The Ben Shapiro Show - The Jimmy Kimmel Gun Grab | Ep. 394

00:00:00.000 The left won't say gun confiscation, but that is what they're talking about.

00:00:03.000 We're going to talk about what that means, what good gun policy looks like, and of course, Jimmy Kimmel gives another emotional monologue, and we'll break it down for you.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:18.000 Alrighty, so we have a lot to get to today here on the program.

00:00:21.000 I'm going to go through Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night that is sailing around the internet and making all sorts of fuss in the halls of media.

00:00:28.000 The Washington Post said that it was just incredibly brave.

00:00:31.000 The New York Times said that it was ground-shaking.

00:00:33.000 We're going to talk about what exactly he said, what he's wrong about, and I'm going to give you a lot of gun stats.

00:00:37.000 I'm gonna give you a lot of information on gun violence, violence using guns, what the stats actually say, what it means in comparable countries.

00:00:44.000 I'm gonna show you some charts.

00:00:45.000 By the time today's show is over, you're gonna know a lot more than you did before about guns.

00:00:49.000 Before I do any of that, actually, I want to make an apology.

00:00:52.000 I made a boo-boo on the show.

00:00:53.000 I knew it as I was doing it, and it was really irritating, because I should have stopped then.

00:00:57.000 But yesterday, I said that a semi-automatic gun can fire bursts.

00:01:00.000 It can't, okay?

00:01:01.000 Like, a military rifle that has the capacity for semi-auto sometimes also has burst capacity, but civilian guns do not have the capacity at semi-auto to go burst, right?

00:01:10.000 Every single pull of the trigger means a single firing of the bullet.

00:01:13.000 That means that you're not allowed to fire bursts from, like, a normal AR-15, a burst of three.

00:01:17.000 So I got that wrong yesterday.

00:01:18.000 I want to correct myself when I'm wrong.

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00:01:21.000 Okay.

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00:02:26.000 Okay, so, I want to start with a question.

00:02:28.000 Why is it the media, whenever they call for gun control, they do it on the heels of a mass shooting?

00:02:32.000 It's really an interesting phenomenon, right?

00:02:34.000 I understand why the media cover mass shootings.

00:02:36.000 Of course, it's big news.

00:02:37.000 I mean, what happened in Las Vegas over the weekend was enormous, frightening, horrifying news that makes you want to stay in your house forever and never come out again and just sit around thinking about the nature of human evil because it was that egregious.

00:02:48.000 But...

00:02:49.000 The media never talk about gun control outside the context of a mass shooting.

00:02:53.000 Now, some of that is just opportunism.

00:02:56.000 Some of that is, well, we think that this is a good time to talk about it because everybody's talking about guns right now.

00:03:01.000 But weekend after weekend, you'll have mass numbers of people being shot in Chicago and no talk about national gun control.

00:03:07.000 So why is it that they always do it with regard to mass shootings?

00:03:11.000 Especially because mass shootings represent a tiny, tiny, minute percentage of the number of shootings every year in the United States.

00:03:17.000 According to Mother Jones, right, you're seeing this stat that's floating around right now that's saying things like, 355 mass shootings this year. 0.98

00:03:25.000 Absolute crap. 0.99

00:03:26.000 Absolute crap. 1.00

00:03:27.000 The way that they're measuring that is if there's any incident where more than one person was shot, they're considering that a mass shooting. 0.99

00:03:31.000 The way that Mother Jones measures it, and Mother Jones is a lefty magazine, but they're intellectually honest about this,

00:03:36.000 The way they measure it is they measure any shooting that has four or more people who are killed, and also is not a gang shooting, and also is not domestic violence, and it's not robbery.

00:03:46.000 So that's how you or I would tend to think of a mass shooting.

00:03:48.000 This is why when you see these stats about hundreds of mass shootings, you're thinking, no, that's not right.

00:03:52.000 Because what you're thinking about what the media are saying are two different things.

00:03:57.000 With that said, the number of mass shootings every year in the United States is actually quite low.

00:04:02.000 So, in 2015, Mark Fulman of Mother Jones, he came up with four.

00:04:06.000 Four.

00:04:07.000 Not 355.

00:04:09.000 Four.

00:04:10.000 In reality, in the year 2015, there were 46 deaths in mass shootings in 2015.

00:04:15.000 How many federal homicides were there involving guns?

00:04:18.000 Almost 13,000.

00:04:19.000 So the number of mass shooting deaths in 2015 were 0.3% of all gun-related homicides in the United States.

00:04:26.000 The same sort of percentage holds true today.

00:04:29.000 So, why is it that we pay so much attention to talking gun control in the aftermath of a mass shooting as opposed to, say, the normal murder rate?

00:04:37.000 Well, there are a few reasons.

00:04:38.000 One is the normal murder rate has been going down steadily for the last 20 years.

00:04:41.000 So it's hard to make a case that we need gun control when the murder rate has been going like this.

00:04:46.000 Murder rate per 100,000 is down.

00:04:48.000 It is not up, in fact.

00:04:49.000 The murder rate has been dropping steadily for years and years and years.

00:04:54.000 And the statistics that you are seeing from places like Vox.com, they're ignoring this stat.

00:05:02.000 Vox.com did put this stat up, but they buried it in one of their stories.

00:05:06.000 Look at this chart, okay?

00:05:07.000 The chart that I'm about to show you is the rate of firearm homicide deaths in the United States in 1981 to 2010.

00:05:13.000 You see how it's declined?

00:05:16.000 You see how it completely dropped off?

00:05:17.000 Alright, so it's very hard to make a case that we need stronger gun control.

00:05:22.000 When the crime rate has been dropping off and the rate of firearm homicide death has been dropping off as well.

00:05:28.000 Also, when you see a lot of statistics about the rise in firearm deaths, they are conflating two types of death.

00:05:33.000 They are conflating suicide and homicide.

00:05:35.000 So the number of firearm homicides in the United States has basically been stagnant for 15 years.

00:05:41.000 The number of suicides, however, has risen.

00:05:42.000 So here's the chart showing you that.

00:05:46.000 The top line here is the number of firearm suicides.

00:05:50.000 The bottom line is the number of firearm homicides.

00:05:53.000 So when everybody talks about the number of people being killed with guns, a lot of those people are killing themselves.

00:05:58.000 Right?

00:05:58.000 A lot of those people are murdering themselves.

00:06:00.000 So to suggest that this is solely about the number of murders is just not correct.

00:06:05.000 It's just not accurate.

00:06:06.000 I want to show you one more chart, this one also from Vox.com.

00:06:09.000 So, this is the rate of firearm suicide after Australia's gun buyback program.

00:06:14.000 So, they use this as proof that getting rid of firearms can minimize suicide.

00:06:18.000 So, what they say is the buyback program begins in 1996, and you see that the suicide rates drop all the way to 2006.

