In the aftermath of a mass shooting in Colorado, the left trots out its usual propaganda about gun control and whiteness, but the evidence just isn t there. Plus, Joe Biden pushing massive change. But just how fast is too fast? Ben Shapiro explains why the gun control call from the left is based on emotional appeals, not logic and reason, and why there is no evidence that gun control works in a country that already has 300 million guns in circulation. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. You have a right to privacy. Defend your rights. At ExpressVPN, you can get a free, secure VPN service that allows you to access your most private information, including passwords, banking, and other sensitive data, at no extra fee. Use the promo code: PGPodcasts to get 20% off your first month with discount code PGPUNIVERSAL at checkout. PGP is the most popular VPN service in the entire world, and is the best way to access the most up-to-date and comprehensive library of all of the latest and the latest privacy tools, including the latest in the newest technologies and privacy tools available to protect your most precious data, including your favorite apps and social media platforms. If you don t already use PGP, you ll save $200 by becoming a patron patron! and get 10% off the entire PGP membership when you sign up for PGPardless! You ll get 15% off for the first month, plus an additional $5,000 when you upgrade your membership gets $50 or more, plus a FREE 3 months of PGP gets you get an ad-free version of the service, and a FREE 7GB of the PGPOSSIBLE, and PGPONION gets $25,000 gets you a year, plus I ll get $50,000, and I ll give you an extra $10,000 off my first month gets you an ad discount when you become a patron gets an ad on the entire course gets a course that gets me a course starting in the course gets $4, plus $4 VIP membership, I ll also get $4 GB gets a $4MB, and they get $5MB gets you $4 MB gets $5 GB4 VIP gets an entire course, and you get a $5 MB gets a FREE PRIVATE PROFESSIONAL PROMO, AND I ll receive an ad, AND a FREE FIBERPRODE?
00:01:41.000Every time there is a mass shooting, and that mass shooting particularly is a mass shooting that cannot be blamed on white supremacy, they make it about gun control, right?
00:01:52.000So there's a certain formula the left likes to use.
00:01:54.000If a mass shooting is performed by a person who is not white, they talk about gun control.
00:01:59.000If the mass shooting is performed by a person who is white, they talk about white supremacy with like a little taste of gun control.
00:02:05.000Well, right now, it turns out that the shooter in this particular case was not white.
00:02:08.000He was apparently a Syrian immigrant who had serious mental illness problems.
00:02:13.000And so this became immediately a call for gun control.
00:02:17.000And understand that the call for gun control for the media is based on emotional appeal.
00:02:22.000It is not based on a factually reasoned argument in favor of gun control, why gun control would work in a country that already has 300 million guns in circulation.
00:02:29.000It is not a case that makes any sort of logical sense, any evidentiary sense.
00:02:34.000Instead, it is a case that is solely and completely driven by a desire to cram down a moral premise on the rest of the world, which is that if you disagree with the left, then this means that in some way you're morally deficient.
00:02:45.000This is the case members of the media make, and the way they make it is by getting very emotional on TV.
00:02:50.000Now, I'm not denying that people on TV, the people you watch every night, get emotional about stories.
00:02:55.000All I'm pointing out is that they only get emotional about certain stories, right?
00:02:59.000They don't get emotional every time they talk about violence in Chicago over the weekend, which they barely talk about at all.
00:03:04.000And there's ongoing violence in Chicago every weekend.
00:03:07.000Dozens of people shot every single weekend in Chicago, and they don't seem to care very much about that.
00:03:11.000You don't see people welling up on TV over that.
00:03:13.000But every time there's a mass shooting, That is not to be blamed on sort of the regular dose of violence that you see in America's major cities.
00:03:20.000If we're not talking about the increased murder rate around America's major cities, that is largely driven by lack of police, then they start to get very emotional.
00:03:28.000So you'll see anchors get very emotional about the George Floyd situation, but you won't see anchors get emotional about small children being shot in the middle of gangland wars in Chicago or Washington DC or Los Angeles.
00:03:39.000And you won't see anybody mourn the folks who are dying because there's lack of police in these cities.
00:03:46.000Again, the emotion can be genuine and also part of the agenda.
00:03:48.000I'm not questioning the genuineness of the CNN anchors when they get very sad about mass shootings, because we should all be very sad about mass shootings.
