there's a reason they won't vote on it.

00:24:05.000 Background checks are a thing.

00:24:07.000 To hold on to power.

00:24:09.000 So I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings, I ask you, are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our churchgoers?

00:24:30.000 Because that's what it looks like.

00:24:32.000 Your own desire for power.

00:24:33.000 Okay, let's examine that a little bit here.

00:24:37.000 This is also the same person where you have a lot of people made this argument.

00:24:40.000 90% of Americans support background checks.

00:24:41.000 Well, of course.

00:24:42.000 So do I. They already exist.

00:24:43.000 You say giving up your own power.

00:24:46.000 Yeah, I want to get more of a grip on it.

00:24:50.000 I want more power, so you should all own guns, said no dictator ever, just to be clear.

00:24:56.000 And hey, if you're talking about power, it's a constitutional republic.

00:24:58.000 It's a representative republic.

00:25:00.000 The only way they would maintain power Is people voting for them.

00:25:04.000 The easiest way to get a grip on power is to be like a Joe Biden who's never held the same view twice on an issue.

00:25:10.000 So how is someone like a Ted Cruz, based on your premise, how is someone like a Rand Paul making a decision to protect the Constitution just to try and maintain their grasp on power when you say that it's an incredibly unpopular viewpoint and they have to be elected?

00:25:26.000 None of it adds up!

00:25:28.000 Well, and Steve Kerr is universally seen as a good guy.

00:25:28.000 Yeah.

00:25:31.000 There's so many people out there right now who see Steve Kerr and go, oh, it's a good guy.

00:25:36.000 He's uninformed, guys.

00:25:37.000 This is the problem.

00:25:39.000 You get angry, you get frustrated, and of course everybody wants this to stop, but you don't have the information.

00:25:44.000 All you have is the left once again virtue signaling and saying, common sense gun reform, background checks.

00:25:51.000 Every single- How many times do we have to debunk this?

00:25:54.000 How many videos do you have to make where you go and improve to people that you can't get a gun at a gun show without your gun contract from a dealer?

00:26:00.000 Well, do you know why?

00:26:01.000 I have to do it again because- How many times?

00:26:02.000 If you search, top AR-15 myths, even though we have videos that have many, many, I think over 10 million plays, 15 million plays, it won't show up.

00:26:08.000 You'll see something from PBS talking about how dangerous AR-15s are.

00:26:11.000 So we have to continually go through these points because the left is allowed to recycle their points and everything they say- Unchallenged.

00:26:18.000 Unchallenged.

00:26:19.000 The top of the search engine.

00:26:21.000 We have to repeat it because you can search for something we've put a lot of work into.

00:26:25.000 All references available.

00:26:28.000 We make the references available in the description.

00:26:30.000 And you won't find it!

00:26:32.000 What team does he coach?

00:26:34.000 The Golden State Warriors.

00:26:36.000 Oh, I see.

00:26:36.000 So, do you mean the league that stood behind a group that burnt down cities and illegally bought guns?

00:26:43.000 Well, that's ancillary to the point.

00:26:45.000 Oh, I see.

00:26:46.000 Because that could have started with them.

00:26:48.000 Like, maybe he could have not supported violence?

00:26:51.000 I do see your point.

00:26:52.000 I don't know if that's entirely valid, but I see your point.

00:26:54.000 I'm also curious, he referenced the shooting in New York.

00:26:56.000 You mean entirely valid, right?

00:26:58.000 But yeah, I misspoke.

00:27:00.000 The state with some of the most strict gun laws in the country, New York, right?

00:27:04.000 That's the state that he referenced as well.

00:27:06.000 And also he referenced a church, Asian churchgoers in California, a state with very strict gun laws.

00:27:13.000 These gun laws that you think we should all live under that have obviously not done anything to help the problem.

00:27:19.000 Again, far more lives are saved.

00:27:22.000 by firearms in the United States that are taken, 94% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones, and decreasing gun ownership, increasing strict gun laws in states does not lead to decreased crime.

00:27:33.000 These are facts.

00:27:34.000 These are facts that you need to start with, and then we can get into some specific claims.

00:27:38.000 Let me give you, for those who don't know, I mean I'm sure you've seen this ad nauseum, but what we know at this point, shooter, 18 year old Hispanic male, Is it 22 victims right now?

00:27:48.000 It's 22 now.

00:27:49.000 It was 21 when I wrote it here this morning, so 22 victims.

00:27:52.000 He had a rifle and a handgun.

00:27:54.000 He was wearing some kind of, not a Kevlar vest, but some kind of body armor plate carrier.

00:27:58.000 Open fire, of course, at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas.

00:28:01.000 And it is important to note that he was stopped by one single Border Patrol agent who had been working nearby.

00:28:07.000 This is from ABC News.

00:28:08.000 When shooting began, he, meaning the Border Patrol agent, rushed into school without waiting for backup and shot and killed the gunman.

00:28:13.000 Hey, here's another thing.

00:28:16.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:28:17.000 On his own.

00:28:18.000 He was actually, I think, wounded in the process and was able to get out of the building.

00:28:22.000 Here's another question.

00:28:23.000 How has every single mass shooting that was stopped, meaning one that didn't just continue until the perpetrator got away or tired, how is every single one of them?

00:28:31.000 What's a 100%, maybe let's call it 99% constant?

00:28:36.000 Stopped by what?

00:28:37.000 What?

00:28:38.000 So when you say, good guy with a gun, that old west cowboy myth, well hold on a second, what about the police?

00:28:38.000 Guy with a gun.

00:28:43.000 Okay.

00:28:44.000 What did the police show up with?

00:28:47.000 Sticky hands, praying mantis style?

00:28:49.000 No, the guy showed up with a gun.

00:28:51.000 Now, let me just back that up a little bit, because there are solutions being offered on both sides.

00:28:56.000 And of course, this side, the left, claiming that they want to find common ground 0.99

00:28:59.000 is dismissing those on the right as, that's just crazy, that's asinine. 0.99

00:29:02.000 Okay, so you know that all of these mass shootings, all these people, all these criminals, 0.99

00:29:07.000 these homicidal maniacs, when they commit these crimes, the only way to stop them is by someone

00:29:11.000 who has equal or greater force, someone else with a gun.

00:29:14.000 You call on them, the police, but you've heard an ounce of prevention

00:29:19.000 is worth a thousand pounds of defense or cure, depending on which, you know, in sports we'll say

00:29:23.000 an ounce of prevention is worth 10,000 tons of defense in wrestling.

00:29:26.000 Look, you're saying after the fact, call the guy with the gun.

00:29:29.000 When we say, hey, instead of after the fact, how about having someone with a gun there beforehand?

00:29:35.000 Can you believe that Republicans are suggesting that there should be armed police or that teachers should be allowed to... You're calling a guy with a gun after the fact!

00:29:42.000 That's your only solution!

00:29:45.000 All I'm saying is maybe we should protect our children or afford them the same protection as Congress gets.

00:29:50.000 Yep.

00:29:51.000 Or a famous person who wants to go out in public and gets recognized.

00:29:51.000 That's it.

00:29:54.000 That's all I'm asking for.

00:29:55.000 And most of those people, by the way, like LeBron James, will come out and say, oh, we have to do something.

00:29:59.000 LeBron, are you offering your security team to go to the nearest elementary school and make sure kids are safe?

00:30:04.000 No, he's too busy faking that he's reading the Malcolm X biography.

00:30:07.000 Or are you calling out a police officer for saving somebody's life?

00:30:12.000 And not getting the point.

00:30:13.000 In Ohio, if I remember correctly, and by the way, I just want to clarify, 19 children dead, 2 teachers dead, if you throw in the grandmother being shot as a victim as well, that's the 22 number right now.

00:30:21.000 So the grandmother did die?

00:30:21.000 I don't know that she's dead, I'm just saying she's part of that list.

00:30:24.000 Alright.

00:30:25.000 So right now they're saying... I just want to be clear.

00:30:27.000 ...legally purchased 2 rifles.

00:30:29.000 We don't know at this point if they can confirm that he had that other rifle.

00:30:31.000 We know that he had a rifle and a handgun at the scene.

00:30:33.000 At this moment right now.

00:30:34.000 If you're watching this a day or two later, We're not wrong.

00:30:37.000 This is the information we have now.

00:30:38.000 We're very, very careful to not go beyond the information that we have, unlike CNN.

00:30:42.000 But he also had a handgun statement.

00:30:43.000 It's okay.

00:30:43.000 They'll use it to divide us even further.

00:30:45.000 Let's turn it into race. 0.94

00:30:45.000 That's what it'll be about. 0.94

00:30:47.000 Let's turn it into sex. 0.72

00:30:48.000 Let's turn it into everything else except for what the actual thing is.

00:30:51.000 Anybody who has a child going to school, it even had, you know, a dad from Parkland, but anybody with a child going to school.

00:30:59.000 You're gonna tell me that you wouldn't feel safer knowing that there was a guard even on, you know, just, you know, he doesn't have to wear a uniform, just somebody that you know is there?

00:30:59.000 Yeah.

00:31:08.000 You're gonna tell me that wouldn't at least detour the kid?

00:31:11.000 What are you supposed to do when a gunman comes into a school?

00:31:14.000 Have you ever been so mad you're seeing red and nobody can reason with you?

00:31:18.000 Now imagine if your psyche is completely broken.

00:31:20.000 Right.

00:31:20.000 What's the other option?

00:31:22.000 This is now when you're gonna talk to him?

00:31:23.000 Right.

00:31:24.000 This is now the time for the mental health evaluation?

00:31:26.000 Yeah, I'm supposed to feel better as a father because they passed universal background checks and H.R.

00:31:31.000 8 made it through Congress.

00:31:32.000 Right.

00:31:33.000 That's what's supposed to make me sleep better at night.

00:31:34.000 Even though it's already a thing.

00:31:35.000 By the way, we had cops at our school in Canada.

00:31:37.000 Yeah.

00:31:38.000 One of them, I remember, it turned out he was selling drugs to the kids.

00:31:40.000 Yeah, I bought drugs off of... It was a captive audience.

00:31:43.000 I remember exactly who it was.

00:31:45.000 We had parking lot attendants.

00:31:47.000 Three of them.

00:31:47.000 Yeah.

00:31:48.000 Yeah.

00:31:49.000 Why bought drugs off of one?

00:31:50.000 He was like 60.

00:31:51.000 He had a lot of racial slurs on him.

00:31:52.000 He had a tattoo on him.

00:31:55.000 Those are called sailor tattoos.

00:31:57.000 Yeah, he must have wore sleeves to the interview, I'll tell you that.

00:31:59.000 But you had three people, and I think back to that, you were guarding the parking lot from kids getting out.

00:32:06.000 Yeah.

00:32:07.000 Nobody was guarding the kids.