00:06:24.000 But I want you to see what they did here.

00:06:27.000 Look at the period before this.

00:06:28.000 Look at the period 1990 to 1996, or more accurately, 1987 to 1996.

00:06:34.000 All you see from 1996 to 2006 is basically a continuing decline in trajectory.

00:06:39.000 So this idea that the suicide rate in Australia was solely due to gun confiscation is just not true.

00:06:44.000 Again, everybody is trying to create these correlations and then suggest that taking guns away is causative, but it isn't.

00:06:51.000 And if we're going to talk about suicide rates by country, we have to talk about where suicide rates are the highest.

00:06:55.000 Not in the United States, in Japan. 0.81

00:06:57.000 Okay, so here is a chart showing you which countries have really high suicide rates.

00:07:02.000 So if you look at this chart, what you'll see is that the United States is way down there at the bottom at 10.1 suicides per 100,000 people.

00:07:08.000 Here are countries that have higher suicide rates.

00:07:10.000 You ready?

00:07:11.000 Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary,

00:07:17.000 Iceland.

00:07:18.000 Japan.

00:07:19.000 Right, the highest one, I guess, is still hungry at 21.

00:07:20.000 Japan has about 20.

00:07:21.000 There are no guns in Japan.

00:07:23.000 None.

00:07:24.000 Okay, there were like six firearm-related deaths in Japan last year, but their suicide rate is nearly double what our suicide rate is.

00:07:30.000 So the idea that getting rid of the guns definitely gets rid of the suicide is just not true.

00:07:34.000 Again, no correlation there.

00:07:36.000 Now, I'm not saying that more guns means less crime.

00:07:39.000 I'm not saying that fewer guns means more crime.

00:07:41.000 What I'm saying is that there is no clear correlation.

00:07:44.000 There is no clear correlation.

00:07:46.000 So, I'm going to show you a couple more stats because I think that people need to understand this.

00:07:49.000 So, here's some stats, courtesy of the Washington Examiner.

00:07:53.000 So, here is the first stat.

00:07:55.000 This stat comes from Mother Jones.

00:07:57.000 Okay, so this stat shows you, this chart shows you, the gun ownership versus gun deaths by state.

00:08:03.000 So you see how there's a line, right?

00:08:04.000 And this looks like a pretty smooth correlation, right?

00:08:07.000 It looks like gun ownership versus gun deaths by state.

00:08:10.000 The states with more guns have more gun deaths.

00:08:12.000 Right?

00:08:12.000 Makes sense.

00:08:13.000 We're there.

00:08:14.000 Only one problem.

00:08:15.000 Notice the language here.

00:08:16.000 Gun deaths by state.

00:08:18.000 Remember what I just said.

00:08:19.000 There is a correlation in the United States between gun increase and suicide increase, but there is no correlation between gun increase and murder increase.

00:08:28.000 So what you're seeing here is a reflection of the suicide increase.

00:08:30.000 How do I know that?

00:08:31.000 Because I'm going to show you right now what it looks like when you look at the firearms murder rate.

00:08:35.000 Okay, not the, not the, not the suicide rate, the murder rate.

00:08:39.000 Okay, this is a scatterplot of the states in the United States, their gun ownership rate versus their firearms murder rate from 2014.

00:08:48.000 What you're seeing right now does not look like a straight line correlation.

00:08:50.000 It doesn't look like any sort of correlation.

00:08:52.000 It looks like a shotgun of data.

00:08:54.000 It looks like there are some states, presumably the one that's way up there on the top is probably D.C., but the idea here is that there are some states that have 60% gun ownership rate and very, very low rates of firearms murder, and there are some states with close to 0% gun ownership rate and low rates of firearms murder.

00:09:11.000 There are some states right here in the middle that look a little bit higher, but you know,

00:09:15.000 Again, there is no correlation at all here, and to suggest that there is, is really incorrect.

00:09:20.000 And then finally, I will show you one more chart, and that is from, again, this one is from the FBI and census-related materials, firearms murders per 100,000 residents.

00:09:31.000 And here you see that the District of Columbia is far and away, far and away, the state that has the most firearm murder.

00:09:38.000 Notice that the states that have the most firearm murder also have big cities in them.

00:09:42.000 So except for New York, which has a pretty low firearms murder rate,

00:09:46.000 Every area in the United States, 60% of all murder in the United States happens in, I believe, the top 50 metro areas.

00:09:52.000 Those tend to be Democrat areas.

00:09:54.000 Those tend to be urban areas.

00:09:55.000 Those are areas that are not what people think of when they think of murder rate with high gun ratios.

00:09:59.000 They think, when people think high murder rate, high guns, they think, you know, the boonies in Texas.

00:10:03.000 That's not where all the murder is happening.

00:10:05.000 The reason I'm pointing all this out is because you're hearing a lot of bad data today.

00:10:08.000 You're hearing a lot of bad data today.

00:10:10.000 From 1993 to 2013, the number of guns per person rose from .94 in the United States to 1.45.

00:10:18.000 Now, fewer people as a percentage of the population had guns, but that means that a lot of people like me are buying two guns.

00:10:23.000 Right?

00:10:23.000 Or they're like you, and they're buying five guns.

00:10:25.000 But, the number of firearms per person has risen, and the gun homicides have completely fallen off.

00:10:32.000 The gun homicides have fallen dramatically.

00:10:35.000 So, it's important to have all of this information in your head as background before we start going through all of the various propaganda that's being put out by the left on this.

00:10:44.000 Before I go through more of the propaganda and we get to Jimmy Kimmel and we break down what he said about gun violence, which I think is really not just politically egregious, I actually think it's morally egregious, and I'll talk about it in a second.

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00:11:52.000 So, okay.

00:11:53.000 So, we were talking about why is it that the media focus in on mass shootings when mass shootings are such a minority of shootings.

00:11:58.000 So, the first reason is because they believe that they can use the emotional baggage from mass shootings in order to promote a particular agenda.

00:12:05.000 The second reason is because the type of gun in mass shootings differs wildly from the type of gun that's used in most homicides.

00:12:12.000 So, in most homicides, what's used is a handgun, right?

00:12:14.000 Not a rifle.

00:12:16.000 In mass shootings, it tends to be a rifle.

00:12:18.000 The left likes to target rifles because rifles look scarier and fewer people own them.

00:12:22.000 Many, many, many more people own handguns than own rifles in the United States.

00:12:25.000 And so, the left doesn't want to run right into the teeth of political unpopularity by suggesting that they can get rid of all the handguns.

00:12:31.000 Instead, they like to focus in on the scary ones, the assault rifles, right?

00:12:35.000 All that kind of stuff.

00:12:36.000 Well, you can't do that if you look at the overall murder rate.

00:12:39.000 The only way to do that is by looking at mass shootings, where disproportionately people use semi-automatic rifles, or in this particular case, what looks like a semi-automatic rifle using a particular type of stock that bounces against your shoulder and makes the gun operate sort of like an automatic.