00:03:54.000All I'm pointing out is the performative sadness that you see on your nightly newscast is in fact connected to a political agenda.
00:04:02.000What they choose to air in terms of their own emotional vulnerability is deeply connected to the idea that if you don't agree with them on policy, it's because you aren't caring.
00:04:12.000And that's what happened last night on CNN.
00:04:14.000You had Brianna Keller of CNN and Stephanie Elam near tears on CNN over the mass shooting.
00:04:20.000Again, I'm not doubting the sincerity of their emotion.
00:04:22.000I'm just pointing out that the emotion only appears on TV with regard to particular kinds of stories because it is being used as a wedge in order to suggest that if you don't agree with CNN's preferred solutions, you just don't care enough about bad things happening.
00:04:37.000You know, Stephanie, as I'm hearing you report this, I just wonder, can you count how many times you've covered a story like this?
00:04:53.000It makes me sad to even sit here and think about that, Brianna, that there's been so many times that we have had to go out and cover these stories and talk to people who are devastated.
00:05:06.000In the United States every year, there are over 19,000 homicides in the United States every single year.
00:05:10.000The number of people who are killed in mass shootings in the United States every year Is generally, I mean, any number, any one of these is obviously a tragedy.
00:05:20.000OK, but the number of people who are killed in mass shootings of this kind, these sort of spectacular on TV blanket coverage mass shootings, it's probably not even 100 a year in terms of these kinds of shootings.
00:05:32.000Okay, but the way that the media treat these shootings, as opposed to the other 19,000 homicides that happen every single year in the United States, does tell you something about their approach to these issues.
00:05:44.000So the left will tell you, for example, that the right focuses, when there's a terror attack, the right will focus far too much on the terror attacks because your risk of actually dying in a terror attack is pretty low.
00:05:52.000Your risk of dying in a mass shooting in a country of 330 million people is actually quite low.
00:05:58.000Okay, your risk of being killed in a generalized homicide is higher.
00:06:01.000Even that is pretty low in the United States, which is overall a pretty safe country.
00:06:06.000But the way the media cover this stuff is to suggest that these particular shootings are a grave threat to every single American citizen.
00:06:14.000This is anecdotal data being presented as systemic data, in the same way that the George Floyd death was presented as systemic police violence, even though we don't know that it actually was racist, even though we still have to find out whether it was, in fact, a homicide or not.
00:06:32.000That was presented as systemic, even though the data don't support that.
00:06:36.000Mass shootings are presented as systemic, even though the data really don't support that.
00:06:40.000And not only that, because they are presented as systemic, the idea is that this is a high priority for the United States, and it requires massive restrictions.
00:06:47.000In order to massively restrict the individual rights of Americans to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment, you have to say that this is such a grave threat to the life and liberty of Americans that it justifies an encroachment on one of the fundamental rights held by 330 million Americans.
00:07:01.000And so you have to say that the threat is supremely grave.
00:07:04.000Not just that these incidents are acts of evil, that the people who commit them should be punished, that we should take every measure available without invading individual rights in order to stop them.
00:07:13.000Because what the left wants to do here is to invade your rights.
00:07:17.000And so what you have is the media attempting to play up the idea that this stuff is happening like all the time in the United States.
00:07:23.000So you have a piece from Philip Bump over at the Washington Post that says, the mass shooting in Colorado is probably only one of scores that have occurred during your lifetime.
00:07:31.000He says it is with some grim irony that the United States had relatively few mass shootings last year.
00:07:35.000The country had been averaging about seven such events annually since 2012, using the Washington Post's relatively conservative definition of such incidents as those in which four or more people are killed.
00:07:44.000In 2020, there were only five, but then much of the country spent a decent part of the year isolated from one another and out of school because of the COVID pandemic.
00:07:51.000Okay, so, number one, if a country averages seven incidents annually, this is according to the Washington Post, since 2012, in a country of 330 million people, that does not present a systemic risk to every American sufficient to justify a gun seizure on hundreds of millions of Americans, obviously.
00:08:07.000So instead, what you'll see is playing with the data.
00:08:09.000Because there are certain places the media can't go here.
