The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:01.000 Here we are out here in California, and it is raining cats and dogs, the skies are weeping, and so is the President of the United States.

00:00:07.000 The angel, the messiah, is shedding tears.

00:00:11.000 The tears that cure cancer, and apparently gun violence, as well as suicide.

00:00:15.000 We'll talk about all of it, plus something I particularly hate on this very Tuesday.

00:00:19.000 I am Ben Shapiro.

00:00:20.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:29.000 We're back, and President Obama is back as well.

00:00:32.000 He's back from his vacation.

00:00:33.000 He was, of course, in Hawaii for a prolonged period of time, and people were complaining about his vacation costs.

00:00:39.000 It costs, I think, $71 million over the course of his presidency for his vacations, and all I can say is money well spent.

00:00:47.000 I wish we had spent that kind of money for the entire seven years that he has been the President of the United States to keep him far away from me playing in the surf and

00:00:55.000 Eating the surf and turf and doing whatever it is that he does over in Hawaii.

00:00:58.000 But the President of the United States, unfortunately, is back.

00:01:01.000 And President Obama, upon coming back, he says that he's going to push gun control.

00:01:05.000 So, it's important to understand what exactly the President of the United States was doing today.

00:01:10.000 So, over the last 48 hours, the President said he was going to release these big, vast, powerful executive orders on gun control.

00:01:18.000 And last night, Monday night, he revealed some of what these gun control proposals were going to look like.

00:01:24.000 And if you were an advocate of gun control, if you thought this was going to be full-scale gun confiscation, well, this came as a pretty large disappointment because the truth is that they sort of

00:01:33.000 Carve around the edges of gun control, but they're not really big.

00:01:36.000 They don't really do anything very strong.

00:01:39.000 They're dangerous, and I want to explain why they're dangerous in one second.

00:01:42.000 But I think it's important to understand that President Obama basically put out there a bunch of weak tea gun control proposals, and then he did a press conference that was the most egregious, pathetic, disgusting display of presidential arrogance and nastiness

00:01:56.000 That I have ever seen.

00:01:57.000 I mean, it truly was an amazing display, and we'll go through that.

00:02:00.000 But first we have to talk about what exactly is in these gun control proposals, these executive actions President Obama is going to take.

00:02:07.000 So there are really three problems.

00:02:09.000 With President Obama's gun control proposals.

00:02:12.000 Most of his gun control proposals, as I said, are very weak tea.

00:02:15.000 It's like hiring additional ATF agents.

00:02:18.000 Those are the firearms, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms agents to enforce the law.

00:02:22.000 And hiring new agents to do the FBI background checks.

00:02:26.000 No one cares about any of that.

00:02:27.000 The proposals themselves are also a little bit vague and that's where the danger lies.

00:02:32.000 So Obama makes these proposals and then there's enough wiggle room that his executive agencies could really do damage.

00:02:38.000 So let's talk about what this damage looks like.

00:02:40.000 The first thing is he is supposedly going to expand background checks

00:02:44.000 So President Obama lied, as he is fond of doing, and when we do his press conference we'll see him lie.

00:02:51.000 The President of the United States said that in order to stop gun violence, he characterizes, of course, terrorist attacks like Paris and San Bernardino as acts of gun violence, right?

00:03:00.000 It's never the terrorist's fault, it's never the criminal's fault, it's always the gun's fault.

00:03:04.000 In fact, as we will also see, President Obama talked about the epidemic of suicide being the result of guns.

00:03:11.000 As though people aren't going to commit suicide if you take away their guns.

00:03:13.000 But President Obama says that he is going to cure gun violence.

00:03:17.000 How?

00:03:17.000 By expanding background checks.

00:03:20.000 He tells one very big lie here, and it's important to debunk it.

00:03:23.000 There is no mechanism in the United States by which you can buy a gun online without a background check legally.

00:03:29.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:03:30.000 If I buy a gun online, it is shipped to a local gun store, a federally licensed firearms dealer, I go in, they do a background check on me, and I am background checked.

00:03:40.000 According to federal law, that's how it works.

00:03:41.000 So whenever you hear people say, well, without Obama's action, you could just buy a gun online, not true.

00:03:47.000 Nothing has changed with regard to that.

00:03:49.000 Also, federal gun shows, the so-called gun show loophole, there is no such thing as a gun show loophole.

00:03:55.000 If you go to a gun show and you buy from a federally licensed firearms dealer, they will do a background check on you.

00:04:01.000 What the left means when they say gun show loophole is they mean if I, an individual, let's say I was moving out of the country and I needed to sell my guns, and so I went to Lindsey over here and I said, Lindsey, you want to buy my gun?

00:04:11.000 And Lindsey said, sure, I'll buy your gun.

00:04:13.000 That would now have to go through a background check according to President Obama.

00:04:16.000 Now, that doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize the only way for the government to enforce that law is one of two things has to happen.

00:04:24.000 Either Lindsey has to go commit a crime, in which case the background check didn't stop the crime, obviously.

00:04:29.000 Or, number two, Lindsey and I both have to be in a gun registry.

00:04:33.000 There has to be a federal gun registry and the government has to know where every single gun in the United States is.

00:04:38.000 Otherwise, how would they know I'm selling a gun to Lindsey?

00:04:41.000 Unless they're asking me every year or so, how many guns do you have?

00:04:44.000 Where did your guns go?

00:04:45.000 How did they get out there?

00:04:46.000 Guns are not public.

00:04:47.000 It's not like a car.

00:04:48.000 When you sell a car, the car's on the road.

00:04:49.000 The cops can see it.

00:04:50.000 When you sell a gun in the United States, the gun, especially in states like California, is not public.

00:04:56.000 Most of the time, it's at home.