00:12:55.000 Again, it's also worth noting that they like to cherry pick.

00:12:58.000 So the reason they pick mass shootings as the basis for their arguments is because the evidence for gun control is strongest on mass shootings.

00:13:04.000 The reason being the sample size is really, really small.

00:13:06.000 The number of mass shootings generally across the world is not particularly high.

00:13:10.000 So it's easy to look at something like Australia's gun confiscation and then say, well, before that they had a gun, a mass shooting once every five years, and now they've had none.

00:13:19.000 Okay, but the sample size is just too small.

00:13:22.000 Australia's gun ban was followed by elimination of mass shootings.

00:13:24.000 The UK has seen about three since 1980 after its gun ban, but it wasn't like they were seeing them every week before that.

00:13:29.000 Correlation rarely equals causation.

00:13:32.000 And finally, the reason the left likes to focus on mass shootings as opposed to most gun homicides is because that's a case where it's very easy for them to separate the weapon from the person wielding it.

00:13:42.000 Mass shootings are very often carried out by people who are mentally ill, who have serious problems.

00:13:46.000 If the left came to you and said, you need to give up your gun because gang members are shooting each other in the inner city, you'd say, well no, that's a reason for me to keep my gun, right?

00:13:52.000 Because I'm not a gang member, I want to defend myself.

00:13:55.000 If the left says, listen, 1.00

00:13:56.000 People are mentally ill. 1.00

00:13:58.000 You don't know who's mentally ill. 1.00

00:13:59.000 And maybe somebody in your family will be mentally ill. 0.99

00:14:01.000 Give up your gun. 0.99

00:14:02.000 That's a stronger case for them.

00:14:03.000 The problem is the vast majority of murders in the United States are not by mentally ill people, obviously.

00:14:07.000 So they want to focus on situations where it is a mentally ill person who's carrying out the attack, and therefore, it is possible that they can shy it off on society at large with the availability of guns at large, as opposed to creating a moral status for the person who's actually using it.

00:14:23.000 So, before we get to Jimmy Kimmel, and I really do want to get to Jimmy Kimmel, I first want to show you a couple of things that people have been talking about and that probably should be outlawed.

00:14:33.000 They should be outlawed, I say, you know, if we're going to talk about legislation, there are a couple of changes to legislation that I would make.

00:14:37.000 One is, there's a law called 18 U.S.C.

00:14:40.000 922 G. That is a provision in federal law that prevents firearms, federally licensed firearms dealers, from selling to mentally ill people.

00:14:49.000 One of the things that needs to be done is task forces need to be set up in order to investigate the crossover between the number of mentally ill people, people who aren't registered as mentally ill, and people who've gotten guns.

00:14:59.000 In California, there's like 30,000 people in the state of California who are registered as mentally ill and still have guns in their house.

00:15:05.000 That's a problem, so...

00:15:07.000 That's a situation where we should look into it.

00:15:10.000 That is not a rip, by the way, on what President Trump did earlier this year when President Trump signed a law that suggested that if you are on Social Security and you're incapable of handling your own finances, then we shouldn't be able to take your gun away from you without due process.

00:15:24.000 The key word there is without due process.

00:15:26.000 That's the key phrase.

00:15:27.000 The left ignores that key phrase.

00:15:28.000 That's what the bill did.

00:15:29.000 Before, it was, if they even suspect, right?

00:15:32.000 If the Social Security Administration has you registered as somebody who is using an aid to help you with finances, they come and take away your gun.

00:15:39.000 The bill says, no, we actually have to adjudicate that you're incompetent before we can take away your gun.

00:15:43.000 That's what Trump is doing.

00:15:44.000 There are other ways to strengthen enforcement of that provision.

00:15:47.000 Okay, other things that could be done.

00:15:49.000 I don't think these will be tremendously effective, but I think that

00:15:52.000 It's probably worthwhile doing.

00:15:53.000 So here is one of these things.

00:15:55.000 So there's something called a bump stock, okay?

00:15:57.000 This was found on one of the weapons that was used by the shooter in Las Vegas.

00:16:00.000 A bump stock is basically an addition that is added to a rifle.

00:16:05.000 You put it on the back of the rifle, and it's essentially a spring.

00:16:08.000 So every time you shoot a rifle, the rifle recoils, right?

00:16:11.000 Every time you take a shot, it recoils.

00:16:12.000 Well, what the bump stock does is it bounces, it absorbs that, and then pushes the gun back and forth, right?

00:16:17.000 It's bouncing the gun back and forth.

00:16:19.000 You keep your finger stationary, the trigger actually bounces back and forth on your finger.

00:16:24.000 So you're not pulling the trigger like this a bunch of times, which you can only shoot as fast as you can pull your finger.

00:16:29.000 Instead, your finger is stationary, and the bump stock is using the force of the gun to bounce the trigger against your finger.

00:16:35.000 That's what a bump stock is.

00:16:36.000 Here's what footage of a bump stock looks like.

00:16:38.000 This is what, apparently, the shooter in Vegas was using.

00:16:46.000 So as you can see, the front of the gun is moving, right?

00:16:49.000 The front of the gun is actually bouncing against the back of the gun, on his shoulder, and you can see this guy has his finger through the trigger guard, and he's just holding his finger there, and then the gun bounces against his finger.

00:16:59.000 So it fires like a fully automatic weapon.

00:17:02.000 If we have outlawed fully automatic weapons in the United States, it makes no sense to have addendums to guns, additions to guns that can make them fully automatic.

00:17:08.000 So it makes sense to outlaw this.

00:17:09.000 The problem is they are very easy to manufacture.

00:17:12.000 As I explain it, very, very simple device, right?

00:17:14.000 It's basically a spring you put on the back of the gun that is stationary and that goes into your shoulder.

00:17:18.000 That's it.

00:17:19.000 It's very easy to make it on like a 3D printer or something.

00:17:22.000 So I'm not sure it'd be super effective, but if we're talking about legislation to outlaw things, that seems like not a terrible place to start.

00:17:28.000 Here's another thing that I believe they've already outlawed.

00:17:30.000 It's called the Autoglove.

00:17:32.000 So the Autoglove is apparently a glove that you wear on your hand and it's used I guess in some military situations and it is attached to a battery pack and basically is a button that goes on your finger and helps pull the trigger.

00:17:46.000 Again, you'll see it.

00:17:46.000 Here's what it looks like.

00:17:48.000 Introducing the Autoglove, a revolutionary new product designed to create even more fun and excitement on the range.

00:17:56.000 Designed by military veterans who served to protect the freedom we enjoy today.

00:18:01.000 The Auto Glove creates an experience like no other.

00:18:05.000 Now you can experience simulated automatic rates of fire with all your semi-automatic pistols, rifles, and shotguns.