00:08:11.000If they were to talk about the generalized homicide problem in the United States, which actually is a broader risk to Americans, they would have to talk about the need for more police.
00:08:18.000That's not a solution they want to talk about.
00:08:20.000If they were to talk about where the risk of homicide is highest, they would have to talk about the fact that it is not being driven by quote-unquote Trumpian white supremacy, but that it is being driven by gangland violence and broken families and real problems that exist in America's major cities and that are exacerbated by lack of police.
00:08:36.000That gun control in the middle of rural America would not actually stop this stuff.
00:08:39.000So they pick a specific subset, a certain type of shooting, and then they declare that that type of shooting is the highest priority to stop for some yet-to-be-explained reason, as opposed to the other 19,000 homicides that occur every year in the United States.
00:08:51.000And then they say that you are bad and unsympathetic if you don't agree with their solution to a problem that, on the list of problems facing everyday Americans, is not number one, it's not number two, it's probably not number ten.
00:09:03.000Okay, it is, again, every one of these incidents is a tragedy.
00:09:07.000That does not mean that the tragedy is sufficient to justify the seizure of guns from some hundreds of millions of Americans or banning the ability of Americans to obtain weapons to defend themselves, their rights, and their families.
00:09:18.000So, you will see a couple of tricks that are played here.
00:09:20.000One is the idea that Europe doesn't have stuff like this.
00:09:23.000That Europe doesn't have mass shootings like this.
00:09:25.000The United States is the only place on Earth that has mass shootings like this.
00:09:31.000There is some level of truth to that, but not as much truth as the left would have you believe.
00:09:36.000The idea here is that somehow gun control is the real solution here.
00:09:42.000The reality is that some of the safest states in America have extraordinary levels of gun ownership.
00:09:46.000Vermont has extraordinary levels of gun ownership, very lax gun laws.
00:09:50.000And yet Vermont happens to have pretty much no murder.
00:09:53.000Chicago has extremely onerous gun regulations and very high levels of murder.
00:09:57.000Washington DC has extremely onerous gun regulations.
00:09:59.000Baltimore has extremely onerous gun regulations and very high levels of murder.
00:10:04.000So the correlation just doesn't even hold as far as that goes.
00:10:08.000But the Washington Post, I mean, by the way, Philip Bump will even acknowledge this in paragraph, what, six of this piece?
00:10:15.000He says, it's important to maintain perspective.
00:10:17.000Mass shootings are the cause of only small percentages of death in the United States, and only a small percentage of gun deaths, most of which are suicides.
00:10:24.000No other country experiences such incidents at the same rate as the United States, and the shootings play a disproportionate role in our culture, both because of the fear they invoke and the complicated systems we've developed to prepare for them.
00:10:34.000Okay, well, but that's being driven by the outsized media coverage.
00:10:38.000One of the things we do here at The Daily Wire is we don't cover the names of shooters because we don't actually want to incentivize shooters who believe that they're going to get famous off the back of this sort of stuff.
00:10:46.000I wish members of the media would do the same.
00:10:49.000But it is, I mean, Bump here is acknowledging that this is the number one story at The Washington Post, right, is the importance of gun control, this particular shooting.
00:10:59.000And the reason for that is because they want these shootings to play a disproportionate role in our culture because they justify the kinds of policies that they're looking for.
00:11:06.000Again, if they were to focus on the broader murder problem in the United States, they would recognize heavy gun controls in major cities have not stopped the murder problem.
00:11:12.000You know what stops the murder problem in America's major cities, which is predominantly where these murders happen?
00:11:19.000So they've got a couple of priorities.
00:11:21.000One, you can't have any sort of reportage that leads to the Objectively true conclusion that we need more cops?
00:11:30.000You can only have reportage that leads to the conclusion that happens to be wrong, that gun control is justified.
00:11:36.000And you need an emotional response that is broadcast on the air by pretty much everybody, because that emotional response is an attempt to say to everybody that if you disagree with us, it's because you just don't care enough.
00:11:47.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:11:48.000The emotion can be genuine on the part of the left, and also, the genuine emotion is rather selective in its application to particular circumstances.
00:11:57.000So as Philip Bump says, he says, let's conduct an experiment.
00:12:00.000If you had to guess, how many mass shootings would you estimate have occurred in your lifetime?