00:32:08.000 I know.

00:32:09.000 No, we had people who would circulate in the school at lunch hours so that we would have officers and I never felt uncomfortable.

00:32:13.000 Keep in mind, Steve Kerr protested, right, having armed officers in Oakland.

00:32:18.000 Yeah, he did.

00:32:19.000 Hmm.

00:32:19.000 What?

00:32:20.000 Defund the police?

00:32:21.000 Wasn't that a movement?

00:32:22.000 Ah, something like that.

00:32:23.000 I mean, I just, I think I remember that.

00:32:25.000 By the way, this guy was in the building for half an hour.

00:32:27.000 30 minutes until he was taken out.

00:32:31.000 30 minutes.

00:32:31.000 And by the way, on CNN right now, look at that car.

00:32:34.000 That's not an abandoned car!

00:32:36.000 That is, I wrecked my car and jumped it into the ditch, okay?

00:32:39.000 The tires are splayed out, right?

00:32:42.000 This was not something that could not have been prevented from the very beginning.

00:32:45.000 That's like one of those things where they say, I don't know, he was an A student, he was really quiet.

00:32:49.000 It's like, no, no, no, no, this is a guy who wore eyeliner, who said, kids be scared on his social media, and who crashed his car and loitered around for 30 minutes, probably yelling insanely, like, oh, we wish we could have known!

00:33:01.000 Well, no, they said he was, I mean, he was in the building for half an hour, you know, during this shooting process, but they're like, oh, he abandoned his car.

00:33:07.000 I'm like, I thought he parked on the grass!

00:33:08.000 Yeah.

00:33:09.000 No, he didn't.

00:33:10.000 He, like, tried to run his truck.

00:33:11.000 Yeah, when I first, again, when I first read it, I thought, like, maybe he, you know, he slipped in the expectant mother spot.

00:33:16.000 I didn't know that... No!

00:33:18.000 He was rolled over in a ditch.

00:33:19.000 You're telling me somebody in the administrator's office, which is typically, if you've never been to an elementary school, I just want to let you know how this works.

00:33:25.000 You walk into a set of doors.

00:33:26.000 There's another set of doors that goes into the school.

00:33:28.000 To the right is a door to the administrator's office.

00:33:31.000 Around that side goes a door into the rest of the... And they're listening to the doors.

00:33:34.000 through to get in there. You have to go in the administration, check in, tell them who you are,

00:33:37.000 show an ID, then you get into the school. You're telling me somebody can't be armed in that

00:33:41.000 administrator's office? There's not just one person there.

00:33:44.000 There's secretaries there. There's probably 10 or 15 people. One of them can't be concealed

00:33:48.000 carry at the point of entry?

00:33:50.000 No, no, you don't understand. 0.99

00:33:51.000 We need more useless employees, i.e. 0.96

00:33:53.000 the real heroes, and not people who would actually stop a shooting. 0.98

00:33:55.000 Unbelievable.

00:33:56.000 Sorry.

00:33:57.000 And then we'll go into the debunking of five claims that are being made right now that you are most likely to hear if you're on Twitter, if you're on Facebook, or if you're listening to or watching any legacy media.

00:34:06.000 Let me, again, set the stage.

00:34:08.000 Far more lives are saved by firearms in this country.

00:34:10.000 1.67 million uses of firearms in defensive situations last year.

00:34:14.000 Contrast that with the CDC data in 2020.

00:34:17.000 19,000 gun homicides.

00:34:18.000 K?

00:34:19.000 Not even close.

00:34:20.000 Many years at 3 million defensive uses of firearms.

00:34:25.000 94% of mass shootings take place in gun-free zones.

00:34:27.000 K?

00:34:29.000 References available at ladderwithcrowder.com.

00:34:30.000 Texas law, in general, doesn't allow firearms on school grounds, certainly not elementary schools.

00:34:35.000 And even close to them.

00:34:37.000 I think it's like within 300 feet and there's another rule within 1,000 feet.

00:34:41.000 We have laws in place.

00:34:42.000 He broke all of them, guys.

00:34:43.000 So here, let's go through the claims that are being... The signs need to be bigger.

00:34:46.000 Yes, they do need to be bigger signs.

00:34:47.000 I think the solution is we need less secretaries. 0.86

00:34:51.000 You can be replaced by Alexa.

00:34:51.000 What do they do?

00:34:53.000 Apparently they're sure of their jobs they can't hit a 911 button. 0.94

00:34:56.000 Right, I know.

00:34:57.000 Yeah, well they forget the number.

00:34:58.000 Yep.

00:34:59.000 Now, here is, uh, and this comes straight from the former Vice President Horst's mouth, gave a speech yesterday and he immediately pivoted to gun control, which has eluded him his career.

00:35:09.000 So, the first claim that they're making is that this shooting is the fault of the gun lobby.

00:35:17.000 So many crushed spirits.

00:35:21.000 So tonight, I ask the nation to pray for them.

00:35:26.000 Give the parents and siblings the strength in the darkness they feel right now.

00:35:33.000 As a nation we have to ask, when in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?

00:35:41.000 When in God's name we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done.

00:35:48.000 No.

00:35:49.000 No.

00:35:49.000 You know in your gut that the most important thing for a child is to affirm the gender they want to be.

00:35:54.000 He gave that speech.

00:35:55.000 So let's be really clear here.

00:35:56.000 That's the claim.

00:35:57.000 Here's the truth.

00:35:58.000 Okay?

00:36:00.000 First off, no one from the gun lobby killed anyone yesterday.

00:36:03.000 Let's be clear.

00:36:03.000 Okay?

00:36:03.000 Let's also hold the person who pulled the trigger accountable.

00:36:06.000 And the gun lobby is far less influential than people want to make them out to be.

00:36:10.000 Less influential than unions, for example.

00:36:12.000 Less influential than telecom companies.

00:36:14.000 But certainly, some companies I think are of note, in 2021, gun rights lobbyists spent a total of $15.8 million.

00:36:20.000 Okay.

00:36:21.000 Compare that to pharmaceuticals.

00:36:22.000 $356 million.

00:36:26.000 Electronics, $179 million.

00:36:27.000 Insurance, $153 million.

00:36:30.000 It's not even close.

00:36:33.000 $15.8 million to $356 million from pharmaceutical companies.

00:36:39.000 Hey, but by the way, have pharmaceutical companies killed any kids?

00:36:43.000 The reports are redacted and they need 50 years to let us know.

00:36:43.000 Hmm.

00:36:43.000 I don't know.

00:36:46.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:47.000 It's buried somewhere nice.

00:36:48.000 80,000 pages.

00:36:49.000 It takes time.

00:36:49.000 One day we'll know.

00:36:50.000 We won't know.

00:36:51.000 We'll be dead by the time it comes out.

00:36:53.000 Probably because we took all the pharmaceuticals.

00:36:54.000 Yeah, but by the way, does the NRA do anything other than promote responsible gun ownership?

00:36:59.000 They spend money on boats and planes.

00:37:01.000 I'm not a big fan of the NRA, but yes.

00:37:04.000 No, but I know what you're saying.

00:37:05.000 If you're going to hold their feet to the fire and look at, okay, responsible gun ownership, yeah.

00:37:09.000 You know the people that have concealed carry, we even went over this, are less likely to commit a crime than a police officer?

00:37:14.000 Yep.

00:37:15.000 Right?

00:37:15.000 It's not even close.

00:37:16.000 Gone through the statistics.

00:37:17.000 So you can hate the NRA, fine.

00:37:19.000 Maybe you don't like their organization.

00:37:20.000 I get it.

00:37:21.000 This kid wasn't an NRA member following the playbook.

00:37:24.000 Right.

00:37:24.000 Okay?

00:37:25.000 He didn't read in the NRA, go shoot up a school.

00:37:28.000 He wasn't a regular at the Charlton Heston fan club.

00:37:30.000 So again, it's just lazy.

00:37:31.000 We're just starting this off because this is how lazy the left is.

00:37:34.000 It's whip you up emotionally, and then here's a target, the gun lobby.

00:37:39.000 And do me a favor, don't invoke God's name the week after coming out on abortion and saying, yes, this should be the law of the land for everybody.

00:37:45.000 I know we're not tying these two issues together, but please don't tell me what God wants in this situation when you have no clue, obviously, and should be denied community if you're a Catholic. 0.85

00:37:54.000 Nancy Pelosi, that was the right decision?

00:37:56.000 I guess it was.

00:37:57.000 Not according to Pope Whoopi!

00:37:59.000 Well, Pope Whoopi, you're right.

00:38:01.000 The point to communion is I'm hungry, child.

00:38:01.000 That's fair.

00:38:06.000 I used to be a nun.

00:38:08.000 That was a movie.

00:38:09.000 I don't remember.

00:38:10.000 I get confused with diabetes.

00:38:14.000 I walk with a cane.

00:38:15.000 I got the sugar brain.

00:38:16.000 Yeah.

00:38:18.000 They told me I had to lose weight.

00:38:19.000 I said, how much a foot weigh?

00:38:22.000 My purple toes are bleeding!

00:38:24.000 So, let's get to another claim that they make.

00:38:26.000 Here's the second claim that is really common right now, and you're hearing this everywhere.

00:38:31.000 And you're hearing it from former Vice President Biden.

00:38:35.000 Donald Trump was far more accurate when these events happened.

00:38:37.000 By the way, what happened to Trump's America every time there was a shooting?

00:38:39.000 Is it Biden's America?

00:38:40.000 I just want to make sure that I understand, because we have far more crime overall, which is what I'm more concerned with, violent crime, not just the tool.

00:38:46.000 And the whole war thing.

00:38:47.000 Yeah, the whole war thing, the whole 40 billion in Ukraine, but okay.

00:38:49.000 So the claim is, We're the only country, and you hear this a lot, we're the only country where this kind of thing happened.

00:38:56.000 I just got off a trip from Asia, meeting with Asian leaders.

00:39:04.000 Thank you for doing that.

00:39:05.000 And I learned of this while I was on the aircraft.

00:39:07.000 Oh good.

00:39:08.000 And what struck me.

00:39:09.000 I'm surprised you didn't say orient.

00:39:11.000 On that 17 hour flight.

00:39:14.000 What struck me was these kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world.

00:39:20.000 Wrong.

00:39:24.000 Why? 0.99

00:39:27.000 They have mental health problems.

00:39:30.000 They have domestic disputes in other countries.

00:39:34.000 They have people who are lost.

00:39:37.000 But these kinds of mass shootings never happen with the kind of frequency they happen in America.

00:39:42.000 Why?

00:39:43.000 OK, so first off, there's a sleight of hand that's taking place there, and I want to sort of go through a couple of points.

00:39:48.000 But here's the truth, OK?

00:39:51.000 We are not the country, first off, with the most violent crime or the most amount of murders or homicides.

