On Thursday night, the American public learned that the Broward County Sheriff's Office was told in November that the Parkland shooter could be a school shooter in the making. That report came just weeks after a relative called the BSO to ask them to seize his weapon. Then, on Friday morning, we learned that an armed school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sat outside and waited for four minutes. He was the only armed person on campus at the time of the shooting. And yet, he did nothing. He sat outside, and did nothing to stop the shooter. And now we know why you should never, ever give up your guns to the authorities. We ll explain all of it on today's show with Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the FiveThirtyEight Radio Network. See linktr.ee/TheBenShapiroShow Subscribe to the show and become a supporter by becoming a patron. You'll get access to all of Ben's latest videos, including the newest "New York Times Besties" series, "The Dark Side Of," wherever you get your news and gossip, and a FREE stock like Apple Podcasts subscription. Use the promo code "UPLEVEL" to get 20% off your first purchase. Subscribe and save 20% on your first month with discount code: UPLEVEL at Upfront. at checkout. That's code: UPCOMINGUPfront at checkout to receive $5 and receive 20% OFF THE FIRST MONTH OFF THE FUTURE OFF THE PODCAST! at no longer than $99 and get 10% OFF OFF THE PROMO! Learn more than $50 OFF your first week, and get a FREE PRICING OFF THE SINGLE MONTHS OFF OFFER? Use promo code: CHECK OUT THE FASTEST PRODUCERREVIEW AND PATREON THE FOUNDATION? Use coupon "UPROLLER CODE "UPOLD at CHECKOUT TO BUY TALKING ABOUT THIS WEEKEND AND FREE PRODCAST? at CHALLENGEORGE WOULD YOU GET A MONTH GET A VOTING PROOFASTER PROMOTION AND SUPPORT $10 OFF THE CHECKUP AND PROGRAM AND PATRONE AND FREE TRAINING PRODOCATION AND PATRIOTS? CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBER CODE "UPCARED?
00:00:00.000We just found out three separate bombshells from the Broward County Sheriff's Office, and they are all good reason why you will never want to give up your guns to the authorities.
00:01:38.000Again, I own two of them, and I look forward to buying more of them in the future.
00:01:41.000Actually, MVMT watches sort of made me a watch junkie, so now I'm into buying watches specifically because they are so affordable and they are so nice.
00:01:52.000All right, so here is the breaking news.
00:01:54.000Well, let me step back for a second before I get to the breaking news, actually.
00:01:57.000So, you remember a couple of nights ago,
00:02:00.000On CNN, there's a two-hour town hall, and this town hall special was specifically designed to make gun owners, members of the NRA, Second Amendment advocates, feel as though they were morally inferior, as though these people were somehow responsible for the horrors of what had happened inside that school over in Parkland, Florida.
00:02:19.000And all of that was nonsense, of course.
00:02:21.000The sheriff of Broward County, Scott Israel, did this
00:02:24.000beating of his chest and this wailing and gnashing of teeth, blaming the NRA and the availability of AR-15s.
00:02:30.000Well, now we know exactly why this shooting happened.
00:02:33.000And it happened because authorities failed on every single level.
00:02:38.000It wasn't just the FBI got two calls and did nothing.
00:02:40.000It wasn't just that the Broward County Sheriff's Office received 39 separate calls to this piece of crap's home over the course of seven years.
00:02:53.000On Thursday night, the American public learned that Broward County Sheriff's Office was told in November that the Parkland shooter, quote, could be a school shooter in the making, but deputies didn't bother to write up a report.
00:03:03.000That report came just weeks after a relative called urging the BSO, the Broward County Sheriff's Office, to seize his weapon.
00:03:09.000Then, here's the even more shocking news.
00:03:11.000We learned that an armed school resource officer — this one's just mind-boggling — an armed school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sat outside and waited for four minutes.
00:03:21.000The entire shooting episode was six minutes.
00:03:23.000The Broward County deputy was outside, heard the shots, waited outside with his gun for four minutes, and did not enter the school.
00:03:32.000That attack ended with 17 dead people, including at least a dozen dead kids.
00:03:36.000And the Broward County Sheriff's deputy, whose job it was, he's the armed school officer.