00:04:57.000 And even if it is public, you don't see the serial number on the gun.

00:05:00.000 If I'm carrying around a gun, it's not like the gun has a big license plate number on it.

00:05:03.000 So the only way for the government to tell if a gun transfer has taken place

00:05:07.000 is if they are constantly auditing individual Americans as to whether they have guns or not.

00:05:12.000 And that's a very scary proposition, because there's only one real reason that the government would actually want to know how many guns you have and what kind of guns you have, and that's to take them away from you.

00:05:21.000 That's really the only reason that the government would ever want to know the answers to that question.

00:05:25.000 So that is problem number one.

00:05:27.000 The expanded background checks really mean a universal gun registry.

00:05:30.000 Obama won't admit that, but that's really what it means.

00:05:33.000 Number two, President Obama proposed that we are going to get rid of barriers

00:05:37.000 to reporting supposed mental illness to the FBI.

00:05:42.000 So the way it works right now is under HIPAA, which is the Health Privacy Authorization Act, you are not supposed to, if I'm a doctor, I am not supposed to reveal to the government details of your medical care because that is your privacy, right?

00:05:55.000 I mean, I'm not supposed to tell them that you've had a hysterectomy and I'm not supposed to tell them if you're on Prozac.

00:05:59.000 This is not the government's business.

00:06:02.000 As a general rule.

00:06:03.000 So what Obama has done now is he says that it's actually the cynicism here is breathtaking.

00:06:09.000 President Obama, the White House, they say they want to quote, remove the stigma around mental illness and its treatment.

00:06:17.000 How do they want to do this?

00:06:18.000 They want to do this by allowing your doctor to report you to the FBI.

00:06:22.000 How this removes the stigma around mental illness and treatment is beyond me.

00:06:25.000 If I'm somebody who may or may not suffer from mental illness and I want to buy a gun, now the last thing I'm going to do is tell my doctor that I have a mental illness.

00:06:32.000 I'm not going to go in for treatment if I want to buy a gun.

00:06:35.000 But basically, the Department of Health and Human Services has now issued a final rule expressly permitting certain HIPAA-covered entities to provide to the National Database limited demographic and other necessary information about individuals.

00:06:49.000 What's interesting about this is that they specifically say that we don't mean that we're gonna tell the FBI that you're taking Prozac.

00:06:55.000 We just mean demographic information.

00:06:57.000 They don't specify what that information looks like.

00:06:59.000 So, how it would actually stop mentally ill people from getting guns is beyond me.

00:07:02.000 It's already against federal law for me to obtain a gun if I've been under psychiatric hold, 72-hour psychiatric hold, or if I've been involuntarily committed at any point.

00:07:11.000 If any of those things happen, I cannot obtain a gun in the United States legally.

00:07:15.000 Okay?

00:07:15.000 It just can't happen.

00:07:17.000 But President Obama plans to expand that, either that or he's lying, and this is just him throwing out politically popular things that already exist, and acting as though Americans don't know that they exist, which is also a possibility.

00:07:29.000 Finally, Obama says he wants to spend more money investigating so-called smart guns.

00:07:33.000 Now, smart guns, here's the thing about the left proposals on gun control.

00:07:37.000 A lot of them sound nice, but have no basis in reality.

00:07:40.000 So universal background checks.

00:07:41.000 Sounds awesome!

00:07:42.000 If we had a great background check system, and it would catch everything bad that anybody ever did, and it worked quickly and efficiently, and it didn't deprive law-abiding people of their guns, would be great, right?

00:07:52.000 Well...

00:07:53.000 The government isn't God.

00:07:54.000 They don't have that kind of database.

00:07:55.000 When it comes to smart guns, the same thing is true.

00:07:57.000 A smart gun is supposedly this kind of gun where you grab it and you use your fingerprints on the grip in order for the gun to fire.

00:08:04.000 So if I leave my gun lying around the house and my daughter grabs it, she can't fire it because she doesn't have my fingerprints, right?

00:08:10.000 We can set it up for my wife.

00:08:11.000 We can set it up for me.

00:08:12.000 There's only one problem.

00:08:14.000 This technology does not exist.

00:08:15.000 There is no such thing as a reliable smart gun.

00:08:18.000 Smart guns are unreliable, they malfunction routinely, it takes them up to 20 seconds to activate after you try to activate them, which is way too much time if you're in any sort of bad scenario.

00:08:27.000 They deactivate and reactivate, so if I'm carrying a gun around in a concealed carry state and I'm costed by a mugger or something,

00:08:35.000 20 seconds is not enough.

00:08:36.000 It's just, it's too much time.

00:08:37.000 And the whole point of carrying a gun is that, is the immediacy of having a gun.

00:08:41.000 So these are the major problems with President Obama's gun legislation, gun regulations.

00:08:47.000 Okay.

00:08:48.000 All of this is a little bit weak, right?

00:08:50.000 If you were somebody who thought Obama was gonna go full-scale Australia, confiscate all the guns, full-scale Britain, take all the guns, declare the Second Amendment, no longer an abeyance, we're gonna take all of it.

00:09:00.000 He didn't do that.

00:09:01.000 He didn't do that.

00:09:01.000 But he acted like he did.

00:09:03.000 So today, President Obama does a press conference.

00:09:06.000 When President Obama, at this press conference, he drags out all of the bodies of all the people who've been killed in acts using guns and then he proceeds to stand on them.

00:09:15.000 This is something that I truly despise.

00:09:17.000 When people suggest, when people suggest that I don't care,

00:09:21.000 about dead kids at Sandy Hook.

00:09:23.000 If I disagree with them on their idiotic gun proposals, I find that personally offensive.

00:09:27.000 You're suggesting I'm a bad person because we disagree on what the proper measures should be for stopping situations like Sandy Hook.

