Ben Shapiro goes over Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue on gun control and why he's wrong about a lot of things, including the fact that a semi-automatic gun can't fire bursts. He also asks why the media always jumps to the gun control bandwagon after mass shootings and why it's a bad idea to talk about them. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and The Daily Wire. He's also the host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard and hosts the conservative radio show Accuracy in the Middle East. Ben is a regular contributor to the Daily Wire and has been featured on CBS Radio's Hard Knocks and CNN's Hardline. You can reach Ben at and he also tweets at . His new book, is out now! Click here to buy tickets to his upcoming Las Vegas show on Oct. 10th at 7 PM ET. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends, family, and colleagues. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts! or wherever else you get your news and information, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review the podcast! It helps us spread the word to your friends about what we're talking about! Thank you, and we'll keep on spreading the word about what's going on! everywhere else! Timestamps: 5:00:00 - What are you're listening to this podcast? 6:30 - What do you think about gun control? 7: What would you like to see me talk about? 8: What kind of gun control in the future? 9: What should I be doing? 11:15 - What's your thoughts on the future of guns? 12:00s - Is it a good idea? 13:30s - What does it look like? 15:15s - How do you want to be a gun control plan? 16:40s 17:00 sigs? 18: Is there a better country? 19:00 21:30 szn 22: Does it feel like a good policy? 27:30 23: Is it better? 26: Should I have more guns in my next episode? 25:00 or less? 29:00 +16: Is gun control a good thing? 30s: What do I need to be more realistic?
00:00:00.000The left won't say gun confiscation, but that is what they're talking about.
00:00:03.000We'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.
00:00:18.000Alrighty, so we have a lot to get to today here on the program.
00:00:21.000I'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.
00:00:28.000The Washington Post said that it was just incredibly brave.
00:00:31.000The New York Times said that it was ground-shaking.
00:00:33.000We'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.
00:00:37.000I'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.
00:01:01.000Like, 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?
00:01:10.000Every single pull of the trigger means a single firing of the bullet.
00:01:13.000That means that you're not allowed to fire bursts from, like, a normal AR-15, a burst of three.
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00:02:37.000I 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.
00:02:49.000The media never talk about gun control outside the context of a mass shooting.
00:02:53.000Now, some of that is just opportunism.
00:02:56.000Some of that is, well, we think that this is a good time to talk about it because everybody's talking about guns right now.
00:03:01.000But weekend after weekend, you'll have mass numbers of people being shot in Chicago and no talk about national gun control.
00:03:07.000So why is it that they always do it with regard to mass shootings?
00:03:11.000Especially because mass shootings represent a tiny, tiny, minute percentage of the number of shootings every year in the United States.
00:03:17.000According 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.
00:03:27.000The 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.
00:03:31.000The way that Mother Jones measures it, and Mother Jones is a lefty magazine, but they're intellectually honest about this,
00:03:36.000The 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.
00:03:46.000So that's how you or I would tend to think of a mass shooting.
00:03:48.000This is why when you see these stats about hundreds of mass shootings, you're thinking, no, that's not right.
00:03:52.000Because what you're thinking about what the media are saying are two different things.
00:03:57.000With that said, the number of mass shootings every year in the United States is actually quite low.
00:04:02.000So, in 2015, Mark Fulman of Mother Jones, he came up with four.
00:04:19.000So the number of mass shooting deaths in 2015 were 0.3% of all gun-related homicides in the United States.
00:04:26.000The same sort of percentage holds true today.
00:04:29.000So, 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?
00:06:57.000Okay, so here is a chart showing you which countries have really high suicide rates.
00:07:02.000So 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.
00:07:08.000Here are countries that have higher suicide rates.
00:08:19.000There is a correlation in the United States between gun increase and suicide increase, but there is no correlation between gun increase and murder increase.
00:08:28.000So what you're seeing here is a reflection of the suicide increase.
00:08:54.000It 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.
00:09:11.000There are some states right here in the middle that look a little bit higher, but you know,
00:09:15.000Again, there is no correlation at all here, and to suggest that there is, is really incorrect.
00:09:20.000And 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.
00:09:31.000And here you see that the District of Columbia is far and away, far and away, the state that has the most firearm murder.
00:09:38.000Notice that the states that have the most firearm murder also have big cities in them.