00:18:19.000 As you can see, it's actually almost like a fake finger that's attached to your finger, that's attached to your finger and goes through the trigger and then pulls back on it.

00:18:26.000 So it essentially fires it like an automatic.

00:18:29.000 That, I believe, was outlawed by ATF last year.

00:18:31.000 If not, then I believe it was already in the works, that being done.

00:18:35.000 Now, will any of this stop mass shootings?

00:18:37.000 No, it's not going to stop mass shootings.

00:18:38.000 Three out of the last four mass shootings have been perpetrated with semi-automatic weapons.

00:18:42.000 But if we're already banning automatic weapons, which everyone seems to agree with, including the NRA, then these particular addendums may not do much, but it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense to have addendums to guns that can simulate the function of a machine gun.

00:18:56.000 Okay.

00:18:57.000 With all that as background, I now want to talk about Jimmy Kimmel and what Jimmy Kimmel said last night.

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00:20:26.000 Now, finally, at long last, Jimmy Kimmel.

00:20:28.000 So Jimmy Kimmel did something last night that I find truly abhorrent.

00:20:32.000 Jimmy Kimmel spent an enormous amount of time last night talking about gun control.

00:20:38.000 It's his prerogative.

00:20:39.000 He can do that.

00:20:40.000 But again, he makes it about the emotional appeal and not about the facts.

00:20:42.000 So I just spent the first 20 minutes of this show explaining to you some facts and statistics on gun control, what it does, what it doesn't do, about what you're seeing when you look at these statistics, what mass shooting statistics actually look like.

00:20:54.000 That's not what people on the left do.

00:20:55.000 They do what Piers Morgan does, which is they say, look at all the horror.

00:20:58.000 Just look at the horror out there.

00:21:00.000 We've got to do something.

00:21:01.000 We've got to do it.

00:21:03.000 And if you don't believe me, you don't care.

00:21:04.000 You just don't care about those dead children at Sandy Hook, right?

00:21:07.000 This is the routine that they all like to play.

00:21:10.000 And it's not just Kimmel.

00:21:11.000 So we'll start with the buildup, right?

00:21:12.000 So Kimmel has sort of become the social justice king of late night television.

00:21:16.000 And there are a bunch of competitors.

00:21:17.000 They're all trying to compete with each other to out left themselves, to demonstrate how culturally relevant they are.

00:21:22.000 Trevor Noah leads the way, the least funny man in America, saying that, you know, the problem in America is that we just don't talk about guns.

00:21:28.000 Which leads me to ask a question. 0.95

00:21:29.000 Is he deaf or insane? 0.92

00:21:31.000 We don't talk about guns in America. 0.94

00:21:32.000 It's all we talk about after every shooting.

00:21:34.000 Here's Trevor Noah.

00:21:37.000 What's been particularly heartbreaking, is other than the lives lost, is how I feel like people are becoming more accustomed to this type of news.

00:21:46.000 Every single time.

00:21:47.000 I almost know how it's going to play out.

00:21:50.000 We're shocked, we're sad, thoughts and prayers, and then almost on cue, people are gonna come out saying, whatever you do, when speaking about the shootings, don't talk about guns.

00:22:03.000 We seem to do everything to avoid talking about guns.

00:22:07.000 I've never been to a country where people are as afraid to... Okay, I just have a question.

00:22:09.000 What the hell is he talking about?

00:22:11.000 He's never been to a country where people are as afraid to talk about guns? 0.99

00:22:14.000 Is he out of his mind? 0.98

00:22:15.000 Is he crazy? 0.95

00:22:16.000 I mean, Democrats have been talking incessantly about guns for years.

00:22:20.000 Barack Obama gave dozens of speeches about guns.

00:22:22.000 Barack Obama went to Arizona after the Gabby Giffords shooting and did a speech about guns.

00:22:26.000 He gave a speech where he cried about guns, right?

00:22:28.000 We've been talking about guns for years.

00:22:30.000 But Stephen Colbert does the same thing, right?

00:22:32.000 He says, well, you know, the real problem here is that people just don't have common sense about guns.

00:22:35.000 In order for you to have common sense about a subject, let me just say something about common sense.

00:22:39.000 In order for you to have common sense about a subject, first you have to know what the hell you're talking about.

00:22:44.000 Hey, common sense doesn't just come along in the wind.

00:22:47.000 If you don't know how a gun operates, then you don't get to talk about common sense gun solutions.

00:22:51.000 If you don't know what gun control looks like, if you don't know what kind of stuff you're proposing, if you're like Hillary Clinton, you've never seen a silencer or a suppressor, and you're saying things like, well, a suppressor means that the gun goes silent, you don't know what you're even talking about. 0.97

00:23:03.000 That's not common sense, that's just you being dumb because you don't know what you're saying. 0.74

00:23:06.000 But here is Colbert talking about common sense gun control, presumably as his studio is guarded by a bunch of very heavily armed men. 0.97

00:23:14.000 And now, President Trump, you've said you wanted to be a transformative president who doesn't care about the way things have always been done in Washington, D.C.

00:23:23.000 This is your chance to prove it.

00:23:25.000 And I mean this sincerely.

00:23:26.000 You do not owe the Republicans anything.

00:23:29.000 You know the Republicans tried to stop you from being president. 0.99

00:23:33.000 Well, screw them. 0.91

00:23:35.000 You want to make America great again? 0.95

00:23:37.000 Do something the last two presidents haven't been able to do.

00:23:41.000 Pass any kind of common sense gun control legislation that the vast majority of Americans want.

00:23:49.000 Right.

00:23:49.000 Do something.

00:23:50.000 Do something.

00:23:51.000 But all the things he says to do have either been tried and failed or they have been counterproductive.

00:23:56.000 Right?

00:23:57.000 All the stuff that the left likes to talk about.

00:23:58.000 These things like universal background checks.

00:24:00.000 In California, we have universal background checks.

00:24:02.000 When you buy a gun from a federally licensed firearm dealer, you have to actually go and get a background check.

00:24:08.000 This is under federal law.

00:24:10.000 Universal background checks already exist.

00:24:11.000 The only thing that they're talking about when they say universal background checks are with regard to hand-to-hand transfers.

00:24:16.000 So, I sell you a gun and I'm a private gun owner.

00:24:19.000 But there's no real way to regulate that because if you're giving me cash and I'm giving you the gun, how do you even prosecute that?

00:24:24.000 Unless the gun is then used in a murder, there's no way for the police to even know about it.

00:24:28.000 So that doesn't even make any sense.

00:24:30.000 Gun dealers are heavily regulated because they're receiving lots of guns and the government can track it.

00:24:34.000 But if I sell you a gun, there's no way for anybody to know unless you go rob a bank with it.

00:24:37.000 So it's a post-facto thing.

00:24:39.000 With all that said, Jimmy Kimmel finally goes off last night, and Jimmy Kimmel again has become sort of the all-heart representative of all leftist causes.