00:09:34.000 I don't think additional gun laws would have stopped the crazy guy from getting the gun and killing the kids.

00:09:38.000 I think, for example, that armed security at the school would have stopped the guy from shooting the kids because they would have shot him.

00:09:43.000 But, according to President Obama, that means I don't care enough about the dead kids at Sandy Hook.

00:09:48.000 This is exactly the debate

00:09:49.000 I don't know.

00:10:04.000 We're good to go.

00:10:28.000 That is either calculated, or it is unstable behavior.

00:10:33.000 And we used to recognize this in this country, right?

00:10:34.000 Edmund Muskie is a guy who was the governor of, I think it was Minnesota, and he ran for president in 1972, and Edmund Muskie was running in New Hampshire, and he started crying over something during a rally, and it basically ended his candidacy.

00:10:46.000 We used to be that men were the strong silent types.

00:10:48.000 Now, if a man cries, it makes him better off.

00:10:50.000 Remember, presidents...

00:10:52.000 Something to note about politicians crying.

00:10:53.000 Usually when they are crying, they are lying.

00:10:56.000 When President Clinton was crying over Monica Lewinsky, that's because he was lying.

00:11:00.000 When Hillary Clinton was crying in New Hampshire in 2008 over her supposed victimhood at the hands of Barack Obama and the mainstream media, it's because she was lying.

00:11:08.000 I don't trust politicians, and I don't trust...

00:11:12.000 Call me crazy, I don't trust guys who break down in tears on a regular basis when talking about situations like Sandy Hook.

00:11:19.000 And President Obama, this is too pat for me.

00:11:22.000 And if it's not too pat, then I thought he was Captain Logic.

00:11:24.000 I thought he was Captain Spock.

00:11:26.000 You know, the idea that he's just gonna get up there and he's gonna start weeping, we'll get to all of that in a second, but first we have to get to the part that's really outrageous.

00:11:32.000 President Obama says so many contradictory things in this press conference that I really wanted to take it from the beginning and we'll stop and start it because there really is so much here.

00:11:41.000 President Obama...

00:11:42.000 was introduced by the father of one of the kids who was killed at Sandy Hook.

00:11:45.000 And you can see, Obama has his, for people who subscribe at Daily Wire, you can see that he has his backdrop of human props behind him.

00:11:53.000 He has his puppets behind him.

00:11:54.000 And he does this for Obamacare, he does this for gun control.

00:11:57.000 He's constantly surrounding himself with normal, everyday Americans, right?

00:12:01.000 These normal, everyday Americans that lend him a patina of credibility and decency.

00:12:07.000 And if you don't believe me, it's because you don't care about these people who are suffering, who are standing behind me.

00:12:13.000 And it's a cynical ploy.

00:12:13.000 I mean, that's what charities do when they're trying to raise money on television, right?

00:12:17.000 They show all of the poor, bedeviled children of Sudan, and then they say, we want you to give money.

00:12:21.000 It's an emotional appeal.

00:12:22.000 It's not a logical argument, but that's what Obama's gonna do.

00:12:25.000 He's going to make the claim that if you disagree with him, it's because you're evil, and even worse, you make him cry.

00:12:30.000 You make him cry, right?

00:12:32.000 Not Adam Lanza.

00:12:33.000 You make him cry.

00:12:34.000 Because that's really what this is.

00:12:35.000 Okay, so here is the father who's, I guess, one of the administrators at Sandy Hook, introducing President Obama, and then we get to President Obama in what is easily the most cynical and degraded presidential press conference that I have seen certainly since President Clinton suggested that he did not have sexual relations with that woman.

00:12:51.000 Let's play it.

00:12:53.000 Many of the folks in the Gun Violence Prevention Coalition, including Sandy Hook Promise, have had numerous meetings with Vice President Biden and President Obama and their top advisors to address this issue.

00:13:06.000 But we can't do it alone.

00:13:08.000 And the President can't do it alone.

00:13:11.000 The thing is, every gun-related death is preventable.

00:13:17.000 Okay, let's pause at that right there for a second.

00:13:19.000 Every gun-related death is preventable?

00:13:21.000 Are you out of your mind?

00:13:22.000 Every single gun-related death is preventable?

00:13:25.000 Really?

00:13:25.000 Because there's still gun-related deaths in Australia and Britain where they banned all the guns.

00:13:29.000 This is nonsense.

00:13:30.000 Every gun- I mean, you literally have to worship government.

00:13:33.000 Government has to be God for you to believe this.

00:13:35.000 Right?

00:13:35.000 If you really believe every gun-related death is preventable, why would you- It's patently insane to say this, but let's continue.

00:13:46.000 And we need your help.

00:13:49.000 We need everybody engaged in this.

00:13:53.000 President Obama made a promise as an elected official and a promise as a father that he would do everything in his power to protect our nation's children, to make our communities safer, and curb the loss of life to gun violence in America.

00:14:09.000 So today, we celebrate another example of how President Obama and Vice President Biden continue to keep that promise.

00:14:18.000 The United States of America

00:14:21.000 is not the only country on Earth with violent or dangerous people.

00:14:24.000 We are not inherently more prone to violence.

00:14:34.000 But we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency.

00:14:45.000 It doesn't happen in other

00:14:48.000 Advanced countries.

00:14:50.000 Okay, let's pause it for a second right there.

00:14:51.000 First of all, you do, we debunked this many times on the program, you do see mass violence in other places around the globe.

00:14:56.000 The reason that Obama and the left constantly talk about mass shootings as opposed to just shootings is because mass shootings are the only statistic that have gone down in Australia and Britain after the gun ban.

00:15:07.000 Right?

00:15:07.000 Mass shootings have gone down.