00:09:42.000So except for New York, which has a pretty low firearms murder rate,
00:09:46.000Every area in the United States, 60% of all murder in the United States happens in, I believe, the top 50 metro areas.
00:10:23.000Or they're like you, and they're buying five guns.
00:10:25.000But, the number of firearms per person has risen, and the gun homicides have completely fallen off.
00:10:32.000The gun homicides have fallen dramatically.
00:10:35.000So, 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.
00:10:44.000Before 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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00:11:53.000So, we were talking about why is it that the media focus in on mass shootings when mass shootings are such a minority of shootings.
00:11:58.000So, the first reason is because they believe that they can use the emotional baggage from mass shootings in order to promote a particular agenda.
00:12:05.000The second reason is because the type of gun in mass shootings differs wildly from the type of gun that's used in most homicides.
00:12:12.000So, in most homicides, what's used is a handgun, right?
00:12:16.000In mass shootings, it tends to be a rifle.
00:12:18.000The left likes to target rifles because rifles look scarier and fewer people own them.
00:12:22.000Many, many, many more people own handguns than own rifles in the United States.
00:12:25.000And 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.
00:12:31.000Instead, they like to focus in on the scary ones, the assault rifles, right?
00:12:36.000Well, you can't do that if you look at the overall murder rate.
00:12:39.000The 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.
00:12:55.000Again, it's also worth noting that they like to cherry pick.
00:12:58.000So the reason they pick mass shootings as the basis for their arguments is because the evidence for gun control is strongest on mass shootings.
00:13:04.000The reason being the sample size is really, really small.
00:13:06.000The number of mass shootings generally across the world is not particularly high.
00:13:10.000So 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.
00:13:19.000Okay, but the sample size is just too small.
00:13:22.000Australia's gun ban was followed by elimination of mass shootings.
00:13:24.000The UK has seen about three since 1980 after its gun ban, but it wasn't like they were seeing them every week before that.
00:13:32.000And 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.
00:13:42.000Mass shootings are very often carried out by people who are mentally ill, who have serious problems.
00:13:46.000If 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?
00:13:52.000Because I'm not a gang member, I want to defend myself.
00:14:03.000The problem is the vast majority of murders in the United States are not by mentally ill people, obviously.
00:14:07.000So 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.
00:14:23.000So, 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.
00:14:33.000They 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.
00:14:37.000One is, there's a law called 18 U.S.C.
00:14:40.000922 G. That is a provision in federal law that prevents firearms, federally licensed firearms dealers, from selling to mentally ill people.
00:14:49.000One 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.
00:14:59.000In 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.
00:15:07.000That's a situation where we should look into it.
00:15:10.000That 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.
00:15:24.000The key word there is without due process.
00:15:29.000Before, it was, if they even suspect, right?
00:15:32.000If 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.
00:15:39.000The bill says, no, we actually have to adjudicate that you're incompetent before we can take away your gun.
00:16:36.000Here's what footage of a bump stock looks like.
00:16:38.000This is what, apparently, the shooter in Vegas was using.
00:16:46.000So as you can see, the front of the gun is moving, right?
00:16:49.000The 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.
00:16:59.000So it fires like a fully automatic weapon.
00:17:02.000If 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.
00:17:19.000It's very easy to make it on like a 3D printer or something.
00:17:22.000So 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.
00:17:28.000Here's another thing that I believe they've already outlawed.
00:17:32.000So 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.
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00:18:01.000The Auto Glove creates an experience like no other.
00:18:05.000Now you can experience simulated automatic rates of fire with all your semi-automatic pistols, rifles, and shotguns.
00:18:19.000As 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.
00:18:26.000So it essentially fires it like an automatic.
00:18:29.000That, I believe, was outlawed by ATF last year.
00:18:31.000If not, then I believe it was already in the works, that being done.
00:18:35.000Now, will any of this stop mass shootings?
00:18:37.000No, it's not going to stop mass shootings.
00:18:38.000Three out of the last four mass shootings have been perpetrated with semi-automatic weapons.
00:18:42.000But 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.
00:20:40.000But again, he makes it about the emotional appeal and not about the facts.
00:20:42.000So 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.
00:20:54.000That's not what people on the left do.
00:20:55.000They do what Piers Morgan does, which is they say, look at all the horror.
00:21:17.000They're all trying to compete with each other to out left themselves, to demonstrate how culturally relevant they are.