00:12:04.000See how close you were to the actual number.
00:12:21.000You cannot say that incidents that happen seven times a year on average since 2012 are quote-unquote extraordinarily pervasive across time in a country of 330 million people.
00:12:30.000This is not to downplay the evil at all.
00:12:33.000This is to point out the statistical rarity of events like this, which is why they make the front pages.
00:12:39.000Hey, and this is all part of a broader agenda, right?
00:12:41.000Because the Washington Post has a piece today by Adam Taylor and Amanda Coletta, same day as the Philip bump.
00:12:46.000I mean, they're right next to each other on the Washington Post website that says, here's how other countries have responded to mass shootings.
00:12:52.000And of course, the answer is they banned a bunch of guns because this is what the media would like.
00:12:56.000The media are pushing this stuff extremely, extremely hard.
00:13:00.000In Britain, they decided that they were essentially going to collect firearms.
00:13:08.000The 1997 Firearms Act ended up restricting ownership of almost all handguns.
00:13:12.000The Washington Post isn't just reporting on this, because that's not New Reportage.
00:13:22.000So now they're just reporting what other countries have done to remind you that we could do the same here.
00:13:26.000And presumably that would lead to this giant decrease in mass shootings, except for the fact that the baseline level of mass shootings in these countries was also rare.
00:14:08.000We have a different calculation of risk, reward, and rights in the United States than they do in many of these other countries where the government is overbearing or public safety is, in some cases, much more problematic.
00:14:19.000For example, the rape rates in Great Britain are apparently significantly higher than they are in the United States.
00:14:25.000In part, because in the United States, a lot of women own guns.
00:14:27.000You wanna know the great equalizer for women in the United States?
00:14:30.000The same people who will say that America has a deep and abiding rape culture in which women are in constant danger of men, wants to take guns away from women.
00:14:36.000You're gonna have to explain that one to me.
00:14:38.000It also happens to be statistically untrue that the United States leads the world in mass shootings.
00:14:44.000According to John Miltimore, writing for the Free Enterprise, for the Foundation for Economic Education, He says, the dominant narrative is that we as a country have to reckon with the fact that mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.
00:15:03.000John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the U.S.
00:15:06.000trails many other advanced nations in mass shooting frequency as well as death rate.
00:15:10.000If you compare the annual death rate from mass public shootings between the United States and other countries from January 2009 to December of 2015, Norway ranks one, then Serbia, France, Macedonia, Albania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Czech Republic, and then the United States.
00:15:24.000And when it comes to the frequency of mass public shootings, the ranking goes Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Switzerland, Norway, Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, France, and then the United States.
00:15:49.000So the way that you increase the bar for how many mass shootings happen in the United States is by decreasing the number of people who are shot in a mass shooting.
00:15:57.000But the problem is once you do that, you then have to go into the type of crime that is actually being committed.
00:16:02.000If you set the numbers for mass shootings at like two or three people, you're going to include a lot of gangland violence.
00:16:08.000And then that completely screws up the left's narrative, because the left's narrative is that it is basically white people with long guns who are committing a huge number of these mass shootings.
00:16:15.000And on the homicide rate, that actually is just not true, which ties into the second narrative, which we are going to get to in just one moment.
00:16:20.000And the media jumped into this one, I mean, completely unprepared for the reality of the situation.
00:16:25.000And that is every mass shooting is a white guy.
00:17:57.000Okay, so in the aftermath of this particular shooting in Colorado.
00:18:00.000And remember, this comes in the aftermath of this awful shooting in Atlanta, where a white guy shot eight people, including six Asian Americans.
00:18:07.000And the media immediately, without any evidence, declared this as evidence of broader Trumpian white supremacy.
00:18:12.000Again, evidence that this is a hate crime?
00:18:14.000Still completely absent in that particular case.
00:18:19.000You'd figure you probably have found it by now, if you were looking for it.
00:18:23.000But the media immediately jumped to the conclusion, after the Colorado shooting, the identity of the shooter was not immediately released to the media.
00:18:32.000And the pattern in the media tends to be that when the shooter is white, this is why conservatives held off on this.
00:18:37.000When the shooter is white, the identity is immediately released to the media, generally.
00:18:43.000Almost immediately, like within a couple of hours.