00:15:10.000 Gun violence has actually not gone down as much as it has in the United States during the same period when gun ownership was rising dramatically in the United States.

00:15:17.000 So Obama trots out these kind of hackneyed, ridiculous statistics in order to prove his case that if you were rational, if you were decent, even than rational, if you were just a decent, okay human being, if you didn't desperately want to see children murdered in the streets, you would agree with him.

00:15:31.000 And that's where he goes next.

00:15:32.000 It's not even close.

00:15:42.000 And as I've said before, somehow,

00:15:45.000 We're good to go?

00:16:03.000 This has become one of our most polarized partisan debates.

00:16:07.000 Okay, let's pause it.

00:16:08.000 The reason it's become a polarized partisan debate is because everything that he says is a lie.

00:16:12.000 When President Obama says we've become numb to mass shootings... Okay, folks, was anybody numb to what happened in Sandy Hook?

00:16:19.000 Did anybody watch 20 kids get shot by a crazy person and say to themselves, ah, no biggie.

00:16:23.000 That's just the cost of having guns in the United States.

00:16:25.000 Did any single person in the United States say this?

00:16:28.000 Anyone?

00:16:29.000 No, of course not.

00:16:29.000 But Obama is attempting to draw a moral distinction between himself and all of his political opponents.

00:16:34.000 People like me who believe that guns in the hands of responsible people keep children safe.

00:16:39.000 Okay, I have a two-year-old child.

00:16:40.000 The reason I have guns in my home is to protect the two-year-old child, not because I want a gun used against the two-year-old child.

00:16:47.000 When President Obama says this, the whole goal here is to proclaim that anybody who is on the other side is not just wrong, they are immoral, they are bereft as a human being, they have no soul.

00:16:56.000 And Obama just, it gets deeper and deeper and more and more egregious.

00:17:02.000 Despite the fact that there's a general consensus in America about what needs to be done.

00:17:06.000 There is not, by the way.

00:17:07.000 The polls show no general consensus.

00:17:08.000 That's part of the reason why on Thursday I'm going to hold a town hall meeting in Virginia on gun violence.

00:17:13.000 Because my goal here

00:17:16.000 Yes, sir.

00:17:34.000 We don't need to be talking past one another, but we do have to feel a sense of urgency about it.

00:17:40.000 Okay, let's pause it right there.

00:17:41.000 Okay, he just, in that one sentence, overthrew the entire purpose of what he's saying, right?

00:17:45.000 He says, we have to get together, we have to unify, we can have respect for people on the other side, but we do have to have a sense of urgency.

00:17:52.000 The implication being, if you disagree with him, you have no sense of urgency.

00:17:56.000 The implication being, if you disagree with him, you don't care enough about the dead kids.

00:18:00.000 And let me say something about the dead children in Sandy Hook and Chicago and all over the world.

00:18:04.000 President Obama cares less about the dead kids in Chicago than any president that I can remember in my lifetime.

00:18:10.000 This president has done nothing to stop the deaths in Chicago.

00:18:13.000 Murder rates in every major American city are up under this president.

00:18:17.000 The president of the United States, whenever he says, I care about the kids, this is the president who is willing to shut down the American federal government so that your tax dollars and mine would pay for women to kill their own children in the womb.

00:18:30.000 Don't give me the I care about kids routine.

00:18:33.000 When you want to confiscate my tax dollars so that you can use them for somebody else's abortion, and when you want to confiscate my gun and leave my kid at the mercy of criminals who want to kill them, meanwhile doing nothing about the actual causes of gun violence in the United States, including gang violence, including the breakdown of family.

00:18:49.000 It's just, it's beyond sickening.

00:18:52.000 But this is the cynical game that President Obama plays.

00:18:54.000 Now, I don't know whether President Obama knows better or whether he truly in his heart is this self-centered.

00:18:58.000 Maybe he... I think maybe he is.

00:19:00.000 Maybe he is this self-centered.

00:19:01.000 He believes that he is on the side of the angels and all of his opposition is on the side of the devils.

00:19:05.000 And because he is the angel that cries, and as you'll see when he sheds tears, we have to... And you can see the media today.

00:19:11.000 The response to all of this was, Stop making Obama cry!

00:19:14.000 Give him what he wants!

00:19:16.000 Get rid of the Second Amendment!

00:19:17.000 He's crying!

00:19:18.000 Can't you see he's crying?

00:19:19.000 He cares!

00:19:21.000 I don't judge the validity of my right by a demagogue who cries.

00:19:26.000 That's not how this works.

00:19:28.000 And it gets worse.

00:19:28.000 Here's President Obama some more.

00:19:36.000 In Dr. King's words, we need to feel the fierce urgency of now.

00:19:42.000 Because people are dying.

00:19:45.000 And the constant excuses for inaction no longer do.

00:19:52.000 No longer suffice.

00:19:54.000 That's why we're here today.

00:19:57.000 Not to debate the last mass shooting, but to do something to try to prevent the next one.

00:20:11.000 Wow, that's gone wildly.

00:20:13.000 This is what this is about.

00:20:16.000 None of his executive actions would have stopped Sandy Hook.

00:20:18.000 None of his executive actions would have stopped Aurora or San Bernardino or any of this stuff.

00:20:22.000 It's all about the applause.

00:20:25.000 That's what this is.

00:20:26.000 President Obama cares deeply and only about how he is perceived as a human being and he believes that he must be perceived as a fighter on behalf of the left and thus he's going to stand there and he's going to demagogue the issue.

00:20:40.000 And it's just, it's, it's...

00:20:42.000 It's hard to watch this because it really is stomach churning, but we'll take as much as we can before we skip to the part where he actually breaks down in tears, Susan Sarandon style.

00:20:50.000 Here we go.