00:04:32.000Okay, this guy sat outside and he did not go in.
00:04:35.000Now a lot of people today on the left are doing this because they want to make this about the guns and not about the fact that there was an armed officer there who did nothing.
00:04:41.000Instead, because they want to make it about the availability of weapons, they say, well, can you blame him?
00:05:10.000When Coral Springs Police Officers, this is a different district, when Coral Springs Police Officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff's Deputies were also outside the school and had not entered.
00:05:37.000The deputies had their pistols drawn and they were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.
00:05:44.000So while this monster was roaming classroom to classroom with his rifle, mowing down students, four deputies—four armed, uniformed deputies—were sitting outside.
00:05:56.000They didn't get in there to try and save the kids.
00:05:57.000They didn't get in there to try and rescue the kids after the kids had been shot.
00:06:00.000They waited for an entirely new police department to get there and go inside.
00:06:04.000There's something fishy going on here, folks.
00:06:06.000There is something going on here, because I promise you, when people sign up to be sheriff's deputies, they're not doing so thinking that they're going to cower behind a car.
00:06:13.000They're doing so thinking that they want to help save people.
00:06:16.000So there is something going on, and this thing, Steve Israel knows the answer, and he ain't telling us.
00:06:20.000Steve Israel, this sheriff, he knows exactly what happened here and he is not telling us.
00:06:25.000There's a rumor online that I hesitate to report because I don't know that it's well substantiated.
00:06:29.000This has more to do with sheriff's policy than anything else.
00:06:33.000But we're going to find out because something happened here where four deputies were sitting outside with their guns drawn and a monster inside massacring children and they didn't go inside.
00:06:42.000And you're going to tell me that's the NRA's fault?
00:06:44.000You're going to tell me that's Dana Lash's fault?
00:06:47.000You're going to tell me that's my fault, living in Los Angeles, with my guns in my safe?
00:06:50.000You're going to tell me that's the fault of 100 million gun owners who weren't there, many of whom would have rushed the shooter and tried to do something, just like what happened in the Texas church shooting, where an armed citizen took down the bad guy?
00:07:02.000That guy was just an armed citizen, did a hell of a lot more than any of these cops did in Broward County.
00:07:08.000And I'll tell you something that's even more insane.
00:07:11.000Here's something that's even more insane.
00:07:13.000Again, remember, just a couple of days ago, it was this schmuck, Steve Israel, who was standing on stage amidst a bunch of the citizens from Broward County and shouting at Dana Lash and telling Dana Lash that it was her fault that all of this had happened, that it was the NRA's fault that all of this has happened, virtue signaling and posturing about how we just need to get guns out of the hands of bad people.
00:07:33.000Well, the guns were in the hands of the right people, but they didn't do a damn thing, according to CNN.
00:07:39.000This is the worst law enforcement failure in modern American history.
00:07:43.00017 dead people because there were cops waiting outside who didn't go in there.
00:07:47.000And here's the thing that's amazing about this, OK?
00:07:49.000So I ripped down the CNN special because I thought that it was an emotional setup.
00:07:53.000I think that it was an emotional setup.
00:07:55.000It was specifically designed to destroy the proponents of Second Amendment rights.
00:08:08.000Okay, but here's what makes it even worse.
00:08:10.000While Israel was doing this, there were questions, right?
00:08:12.000Because all this came out this morning.
00:08:14.000There were questions that came out over the last couple days about what Israel knew and when he knew it.
00:08:19.000Because now we know he's admitting it full-on that he had a deputy there who didn't pull his gun and didn't go inside.
00:08:24.000And now we're finding out from CNN there were three more deputies.
00:08:27.000So the question is, when did he know that?
00:08:28.000Did he only find out about that after he ripped Dana Lash to shreds?
00:08:31.000And after he ripped the NRA to shreds?
00:08:33.000And after he blamed Second Amendment proponents for what happened?
00:08:36.000Or did he know that while he was on that stage, and as he's such a dishonest piece of human debris, that he went on that stage and blamed everybody but himself, when he's the guy in power, he's the guy with the star on his chest.
00:08:45.000He's the man responsible for taking care of those kids.
00:10:21.000Absolutely horrifying in every possible way.