00:18:45.000Because once the guy's in custody, you got the guy in custody.
00:18:48.000So then it's just a question of when the police decide to reveal the identity of the person in custody.
00:18:52.000When the person is non-white, not only will the police wait on actually breaking the news, the media will then downplay exactly the race or ethnicity of the person.
00:18:59.000Because again, all of this plays into broader narratives about what the country should do, not with regard to things like immigration or things like race, God forbid, but what the country should do with regard to things like more policing, what sort of measures should be taken.
00:19:11.000But for the left, because every problem in America can be attributed to quote-unquote white supremacy and whiteness, they immediately jumped into the story and got the story completely wrong.
00:19:19.000You have to understand that for the left right now, whiteness is what atheists say about religious people.
00:19:36.000So quantum mechanics happens, and it completely throws off some Einsteinian theories about how the universe works, and religious believers will go, ah, God.
00:19:45.000And atheists will say, no, that's not God.
00:19:47.000You just don't understand how that works.
00:19:49.000And God doesn't necessarily fill in that gap, right?
00:19:52.000Okay, well, for the left, They have whiteness and white supremacy of the gaps.
00:19:56.000If there is a story they don't like, they just explain it with regard to whiteness.
00:20:00.000We saw this with regard to discrimination against Asian Americans.
00:20:04.000If black Americans are beating up Asian Americans in disproportionate numbers, that is because of white supremacy and America's systems of power.
00:20:09.000If Asian Americans are succeeding too well in the system, that's because Asian Americans are buying into systems of white supremacy.
00:20:15.000And if white people are targeting Asian Americans, that's also because of white supremacy.
00:20:19.000So no matter what, the grand unifying field theory of American politics for the left is white supremacy.
00:20:23.000So they tried to apply this without evidence to the Colorado shooting.
00:20:35.000And it turns out that mass shooters are not always white.
00:20:37.000In fact, according to Statista, of the 120 or so mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and March 2021, about half of them are done by white people.
00:20:47.000But the other half are not done by white people, which is roughly the racial distribution of the United States generally.
00:20:56.000And so that myth is just not true in the first place, that all mass shooters are white.
00:20:59.000And that is something that is promulgated by the media because the media wishes to suggest that white people with guns present the true threat to the United States.
00:21:08.000And blue checkmarks jumped into this immediately.
00:21:12.000They started jumping into this, like, right away.
00:21:13.000They started tweeting out over and over and over that the shooter was white, and this just demonstrates that America is a white supremacist country.
00:21:19.000And also, because the police arrested this guy after wounding him, as opposed to just shooting him dead, that's because they liked him.
00:21:35.000But you have some comment, some blue check, Julie DeCaro, who wrote, extremely tired of people's lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.
00:21:45.000We have Alex Cole tweeting out, a white man walked into a grocery store in Boulder, not true, killed 10 people and was apprehended by the police and walked out of the building completely unharmed.
00:21:54.000Right down the street, police killed Elijah McClain while he apologized for not doing anything wrong.
00:22:11.000I believe it's being brought as a homicide case right now.
00:22:13.000But what these two things have to do with each other, the answer is nothing.
00:22:16.000Kasim Rashid, Esquire, another blue check, he tweeted out, Beyond infuriating that the Colorado terrorist killed a cop but was arrested alive while cops shot Tamir Rice dead for holding a toy because the cop feared for his life, how is an unarmed black child more frightening than a grown white male mass murderer?
00:22:38.000Okay, so this is just the narrative that builds up every time, right?
00:22:40.000When the shooter in Charleston Well, the police tried to arrest a lot of people without killing them.
00:22:55.000If the police killed everybody who presented a general threat to the public, there'd be a lot more dead people in the United States, of all races.
00:23:05.000White supremacy is the answer, even if it's clearly not white supremacy, as we'll see in a second.
00:23:09.000Michael Harriot of The Root, who's just awful, he tweeted out, pointing out how white suspects get the benefit of the doubt without being stopped, frisked, beaten, shot, or killed is not a call for harsh treatment.
00:23:17.000It simply means we know cops are capable of treating people humanely, just not us.
00:23:22.000Y'all could use a few more ass whoopings, though.
00:23:28.000First of all, there is tape of white people being beat to death by police officers unjustifiably or shot unjustifiably by the police.