00:39:57.000 It's not even close when you look at it per capita.

00:39:59.000 So if you look at from 2018, you have El Salvador, you have Jamaica, you have Honduras.

00:40:05.000 Where does America land on the list?

00:40:07.000 We're like 83rd.

00:40:09.000 Less than five homicides per 100,000.

00:40:11.000 Compare that to number one, El Salvador, 52.

00:40:14.000 So he was only 83 off.

00:40:16.000 Yes.

00:40:17.000 This is important.

00:40:18.000 I'm going through the violent crime rate and the homicide rate.

00:40:21.000 Now, the left wants it both ways, where they say, well, you can't compare us to El Salvador or Honduras.

00:40:25.000 Why not? 0.99

00:40:26.000 Well, because those countries are shitholes! 0.77

00:40:29.000 Do you mean to say they're third world so it's not fair to compare it? 0.78

00:40:32.000 Well, good thing is we have another statistic here.

00:40:34.000 We're not even the country with the most mass shootings per capita, even among the...

00:40:39.000 First world countries, which I guess is the term that we would have to use now.

00:40:43.000 If you look at the death rates per million from 2009 to 2015, you have Norway, you have Serbia, you have Macedonia, the United States is 11th.

00:40:49.000 But here's the thing, let's even assume that there is an outlier trend of mass shootings in the United States, okay?

00:40:55.000 It's not.

00:40:56.000 Reference is available at ladderwithcreditor.com.

00:40:59.000 I'm still more concerned with the violent crime rate and the homicide rate.

00:41:04.000 And it's not even close.

00:41:07.000 So this is why they want to focus on the tool.

00:41:09.000 And this is why you get a lot of people who, they'll accuse you of being conspiratorial because you see rising violent crime.

00:41:16.000 Right now, why is there rising violent crime?

00:41:18.000 Like Dave just pointed out earlier, because they encourage the rioting.

00:41:20.000 You had Kamala Harris saying, don't stop the rioting. 1.00

00:41:23.000 And so what does that necessitate?

00:41:24.000 Well, there's an increase in firearm purchases.

00:41:26.000 So there's a rise in crime through liberal rhetoric, through leftist policy.

00:41:31.000 And they say, look at the rise in crime.

00:41:32.000 We need to what?

00:41:33.000 Remove more of your rights.

00:41:37.000 And I legally purchased a firearm after that happened.

00:41:40.000 I was never big into them in my entire life.

00:41:42.000 I was never really comfortable with them.

00:41:43.000 That's just my own personal opinion.

00:41:46.000 Once that started happening, I learned how to shoot.

00:41:48.000 I learned how to shoot from a Marine.

00:41:50.000 And it's something that I feel like you have to have now.

00:41:53.000 And it's a result of their politics.

00:41:56.000 Yeah, well and I remember after, I'm trying to think of the city name, for some reason it's eluding me, but the Hands Up Don't Shoot, right?

00:42:03.000 Ferguson.

00:42:04.000 Ferguson, right? 1.00

00:42:05.000 So all of those leaders that came out and said, black people, the cops are out to kill you, out to kill you, out to kill you. 0.99

00:42:11.000 A police officer that went to my church was among those that was shot and killed at a protest Right after that. 1.00

00:42:18.000 In Dallas?

00:42:19.000 In Dallas.

00:42:20.000 It was mostly peaceful though, right?

00:42:21.000 It was mostly peaceful other than the guy shooting police officers and killing them.

00:42:26.000 And I just don't understand where he probably got the idea that police officers were after them.

00:42:30.000 Every single time they go out and do stuff like this and they're like, well it's not our fault. 0.95

00:42:33.000 Police are actually out to kill black people when that's not absolutely true. 0.96

00:42:36.000 What's the solution? 0.99

00:42:37.000 You should be able to sue Smith & Wesson.

00:42:40.000 That's actually a solution from the left, just to be clear, to sue not only gun manufacturers, but mom-and-pop gun shop owners.

00:42:46.000 Okay, so their claim is this is the only country where that happens.

00:42:48.000 That's not true.

00:42:50.000 Right?

00:42:50.000 So we've gone through here.

00:42:51.000 Okay.

00:42:52.000 First claim is the fault of the gun lobby.

00:42:54.000 All right.

00:42:54.000 Now you know the truth.

00:42:55.000 This is the only place where that happens.

00:42:56.000 That's not true.

00:42:57.000 Here's another claim right now.

00:42:59.000 The third claim that you're going to hear a lot.

00:43:00.000 You're going to see it on Twitter.

00:43:01.000 You're going to see it everywhere.

00:43:02.000 And you heard the president reiterate this.

00:43:03.000 The former vice president.

00:43:04.000 I apologize.

00:43:05.000 Admonish me.

00:43:06.000 Admonish me.

00:43:07.000 Please.

00:43:08.000 I need to respect the office.

00:43:09.000 I need to respect the office.

00:43:12.000 Former vice president.

00:43:13.000 So the claim is that their common sense gun control would have Somehow prevented or had any effect on this shooting.

00:43:23.000 I am sick and tired of it.

00:43:27.000 We have to act.

00:43:29.000 And don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage.

00:43:35.000 I spent my career as a senator and a vice president.

00:43:39.000 Your life.

00:43:39.000 Working to pass common sense gun laws.

00:43:43.000 We can and will prevent every tragedy.

00:43:46.000 But we know they work and have positive impact.

00:43:49.000 No.

00:43:50.000 No, that's wrong.

00:43:51.000 Now, something you see a lot on Twitter everywhere that they tie to this is universal background checks.

00:43:56.000 You just heard that from Steve Kerr.

00:43:57.000 We need background checks.

00:43:58.000 Background checks are already a thing.

00:43:59.000 Just to be clear.

00:43:59.000 Yeah.

00:44:00.000 I had a background check for several days.

00:44:01.000 Yeah.

00:44:02.000 If you want to debunk the myth of the idea that there are no background checks, look.

00:44:06.000 Just go buy a firearm with any family member or friend.

00:44:10.000 And then you can just say, oh, you know, I don't want to buy it.

00:44:11.000 Just have them get to the paperwork phase.

00:44:13.000 Right away, they go, oh, I'm being lied to.

00:44:15.000 That's why you increase firearm ownership in this country.

00:44:18.000 And guess what?

00:44:19.000 It becomes really, really hard for politicians to lie.

00:44:22.000 They say, no background checks! 1.00

00:44:23.000 And everyone at home is going, that's bullshit. 1.00

00:44:25.000 I just did a background check. 1.00

00:44:26.000 What are you talking about?

00:44:27.000 It's that much of a disconnect from reality.

00:44:27.000 Yeah.

00:44:29.000 Texas already requires background checks.

00:44:32.000 Customers, let me read it exactly.

00:44:33.000 Customers at licensed dealers, sorry, yeah, it's the truth I should have said.

00:44:36.000 Licensed gun dealers in the state of Texas are required to pass an FBI background check, and by the way, the shooter purchased his firearm that way, through background check.

00:44:45.000 Some shooters don't! 0.95

00:44:49.000 A lot of them do.

00:44:50.000 Pass a background check anyway.

00:44:51.000 It already exists.

00:44:51.000 Just to be clear.

00:44:52.000 So when someone says, we need to do something.

00:44:55.000 What?

00:44:55.000 We have a bill that just demands background checks.

00:44:58.000 You go, hold on a second.

00:44:58.000 We already have background checks.

00:45:00.000 What else is in that bill?

00:45:02.000 Yeah.

00:45:03.000 That's the follow-up question.

00:45:04.000 But you can only ask it if you have a baseline of knowledge.

00:45:08.000 They don't want you to have that.

00:45:09.000 No.

00:45:10.000 And do me a favor and show me what shooting would have been stopped by a background check.

00:45:14.000 I mean, maybe there's a handful, maybe there's a couple, but you're saying there's been 200-plus mass shootings this year so far?

00:45:20.000 How many of those are stopped by your end-all be-all solution?

00:45:24.000 And that's, by the way, that's assuming, this is predicated on the idea that the criminals who are willing to commit mass murder would obey the laws of a background check.

00:45:31.000 So even assuming that, the numbers still don't hold up.

00:45:34.000 And by the way, this was such a pervasive myth.

00:45:37.000 That after we had to change my mind on a campus, I took two girls to a firing range and then went through the process to purchase a firearm with them because these girls were anti-gun and they had never actually learned anything about firearms. 1.00

00:45:51.000 And they were shocked to find out they had to fill out paperwork and pass a background check.

00:45:56.000 We did this as an entire, like, 30-minute video.

00:45:58.000 How about we just go through the background check?

00:46:00.000 Okay, let's go through it.

00:46:01.000 Okay.

00:46:01.000 So let's do it as though you're gonna get that.

00:46:04.000 But let's do the background check.

00:46:08.000 Pretty thorough questionnaire there, huh?

00:46:10.000 Yeah.

00:46:10.000 Did that surprise you?

00:46:12.000 Yeah, I didn't think there was, like, that, all that.

00:46:16.000 Yeah.

00:46:17.000 And he's putting it through the database right now, so the FBI will let us know if you've lied about any of those questions.

00:46:21.000 They lied about all of them!

00:46:24.000 Now, I don't know if you can hear, I was at death's door.

00:46:27.000 You sound like it.

00:46:28.000 I had a sinus infection, a bronchial infection, and walking pneumonia.

00:46:31.000 And I was like, oh my god, I gotta go to a gun range today.

00:46:33.000 You asked them to shoot you and they wouldn't.

00:46:34.000 They wouldn't.

00:46:35.000 No.

00:46:38.000 Please have mercy!

00:46:41.000 Can't you hear me?

00:46:42.000 And in their common-sense gun laws, if you look at the things they want, again, the bill is not about a background check.

00:46:48.000 Again, Texas already has gun-free zones with schools.

00:46:51.000 Didn't protect the victims.

00:46:52.000 He didn't go, oh my God, there's a sign there, I better stop.

00:46:54.000 Right.

00:46:54.000 Look at the money that goes to other countries.

00:46:56.000 You put $40 billion to Ukraine.

00:46:58.000 There's 98,700-ish, let's round it up to, let's just call it 99,000 public schools in America.

00:47:05.000 We take the $40 billion to Ukraine.

00:47:08.000 That means each school that's public in America can have $404.4 thousand dollars to spend on school security.

00:47:16.000 That's this year.

00:47:17.000 Do you think that could be four people per school?

00:47:20.000 Eight people per school?

00:47:22.000 What were those $40 billion spent on?

00:47:24.000 Protecting Ukrainians and not at home.

00:47:26.000 And not only that, guns for the Ukrainians. 0.99

00:47:29.000 Crazy. 0.99

00:47:30.000 You need help. 0.99

00:47:30.000 It's weird. 0.99

00:47:31.000 Please send guns.