00:24:48.000 So a couple of weeks ago we broke down in detail his lecture on health care reform, which was similarly based not on facts but on emotions.

00:24:57.000 Last night he did a long shtick

00:25:01.000 about gun control that was entirely based on emotion and it was really nasty.

00:25:04.000 It was really nasty.

00:25:05.000 I don't mean it was nasty because he doesn't care.

00:25:07.000 He cares.

00:25:08.000 It's really nasty because he's suggesting that you and I don't care.

00:25:11.000 It doesn't matter that you lost sleep last night and I lost sleep last night because of what happened.

00:25:15.000 It doesn't matter that we're all heartbroken over what happened.

00:25:17.000 We don't agree with Jimmy Kimmel's evidence-less suggestions about gun control.

00:25:21.000 That means that we don't care.

00:25:23.000 We're bad people.

00:25:24.000 You want to know why the country is not unified?

00:25:27.000 It's because of stuff like this.

00:25:27.000 It's not because we disagree on policy.

00:25:29.000 We've been disagreeing about policy forever.

00:25:31.000 It's because there are certain people in the American public discourse who feel it necessary to impute bad motives to people who disagree.

00:25:36.000 And that's what Kimmel's doing here.

00:25:37.000 So here's Jimmy Kimmel.

00:25:39.000 We're going to go through his entire lecture.

00:25:40.000 So here he starts off ripping into Americans who disagree.

00:25:44.000 Well, hello everyone.

00:25:46.000 Here we are again in the aftermath of another

00:25:51.000 Terrible, inexplicable, shocking and painful tragedy, this time in Las Vegas, which happens to be my hometown and Cleto's hometown, Cleto Sr.'

00:26:00.000 's hometown.

00:26:02.000 And as you know, at least 59 people are dead.

00:26:06.000 Hundreds of people were wounded in what they say was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, coming about a year and a half after the previous.

00:26:14.000 deadliest mass shooting in modern American history in Orlando where 49 people lost their lives and of course we pray for the victims and for their families and friends and we wonder why even though there's probably no way to ever know why a human being would do something like this to other human beings who are at a concert having fun and listening to music

00:26:39.000 Jason Aldean was on stage.

00:26:41.000 Luke Combs, who is here with us tonight, he played the show, too.

00:26:44.000 And obviously, no one could have ever expected that something terrible would happen, but it did.

00:26:49.000 A very sick person smuggled 17 guns into his hotel room and smashed out the windows, started firing indiscriminately from the 32nd floor into a crowd of 22,000 people across the street.

00:27:01.000 And as a result of that, this morning, we have children without parents and

00:27:10.000 Fathers without sons, mothers without daughters.

00:27:12.000 We lost two police officers.

00:27:14.000 We lost a nurse from Tennessee.

00:27:16.000 Okay, so all of this is true, all of this is fine, right?

00:27:19.000 Everything that he's saying here is true, all of it.

00:27:21.000 We all feel the same thing, right?

00:27:22.000 We're all feeling this.

00:27:24.000 It's not a matter of him grasping the emotion and nobody else getting the emotion.

00:27:27.000 We're all feeling this.

00:27:28.000 Some of us show it more on the surface than others, but what he is saying is obviously true.

00:27:32.000 But what's gonna be nasty is when he swivels this, and then he uses it as a club to beat his political opponents on gun control, which happens momentarily here.

00:27:40.000 ...from a local school here in Manhattan Beach and it's the kind of thing that it makes you want to throw up or give up.

00:27:50.000 It's too much to even process.

00:27:52.000 All these devastated families who now have to live with this pain forever because one person with a violent and insane voice in his head managed to stockpile a collection of high-powered rifles and use them to shoot people.

00:28:07.000 The guy was an accountant.

00:28:09.000 He had no criminal record.

00:28:10.000 His brother, who lives in Florida, seems totally shocked, genuinely dumbfounded.

00:28:14.000 He said he saw no sign of any of this.

00:28:17.000 Okay, let's pass it right there for a second.

00:28:26.000 He's giving all the facts.

00:28:27.000 What do these facts suggest?

00:28:28.000 He passed a government-mandated background check.

00:28:30.000 No history of mental illness.

00:28:32.000 His brother didn't know anything was wrong with him.

00:28:34.000 What exactly would stop something like this?

00:28:37.000 Right?

00:28:37.000 Short of full gun confiscation, which is really what the left wants, and we'll talk about the possibility of that in a second.

00:28:43.000 Short of that, which no one on the left will admit they want, but they actually do want.

00:28:46.000 You know, they protest every time you say this.

00:28:48.000 If you say the left wants full-scale gun confiscation, Hillary Clinton will tell you no, Joe Biden will tell you no.

00:28:53.000 But short of full-scale gun confiscation, what exactly would Jimmy Kimmel do in a situation like this?

00:28:58.000 He's gonna spell out a bunch of policies that have nothing to do with what actually happened in Vegas now.

00:29:04.000 Wasn't on any watch list.

00:29:05.000 Didn't seem to have been a religious or political extremist.

00:29:08.000 Came out of nowhere.

00:29:09.000 And because of that, because there weren't any of the usual signs, you know, I've been reading comments from people saying this is terrible, but there's nothing we can do about it.

00:29:20.000 But I disagree with that intensely, because of course there's something we can do about it.

00:29:24.000 There are a lot of things we can do about it.

00:29:27.000 But we don't, which is interesting because when someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls, we take every possible precaution to make sure it doesn't happen again.

00:29:38.000 But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there's nothing we can do about that.

00:29:44.000 Okay, so pause it right there.

00:29:45.000 So Charles Cook over at National Review makes a fantastic point about this, which is Kimmel's now undercutting his own case, right?

00:29:50.000 Because Kimmel opposes all those things.

00:29:52.000 He opposes travel bans, he opposes walls, he opposes phone tapping.

00:29:56.000 I don't assume that he doesn't care about terrorism. 0.55

00:29:59.000 I'm sure he does.

00:29:59.000 He just disagrees about the policy.

00:30:02.000 So why can't he grant us the same sort of credibility?

00:30:05.000 We care about what happened in Vegas.

00:30:06.000 We just disagree on the policy.

00:30:08.000 Beyond that, the fact is that when you're talking about somebody who's a foreigner coming into the United States and murdering people, that person does not have the same rights that you or I do as American citizens. 0.99

00:30:16.000 So the sort of measures that we have available to us to stop them are different than the sort of measures available to us to stop American citizens

00:30:23.000 Second Amendment, I guess.

00:30:34.000 Okay, pause it.

00:30:54.000 Okay, not true.

00:30:54.000 Okay, so number one, the founders would have wanted us to have AR-15s because the fact is that back in the day, all the weapons that people had were military-grade weapons, right?