00:23:36.000In fact, there are studies done, it says that actually police tend to disproportionately shoot white suspects in dangerous situations as opposed to black suspects in situations.
00:23:46.000And that does not matter apparently at all.
00:23:48.000Not only does that not matter, it does not matter that the suspect in this case was not white.
00:23:54.000The suspect, Kamala Harris' niece, tweeted out about this and actually had to delete her own tweet about the white shooter.
00:23:59.000She tweeted out, the Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.
00:24:01.000Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.
00:24:04.000Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.
00:24:07.000And then she tweeted out, I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting.
00:24:11.000I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive.
00:24:13.000And the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the United States are carried out by white men.
00:24:17.000Okay, so in other words, you made an assumption about some shooting based on general racial statistics?
00:24:38.000The majority of people who live in this country are white, which means that for virtually any stat you can choose, the majority of people who do it are white.
00:25:03.000Okay, so as it turns out, all of this immediately fell apart because, unfortunately for the left-wing narrative about how whiteness is the greatest threat to America, This particular gunman happened not to be white.
00:26:08.000And the left never acknowledges its own hypocrisy on this score.
00:26:11.000Ilhan Omar had just the best set of tweets on this.
00:26:13.000So Ilhan Omar tweeted out two things, right?
00:26:16.000So, a week ago, after the Atlanta shooting, Ilhan Omar tweeted out, And then, like, a week later, Ilhan Omar tweeted out, The shooters race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren't.
00:26:59.000Notice that when the left uses racism as a charge, or when they bring up white supremacy as a charge, all of this seems to be politically motivated.
00:27:12.000They can charge their opponents with racism and then be as racist as they could possibly want to be, even if the evidence doesn't back the position.
00:27:19.000This is twice in the course of two weeks that the left got the narrative completely wrong, and it's still gonna be rammed down America's throat.
00:27:25.000In Atlanta, the narrative was that it was white supremacy that was behind the shooting and that it was connected to Trump and the Wuhan virus and all of this kind of stuff.
00:27:42.000Whatever is the brick bat at hand, you have to use it.
00:27:45.000And because it's all about power, and because the Democrats want transformational change, they are now, of course, calling, like clockwork, for gun control.
00:27:51.000Alright, we're gonna get to the actual call for gun control, which was inevitable.
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00:28:41.000So naturally the Biden administration is calling So naturally, the Biden administration is calling for gun control.
00:28:49.000Understand, this is all part of their broader pitch, which is that Joe Biden needs to rule the world.
00:28:54.000This man who is falling apart, This administration that has 50-plus Kamala Harris in the Senate is going to try to ram everything they possibly can through.
00:29:04.000Axios is reporting that now Joe Biden, you know, Captain Propriety, you know, the lion of the Senate, this longtime institutionalist, he's now looking at nuking the filibuster.
00:29:14.000According to Axios, President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big, how fast is too fast, to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
00:29:25.000Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a $5 trillion-plus overhaul of America and vast changes to voting immigration and inequality.
00:29:33.000One, his full party control of Congress.
00:29:34.000Two, his party activists egging him on.
00:29:36.000Three, he has strong gathering economic wins at his back.
00:29:41.000Naturally, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who's a big government hack, told Axios that FDR and LBJ may be the closest analogs to Joe Biden.
00:29:51.000People close to Biden say he is feeling bullish on what he can accomplish.
00:29:54.000He is fully prepared to support dashing the Senate filibuster rule to allow Democrats to pass voting rights and other trophy legislation for his party.
00:30:01.000One, because he loves the narrative that he is bigger and bolder than Obama.
00:30:06.000The Obama administration is ticked about this, by the way.
00:30:08.000Obama is unhappy at this because he wants to be Captain Transformation, but it turns out that it is Biden, the old man, who is coming in and just showing him up.
00:30:17.000Mitch McConnell says this will create such a fissure between the parties that it will be Nuclear winter.
00:30:24.000By the way, that is really not the risk.
00:30:25.000The risk is not that nothing gets done in the Senate.
00:30:27.000The risk is that a bunch of stuff gets done in the Senate and that state governors just say, we are not going to go along with any of this.
00:30:32.000You want to exacerbate the country's national divides.