00:21:04.000 To prove that the vast majority of Americans

00:21:09.000 Even if our voices aren't always the loudest or most extreme, I care enough about a little boy like Daniel to come together and take common-sense steps to save lives and protect more of our children.

00:21:31.000 Now, I want to be absolutely clear at the start.

00:21:34.000 I've said this over and over again.

00:21:38.000 This also becomes routine.

00:21:40.000 There's a ritual about this whole thing that I have to do.

00:21:44.000 I believe in the Second Amendment.

00:21:47.000 It's there, written on the paper.

00:21:52.000 It guarantees a right to bear arms.

00:21:58.000 No matter how many times people try to twist my words around,

00:22:04.000 I taught constitutional law.

00:22:05.000 I know a little bit about this.

00:22:07.000 Okay, pause it for a second.

00:22:08.000 Okay, and everybody's laughing.

00:22:09.000 Oh, he taught constitutional law.

00:22:11.000 First of all, as someone who got an A-plus in constitutional law from Harvard Law, this man knows nothing about constitutional law because constitutional law has nothing to do with the Constitution.

00:22:19.000 Anybody who spent five seconds learning about Supreme Court rulings knows constitutional law has nothing to do with the Constitution, and Obama doesn't care about the Constitution.

00:22:28.000 Listen to how he characterizes that, right?

00:22:29.000 The characterization is really what's central here.

00:22:32.000 The emotion, right?

00:22:33.000 If we can't care enough about a little boy like Daniel, who doesn't care about kids who are killed by evil maniacs?

00:22:39.000 Who doesn't care about that?

00:22:40.000 It's so sickening.

00:22:41.000 But then he turns immediately from that to, and now I have to do the ritual, I guess that I care about the Second Amendment too.

00:22:46.000 Right?

00:22:47.000 That's the ritual to him.

00:22:48.000 He's not passionate about it.

00:22:50.000 He finds it to be an obstacle to him.

00:22:52.000 And then he said, I'm not going to take away your guns.

00:22:54.000 I mean, I've seen the Constitution.

00:22:55.000 I just can't take away your guns.

00:22:56.000 I don't know where these crazy people are getting this crazy stuff about taking away your guns.

00:23:00.000 You know where I'm taking my lead about you taking away my guns, Mr. President?

00:23:04.000 It's because you four separate times, on four separate occasions, have said that you would like to use as a model Australia's full-on gun confiscation.

00:23:14.000 That's where I'm getting it from.

00:23:16.000 So don't give me this, oh, I don't know, it's all these crazy people, same people who think that I was born in Kenya.

00:23:20.000 All those same people.

00:23:21.000 They're the ones who think that I'm gonna come take their guns.

00:23:24.000 No.

00:23:25.000 We think you're going to take our guns because we can see, just from this press conference, that you would love nothing better than to take our guns.

00:23:33.000 And you watch, gun sales are gonna skyrocket in the wake of this.

00:23:35.000 I mean, I'm going this Sunday, and I'm going to pick up an AR-15 this Sunday, and so is one of my friends, okay?

00:23:39.000 We're all gonna go to the gun store, and we're gonna buy guns and ammo because of President Obama.

00:23:44.000 Honest to God, I should have bought stock in some of the gun manufacturers when this man was elected.

00:23:48.000 Because there's been nothing better for the gun manufacturers than presidents of the United States.

00:23:53.000 But President Obama, the way that he speaks so dismissively of the Constitution, and get ready for this, because what you're about to hear is the litany of demagoguery.

00:24:00.000 President Obama uses his violations of the First Amendment,

00:24:04.000 Yeah.

00:24:20.000 Common sense curbs on these particular rights.

00:24:23.000 And therefore, if I decide that we ought to just grab guns, then we'll grab guns.

00:24:26.000 Now remember, President Obama doesn't actually have the balls to stick with it, right?

00:24:29.000 He doesn't have the balls to go through with his full-scale gun confiscation because he knows the American people wouldn't stand for it.

00:24:34.000 So what he actually does is really weak, but what he says is really strong.

00:24:38.000 So here's President Obama saying, yeah, you know, I know about the Second Amendment.

00:24:41.000 I've seen the Second Amendment.

00:24:43.000 I've seen it.

00:24:43.000 It's on paper.

00:24:43.000 It's right here.

00:24:44.000 It's on paper.

00:24:45.000 But... Let's continue.

00:24:49.000 I get it.

00:24:55.000 But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment.

00:25:03.000 I mean, think about it.

00:25:04.000 We all believe in the First Amendment, the guarantee of free speech.

00:25:11.000 Well, not all of us.

00:25:12.000 But we accept that you can't yell,

00:25:16.000 In a theater.

00:25:17.000 When he's off script, pause it for a second.

00:25:20.000 When he says this.

00:25:21.000 First of all, the fire in a crowded theater example, which everybody uses all the time.

00:25:25.000 First of all, fire in a crowded theater was used in a case that has basically been overturned by the Supreme Court.

00:25:30.000 The original case about fire in a crowded theater was about Woodrow Wilson, president during World War I, prosecuting a couple of people who were passing out anti-war leaflets.

00:25:40.000 And the Supreme Court ruled it was okay for him to arrest them because their leaflets, which were saying that we should get out of the war, they were basically like shouting fire in a crowded theater.

00:25:49.000 The Supreme Court has spent the last century basically overruling that and saying it's nothing of the kind.

00:25:53.000 So first of all, he's citing bad law.

00:25:54.000 Second of all, when the president says fire in a crowded theater, how is gun ownership anything like shouting fire in a crowded theater?

00:26:01.000 Gun ownership is not inherently dangerous, and it's not inherently nihilistic.

00:26:06.000 These have nothing to do with one another.