00:47:32.000 Here's $40 billion.

00:47:33.000 Here we say, hey, schools need help, please send guns.

00:47:38.000 If it saves one life, that's our point.

00:47:40.000 Well, basically Ukraine is saying, help bad guys with guns.

00:47:43.000 What do you do?

00:47:44.000 You say, okay, well, we'll get you more guns to fight them.

00:47:46.000 But in the United States, it can't possibly be the answer.

00:47:49.000 And I think last night, I think this is something that just crystallized for me.

00:47:53.000 It's not even just that they're wrong.

00:47:55.000 Every single time that they come out with their common sense gun reform, one, they don't even list what that is.

00:47:59.000 Two, they always pivot to kind of background checks, and that's about the only thing. 0.91

00:48:02.000 Then they make stupid claims about ghost guns or assault weapons or whatever it may be, but they don't list specifics. 0.98

00:48:09.000 We have specifics that will work! 0.99

00:48:11.000 Every single time.

00:48:11.000 Yeah.

00:48:13.000 The low-hanging fruit that you talked about.

00:48:14.000 I'm tired of your virtue signaling.

00:48:16.000 Do not give an inch on this, conservatives.

00:48:20.000 This is not the way to do it.

00:48:21.000 Legislation will never get people to stop being evil.

00:48:24.000 You're never going to get all guns out of America, so why don't you just let people protect themselves?

00:48:29.000 Why don't you make sure schools are safe?

00:48:31.000 Why don't you get rid of gun-free zones and soft targets?

00:48:34.000 I want a shooter, if he ever walks into a church or a school, to have his head on a swivel not knowing when it's going to get blown off by somebody coming out of a classroom.

00:48:42.000 Not walking around willy-nilly for half an hour!

00:48:45.000 Yeah.

00:48:45.000 Keep in mind, this whole shooting... Should never happen.

00:48:47.000 ...took place in one classroom.

00:48:49.000 One! 0.96

00:48:50.000 That's like shooting fish in a barrel.

00:48:52.000 You go, alright, contain them in the... They saw the signs, gun-free zone.

00:48:57.000 I even get to hang out for half an hour and have lunch because no one can do anything!

00:49:02.000 They act as though they're the only ones who are mad.

00:49:05.000 They act as though they're the only ones who care.

00:49:06.000 No.

00:49:07.000 You have things that we can do, right?

00:49:09.000 Now, look, look, let's distill it.

00:49:10.000 If they cared, it wouldn't have happened.

00:49:12.000 I know.

00:49:13.000 If their ideas worked, it wouldn't have happened.

00:49:15.000 Right.

00:49:15.000 The fact that he's sitting there saying somebody has to do something, you're the...

00:49:19.000 President!

00:49:20.000 Yeah, good bleep.

00:49:21.000 Thank you.

00:49:24.000 It's you!

00:49:24.000 Former vice president.

00:49:26.000 Sorry, admonish me.

00:49:27.000 You're the former vice president.

00:49:29.000 Yes, respect the office.

00:49:30.000 I know, it's my fault.

00:49:31.000 Even if you disagree with a man, we all agree you respect the office. 1.00

00:49:34.000 Sharpest attack on Satan's ass. 1.00

00:49:36.000 Satan can sit on it. 1.00

00:49:40.000 Yeah, this is one of those issues where, um, let's distill it. 0.99

00:49:44.000 Okay, a woman's being raped. 1.00

00:49:46.000 There's a man who's a rapist. 1.00

00:49:47.000 Okay. 1.00

00:49:48.000 The rape is already happening. 1.00

00:49:50.000 We have to assume that there are going to be rapists as long as humans are alive.

00:49:54.000 As long as animals are alive, by the way.

00:49:56.000 PETA doesn't like to tell you about that.

00:49:57.000 Ducks. 1.00

00:49:59.000 They're rapists. 1.00

00:49:59.000 I like them. 1.00

00:50:00.000 Yeah, with their corkscrew penises. 1.00

00:50:03.000 Howard. 1.00

00:50:04.000 Rapists exist. 0.52

00:50:07.000 Now, we can put everything in place that we want to to try and prevent rape, but let's assume that there will be a rape happening at some point.

00:50:15.000 What does that woman do? 1.00

00:50:16.000 Does she have a sign?

00:50:18.000 Call the cops?

00:50:18.000 You and I both know that woman's only chance is having a firearm.

00:50:22.000 So if you create a law that strips her of the right to have a firearm, you are relegating her to being raped. 0.68

00:50:29.000 With no defense.

00:50:30.000 It's the same thing if you decide no one in school should be allowed to have the only defensive tool that would be able to stop an attack Okay, so what do you propose?

00:50:40.000 Well, there are all these other laws that really wouldn't do much.

00:50:42.000 And then, of course, you call the cops afterwards with the tool that would be needed to stop the attack.

00:50:46.000 Preventatively, it's just, it's crazy talk.

00:50:49.000 If it saves one life, well, guess what?

00:50:51.000 We already went through it.

00:50:52.000 Saves 1.6 last year.

00:50:53.000 1.6 million, sometimes 3 million.

00:50:56.000 If it saves, what about you, if it saves one life? 0.85

00:50:58.000 If it saves one life, the numbers show that you will kill more people. 0.98

00:51:02.000 Word just as mad.

00:51:03.000 Here's another claim that is very common that you've heard before.

00:51:07.000 It's sort of, you can predict this, which claims are going to be recycled because they don't work and then they rehash another one.

00:51:12.000 And this is that, like you mentioned, ghost guns, non-existent terms, that assault weapons, which means nothing, are to blame.

00:51:20.000 When we pass the assault weapons ban, Mass shootings went down.

00:51:24.000 Nope.

00:51:24.000 Wrong.

00:51:25.000 When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.

00:51:28.000 Nope.

00:51:29.000 The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong.

00:51:37.000 You mean rifles?

00:51:39.000 What in God's name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone? 0.97

00:51:43.000 Hey, okay, good. 0.90

00:51:44.000 Look, first off, show me where the tripling comes from.

00:51:46.000 Second, what's an assault weapon?

00:51:49.000 Uh, any weapon, if you want to use it for assault, I suppose.

00:51:52.000 I would suppose, but for him, it's like, well, no, it's if it has a grip like this, but it's okay, but if it has a... Matt finish?

00:52:01.000 Oh, man, that's so dangerous.

00:52:02.000 I know, it's in your rapist defense kit, but it has a matte finish.

00:52:06.000 We only allow the the blued finish.

00:52:08.000 And meanwhile, when he was a kid, he could walk in any store and get liquor, eight guns that he wanted.

00:52:13.000 Yeah.

00:52:14.000 Eight packs of cigarettes.

00:52:15.000 And then he just shot his gun on his front porch into the air. 0.98

00:52:18.000 Yes, go out with your shotgun and shoot it up in the air and scare them. 0.99

00:52:20.000 Any minority he wanted. 0.99

00:52:21.000 Yeah.

00:52:23.000 Well, he didn't want any of them in his town back then.

00:52:25.000 No.

00:52:25.000 I was a tough kid from Scranton.

00:52:27.000 Here's me saying the N-word a whole bunch.

00:52:27.000 Yeah.

00:52:27.000 No.

00:52:29.000 Nobody holds me accountable.

00:52:30.000 Right.

00:52:32.000 So, right there he makes a claim about the assault weapons ban.

00:52:34.000 Okay.

00:52:35.000 Not true.

00:52:36.000 Gun violence was already on a downward trajectory before the ban in 1994, and then when it was rescinded in the early 2000s, it continued to fall.

00:52:46.000 It was 2004.

00:52:47.000 Yeah, and it was very steady.

00:52:48.000 Actually, if you look really closely at the data, Barack Obama was pushing that, oh, hey, we used to have this ban on assault weapons and it was fantastic, it lowered all the gun crime.

00:52:56.000 No, it actually went up during that specific period of time, after the ban was in place, and it has settled out since.

00:53:02.000 And that's why they try to hide behind terms like mass shooting specifically, as opposed to homicide or gun crime, because the term isn't necessarily defined consistently.

00:53:09.000 Some places define it as four deaths or more.

00:53:11.000 That used to be what was used.

00:53:13.000 Back when I used to talk about this in 2015, now some of them say three people injured or more.

00:53:19.000 Then they would be covering all of the gang crime that takes place every single weekend.

00:53:22.000 Those would be mass shootings.

00:53:23.000 So it really depends on what's most convenient.

00:53:24.000 What you need to look for, what is a constant, is violent crime, homicide, and then if you want to look at gun crime because you believe that you would stop all the rest of homicides and violent crime without a gun.

00:53:33.000 But if you want to say not only violent crime, not only homicide, not only gun crime, but specifically mass shootings, which are such a small subset of the problem, then just admit that you don't want to solve the problem.

00:53:44.000 You are losing the argument, so you're trying to score some political points.

00:53:48.000 By the way, let's be really clear again.

00:53:51.000 94% of shootings in gun-free zones.

00:53:52.000 That's a pretty high correlation.

00:53:53.000 Doesn't necessarily equate to causation.

00:53:55.000 They believe that causation is the assault weapon, even though 59%... 59% of these crimes...

00:54:04.000 ...are attributed to handguns when you're taking into account homicides with firearms.

00:54:08.000 Less than 3%!

00:54:10.000 With rifles of any kind!

00:54:13.000 So 94% gun-free zones?

00:54:15.000 Hey, I think that might be a problem! 0.99

00:54:16.000 You monster! 0.99

00:54:17.000 We need to solve the problem of the 3%! 1.00

00:54:21.000 Not even 3% because that's all rifles.

00:54:23.000 I don't know what percentage of them are AR-15s.

00:54:26.000 And you say that we're the ones who don't care?

00:54:28.000 And I love how the media is focusing on the rifles right now and not the handgun that he had.

00:54:32.000 Right.

00:54:33.000 Illegally.

00:54:34.000 Right.

00:54:34.000 I don't know if he had the handgun illegally.

00:54:36.000 You can't buy a handgun at his age.

00:54:37.000 I think they changed that in Texas.

00:54:39.000 You used to be able to not buy a... I just looked it up before the show.

00:54:41.000 I'm not 100% sure if I'm 100% right, but... Well, because those girls, those girls that they wanted to purchase actually a Walther, and they couldn't because they weren't 21.

00:54:50.000 I thought they'd reduce the age to 18, but it could just be the rifles.

00:54:53.000 Can someone let us know?

00:54:54.000 Yeah.

00:54:54.000 You're probably right.

00:54:55.000 I was looking at the code just a little bit before we came on air, just to make sure, because he did buy the rifles legally, because former Vice President Joe Biden said that he bought the rifles legally, and I was like, you sure?

00:55:06.000 But then it's the handguns that you can't until you're 21.

00:55:07.000 It used to be 21, if it's still 21.