00:30:34.000You want to make sure that red states just stop helping out the federal government.
00:30:38.000You want to make sure that the country starts to fracture at all of its seams.
00:30:42.000Do exactly what Joe Biden is doing right now.
00:30:44.000And by the way, do it on the issue of gun control.
00:30:46.000If Joe Biden tries to nuke the filibuster in order to cram down federal gun control, In complete contravention of the Constitution of the United States?
00:30:56.000If you think that citizens of Texas or Alabama or Tennessee or Florida are going to sit still and let the federal government tell them what to do with their guns, the federal government's going to have another thing coming.
00:31:05.000You want to exacerbate conflict to the point of possible violence, that is the exact way to do it.
00:31:10.000See, here's the thing that the left needs to understand about gun ownership for people who are not of the far left in the United States.
00:31:16.000It is a fundamental right in the United States to be able to protect yourself, including with guns.
00:31:22.000The reason to own guns is to stop people from violating your fundamental rights.
00:31:26.000And the first sign that your fundamental rights are about to be violated is when someone comes to your door and demands your guns.
00:31:31.000Okay, so this is a completely self-defeating proposal.
00:31:33.000Nonetheless, this is exactly what Biden is apparently pushing for.
00:31:36.000And now he's talking about nuking the filibuster in order to do all of this stuff.
00:31:40.000So Jen Psaki announced yesterday that Biden is considering executive action on guns.
00:31:45.000She apparently said, putting in place common sense gun safety measures has been a passion of the president since he was in the Senate.
00:31:50.000By the way, common sense gun safety measures, that is a euphemism for gun control measures that have no evidentiary backing, right?
00:31:58.000Like the 1994 assault weapons ban, which studies demonstrate did nothing to stop mass shootings or to decline the rate of homicide in the United States.
00:32:05.000Apparently, according to Jen Psaki, Position on the filibuster has not changed as of yet, but we are considering a range of levers, including working through legislation, including executive action that has been under discussion, will continue to be under discussion.
00:32:18.000Joe Biden himself came out and called for gun control yesterday.
00:32:22.000I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act.
00:32:35.000We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again.
00:32:52.000No, it did not bring down the mass killings.
00:32:54.000The evidence on that is scanty to nil.
00:32:56.000Okay, and again, watching this incoherent president try to push forward a massive gun grab is pretty impressive stuff.
00:33:03.000Now, by the way, the first notion that you should have that the government is about to invade your rights is when they tell you they're not about to invade your rights.
00:33:10.000When they assure you that they're not about to come for your wallet, they're coming for your wallet.
00:33:12.000And when they assure you that they are not coming for your gun, pretty good time to start buying rifles from Bravo Company Manufacturing before the government tries to make it illegal to do so.
00:33:21.000So when Vice President Kamala Harris says, don't worry, you know, they keep saying we're coming for your guns.
00:33:26.000Yes, because you keep saying you're coming for our guns.
00:34:21.000Because what I've noticed is that you are not targeting criminals.
00:34:25.000Right now, they want felons to vote, but they want you, the law-abiding citizen, not to be able to get a gun.
00:34:29.000This is the Democratic agenda at this point.
00:34:32.000Again, the evidence that the 1994 assault weapons ban did a damn thing is just not there.
00:34:38.000According to the Foundation for Economic Education, These studies demonstrate that there is no evidence assault weapons ban reduced the homicide rate.
00:34:49.000Between 1994 and 2004, the federal government banned the manufacture, sale, or transfer of assault weapons in large capacity magazines.
00:34:55.000A DOJ study found no evidence the ban had any effect on gun violence and stated it should be renewed, that should it be renewed, the ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for a liable measurement.
00:35:06.000Because again, if you're going to look at the kinds of guns that are most frequently used in homicides, they are not long guns.
00:37:59.000If you look at the number of homicides in the United States over the past 30, 40 years, we've had an unprecedented drop in the murder rate.
00:38:07.000An unprecedented drop in the United States murder rate since basically 1994.
00:38:13.000And yet, the idea is that we're now experiencing this mass epidemic of gun violence.
00:38:18.000The national murder rate in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, the national murder rate in the United States in 1992 was 9.3 per 100,000 population.
00:38:27.000Okay, it reached its highs in about that period.