00:31:03.000 A musket was a military-grade weapon.

00:31:04.000 Now, AR-15s aren't even military-grade.

00:31:06.000 Yesterday, as I said, I made the mistake about

00:31:09.000 Comparing basically an M16, which has burst fire capacity, with a civilian AR, right? 0.63

00:31:15.000 That's not correct.

00:31:16.000 I was wrong about that.

00:31:17.000 Civilian guns are very different from military-issue guns.

00:31:21.000 For him to say that the Second Amendment doesn't cover things like AR-15s, a semi-automatic rifle, is akin to me saying that the First Amendment doesn't cover TV because the founders had never seen a TV, wouldn't know what it looked like, and don't understand how it works.

00:31:31.000 It's just a silly argument. 0.97

00:31:32.000 As far as the idea that ARs are not used for home defense, again, asinine. 0.96

00:31:36.000 I have a bunch of friends who use ARs for home defense. 0.86

00:31:40.000 You can find stories.

00:31:40.000 A.W.R.

00:31:41.000 Hawkins over at Breitbart has a good roundup of people who have used ARs for self-defense.

00:31:46.000 It happens on a relatively frequent basis.

00:31:49.000 But, again, you wouldn't expect Jimmy Kimmel to know all of this because here is where the left's version of common sense means they have to be completely disconnected from the fact.

00:31:58.000 Large numbers of people in the shortest possible amount of time.

00:32:01.000 This guy reportedly had 10 of them in his room, apparently legally.

00:32:05.000 At least some of them were there legally.

00:32:08.000 Why is that allowed?

00:32:09.000 I don't know why our so-called leaders continue to allow this to happen.

00:32:13.000 Or maybe a better question, why do we continue to let them to allow it to happen?

00:32:17.000 Five people got shot in Lawrence, Kansas last night.

00:32:20.000 Three of them died.

00:32:21.000 It didn't even make a blip because this is just a regular part of our lives now.

00:32:26.000 And you know what'll happen.

00:32:28.000 We'll pray for Las Vegas.

00:32:29.000 Some of us will get motivated.

00:32:31.000 Some of us won't get motivated.

00:32:33.000 The bills will be written.

00:32:35.000 They'll be watered down.

00:32:36.000 They'll fail.

00:32:37.000 NRA will smother it all with money. 1.00

00:32:38.000 And over time, we'll get distracted.

00:32:40.000 We'll mow on to the next thing.

00:32:42.000 And then it will happen again.

00:32:46.000 Again, what he's saying here is also not true.

00:32:50.000 He says the NRA is going to smother it in money.

00:32:52.000 The NRA is not among the top dozen spenders in the American political system.

00:32:55.000 The NRA does not give a lot of money to politicians.

00:32:58.000 The NRA is a very powerful force because there are millions of people who are members.

00:33:02.000 Millions of people.

00:33:03.000 The reason the American people are not willing to elect representatives to repeal some of their Second Amendment rights is because we're not willing to do that.

00:33:10.000 Not because the NRA is bribing people.

00:33:12.000 It's amazing.

00:33:13.000 Democrats never make this argument about unions that give tons of cash to Democrats that unions are bribing people, but they make this argument about the NRA that is actively not bribing people.

00:33:21.000 Okay, I want to continue analyzing everything that Kimmel is saying here, but first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Quip.

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00:34:37.000 Okay.

00:34:39.000 So, back to Jimmy Kimmel.

00:34:40.000 So Kimmel continues along these lines. 0.98

00:34:42.000 And you just, again, all of this is ignorant. 0.78

00:34:43.000 None of it is based on knowledge about guns or firearms or any of this stuff.

00:34:47.000 But this is what passes for brilliance and common sense in Hollywood.

00:34:51.000 House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said this is not the time, or actually it was today, this morning, she said it was not the time for political debate.

00:34:58.000 And I don't know, we have 59 innocent people dead.

00:35:02.000 It wasn't their time either.

00:35:03.000 So I think now is the time for political debate.

00:35:06.000 President Trump is visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday.

00:35:09.000 He spoke this morning.

00:35:10.000 He said he's praying for those who lost their lives.

00:35:12.000 You know, in February he also signed a bill that made it easier for people with severe mental illness to buy guns legally.

00:35:18.000 Okay, this is not true.

00:35:18.000 Stop it there.

00:35:19.000 Okay, so again, this is like number—lie number eight in this—in this little monologue.

00:35:23.000 So, number one, again, this idea that people don't care and that's why they don't want to talk policy.

00:35:27.000 Maybe policy is best talked not when you are passionate about the issue, but when you're removed a little bit so that you're not making the sorts of bad arguments Jimmy Kimmel is making right here.

00:35:35.000 So, the bill, again, that Trump signed back in February did not—it was backed by the ACLU—it did not, in fact,

00:35:42.000 Make it easier for mentally ill people to purchase guns. 0.90

00:35:44.000 It said that a judge had to rule you mentally incompetent before you could have your gun taken away or your ability to buy a gun taken away.

00:35:51.000 Right, that's what it says.

00:35:53.000 The due process is still a thing.

00:35:54.000 Okay, you don't just get to take somebody's gun away because you're afraid that they may be mentally ill.

00:35:58.000 You actually have to show they're mentally ill before you take their gun away.

00:36:01.000 People who are, you know, people in the United States still have rights until due process goes through.

00:36:05.000 Okay, time for a few more falsehoods from Jimmy Kimmel.

00:36:08.000 The Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won't do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip, also sent their thoughts and their- Okay, again, pause it. 0.84

00:36:19.000 The idea that the NRA has anybody's balls in a money clip is just not true.

00:36:23.000 It is just not true.

00:36:24.000 Their constituents don't want them to do the stuff Jimmy Kimmel is talking about because the stuff Jimmy Kimmel is talking about is not correct.

00:36:31.000 The NRA is not bribing Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

00:36:35.000 Again, this is just him attributing bad motives to these politicians.

00:36:38.000 They don't really believe what they believe, you see.

00:36:40.000 They just don't care enough, and they'd rather be paid blood money for dead people in Las Vegas.

00:36:44.000 Just absurd.

00:36:45.000 And now he's getting to the point of insulting, right?

00:36:47.000 Because now they're all just weaklings who, if they had a shred of heart, they would do exactly what Jimmy Kimmel wants.

00:36:53.000 Okay, that is not true.

00:36:53.000 Pause it again.

00:36:55.000 This is the so-called gun show loophole.

00:36:57.000 It is not correct.

00:36:57.000 Okay, the gun show loophole, it doesn't exist.

00:37:22.000 As I said before, if you buy a gun at a gun show from a federally licensed firearms dealer, they must do a background check.

00:37:28.000 If you buy a gun on the internet, it is shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer.

00:37:32.000 You do a check.

00:37:33.000 They do a background check before you're allowed to take possession of the gun.

00:37:35.000 All of this is true.