00:21:22.000Trevor 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.
00:21:37.000What'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.
00:21:47.000I almost know how it's going to play out.
00:21:50.000We'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.
00:22:03.000We seem to do everything to avoid talking about guns.
00:22:07.000I've never been to a country where people are as afraid to... Okay, I just have a question.
00:22:16.000I mean, Democrats have been talking incessantly about guns for years.
00:22:20.000Barack Obama gave dozens of speeches about guns.
00:22:22.000Barack Obama went to Arizona after the Gabby Giffords shooting and did a speech about guns.
00:22:26.000He gave a speech where he cried about guns, right?
00:22:28.000We've been talking about guns for years.
00:22:30.000But Stephen Colbert does the same thing, right?
00:22:32.000He says, well, you know, the real problem here is that people just don't have common sense about guns.
00:22:35.000In order for you to have common sense about a subject, let me just say something about common sense.
00:22:39.000In order for you to have common sense about a subject, first you have to know what the hell you're talking about.
00:22:44.000Hey, common sense doesn't just come along in the wind.
00:22:47.000If you don't know how a gun operates, then you don't get to talk about common sense gun solutions.
00:22:51.000If 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.
00:23:03.000That's not common sense, that's just you being dumb because you don't know what you're saying.
00:23:06.000But here is Colbert talking about common sense gun control, presumably as his studio is guarded by a bunch of very heavily armed men.
00:23:14.000And 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.
00:24:39.000With 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.
00:24:48.000So 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.
00:25:46.000Here we are again in the aftermath of another
00:25:51.000Terrible, inexplicable, shocking and painful tragedy, this time in Las Vegas, which happens to be my hometown and Cleto's hometown, Cleto Sr.'
00:26:02.000And as you know, at least 59 people are dead.
00:26:06.000Hundreds 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.
00:26:14.000deadliest 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
00:26:41.000Luke Combs, who is here with us tonight, he played the show, too.
00:26:44.000And obviously, no one could have ever expected that something terrible would happen, but it did.
00:26:49.000A 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.
00:27:01.000And as a result of that, this morning, we have children without parents and
00:27:10.000Fathers without sons, mothers without daughters.
00:27:28.000Some of us show it more on the surface than others, but what he is saying is obviously true.
00:27:32.000But 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.
00:27:52.000All 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.
00:29:09.000And 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.
00:29:20.000But I disagree with that intensely, because of course there's something we can do about it.
00:29:24.000There are a lot of things we can do about it.
00:29:27.000But 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.
00:29:38.000But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there's nothing we can do about that.
00:30:08.000Beyond 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.
00:30:16.000So 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
00:30:54.000Okay, 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?
00:31:17.000Civilian guns are very different from military-issue guns.
00:31:21.000For 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.
00:31:41.000Hawkins over at Breitbart has a good roundup of people who have used ARs for self-defense.
00:31:46.000It happens on a relatively frequent basis.
00:31:49.000But, 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.
00:31:58.000Large numbers of people in the shortest possible amount of time.
00:32:01.000This guy reportedly had 10 of them in his room, apparently legally.
00:32:05.000At least some of them were there legally.
00:33:03.000The 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.
00:33:10.000Not because the NRA is bribing people.
00:33:13.000Democrats 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.
00:33:21.000Okay, 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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00:34:40.000So Kimmel continues along these lines.
00:34:42.000And you just, again, all of this is ignorant.
00:34:43.000None of it is based on knowledge about guns or firearms or any of this stuff.
00:34:47.000But this is what passes for brilliance and common sense in Hollywood.
00:34:51.000House 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.
00:34:58.000And I don't know, we have 59 innocent people dead.
00:35:19.000Okay, so again, this is like number—lie number eight in this—in this little monologue.
00:35:23.000So, number one, again, this idea that people don't care and that's why they don't want to talk policy.
00:35:27.000Maybe 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.
00:35:35.000So, the bill, again, that Trump signed back in February did not—it was backed by the ACLU—it did not, in fact,
00:35:42.000Make it easier for mentally ill people to purchase guns.
00:35:44.000It 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.
00:35:54.000Okay, you don't just get to take somebody's gun away because you're afraid that they may be mentally ill.
00:35:58.000You actually have to show they're mentally ill before you take their gun away.
00:36:01.000People who are, you know, people in the United States still have rights until due process goes through.