00:55:09.000 Is that more of the concealed idea as well?

00:55:12.000 That they lowered it, or is there a specific... I think it has more to do with the history of hunting, you know, where people would hunt pretty young, you know, kids would hunt younger.

00:55:18.000 You don't really hunt with a handgun.

00:55:20.000 Well, you can!

00:55:20.000 No, you don't.

00:55:20.000 I mean, you can, but it's... Well, it depends on what you're hunting.

00:55:22.000 Maybe pigs or something like that, but yeah.

00:55:24.000 Well, it depends, too, if that deer cut me off in traffic.

00:55:26.000 Right.

00:55:29.000 Then I'm going after it with whatever I have.

00:55:30.000 Yeah, anything.

00:55:31.000 If you're two gangsters running after a Russian spy in the woods.

00:55:35.000 Yeah.

00:55:36.000 Fang Fang?

00:55:37.000 By the way, also, they talk about assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, which is the silliest thing because, again, it's just arbitrary.

00:55:44.000 Hey, what number is too many for rounds?

00:55:48.000 Ah!

00:55:49.000 Ten! 0.97

00:55:50.000 Why?

00:55:51.000 Why?

00:55:53.000 10's the number here!

00:55:54.000 Do you have crime stats that show us that guns with more than 10... 10!

00:55:59.000 10!

00:55:59.000 The number's 10!

00:56:02.000 So, uh, we can look at states that have high magazine bans.

00:56:05.000 New York, California, D.C., New Jersey, Colorado.

00:56:08.000 Mass shootings have still occurred in those places.

00:56:11.000 Colorado?

00:56:12.000 I can't remember.

00:56:13.000 I don't remember if that started there.

00:56:15.000 So the recent ones, let's look at the recent ones.

00:56:17.000 Buffalo, New York.

00:56:18.000 Brooklyn subway terrorists.

00:56:19.000 The Church in California.

00:56:20.000 DC sniper shooting.

00:56:21.000 Brigham, New Jersey.

00:56:22.000 Boulder, Colorado.

00:56:23.000 So the point is, these places are not immune to people using firearms.

00:56:28.000 And again, we're looking at the number, 94%.

00:56:32.000 of these mass shootings occurring in gun-free zones.

00:56:35.000 They save far more lives than they take.

00:56:37.000 Less than 3% of homicides with firearms are being committed with long rifles, let alone

00:56:42.000 long rifles with high-capacity magazines.

00:56:45.000 And they're saying this is a solution to the problem.

00:56:47.000 This is where we can find common ground.

00:56:48.000 It is not honest.

00:56:51.000 I get that you're pissed.

00:56:53.000 Gerald's obviously very pissed.

00:56:54.000 So's Dave.

00:56:55.000 So am I. I'm trying to button it up here because I know that I can fly off the handle.

00:57:00.000 I'm really mad.

00:57:01.000 I've got two young babies at home.

00:57:04.000 Believe me, I think about this.

00:57:05.000 They will never be in a public school.

00:57:08.000 Because they're evil factories and I'm not even just talking about firearms.

00:57:11.000 I don't want my child to go to school and be told by a teacher that they should affirm whatever gender they feel like because they happen to be trying to look up the Barbie skirt and they believe that my son is now a woman.

00:57:21.000 So, that's an aside.

00:57:22.000 That's what I said.

00:57:22.000 I'm trying to button it up.

00:57:26.000 Well, that they have no worth.

00:57:27.000 That's a fun thing to teach kids.

00:57:28.000 Yes, exactly.

00:57:29.000 And then, why are they mentally ill? 0.82

00:57:31.000 I don't understand.

00:57:32.000 So we told them they have no meaning or purpose.

00:57:35.000 Right!

00:57:36.000 Yeah.

00:57:36.000 So strange.

00:57:37.000 Because of the skin color. 0.98

00:57:38.000 Yeah, the skin color, which they can't control. 1.00

00:57:41.000 We've been dividing them by color and making them hate each other.

00:57:44.000 I don't know what's going on.

00:57:45.000 And then also, ironically, telling them that actual division is racist.

00:57:48.000 Yeah.

00:57:49.000 Weird.

00:57:51.000 So, no, that's that racist long division.

00:57:55.000 Here's another thing.

00:57:56.000 So you look at the states in the United States, then you look at other countries.

00:57:58.000 There are plenty of countries in Europe that have bans on firearms, that have bans on specific firearms.

00:58:02.000 They still experience mass casualty events.

00:58:04.000 I mean, we bring this overlay here.

00:58:07.000 It's just collage.

00:58:07.000 I mean, just in case you need your memory refreshed.

00:58:09.000 They have mass stabbings.

00:58:10.000 They have people being run over with trucks.

00:58:12.000 They still have mass shootings, by the way, in these countries.

00:58:14.000 So even assuming that what they're saying is correct and that Criminals would obey the laws.

00:58:20.000 It doesn't work.

00:58:21.000 And then, of course, there's the very significant underlying factor that criminals don't actually obey the laws.

00:58:26.000 Well, you have the evidence.

00:58:27.000 It's not like we need to do a case study on this.

00:58:29.000 We have places that we can look that have very tight gun laws and we can see what happens.

00:58:33.000 California and New York being among them.

00:58:34.000 But let's just go to Chicago.

00:58:37.000 I don't want to.

00:58:39.000 This is real life.

00:58:40.000 It's no Family Matters.

00:58:42.000 Four people shot in Chicago is a slow weekend.

00:58:45.000 Leroy Brown even left.

00:58:46.000 Not even kidding.

00:58:47.000 It's incredible.

00:58:48.000 You can look in these places that say, here's how to fix the problem.

00:58:51.000 Let's do everything that we can to fix it from what we know.

00:58:55.000 Background check.

00:58:55.000 All this stuff.

00:58:56.000 Fine.

00:58:56.000 You've done it.

00:58:56.000 Didn't work.

00:58:58.000 Next.

00:58:58.000 Let's go to something that works.

00:58:59.000 Please.

00:59:00.000 No virtue signaling.

00:59:01.000 I don't care if you're going to get down on your hands and knees and not actually get down on your hands and knees and act like you care.

00:59:06.000 Do something that will solve the problem. 0.96

00:59:08.000 Don't give women who are in danger of being raped a card.

00:59:12.000 This isn't like the Joker where it's like, rape is wrong. 0.99

00:59:15.000 Yeah, or tell them to pee and vomit on themselves like that NYU or Columbia professor. 0.99

00:59:19.000 You know, to really turn off the PC peed out rapist. 0.99

00:59:22.000 I don't really think so. 0.94

00:59:24.000 Not so much.

00:59:24.000 Especially if he's in a fraternity.

00:59:26.000 Yeah, usually they're pretty set in their ways.

00:59:29.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:30.000 Unbelievable. 0.98

00:59:31.000 A little bit of throw up I don't think is going to stop a rapist. 0.84

00:59:33.000 They actually taught women that, and they act like we're the absurd ones. 0.98

00:59:36.000 Just, yeah, vomit and piss on command and that'll stop the rape. 1.00

00:59:40.000 Okay. 0.98

00:59:41.000 Now, isn't that DePaulo?

00:59:44.000 You know this, Al?

00:59:45.000 Oh yeah, Nick DePaulo.

00:59:46.000 Sir.

00:59:46.000 Nick DePaulo.

00:59:47.000 Not to mention, how are you going to crap and piss on demand? 0.99

00:59:51.000 You're just jogging, you're just stocking up on eating bad pork and iced tea before you go running in Central Park? 1.00

00:59:56.000 Hey bitch, take off your pants. 1.00

00:59:57.000 Thank God for those Amtrak clams! 1.00

01:00:01.000 That's why he's one of the best comedians ever.

01:00:03.000 I think the Applebee's Chicken Parm is coming.

01:00:07.000 Are you sure you want to keep doing this?

01:00:09.000 Oh my gosh, this is one of my favorite bits ever.

01:00:10.000 I can't even imagine that actually stopping a rapist going, well, this is too far.

01:00:14.000 What, did you think she was going to have fun? 1.00

01:00:15.000 Yeah.

01:00:16.000 She was probably going to puke anyway. 1.00

01:00:18.000 If she's not into it, it really ruins the rape for me. 0.96

01:00:20.000 Yeah, I just, ugh. 1.00

01:00:22.000 Moron. 0.99

01:00:22.000 I want her to love me. 0.99

01:00:26.000 It's actually probably a better way to stop the rape. 0.54

01:00:28.000 Just tell him you love him.

01:00:29.000 I don't know about this commitment.

01:00:31.000 This is a commitment.

01:00:32.000 I'm having a very good time.

01:00:34.000 Can we do this again?

01:00:35.000 Yeah.

01:00:36.000 Ask for cab fare.

01:00:37.000 Yeah.

01:00:38.000 Now, let's go to another claim that's going to take a little bit of time here.

01:00:42.000 This is another claim.

01:00:43.000 This is the fifth claim.

01:00:44.000 And this is one that's being recycled, but they try and reframe it.

01:00:48.000 And the idea here is, and you can see this all over Twitter, that the Second Amendment doesn't protect assault weapons.

01:00:55.000 Which, by the way, is an undefinable term. 0.99

01:00:57.000 It's fluid, you know, like that penis between your legs. 0.99

01:01:00.000 If it looks scary, that's what they pretty much mean. 0.99

01:01:02.000 Yeah.

01:01:03.000 Yeah.

01:01:03.000 So here's the thing.

01:01:04.000 What they try and often argue, and then I want to get to what the actual Second Amendment means, but they say, oh, you know what, if the Second Amendment, if they knew that people would have these high-capacity guns, and they never would have, they would have, they would have not allowed, okay, first off, On a pragmatic level, that's not true.

01:01:18.000 There were plenty of guns that weren't just muskets.

01:01:20.000 There was a Giandoni air rifle.

01:01:21.000 There was a Pepperbox revolver.

01:01:22.000 There was a Puckle gun.

01:01:23.000 There was the Belton flintlock.

01:01:25.000 These were things that existed.

01:01:26.000 The reason they just weren't in large circulation is because they were too expensive.

01:01:30.000 Our Founding Fathers were aware of that.

01:01:31.000 Not only were they aware of that, but they were also aware of, and gave their stamp of approval, on cannons!

01:01:39.000 Artillery was approved.

01:01:41.000 Artillery was approved.

01:01:43.000 Like a subprime loan!

01:01:45.000 What?

01:01:46.000 We want cannons? 0.95

01:01:47.000 Why, yes!

01:01:48.000 No trouble.

01:01:50.000 It's unbelievable.

01:01:51.000 So, James Madison, that's right, this is Overlay N, he wrote a letter of mark explaining to, this is Overlay N there, Kevin, I know Tokunawa's not here, so Overlay N, I'm not going in order.