00:37:37.000 The same law is on the books now that was on the books 50 years ago.

00:37:40.000 If I sell you a gun, there's no way to mandate that I do a background check, because again, I have like one gun and I'm selling it to you, or God forbid I die and I pass my guns on to my wife, 0.99

00:37:49.000 Right?

00:37:49.000 This is hand-to-hand transfers.

00:37:51.000 Not the same thing.

00:37:51.000 Now, you can make the case, by the way, that we should force people to do background checks, I suppose.

00:37:57.000 I think it would be ineffective, but you can make the case.

00:37:59.000 But it has nothing to do with what happened in Vegas.

00:38:01.000 He admitted earlier here that all these guns were basically legally bought.

00:38:04.000 So, again, it doesn't make any sense.

00:38:06.000 It's just him saying that he feels more than you feel, and therefore he knows more than you know.

00:38:11.000 These are the senators who, days after the shooting in Orlando, voted against a bill that would have closed those loopholes.

00:38:17.000 These are the 56 senators who didn't want to do anything about that.

00:38:22.000 90% of Democrats, I'm not talking about politicians here, I'm talking about people, and 77% of Republicans support background checks at gun shows.

00:38:33.000 89% of Republicans and Democrats are in favor of restricting gun ownership for the mentally ill.

00:38:39.000 But not this gang.

00:38:40.000 They voted against both of those things.

00:38:42.000 So, with all due respect, your thoughts and your prayers are insufficient.

00:38:48.000 And, by the way, the House of Representatives will be voting on a piece of legislation... Okay, I have a question.

00:38:52.000 Who died and made Jimmy Kimmel God?

00:38:54.000 Who's Jimmy Kimmel to decide whether your thoughts and your prayers are insufficient?

00:38:58.000 So your thoughts and your prayers are only sufficient if you do what Jimmy Kimmel wants you to do?

00:39:01.000 That's the way this works now?

00:39:03.000 Who died and made him Jesus?

00:39:04.000 Like, really, how did this work exactly?

00:39:06.000 That Jimmy Kimmel gets to be the great moral arbiter of our time, a late-night talk show host who used to host The Man Show with women bouncing on trampolines. 1.00

00:39:13.000 He's now the great arbiter of what constitutes morality in politics, and if you disagree with him, your thoughts and prayers are insufficient.

00:39:20.000 Doesn't matter that you were fervently praying for the victims.

00:39:22.000 Doesn't matter that you were donating your time or your blood.

00:39:24.000 None of that matters.

00:39:25.000 If you disagree with Jimmy Kimmel, what you've done today is insufficient.

00:39:29.000 You must pay. 1.00

00:39:30.000 You will burn in the fiery bowels of Jimmy Kimmel's hell. 1.00

00:39:34.000 Just gross. 1.00

00:39:35.000 This is just gross stuff.

00:39:36.000 Okay, again, I'm not doubting Jimmy Kimmel's sincerity.

00:39:38.000 I believe he is completely sincere.

00:39:40.000 I am doubting whether it is moral to doubt other people's sincerity based on their political viewpoint.

00:39:44.000 He continues.

00:39:45.000 Wait.

00:39:46.000 It's a bill to legalize the sale of silencers for guns.

00:39:50.000 This is what they're working on.

00:39:52.000 We have a major problem with gun violence in this country, and I guess they don't care.

00:39:56.000 And if I'm wrong on that, fine, do something about it, because I'm sick of it.

00:40:01.000 And, you know, I want this to be a comedy.

00:40:02.000 Well, he's sick of it, so I guess we're done here, gang.

00:40:04.000 He's sick of it, so I guess we're done here, gang.

00:40:06.000 I mean, as long as he's sick of it, I guess that those rights just go out the window.

00:40:08.000 Again, he's bringing up silencers and suppressors. 1.00

00:40:11.000 Stupid. 1.00

00:40:12.000 Okay, there is no silencer or suppressor used in this crime, and if you use a suppressor, which is what people who don't know what they're talking about call a silencer, I mean, the opposite. 0.99

00:40:21.000 If you use a silencer, which is what a suppressor is, all it does is it reduces the sound from basically a gunshot to a jackhammer, so it's still incredibly loud.

00:40:31.000 Again, none of this has to do with anything that just happened in Vegas, but Jimmy Kimmel's on a roll now.

00:40:35.000 You know, Bluto's going.

00:40:37.000 Don't let's stop him now.

00:40:38.000 Just let him roll.

00:40:40.000 Again, he's sick of it.

00:40:42.000 He's sick of it.

00:40:42.000 And then he says, and then he talks about how he really wants to do comedy, but he can't because he just feels too much.

00:40:49.000 I hate talking about stuff like this.

00:40:51.000 I just want to, you know, laugh about things every night.

00:40:55.000 But that, it seems to be becoming increasingly difficult lately.

00:41:00.000 It feels like someone has opened a window into hell.

00:41:04.000 And what I'm talking about tonight isn't about gun control.

00:41:08.000 It's about common sense.

00:41:09.000 Common sense says no good will ever come from allowing a person to have weapons that can take down 527 Americans at a concert.

00:41:18.000 Okay, pause it right there.

00:41:19.000 I know some good that can come from those people having weapons.

00:41:22.000 How about the cops who broke down the door so this guy killed himself?

00:41:24.000 They all had these kinds of weapons.

00:41:25.000 All of them.

00:41:26.000 So clearly some people should have these weapons, it's just not you.

00:41:29.000 That's what Kimmel is saying.

00:41:31.000 And he goes on, and we don't have to do the rest of it, but basically, he suggests in the transcript, he says, the NRA fought to make sure that people on the no-fly list can buy guns.

00:41:39.000 Again, Teddy Kennedy was on the no-fly list.

00:41:41.000 The problem with no-fly, no-buy is that the no-fly list was too broad, and again, there is something called due process of law in the United States.

00:41:48.000 He says that no American citizen needs an M16 or 10 of them, okay?

00:41:52.000 Military-grade weaponry is largely illegal for private citizens to own in the United States.

00:41:56.000 We're talking about something with automatic capacity.

00:41:59.000 Machine guns have been banned in the United States since 1986.

00:42:02.000 Any machine gun made after 1986, it's illegal for you to own under federal law.

00:42:07.000 And then he says you should write your congressperson, and you should do something, and then he says he thinks it's important, and he finishes by saying, you know, I think it's important.

00:42:15.000 Okay, well, guess what?

00:42:16.000 We all think it's important.

00:42:18.000 We all think it's important.

00:42:19.000 But you are not an expert just because you feel deeply.

00:42:21.000 You feeling deeply does not make you an expert on a topic.

00:42:24.000 It does not give you the background expertise.

00:42:26.000 It does not give you the statistical expertise to talk about this stuff.

00:42:30.000 Even people who study this stuff make statistical mistakes.