00:26:08.000 And beyond that, when President Obama says we all believe in the First Amendment, well, there are those of us like me who don't just doubt your sincerity with regard to the Second Amendment, Mr. President.

00:26:17.000 We doubt your sincerity with regard to the First.

00:26:20.000 After all, you're the douchebag who went in front of the United Nations and said that the future will not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.

00:26:29.000 You're the guy who had somebody arrested for making a YouTube video because you had to cover up your own incompetence in Benghazi.

00:26:35.000 You're the guy who put Dinesh D'Souza in jail for a crime that none of your buddies would have gone to jail for.

00:26:39.000 You're the person who has suggested over and over and over again that some level of censorship is necessary with regard to preventing Islamophobia.

00:26:48.000 We're supposed to trust you?

00:26:49.000 You've surveilled journalists more than any president since Woodrow Wilson.

00:26:53.000 And we're supposed to trust you as the great keeper of the constitutional flame?

00:26:57.000 President Obama continues along these lines.

00:27:01.000 There are some constraints on our freedom in order to protect innocent people.

00:27:12.000 We cherish our right to privacy.

00:27:15.000 Well, we accept that you have to go through metal detectors before being allowed to board a plane.

00:27:20.000 Okay, let's pause it right there.

00:27:21.000 Okay, let's talk about the metal detectors before you board a plane.

00:27:25.000 The fact is that when it comes to metal detectors before you board a plane, that is of doubtful constitutionality.

00:27:31.000 Okay, the idea that everyone in the world has to go through a metal detector before you get on a plane,

00:27:36.000 That does not seem to me to fall under rational search and seizure.

00:27:40.000 Right?

00:27:40.000 Where is the reasonable cause, reasonable suspicion for search and seizure?

00:27:43.000 This is why I believe in privatized airports, for example, because then it's up to the private company whether they get to do this or not.

00:27:49.000 But again, President Obama, he says that he respects your right to privacy.

00:27:52.000 You know, Captain NSA over here, who wants to check all your metadata, he respects your right to privacy.

00:27:57.000 So clearly, you should respect him with regard to the Second Amendment.

00:27:59.000 You should trust him with regard to the Second Amendment.

00:28:01.000 And it continues along these lines.

00:28:03.000 Because he is systematically encroached on every amendment, he says, well, so why can't we do that with the Second Amendment, too?

00:28:09.000 After all, you've accepted me doing it thus far.

00:28:11.000 Why not accept me doing it with Amendment Number Two?

00:28:14.000 And he continues, and pretty soon we'll move to the full-on headline moment where President Obama breaks down into tears of pain and rage, but we'll finish up with President Obama here and then move to that.

00:28:26.000 People like doing that.

00:28:30.000 But we understand that that's part of the price of living in a civilized society.

00:28:39.000 And what's often ignored in this debate is that a majority of gun owners actually agree.

00:28:46.000 A majority of gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from inflicting harm on a massive scale.

00:28:59.000 Today, background checks are required at gun stores.

00:29:03.000 If a father wants to teach his daughter how to hunt, he can walk into a gun store, get a background check, purchase his weapon safely,

00:29:13.000 And responsibly.

00:29:15.000 This is not seen as an infringement on the Second Amendment.

00:29:21.000 Contrary to the claims of what some gun rights proponents have suggested, this hasn't been the first step in some slippery slope to mass confiscation.

00:29:39.000 Contrary to claims of some presidential candidates apparently before this meeting,

00:29:45.000 This is not a plot to take away everybody's guns.

00:29:53.000 You pass a background check, you purchase a firearm.

00:29:58.000 Okay, let's pause it there for a second.

00:29:59.000 He says you pass a background check, you purchase a firearm.

00:30:01.000 Okay, nobody's actually arguing again with the current background check rules.

00:30:05.000 Nobody has a problem with the current background check rules.

00:30:07.000 He's expanding them, and again, this is where he's playing both sides.

00:30:10.000 So he's saying, we can do something to stop shootings, but again, the only thing that would actually stop shootings in the way that he's talking about is a full-scale gun confiscation, but don't worry, I'm not gonna do that.

00:30:19.000 So he's living this kind of never-never land, where he's got a solution in mind, the solution he's proposing is not that solution, but if you oppose the one he's proposing, then you must be against the total solution.

00:30:30.000 So it's all ridiculous.

00:30:31.000 Let's fast forward to when President Obama actually breaks down in tears because he doesn't get his way, and let's talk about what exactly is going on here, because the left is just fighting mad.

00:30:40.000 They are very, very upset with anybody who suggests either insincerity on the part of the president, or suggests that this is inappropriate.

00:30:46.000 In any way, here's the president talking about Sandy Hook, at which point he loses it.

00:30:51.000 Taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun.

00:31:08.000 Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.

00:31:15.000 And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.

00:31:21.000 We'll pause it here for a second.

00:31:23.000 It happens on the streets of Chicago, but he never talks about those ones, right?

00:31:25.000 Because that would actually require him to propose solutions for what happens in Chicago, like, don't pay mothers to have babies without the father's present.

00:31:33.000 Like, break down the gangs through better policing, right?

00:31:36.000 These are things Obama doesn't want to do.

00:31:38.000 I want to point out something here.

00:31:40.000 The people standing behind President Obama here, all of these are relatives of people who were shot, right?

00:31:45.000 When he's talking about all of this, do you see any of them crying?

00:31:48.000 Any of them?

00:31:48.000 These are the actual relatives of the people shot.

00:31:51.000 President Obama, he pauses and he knows the cameras are on him.

00:31:54.000 He knows that he's on national television.

00:31:56.000 And he pauses, and he waits, and he takes his time.

00:31:59.000 This is not a...