01:02:00.000 They were asking, it was a private ship, that said, you know, we have to deal with the trouble on the high seas.

01:02:05.000 Yeah.

01:02:06.000 We just want to know, you know, that whole Second Amendment that you did?

01:02:08.000 Yeah.

01:02:09.000 Does it apply to cannons?

01:02:10.000 And Madison was like, yeah, it applies to cannons. 0.54

01:02:13.000 Why do you think we wrote it?

01:02:14.000 Why not?

01:02:15.000 So what's the equivalent to a cannon today?

01:02:18.000 It's at least a rocket launcher.

01:02:20.000 This is a very lazy argument.

01:02:22.000 They want you to believe that it was just about muskets.

01:02:24.000 That's not true.

01:02:24.000 There were other firearms, and there was artillery, and it was expressly approved by the people who wrote the Second Amendment.

01:02:31.000 It's a lazy argument.

01:02:32.000 Reference is available at ladderwithcutter.com.

01:02:34.000 Now, they also try and say, well, the Second Amendment, here's the problem, because they want to do away with the Second Amendment.

01:02:41.000 And so they say, well, the Second Amendment is just for the militia.

01:02:44.000 You're not in the militia.

01:02:46.000 This is an argument that they use.

01:02:47.000 Again, it's a really lazy argument.

01:02:49.000 Let me read you the Second Amendment for people who haven't read it.

01:02:53.000 It's a short read.

01:02:54.000 I recommend it.

01:02:55.000 It says, a well-regulated militia, comma, being necessary to the security of a free state, comma, The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:03:09.000 So it doesn't say the right of the militia to keep and bear arms.

01:03:13.000 It says a well-regulated militia, meaning the country needs a militia.

01:03:18.000 Then there are two commas between that and then the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

01:03:24.000 Why is it written that way?

01:03:25.000 It's very clear.

01:03:26.000 Well, let's look to the supporting documents.

01:03:29.000 George Mason once said, I ask, sir, what is a militia?

01:03:33.000 It is the whole people, except for a few public officials, which I love that he decided to highlight that.

01:03:39.000 So, what is a militia?

01:03:40.000 The militia is you.

01:03:41.000 And that doesn't mean that you have to join a militia in the woods.

01:03:44.000 What it means is you have a country very, very different from other countries, too.

01:03:49.000 That's why I like to compare within states, because we shouldn't compare us to Canada.

01:03:52.000 No.

01:03:53.000 Why? 1.00

01:03:53.000 Because they suck. 1.00

01:03:55.000 Also, they bent over for the royalty. 1.00

01:04:00.000 They still have the Queen and their money!

01:04:02.000 Yeah.

01:04:02.000 We fought a bloody war for our freedom.

01:04:05.000 Some other historical context, just so you know. 0.92

01:04:08.000 If George Washington was the kind of shitty politician like Senator Murphy, who just wanted to, I don't know, as Steve Kerr might say, maintain his grip of power.

01:04:18.000 Keep in mind, George Washington is one of the only few people throughout history who was one of, if not the most powerful man in the new world, in the whole world, but certainly the new world. 0.67

01:04:26.000 People were begging for him to stay and he left.

01:04:28.000 And he said, because I'm not immune to power corrupting.

01:04:32.000 That's a big deal.

01:04:33.000 Not many people do that.

01:04:33.000 He also fought other militias.

01:04:35.000 A lot of people don't realize this.

01:04:36.000 You think there's the War of Independence and then you think there's a civil war.

01:04:38.000 No, there were wars being fought here in the United States because there were some people who, I know, as crazy as this may sound, wanted to be loyal to the crown.

01:04:45.000 There were all kinds of factions.

01:04:47.000 George Washington had to fight them.

01:04:49.000 The easiest thing he could have done would have been strip them of the right to own firearms.

01:04:54.000 Oh my gosh, I'm running into these militias who disagree with us.

01:04:56.000 But he understood it was so important that he still Affirmed it.

01:05:00.000 Repeatedly.

01:05:01.000 Repeatedly.

01:05:02.000 Because he understood that that is what was necessary to keep the kind of government that they just fled in check, and he also recognized that he could be that kind of a government.

01:05:10.000 He could be that kind of, and at that point, really, he.

01:05:13.000 Government.

01:05:14.000 We didn't have exactly what we have right now.

01:05:15.000 This man was powerful.

01:05:16.000 This man could have been a king, and he recognized, ooh, that's bad.

01:05:20.000 One of the fail-safes here is the people to have guns.

01:05:24.000 They need to be their own militia.

01:05:26.000 Yeah, this is the only way you secure freedom.

01:05:28.000 What does it say in there?

01:05:29.000 Being necessary to secure, or for the security of a free state?

01:05:33.000 Yep.

01:05:34.000 Free, security.

01:05:34.000 Right?

01:05:35.000 Free, security.

01:05:36.000 See those things tied together?

01:05:37.000 The only way free stays is if you have security, and the only way you get security is if you have the right to keep and bear arms.

01:05:43.000 Yeah.

01:05:44.000 It's very, very clear.

01:05:45.000 Look at countries throughout history.

01:05:47.000 We don't have to go to Germany, we can go to Australia.

01:05:50.000 Last year, they're building camps, they did mandatory buybacks of firearms forever, right?

01:05:55.000 How do you defend yourself against a tyrannical government?

01:05:58.000 How do you defend yourself against a tyrannical individual in your community if you have no right to keep and bear arms?

01:06:03.000 But that person can go out and get whatever they want.

01:06:05.000 Right.

01:06:06.000 Right?

01:06:06.000 They're not going to obey the laws anyway.

01:06:07.000 And if you're like, oh, if the entire United States just had the law, fine.

01:06:10.000 Fantastic.

01:06:11.000 How close was this to the border?

01:06:12.000 How many guns are coming over that border illegally right now?

01:06:14.000 Are you telling me you couldn't get one if you really wanted one?

01:06:16.000 The argument doesn't really hold up.

01:06:18.000 These are the same people who require you to get a negative COVID test or quarantine if you're coming back into your own country for I think it's ten days, but you have hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who just ride on through, sir. 1.00

01:06:26.000 Yes, right here.

01:06:26.000 Really?

01:06:27.000 Please go this way.

01:06:27.000 You rang?

01:06:28.000 Make sure you come back with your court date in seven years.

01:06:30.000 I like your gun.

01:06:31.000 Yes.

01:06:32.000 I like the cut of that AR-15.

01:06:33.000 I like the ivory grips and the god-awful gaudy flames etched into it.

01:06:38.000 I like the blood on the machete.

01:06:39.000 Yes.

01:06:40.000 You must be, what do they call it, Cartel?

01:06:42.000 Am I pronouncing that right?

01:06:43.000 I don't want to offend.

01:06:47.000 Have you seen our wonderful EBT cards?

01:06:49.000 We have a fantastic selection.

01:06:50.000 Yes, please take one.

01:06:52.000 Yes!

01:06:52.000 Take two!

01:06:53.000 We don't care.

01:06:54.000 We've been playing around with screen prints.

01:06:55.000 Look, this EBT card has Dora the Explorer.

01:06:58.000 Are you familiar?

01:06:59.000 Probably not, but you know what?

01:07:00.000 Take that.

01:07:01.000 That's for you.

01:07:04.000 Let's just tie a bow on this.

01:07:05.000 So, Second Amendment makes sure that the other rights exist.

01:07:09.000 Yeah, scale back even Ukraine and Russia. 0.76

01:07:12.000 Scale back that they need guns.

01:07:13.000 Let's just point a finer point on this.

01:07:17.000 Your money.

01:07:19.000 Billions.

01:07:20.000 Forty billion was just the last round.

01:07:21.000 I can't even keep a tally of the total amount of billions that have gone to Ukraine.

01:07:26.000 Billions of your dollars.

01:07:29.000 Are right now going to paying for guns for people in the Ukraine so they can be a well-regulated militia which you were insured as your own right at the founding of this country and they want to strip from you. 0.94

01:07:42.000 Your money is going to Ukraine to pay for their guns. 0.62

01:07:48.000 Well, they want to take yours.

01:07:50.000 Is that driving home?

01:07:53.000 You don't even need to look through history, you look at it now!

01:07:55.000 And then let's scale it back.

01:07:56.000 Okay, not Ukraine, not just China, not people being run over with tanks, not genocide being committed.

01:08:01.000 Think a few Uyghurs would like to have a couple of AR-15s? 1.00

01:08:04.000 Don't want to speak for them.

01:08:06.000 But, scale it back, speech laws. 0.66

01:08:09.000 You can be arrested in Australia, in Canada, in the UK, for speech!

01:08:15.000 I'm not saying that all free speech here is defended with firearms, but it's certainly in the back of people's minds.

01:08:21.000 It's certainly in the back of if you have corrupt police officers' minds who would want to go door-to-door arresting you for things that you say, which, by the way, has happened throughout human history and still happens today.

01:08:30.000 Hey, remember this?

01:08:32.000 This is the problem with the affront.

01:08:34.000 That the left, they just think that they win by being offended.

01:08:38.000 Remember yesterday?

01:08:39.000 Yes, that's a good point.

01:08:40.000 Remember yesterday when I said there are more slaves than ever in recorded history, we're now 40 million today?

01:08:45.000 Yeah.

01:08:45.000 And I said, now the problem is, the reason we can't talk about it, is because these slaves primarily exist in three places, right?

01:08:52.000 Africa, Asia, the Middle East.

01:08:53.000 Yeah. 0.93

01:08:54.000 So now, it's really hard to bitch about white privilege When you actually acknowledge the slavery that is currently taking place in these, and I said, can I say shithole countries about the countries that employ slavery? 0.87

01:09:05.000 And I said, I bet you liberals are going to be more offended that I referred to these countries that enslave people as shitholes than they will be at the enslavement. 0.92

01:09:15.000 Guess what Media Matters had?

01:09:17.000 Oh, I wonder.

01:09:18.000 Stephen goes on offensive rant about shithole countries. 0.74

01:09:21.000 Yeah, you know what? 0.69

01:09:22.000 Hold on a second.

01:09:22.000 I know you're expecting me to apologize.

01:09:24.000 I think if your country still practices slavery, you're a shithole. 1.00

01:09:28.000 Ridiculous! 1.00

01:09:29.000 Also, if you think... 1.00

01:09:31.000 If you think one sentence is a rant, you too are a shithole. 1.00

01:09:34.000 Yes. 1.00

01:09:35.000 Oh, I thought you were saying you too is a shithole. 0.99

01:09:38.000 And if you are the band U2. 0.99

01:09:39.000 That is uncalled for.

01:09:42.000 Yeah, that's true. 0.99

01:09:43.000 You can have two shitholes in one shithole. 0.97

01:09:46.000 He's saving time. 0.99

01:09:47.000 It's a twofer.