00:42:32.000 I made one earlier today when I tweeted something out and corrected it.

00:42:35.000 The fact is, Jimmy Kimmel doesn't even bother with that kind of research.

00:42:37.000 And the media are cheering him.

00:42:39.000 Why?

00:42:40.000 Because all that matters is the feelings.

00:42:42.000 We can't have a healthy body politic like this.

00:42:44.000 We cannot. 0.98

00:42:45.000 We cannot have a healthy body politic when the suggestion is that people on the other side just don't give a crap about their fellow Americans being shot and murdered in cold blood. 0.96

00:42:53.000 They're just being paid off by the NRA. 0.95

00:42:55.000 That's a recipe for people out in the streets hitting each other with clubs. 0.99

00:42:58.000 That really is.

00:42:59.000 This is a disaster area.

00:43:00.000 Substituting emotion and emotional accusations for discourse that is reasoned and evidence-based is a huge mistake.

00:43:08.000 Jimmy Kimmel should not be cheered for what he did last night.

00:43:10.000 Jimmy Kimmel should be asked to provide the evidence for his suppositions rather than the evidence for his emotions.

00:43:15.000 Again, I believe he's sincere.

00:43:17.000 Sincerity does not make what you're saying smart.

00:43:20.000 Okay, so Democrats are pushing along these same lines, and they are all basically following Jimmy Kimmel's lead now.

00:43:26.000 So we'll have more of this tomorrow.

00:43:27.000 But first, you know, I want to do things I like and things I hate.

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00:44:43.000 Okay, so, a couple of things that I like here.

00:44:46.000 So, first thing that I like, and sometimes you just need a break from the news, obviously, and a book that I've been reading, enjoying at bedtime, there's a book called The Game, Inside the Secrets of Baseball's Power Brokers by John Pesce.

00:44:57.000 I believe he wrote for Sports Illustrated, and it traces basically how baseball was shaped from 1993 to 2010 by Bud Selig and the owners and the players union.

00:45:07.000 It's really fun to read, it's really comprehensive.

00:45:08.000 If you like baseball, you'll like the book.

00:45:10.000 Check it out, The Game by John Pesce.

00:45:12.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:45:13.000 So in a time when we're tearing each other apart, in a time when we are suggesting that we don't care enough about each other, I want to show you this video.

00:45:19.000 This happened about one hour before the shooting in Las Vegas.

00:45:22.000 This is what the concert looked like an hour beforehand when everybody was singing God Bless America together again.

00:45:28.000 This is one hour before the massacre in Vegas.

00:45:43.000 It's just uh, just heartbreaking.

00:45:48.000 Just heartbreaking.

00:46:06.000 You know, that's America. 0.55

00:46:08.000 That's America.

00:46:09.000 It's people like me and Jimmy Kimmel.

00:46:10.000 We disagree on everything, but we get together and we sing God Bless America because we agree that we're brothers at the end of the day.

00:46:16.000 I may be ripping Jimmy Kimmel today because I don't like his implication that people like me don't care enough.

00:46:20.000 But I care what happens to Jimmy Kimmel.

00:46:22.000 I think Jimmy Kimmel cares what happens to me.

00:46:24.000 I think that we both care what happens to Americans when bad things happen.

00:46:27.000 And even if we disagree on the policy, we can still agree that we care for one another enough to live in a free country.

00:46:33.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:46:41.000 Okay, so yesterday the ESPN reversed its decision not to show people standing or kneeling for the anthem.

00:46:49.000 They had said for about a year they weren't going to show the anthem.

00:46:51.000 Last night they reversed themselves because they felt like in the aftermath of the shooting they should show people standing for the anthem as a sign of unity.

00:46:58.000 One NFL player actually sat during the anthem anyway, after the shooting, which is just incredible.

00:47:03.000 The player, of course, was a cornerback named Marcus Peters.

00:47:08.000 And a linebacker named Ukeem Eligwe, I guess.

00:47:11.000 The only two players on either team who decided to sit during the anthem.

00:47:14.000 Here's some video.

00:47:14.000 Here's Marcus Peters sitting during the anthem.

00:47:25.000 Okay, it's at times like this when you see that and you realize, look, the national anthem still is a unifying force.

00:47:31.000 God bless America. 0.99

00:47:32.000 These symbols of unity matter, dammit. 0.98

00:47:34.000 They do matter. 0.98

00:47:35.000 Okay, I think that Marcus Peters probably wants American unity too, but he needs to understand that when he rips symbols of American unity, all he is doing is tearing us apart further.

00:47:43.000 We need these symbols.

00:47:45.000 We need them.

00:47:46.000 They are important.

00:47:47.000 Symbolism matters in every religion, in every political race, in every political, in every republic.

00:47:53.000 Symbols matter.

00:47:55.000 We have to hold something together or we're going to be separated and that's not going to be good.

00:47:58.000 Okay, one more thing that I hate. 1.00

00:48:01.000 There's an actor who tweeted something stupid yesterday. 0.99

00:48:03.000 He tweeted, there's this ridiculous notion from a lot of people now that they should be tweeting things their children say. 1.00

00:48:10.000 It annoys me.

00:48:11.000 So this actor, I guess his name is Boris Kojo.

00:48:13.000 He's on some TV show or another.

00:48:15.000 He says,

00:48:22.000 Okay, so, so many things are wrong with this.

00:48:24.000 First of all, um, you know, whenever people say my kid asked me, usually their kid didn't ask them.

00:48:29.000 But beyond that, let's assume that's right.

00:48:31.000 Why are you lying to your kid?

00:48:32.000 Not anyone in the United States can get a machine gun.

00:48:35.000 Not anyone in the United States can get a machine gun.

00:48:37.000 That's absolute nonsense.

00:48:38.000 Again, it's been federally illegal to get a post-1986 machine gun in the United States since 1986.

00:48:42.000 It's just not the case.

00:48:45.000 Again, emotion overcoming rationality and overcoming evidence is the death of political discourse.

00:48:51.000 Okay.

00:48:52.000 So, it's been a dark day.

00:48:53.000 It's been a very dark week.

00:48:54.000 Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day, and we'll show you all sorts of fun things, including President Trump throwing paper towels at people, I guess, in Puerto Rico.

00:49:02.000 Like, that's a thing that actually happened.

00:49:04.000 We sort of ran out of time today, but I'll show it to you tomorrow.

00:49:06.000 In the meantime, keep safe out there and know that your neighbor loves you, even if you guys disagree on politics, okay?

00:49:12.000 We talk about it every day about the disagreements.

00:49:14.000 Let's talk a little bit about the love.

00:49:15.000 Your neighbor, you know, they may not like you, but they love you.

00:49:18.000 Because we're still all Americans.

00:49:20.000 I will see you tomorrow.

00:49:21.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:49:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 04, 2017

The Jimmy Kimmel Gun Grab | Ep. 394

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