00:32:01.000 I'm sorry, I don't believe the sincerity, number one, because I don't believe...anybody who believes...all these people who are criticizing John Boehner for crying too much, now look at President Obama and say what an authentic, decent man he is because he's crying over all of this, and if you doubt his significant feelings on the inside, then it must be because you're uncaring about what happened, and that's, of course, the trap.

00:32:21.000 The trap here is that he cries, and then we're irritated by the crying because we feel like he's a politician who's pushing an agenda on the back of his feelings, and then if you criticize that, then it must be that you don't care enough.

00:32:32.000 That's the little game that they play here.

00:32:34.000 Well, let's just pretend for a second that he's actually sincere.

00:32:37.000 How in the world does that make his argument any better in any way?

00:32:41.000 But this is the world in which we currently live.

00:32:43.000 President Obama is breaking down in tears, one, because it's politically beneficial for him to do so.

00:32:47.000 It makes him look caring, even though for seven years he did nothing on guns, nothing.

00:32:51.000 Remember, the President of the United States had a veto-proof majority.

00:32:55.000 He had a 60-vote majority, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and he had a majority in the House for the first two years of his presidency, and didn't touch guns, right?

00:33:04.000 He had the ability to hire ATF agents for the last seven years.

00:33:06.000 He didn't do it.

00:33:08.000 So, is he crying over spilt milk there?

00:33:11.000 Is he crying because it's politically advantageous?

00:33:14.000 Is he crying because he didn't get his way from Congress and he's angry he didn't get his way?

00:33:19.000 I think the president knows how this game is played.

00:33:20.000 I think he's a smart man, and I think he's a deeply cynical man.

00:33:23.000 I'm not suggesting it doesn't sadden him or anger him.

00:33:26.000 I'm just saying that to take it to the next level where you're crying on national television, that is a conscious decision.

00:33:31.000 This is not a man who lo- When's the last time you saw Obama lose control of his emotions?

00:33:35.000 He just got so emotional he couldn't contain himself.

00:33:38.000 When's the last time you saw that?

00:33:40.000 Ever?

00:33:41.000 So this whole thing is a cynical ploy, and the left, which is playing it off like it should make any difference.

00:33:46.000 Honestly, it doesn't make any difference whether it's cynical or not, but this is what's truly irritating.

00:33:50.000 The media is having a full-on masturbation fest over President Obama crying.

00:33:55.000 They're saying, oh well, he shed tears.

00:33:56.000 That means he cares.

00:33:57.000 Give him what he wants!

00:33:59.000 I have a two-year-old.

00:34:00.000 When she cries, she doesn't get what she wants.

00:34:02.000 He's the President of the United States.

00:34:03.000 When he cries, that doesn't mean that he gets what he wants.

00:34:07.000 And yet, that seems to be the logic behind all of this, is that he ought to get anything that he wants, because after all, the President should never cry.

00:34:13.000 He's a divine angel sent from the heavens, with his tears to cure cancer, and his tears to cure gun violence, and his tears to cure suicide.

00:34:22.000 It really is too much.

00:34:25.000 This is the part that's galling.

00:34:26.000 Democrats have been proposing gun control for decades, for my entire life.

00:34:30.000 Longer than that.

00:34:31.000 And President Obama is the first one that I've seen to go on TV and do the crying routine about, you don't care about these dead kids unless you agree with me.

00:34:40.000 And then he wonders about the breakdown in our politics.

00:34:43.000 This is why there is a breakdown in our politics.

00:34:45.000 I do not respect this president as a human being.

00:34:47.000 I don't respect him as a man.

00:34:48.000 And I certainly don't respect him as a leader.

00:34:50.000 Because he does this routine.

00:34:53.000 It is vile, vile and despicable for him to shed tears because his opponents disagree with him and those tears to be falling on the graves of kids who were killed.

00:35:05.000 It's just, it's exploitative to the extreme.

00:35:07.000 It's deeply exploitative and it's just, it's gross, as gross as it's possible for gross to be.

00:35:14.000 All right, so now let's do a little bit of things that I like and things that I hate, because I've expended enough words over this would-be dictator.

00:35:23.000 One last note, because I just have to now.

00:35:25.000 The President of the United States, when he sheds these crocodile tears, people are saying these are crocodile tears.

00:35:30.000 I don't think they're crocodile tears.

00:35:31.000 I think these are the tears of a tyrant, and the tears of a tyrant means that he has nothing to lose.

00:35:36.000 And he basically said that, right?

00:35:38.000 I'm in my last term.

00:35:39.000 I have nothing else to lose.

00:35:40.000 I can do what I want.

00:35:42.000 Well, so far, something is keeping him in check.

00:35:44.000 Something is keeping him in check, but I don't know how long that's going to last.

00:35:47.000 This is what frightens me about this president.

00:35:50.000 I don't know how long.

00:35:52.000 The President Obama of these relatively limited executive orders triumphs over the President Obama of this press conference.

00:36:00.000 I don't know how long it is before President Obama decides to really go for it, really do everything that he's been wanting to do.

00:36:07.000 I don't know if he's being held back by electoral concerns, I don't know what's holding him back, but if he ever decides that he doesn't want to be held back anymore, things could get very ugly, very quickly.

00:36:16.000 So those tears, those are tears that you should fear, not tears with which you should sympathize.

00:36:21.000 Because a man who believes that he has ultimate power, and that his enemies are immoral, is a very, very dangerous man.

00:36:28.000 And that is the President of the United States, and that's how he thinks about other Americans.

00:36:31.000 During this press conference, he blamed the NRA, Congress, the American people, and the Constitution for shootings.

00:36:37.000 He did not, at any point, blame criminals or terrorists.

00:36:41.000 That's really all there is.

00:36:42.000 Okay, let's talk about things that I like and things that I hate.