01:09:50.000 So these are the myths that you have out there, right?

01:09:52.000 Can we go to this really quickly?

01:09:54.000 Oh my god.

01:09:54.000 Okay, what's going on?

01:09:55.000 Are they trying to bait Marco Rubio?

01:09:56.000 Let's see.

01:09:56.000 No, no, no.

01:09:56.000 See, here's the deal.

01:09:57.000 Senate Dems moved to clear way for votes on background checks.

01:10:00.000 All right, let me see what they're doing right now.

01:10:02.000 These mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show on the internet.

01:10:05.000 So if people want to do that, we can have that debate, but don't link it to these horrible events because they would have nothing to do with it.

01:10:10.000 What about getting rid of AR-15s? 1.00

01:10:12.000 Why are these semi-automatic rifles necessary?

01:10:15.000 If people want to talk about banning specific guns, they should propose that, but it wouldn't prevent these shootings.

01:10:22.000 Again!

01:10:22.000 Oh, let's see what he says here.

01:10:23.000 Objective.

01:10:24.000 He's objective.

01:10:24.000 Why not?

01:10:24.000 Quiet, part of it loud.

01:10:25.000 to push forward separate legislation to deal with improving school safety.

01:10:29.000 It's unclear whether or not that will get Democratic support.

01:10:32.000 The Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has promised to move forward on these

01:10:36.000 House-passed bills that would expand background checks on commercial sales and private transfers.

01:10:42.000 He has been saying that they would move forward on this for the past year.

01:10:46.000 They plan to move, they're signaling they plan to move very quickly on it.

01:10:49.000 on this, but even if they were to do so, getting the support of 50, let alone 60 senators is

01:10:54.000 impossible.

01:10:55.000 Thank you.

01:10:56.000 Thank you.

01:10:57.000 Joining me right now for more on this is Democratic Congressman Colin Allred.

01:11:01.000 All right, let's see what he says.

01:11:02.000 Let's see.

01:11:03.000 We went through the myths, right?

01:11:04.000 The assault weapons, the idea of the Second Amendment, the idea of what was the first

01:11:08.000 one that's the gun lobby.

01:11:09.000 Yeah, we went through.

01:11:11.000 As parents across the country, I think, imagined how they would feel if this happened at their child's school.

01:11:17.000 As a parent, this is your worst nightmare.

01:11:18.000 sure you did. My wife and I hugged our two boys a little bit closer last night.

01:11:23.000 Everybody did. Across the country. I think imagined how they would feel. Oh we also

01:11:27.000 deep estimate that we're the only country that does this.

01:11:29.000 As a parent, this is your worst nightmare. Of course. Getting a call that your

01:11:34.000 precious baby who you sent off to school has been murdered. And as a Texan, I'm you know I'm

01:11:39.000 heartbroken. But as a lawmaker

01:11:42.000 I feel like it's incumbent upon me and my colleagues to not just grieve, but to act, to do something.

01:11:47.000 Marco Rubio is wrong with what he just said, that there's nothing we can do.

01:11:51.000 I refuse to accept that there's nothing I can do to protect my kids and their schools.

01:11:54.000 He didn't say that.

01:11:55.000 He never said there's nothing we can do.

01:11:56.000 He said those things, what you are suggesting, wouldn't have stopped the shooting.

01:12:01.000 Oh! 0.60

01:12:02.000 Ding, ding, ding!

01:12:03.000 Hey, that was claim number one, that we're the only country.

01:12:07.000 There you go, hit a bell.

01:12:12.000 We're 83rd when it comes to gun crime, homicide.

01:12:13.000 We're not even the top country in the new world, in the first world, in the non-shithole world as far as mass shootings.

01:12:16.000 the former Republican. We're 83rd when it comes to gun crime, homicide. We're not even

01:12:21.000 the top country in the new world, in the first world, in the non-shithole world as far as 0.99

01:12:26.000 mass shootings. That's false. It's so predictable, guys.

01:12:29.000 That's the value in doing this live, right?

01:12:31.000 A lot of other conservatives are afraid to go live this way because they're afraid they'll get removed from YouTube.

01:12:36.000 I don't care.

01:12:36.000 You guys go over to Rumble, go over to Mug Club.

01:12:38.000 You get to see live in real time.

01:12:40.000 It's the difference between, you know, Fox News and a lot of AM radio.

01:12:43.000 It's kung fu. 0.94

01:12:44.000 It's, oh man, I got Tiger Fist and I got Monkey Claw and stuff that I would do, but they never actually get in a fight.

01:12:48.000 In real time, that's why we have CNN right now.

01:12:50.000 Let's see what else he hits.

01:12:52.000 I guarantee you, I guarantee if we sit and watch CNN for 30 minutes, every single claim that we have just rebutted will come up.

01:12:59.000 But let's just see this B-League Cory Booker.

01:13:07.000 There is a chance of changing the views now of elected Texas Republicans?

01:13:14.000 Yeah, I want to thank Will Hurd for that statement.

01:13:17.000 I think it takes bravery for him to put that out.

01:13:20.000 But from what I've seen from our statewide elected Republicans just in the hours after the shooting yesterday, I don't see a lot of willingness to act.

01:13:30.000 And the truth is we have to have a democratic, small d, democratic response to this.

01:13:35.000 If folks are not willing You did the president.

01:13:38.000 If we put in place policies that will keep our community safe,

01:13:40.000 then they shouldn't be in positions of leadership, and they shouldn't be creating these laws.

01:13:45.000 You know, we have an 18-year-old here who could not buy a beer,

01:13:49.000 who can walk into a gun store and buy two assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

01:13:56.000 The shooter in Sandy Hook was 20 years old.

01:14:00.000 He had a handgun.

01:14:00.000 Why aren't you talking about the handgun that he had?

01:14:02.000 Also, by the way, bought them through a background check.

01:14:04.000 Talk about that.

01:14:05.000 This guy, this guy.

01:14:07.000 I was going to say, wasn't he in his mom's safe?

01:14:10.000 Yeah, I think it was his parents' gun.

01:14:11.000 Yeah.

01:14:12.000 But it wouldn't stop every single one.

01:14:14.000 But if we can save any lives.

01:14:15.000 Oh, there we go!

01:14:16.000 If it would save any lives.

01:14:18.000 1.6 million last year.

01:14:21.000 An average of two and a half million defensive uses of firearms.

01:14:24.000 Now, we don't know if those all say every single time a life is saved.

01:14:26.000 Let's call it a million.

01:14:28.000 To 14 or 16,000 gun homicides, the vast majority of which are gang on gang violence.

01:14:33.000 If it saves one life, how about 1.6 million?

01:14:35.000 How about securing the schools?

01:14:36.000 Because that's something.

01:14:37.000 Hey, I'm just talking about the numbers. 1.00

01:14:38.000 How about 1.6 million lives, you piece of shit? 1.00

01:14:42.000 I just love how they play it as they're trying to protect the guns and not the kids. 1.00

01:14:46.000 No, we're trying to protect the kids with guns.

01:14:49.000 Yeah.

01:14:50.000 Because that's how you do it.

01:14:51.000 It's the only thing you can do.

01:14:52.000 You can't pretend that they don't exist.

01:14:54.000 Right.

01:14:54.000 And you can't pretend that evil doesn't exist.

01:14:56.000 But then again, these are the people who are perpetuating evil, like chopping off a six year old's penis. 0.99

01:14:59.000 Let's see what else he says. 0.98

01:15:00.000 For example, veterans issues here in my area, who I'm thinking of right now, who may be candidates to talk to about, you know, where can we begin?

01:15:10.000 to break this ice.

01:15:12.000 Now, of course, the House has passed legislation and I'm a member of the House.

01:15:17.000 And so what we're talking about ultimately is also what can get through the Senate and what can get 60 votes in the Senate.

01:15:23.000 But maybe if we can get enough support for action in the House, that would pressure 10 Republican senators to join us in doing the right thing.

01:15:33.000 But, you know, what was said earlier, I think in the earlier segment, about how our inability to act on this is a reflection of

01:15:39.000 how broken our politics is, is absolutely true. You know, if we can't protect kids...

01:15:43.000 That's predicated on the idea that your action doesn't suck.

01:15:47.000 Is there ever any accountability?

01:15:50.000 The fact that Republicans, and by the way a good portion of Democrats, don't want to support our bills, which would do nothing, is proof that you shouldn't trust your institutions and then we'll blame you for not trusting your institutions.

01:16:01.000 Our politics are broken.

01:16:03.000 Specifically ours.

01:16:04.000 Yes.

01:16:06.000 Because we were totally legally brought in.

01:16:08.000 Now let me tell you about how we need background checks as I tell you about how this man bought two firearms while going through a background check.

01:16:16.000 What's the proposed legislation?

01:16:18.000 More background checks.

01:16:19.000 I'm being told by the CNN producer I should not have shot this in my toxic masculinity room with a football helmet.

01:16:26.000 Yes.

01:16:26.000 I'm also being told that I am not allowed to do my live read for Aqua Velva.

01:16:31.000 Mmm, yes.

01:16:32.000 You see what they're doing there?

01:16:35.000 They're saying, HR 8, right?

01:16:36.000 Oh, Democrats in Congress.

01:16:38.000 We've been trying to act for two years.

01:16:39.000 It's those Senate Republicans up there that don't want your kids protected. 0.97

01:16:43.000 And Marco Rubio has just a moment where he says, well, yeah, these things aren't linked together.

01:16:47.000 What I think we should do is maybe start securing our schools.

01:16:50.000 I'm going to put forward legislation.

01:16:51.000 Well, but what about those AR-15s?

01:16:53.000 You totally skipped over the solution!

01:16:55.000 No, no, it's worse than that.

01:16:56.000 It's worse than that.

01:16:57.000 He said, what about, why does anyone need an AR-15?

01:16:59.000 Those semi-automatic rifles.

01:17:00.000 Oh, and now you shoehorn in semi-automatic!

01:17:02.000 Guess what?

01:17:02.000 Semi-automatic.

01:17:03.000 Guess what?

01:17:03.000 All handguns, semi-automatic.

01:17:05.000 Revolvers, effectively semi-automatic, though they're not by mechanism, but really it's pull.

01:17:08.000 Semi-automatic, one trigger pull. 0.86

01:17:10.000 And I have to say that because, hey, look, gun guys and gun chicks, you can also shut up, okay?

01:17:15.000 You'll say, well, a revolver is technically not a semi-automatic. 0.85

01:17:17.000 I know!

01:17:18.000 But when we're talking about it, it means one trigger pull, one shot.

01:17:21.000 Fully automatic, machine gun.