00:36:05.000Okay, time for a few more falsehoods from Jimmy Kimmel.
00:36:08.000The 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.
00:36:19.000The idea that the NRA has anybody's balls in a money clip is just not true.
00:36:24.000Their 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.
00:36:31.000The NRA is not bribing Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
00:36:35.000Again, this is just him attributing bad motives to these politicians.
00:36:38.000They don't really believe what they believe, you see.
00:36:40.000They just don't care enough, and they'd rather be paid blood money for dead people in Las Vegas.
00:37:37.000The same law is on the books now that was on the books 50 years ago.
00:37:40.000If 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,
00:38:06.000It's just him saying that he feels more than you feel, and therefore he knows more than you know.
00:38:11.000These are the senators who, days after the shooting in Orlando, voted against a bill that would have closed those loopholes.
00:38:17.000These are the 56 senators who didn't want to do anything about that.
00:38:22.00090% of Democrats, I'm not talking about politicians here, I'm talking about people, and 77% of Republicans support background checks at gun shows.
00:38:33.00089% of Republicans and Democrats are in favor of restricting gun ownership for the mentally ill.
00:39:04.000Like, really, how did this work exactly?
00:39:06.000That 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.
00:39:13.000He's now the great arbiter of what constitutes morality in politics, and if you disagree with him, your thoughts and prayers are insufficient.
00:39:20.000Doesn't matter that you were fervently praying for the victims.
00:39:22.000Doesn't matter that you were donating your time or your blood.
00:40:12.000Okay, 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.
00:40:21.000If 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.
00:40:31.000Again, none of this has to do with anything that just happened in Vegas, but Jimmy Kimmel's on a roll now.
00:41:31.000And 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.
00:41:39.000Again, Teddy Kennedy was on the no-fly list.
00:41:41.000The 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.
00:41:48.000He says that no American citizen needs an M16 or 10 of them, okay?
00:41:52.000Military-grade weaponry is largely illegal for private citizens to own in the United States.
00:41:56.000We're talking about something with automatic capacity.
00:41:59.000Machine guns have been banned in the United States since 1986.
00:42:02.000Any machine gun made after 1986, it's illegal for you to own under federal law.
00:42:07.000And 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.
00:42:45.000We 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.
00:42:53.000They're just being paid off by the NRA.
00:42:55.000That's a recipe for people out in the streets hitting each other with clubs.
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00:44:43.000Okay, so, a couple of things that I like here.
00:44:46.000So, 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.
00:44:57.000I 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.
00:45:07.000It's really fun to read, it's really comprehensive.
00:45:08.000If you like baseball, you'll like the book.
00:45:13.000So 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.
00:45:19.000This happened about one hour before the shooting in Las Vegas.
00:45:22.000This is what the concert looked like an hour beforehand when everybody was singing God Bless America together again.
00:45:28.000This is one hour before the massacre in Vegas.
00:46:10.000We 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.
00:46:16.000I may be ripping Jimmy Kimmel today because I don't like his implication that people like me don't care enough.
00:46:20.000But I care what happens to Jimmy Kimmel.
00:46:22.000I think Jimmy Kimmel cares what happens to me.
00:46:24.000I think that we both care what happens to Americans when bad things happen.
00:46:27.000And even if we disagree on the policy, we can still agree that we care for one another enough to live in a free country.
00:46:33.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:41.000Okay, so yesterday the ESPN reversed its decision not to show people standing or kneeling for the anthem.
00:46:49.000They had said for about a year they weren't going to show the anthem.
00:46:51.000Last 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.
00:46:58.000One NFL player actually sat during the anthem anyway, after the shooting, which is just incredible.
00:47:03.000The player, of course, was a cornerback named Marcus Peters.
00:47:08.000And a linebacker named Ukeem Eligwe, I guess.
00:47:11.000The only two players on either team who decided to sit during the anthem.
00:47:35.000Okay, 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.
00:48:54.000Hopefully, 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.
00:49:02.000Like, that's a thing that actually happened.
00:49:04.000We sort of ran out of time today, but I'll show it to you tomorrow.
00:49:06.000In the meantime, keep safe out there and know that your neighbor loves you, even if you guys disagree on politics, okay?
00:49:12.000We talk about it every day about the disagreements.
00:49:14.000Let's talk a little bit about the love.
00:49:15.000Your neighbor, you know, they may not like you, but they love you.