00:36:46.000 Okay, so one thing that I like, a piece of music.

00:36:50.000 I think so.

00:37:14.000 What's the movie called?

00:37:15.000 All the King's Men.

00:37:16.000 The original All the King's Men.

00:37:17.000 Not the one with Sean Penn.

00:37:18.000 The one with Broderick Crawford.

00:37:19.000 Great movie.

00:37:20.000 You want to see a demagogue in action?

00:37:21.000 What a demagogue looks like?

00:37:22.000 How a demagogue gains power?

00:37:24.000 That's what that movie is.

00:37:25.000 All the King's Men.

00:37:26.000 Terrific movie.

00:37:27.000 Best picture 1946, I think.

00:37:29.000 And it's a really, really good movie, so check that one out.

00:37:32.000 Alright, things that I hate.

00:37:34.000 This one comes to me courtesy of Lindsey, who does the makeup, and also sends me crazy things on the internet.

00:37:40.000 And one of the crazy things that she sent me on the internet was this new ad campaign that is a Louis Vuitton ad campaign, I guess?

00:37:47.000 And it's a women's ad campaign.

00:37:49.000 Now, this women's ad campaign has a peculiar star.

00:37:52.000 Who is the star of the women's wear campaign for Louis Vuitton?

00:37:56.000 Well, let's bring up the picture, if we can.

00:37:59.000 The star is Jaden Smith.

00:38:00.000 That's Will Smith's kid.

00:38:02.000 It's Will Smith's male child.

00:38:04.000 It's masculine child, right?

00:38:07.000 That's Will Smith's kid.

00:38:08.000 And then we have another photo of him with a group, modeling the women's wear.

00:38:13.000 And there he is wearing a skirt and a leather jacket and it's all androgynous and the idea is you can't tell that he's a boy, you can't tell that he's a girl.

00:38:21.000 There's a reason they put him all the way in the background there.

00:38:25.000 What's honestly kind of sad about this is that you have to... Will Smith has to sit around pretending that he thinks all of this is okay because we have such a politically correct, stupid society that when your boy dresses a girl, we're supposed to think that this is something wonderful.

00:38:40.000 I know Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing the same thing with Maddox, one of their kids.

00:38:44.000 She's a girl.

00:38:44.000 They like her to dress as a boy or let her dress as a boy.

00:38:48.000 Okay, there is something that is deeply disturbing and dangerous about your kids cross-dressing on a regular basis.

00:38:54.000 Okay, there's a reason that masculine and feminine exist, and one of the goals of you as an adult is to guide your child into the lifestyle that is going to match their biology.

00:39:06.000 And it turns out that Jaden Smith, there's no evidence he's androgynous, there's no evidence that he's transgender, there's no biological evidence of any of this, he wasn't a girl who was turned into a boy or any of that.

00:39:16.000 But you are teaching kids.

00:39:17.000 You are teaching teenagers.

00:39:19.000 You are teaching people who are confused about their hormones and about what gender is because you're not fully testosterone-filled as a man until you hit your teenage years, really.

00:39:29.000 You're teaching kids who are little

00:39:31.000 That sex is just something that you play around with, that gender is something that you play around with, and it really screws people up in a major way.

00:39:38.000 And this is not doing anybody any favors.

00:39:39.000 Are there any women?

00:39:40.000 It's just, it's what the advertising business wants to gain attention for what they're doing.

00:39:46.000 Because that's how they make money, is by gaining attention for what they're doing.

00:39:50.000 But there needs to be some sort of market backlash.

00:39:52.000 There really does.

00:39:52.000 There need to be a number of people who look at this kind of thing and they say, look, I'm not buying Louis Vuitton products so long as they have young men modeling women's wear.

00:39:59.000 That's just not my thing.

00:40:00.000 If they want to do that, they can mark that to their crew.

00:40:02.000 But this idea that we're going to mainstream and normalize what is abhorrent and abnormal behavior, and it is... I'm sorry, the whole idea that, oh, guy dresses in a dress, it's no big deal.

00:40:11.000 No, it actually is a relatively big deal because it is an element of mental illness.

00:40:15.000 When men want to dress in skirts, that is because there is a problem there.

00:40:18.000 It is not because skirts are more comfortable.

00:40:21.000 If they are doing it because it's more comfortable, they're wearing kilts.

00:40:24.000 The idea that men are wearing women's clothing

00:40:27.000 It's a statement, and it's clearly a statement.

00:40:29.000 It's either a political statement or it's an element of mental illness, and either way it is an attempt to break down the very important and civilization-founding distinction between male and female.

00:40:39.000 So this is something that I hate and I despise the advertising industry for doing all of this, but of course the advertising industry is largely run by a lot of people who are

00:40:48.000 Well, you're also confusing a lot of young people about what it means to be a man or what it is to be a woman, and that is something that does have to be taught.

00:40:54.000 That's something that culture has a role in doing.

00:41:17.000 Because the fact is this, if we left everybody to their own devices with regard to sex, you would end up with male and female, they would just be uncivilized.

00:41:24.000 The idea of the civilized male and the civilized female, that requires civilization.

00:41:28.000 So if we're going to have civilization, you have to maintain that distinction.

00:41:31.000 Once you wipe out that distinction, all you get is mass chaos, confusion, and upset, which is the reason, by the way, why suicide rates are on the rise for young people and will continue to be on the rise, because as you confuse young people, they don't know what to do.

00:41:44.000 Adults have done a great disservice to people.

00:41:47.000 His parents are doing a great disservice to him by humoring this kind of garbage and forwarding this kind of garbage.

00:41:52.000 It really is disturbing and problematic.

00:41:55.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:41:55.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:41:56.000 We'll see you tomorrow.

Ep. 49 - The Dictator Cries -- Because You're Just So Evil

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