00:38:35.000It was really high in the late 70s, and then kind of stabilized, and then its modern high was 1991.
00:39:13.000There's not a single state in the United States where it's easier to obtain a gun than to vote.
00:39:17.000I mean, do these people know a damn thing about how you obtain a gun?
00:39:21.000You actually have to go in to a federally licensed firearms dealer, and then you have to show ID, and then they have to run a federal background check on you.
00:39:28.000And if there's a backlog, you might have to wait a couple of days while they actually run the federal background check on you.
00:39:33.000Okay, when you go to register to vote, you show an ID and you're registered to vote, and that's the end of it.
00:39:39.000Here's Alex Padilla just overtly lying.
00:39:40.000There won't be a Media Matters fact check on this guy.
00:39:43.000In 25 states, voters must be registered and have specific forms of ID in order to cast a ballot.
00:39:50.000But those same states allow people to buy rifles without permits and require no background checks for some sales.
00:39:59.000Additionally, in a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they're able to cast their first ballot.
00:40:10.000It seems to me that we have our priorities entirely backwards when it comes to this, when we make it easier to buy a gun.
00:40:20.000These geniuses, let's put them in charge of whether you can defend yourself.
00:40:23.000Meanwhile, Dick Durbin, who once called American soldiers akin to pole pot, Dick Durbin said loopholes make it easier for felons and abusers to get weapons.
00:40:50.000There are well-known gaps in the federal gun background check system, the gun show loophole, the internet loophole, and more.
00:40:59.000These gaps make it too easy for felons, abusers, and mentally unstable people to get their hands on guns and harm others.
00:41:08.000Okay, so first of all, there is no gun show loophole.
00:41:10.000If you go to a gun show, they have to be a federally licensed firearms dealer.
00:41:13.000The so-called gun show loophole is not gun shows.
00:41:16.000Okay, that's me conveying a gun to my son.
00:41:20.000In order for the government to prevent that, they would have to have full-fledged gun registries for every gun in the United States, which is something that no advocate of individual liberty should be in favor of.
00:41:31.000This is basically, in the end, just an emotional appeal.
00:41:34.000This is why you have victims of mass shootings going on TV and saying that the NRA is a terror organization, and that every member of the NRA is apparently a terrorist.
00:41:42.000Here's Fred Guttenberg, who's an anti-gun activist.
00:41:45.000He's Parkland's dad, saying this on MSNBC.
00:41:48.000They are a terror organization that is making us less safe.
00:42:05.000And here we are, 10 people dead, including a police officer, because of what they believe was victory for Colorado.
00:42:13.000Okay, except that Colorado already... Stop it.
00:42:15.000Colorado already has universal background checks, red flag laws, the city of Boulder for two years, it only expired six days ago, which is what the NRA was talking about.
00:42:31.000We'll wreck the filibuster and we'll ram through gun control.
00:42:33.000That's what Julian Castro is now saying.
00:42:35.000He's saying filibuster reform to ram through gun control because the democratic agenda is the only thing that matters.
00:42:39.000And if you don't have evidence to back it, you just say that people who oppose you don't care enough and don't have sympathy for people who have died in mass shootings.
00:42:47.000I actually think this is going to be another indictment of the filibuster.
00:42:50.000How do you not call something strongly bipartisan in this country When almost 90% of Americans support it.
00:42:58.000And yet, mainly one political party stands completely against it.
00:43:06.000And this is one more example of why, in the least, we need significant filibuster reform that makes it possible for effective, meaningful legislation like this to actually get enacted.
00:43:20.000I mean, this is, I'm sorry, these people are so, it's so ignorant.
00:43:26.000Alison Camerota just asked this morning on CNN, quote, how onerous would it be to have a gun shop owner just say, by the way, are you hearing voices?
00:43:55.000All that matters is that they are morally right and very emotional about it, and therefore you are bad if you oppose their evidence-free agenda, which suggests that all the problems in America are based on individual rights and apparently on white supremacy or whiteness or something.
00:44:07.000All righty, we have reached the end of today's show, but we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:44:12.000In the meantime, go check out The Michael Knowles Show.
00:44:14.000He's discussing Krispy Kreme offering free donuts for the vaccinated.
00:44:17.000You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show.
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