01:17:23.000 The problem is, then you have gun people who who come in who then want to let everyone know what they

01:17:27.000 don't know about firearms. 1.00

01:17:29.000 We shouldn't be arguing about that bullshit. 0.99

01:17:31.000 I understand what a semi-automatic is versus a revolver. 0.99

01:17:34.000 I'm saying for all intents and purposes, when describing it to people, people need to know

01:17:38.000 what would be on the chopping block.

01:17:40.000 They're trying to make it seem like an AR-15 is a gatling gun on top of a horse carriage.

01:17:47.000 This is all firearms outside of pump and lever actions.

01:17:51.000 Pump shotguns, lever actions, maybe bolt actions.

01:17:54.000 Any gun that you have that is one trigger pull, and that fires a round, a bullet leaves that barrel, That's a semi-automatic.

01:18:02.000 So he shorns that in there.

01:18:03.000 What about HRA?

01:18:04.000 What about background checks?

01:18:05.000 And then also AR-15s because semi-automatic.

01:18:07.000 And now you've managed to be effective in associating in the American people's mind that, wait, AR-15s are crazy, and it's semi-automatic.

01:18:13.000 And so, OK, yeah, I guess I would support banning semi-automatics. 1.00

01:18:15.000 That's just those AR-15s when it's really every single handgun that exists in your house.

01:18:21.000 Unbelievable.

01:18:22.000 It's totally believable.

01:18:23.000 This is exactly what they do every single time.

01:18:25.000 I know it's what they do every single time, but their policies Why don't you at least say, OK, let's secure the schools as well.

01:18:32.000 Like, I get that you have a really, you got a big heart on for background checks.

01:18:36.000 I understand that.

01:18:37.000 Fine.

01:18:38.000 Why don't you say, OK, let's do both.

01:18:40.000 Let's do every single possible thing that we can.

01:18:42.000 It's because you want power.

01:18:43.000 It's because you want to be right and you want the Republicans to be wrong.

01:18:45.000 Well, guess what?

01:18:46.000 Their solution works.

01:18:47.000 Yours doesn't. 0.99

01:18:48.000 We're just going to live in this hell until you realize that or we vote your ass out of office, which hopefully will happen soon this year. 0.99

01:18:53.000 But going to bullet frequency, it's insane. 1.00

01:18:56.000 It's a bullet in a gun.

01:18:58.000 It can be used as evil.

01:19:02.000 It's all it comes down to.

01:19:03.000 I mean, take that argument out of it.

01:19:06.000 Well, they don't want to take it out of it.

01:19:07.000 That's the problem.

01:19:08.000 If you're in a room of sitting ducks of children, it doesn't matter.

01:19:11.000 You have the control.

01:19:13.000 The only way the control can be taken away, which was proven again yesterday, is by protecting the children.

01:19:20.000 Yeah.

01:19:20.000 Why?

01:19:21.000 We're just letting our kids... Like, if you want to talk about the All Lives Matter stuff, it does matter with children.

01:19:27.000 That's it.

01:19:28.000 Yeah.

01:19:28.000 Because they're the ones that actually have a chance in this life.

01:19:31.000 Right.

01:19:32.000 And we've taken that away. 1.00

01:19:33.000 I'm so tired of this bullshit. 0.96

01:19:36.000 Sorry, it's just... You have a chance. 0.98

01:19:38.000 They're not the only ones who have a chance.

01:19:39.000 We all have a chance.

01:19:40.000 We all have a chance, but I mean, kids, I just think, should be the most protected part of our society. 0.97

01:19:44.000 And we're going, hey, let's give that young man fake tits and make sure he's not protected. 1.00

01:19:50.000 Wait, do you mean sexually or the firearm? 1.00

01:19:52.000 Both! 0.92

01:19:52.000 Both, yeah. 0.92

01:19:53.000 We just don't want to judge.

01:19:54.000 Yeah.

01:19:55.000 You just mentioned something, and you know what?

01:19:57.000 I want to leave on this, and then we actually have to go to... Hey, by the way, did they get... did the control room get us... is it 21 for a handgun in Texas?

01:20:06.000 Did they do their job and get that to us?

01:20:07.000 Still looking now.

01:20:08.000 Yeah.

01:20:09.000 But guys, is it 21 or is it 18 in Texas?

01:20:11.000 It used to be 21 when we shot that video.

01:20:13.000 I didn't know if they changed.

01:20:13.000 I know rifles are 18.

01:20:14.000 That's like a 30 second quick search if you guys can grab it.

01:20:18.000 I'm pretty sure Gerald is right.

01:20:20.000 Yeah.

01:20:20.000 I think it is too, yeah.

01:20:21.000 It's still 21 for a handgun.

01:20:22.000 But you just talked about holding on to power.

01:20:26.000 And this is what Steve Kerr said about Republicans, right?

01:20:29.000 Let me ask you something.

01:20:30.000 Let me ask you something.

01:20:31.000 Let's just think about, let's pull back a little bit.

01:20:33.000 Okay.

01:20:35.000 Power for politicians.

01:20:37.000 All right.

01:20:37.000 Power for people who are in office.

01:20:39.000 Power for anyone who's in a position of authority or power, right?

01:20:42.000 The monarchy, whether it's parliament, take your pick.

01:20:46.000 Okay.

01:20:47.000 They're in power.

01:20:47.000 Now, if it's not just some kind of, if we're not just talking about genocide, if we're not talking about power through force, right?

01:20:52.000 You're talking about something that's some kind of a democracy or socialist, whatever you want.

01:20:56.000 Okay.

01:20:57.000 What is required for them to be in power?

01:21:00.000 Especially in a country this size.

01:21:01.000 For you to what?

01:21:02.000 Be dependent on them.

01:21:04.000 For them to be powerful, they need you to be dependent on them.

01:21:07.000 They need you to what?

01:21:09.000 Just like a relationship, an abusive relationship, where they need you to be codependent.

01:21:15.000 If you are self-sufficient, someone has less power.

01:21:18.000 You know this in your life, right?

01:21:19.000 Hey, ever paid off your debt?

01:21:21.000 Does that person have less power over you?

01:21:24.000 You're no longer dependent on them.

01:21:26.000 Ever leave your parents' house?

01:21:29.000 Your parents hold less power over you?

01:21:32.000 Of course!

01:21:32.000 Because you're now a self-sufficient man or woman.

01:21:36.000 Now, when we understand that basic principle, and they try and accuse the Republicans or the right or people like me of wanting to assert power, I don't know how I would do that.

01:21:45.000 This is all voluntary, this interaction and transaction here.

01:21:47.000 Sorry, no transaction unless you join my club.

01:21:49.000 We don't make a dime on YouTube.

01:21:55.000 Be fear, right?

01:21:56.000 That's what would be most important here, would be fear.

01:21:58.000 If I need you to be dependent, okay?

01:22:00.000 Let's, let's, let's create a scenario.

01:22:02.000 Republicans, all right.

01:22:03.000 Hey, we want to close the border from illegal immigrants and also, of course, for guns that are being run through drug cartels. 0.96

01:22:09.000 We want you to be able to own firearms and we want people to be able to carry these firearms in gun-free zones and that we shouldn't be able to take that from you.

01:22:19.000 Also, we want to lower your taxes and give you more freedom as it relates to your choices.

01:22:23.000 We're going to give you less free stuff But we want to secure the border, and we want you to have guns.

01:22:29.000 Oh, and by the way, we also believe in at least deporting the illegal immigrants here who are in our prisons! 1.00

01:22:37.000 Now, how much power does that person hold over you?

01:22:40.000 If that's the world you live in in this country, you have a secure border, you have a firearm.

01:22:45.000 Versus an open border, which we know they tried to end Title 42.

01:22:49.000 We have more border crossings, more illegal immigrants flooding in than ever before, and we want to take away your guns. 0.88

01:22:55.000 And by the way, we want to raise your taxes, but we'll give you free, insert whatever it is here, internet, health care.

01:23:04.000 What else do we have?

01:23:05.000 Student loans.

01:23:07.000 What happens if the government forgives your loan?

01:23:09.000 Let me ask you this.

01:23:09.000 So just use the example of a debtor, okay?

01:23:15.000 If you owe the bank money, and we forgive your student loan, and by we I mean the taxpayer, and so the government has now raised taxes, but has decided you no longer owe the bank, to whom are you indebted?

01:23:35.000 You're now just indebted to the government.

01:23:36.000 Do you understand that?

01:23:38.000 Every single policy that comes from the left is about enslaving you, economically, Or, I mean really, almost at this point, I would almost say because it's a religion bordering on theologically, certainly they want you to be indoctrinated.

01:23:54.000 They don't want you to simply be allowed to express other opinions, and where could I base that?

01:23:59.000 Australia, Canada, UK, France, speech laws.

01:24:01.000 So let's just look at these two separate worlds.

01:24:05.000 Who's trying to get a stranglehold on power?

01:24:07.000 The people who say, we want to secure the border and we want you to have guns, we want to lower taxes and give you more choices.

01:24:11.000 And I know they don't all do that in practice!

01:24:12.000 Or the people who say, no guns, open borders, higher taxes, and you owe it to us. 0.57

01:24:18.000 For crying out loud, they want to be like an abusive pimp.

01:24:21.000 And you know what? 0.99

01:24:22.000 Pimps generally don't want their prostitutes to have guns on them. 0.94

01:24:25.000 Because that's pimps-only business!

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01:24:56.000 It's a nasal spray with xylitol in there.

01:24:59.000 It's doctor-recommended.

01:24:59.000 You can get it over-the-counter or at Amazon.

01:25:01.000 Go to xclear.com.

01:25:03.000 And by the way, there are published clinical studies and trials as it relates to allergies, COVID, and all kinds of other respiratory illnesses.

01:25:12.000 Because you just think about it.

01:25:13.000 You wash your face, you wash your hands, you wash your balls, but you don't even... Do you have any idea what you're breathing in every day? 0.96

01:25:17.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:25:18.000 Do you have any idea what I'm breathing in with these animals here in this studio? 0.99

01:25:22.000 I scrub my balls. 0.99

01:25:25.000 Unfortunately, you do it on the golf course. 0.99

01:25:27.000 And any drinking fountain I can find that's public.

01:25:29.000 Well, you know what?

01:25:30.000 Depends on the height.

01:25:31.000 It's all about the dip effect.

01:25:32.000 What am I, doing a barbershop quartet ball washing? 0.83

01:25:38.000 Wash those balls now, Steve-o.

01:25:40.000 I call them ball days. 0.95

01:25:44.000 All right, we're going to actually check, because we do think, and we love him, we want him to be in a safe place. 0.96

01:25:48.000 We think Ginger Snap here in the studio might be gay. 1.00

01:25:51.000 We're going to get to the bottom of it on MugClub. 0.95

01:25:53.000 Livewithcredit.com slash MugClub.

01:25:54.000 Liberals, you will not get any firearms from this studio.

01:25:57.000 And within reach, there are many guns.

Louder with Crowder - May 25, 2022

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