00:10:24.000Now, what have the media done about this?
00:10:25.000Well, the media, of course, have continued to blame the NRA.
00:10:28.000The media have continued to suggest that it's gun owners, Second Amendment advocates everywhere, who are doing all of this.
00:10:33.000You know, President Trump said today, he was speaking at CPAC, and President Trump said today that the Second Amendment was under threat.
00:10:40.000And Jesse Singel, a guy who I'm friendly with from Formerly of New York Magazine, he and I got into it on Twitter because he said, what kind of nonsense is that the Second Amendment is under threat?
00:10:48.000Well, that same Steve Israel was on stage calling for a full ban on semi-automatic rifles, which is any working rifle in the United States that's not a bolt-action or a lever-action rifle, or a muzzle-loaded rifle.
00:11:01.000So basically they're calling for a vast ban on the most common guns in the United States, and then telling us that's not a violation of the Second Amendment, and we're supposed to feel comfortable with this?
00:11:11.000You roll out a 24-7 propaganda effort by the news media to say that guns are responsible for something where it's pretty clear the authorities didn't do their job, and I'm supposed to feel comfortable with you guys?
00:11:23.000So here's the case you're making to me, Steve Israel.
00:11:26.000Here's the case you're making to me, Barack Obama.
00:11:27.000Here's the case you're making to me, all the folks in the media on the left.
00:11:31.000The case that you're making to me today is the FBI failed twice to do anything about this school shooter.
00:11:37.000And then the Broward County Sheriff's Office failed 39 times to do anything about that shooter.
00:11:42.000And then there were armed people from the Broward County Sheriff's Office there, four of them apparently, and they didn't do anything about the shooter.
00:11:48.000And I'm supposed to hand over my gun to you?
00:11:51.000I'm supposed to hand over my ability to defend myself to you?
00:11:55.000Why in blue blazing hell would I do that?
00:12:01.000Why would I hand over my only ability to protect myself to people who are going to stand outside with the guns that I gave up and not rush the shooter?
00:12:10.000Again, the people in the media are just—it's Scott Israel, not Steve Israel, rather.
00:12:14.000The people in the media have been attempting to spin away from this story all day.
00:12:20.000Now it's even worse, obviously, because it's not just one officer, it's four.
00:12:22.000The way they've been spinning away from this—so, Lawrence O'Donnell was the worst.
00:12:25.000Lawrence O'Donnell last night goes on TV, and he says, how can you expect
00:12:29.000One man to charge into the line of fire, even if he's wearing a uniform.
00:12:33.000I love these same people who say that the cops are racists, the cops are pathetic, we shouldn't trust the cops, we can never trust the cops, and now all of a sudden they're the big defenders of cops.
00:12:40.000They only like cops when cops don't actually do anything, apparently.
00:12:43.000So this cop didn't run in, he didn't do anything.
00:12:46.000So Lawrence O'Donnell says, you know why he didn't do that?
00:12:48.000Because the muzzle velocity of a rifle is three times the muzzle velocity of a handgun.
00:12:53.000So the officer's gun had a lower muzzle velocity than the shooter's rifle.
00:12:59.000Do you have any idea how ridiculously stupid this is?
00:13:28.000A typical handgun is about 1,300 feet per second.
00:13:30.000Let's say they were standing 100 feet from one another.
00:13:32.000Let's say that he ran into the hallway, and they're standing 100 feet from one another.
00:13:35.000That means that if they fired the bullets simultaneously, the bullet fired from the rifle would hit approximately five one-hundredths of a second before the bullet fired from the handgun.
00:13:44.000Are you telling me it's purely impossible for that officer to get in there and have a five hundredths of a second advantage?
00:13:51.000Because it's not even fast enough for you to blink your eyes.
00:13:53.000You literally would not even see that.
00:13:57.000And yet we're told that this is the deciding factor.
00:14:00.000We have to have tremendous sympathy for this officer.
00:14:02.000Again, I wouldn't want to be in that position as an officer.
00:14:05.000But that's why I didn't sign up to be an officer.
00:14:08.000And if I had a gun as a civilian, I hope that I would have the balls to rush in there and try to do something.
00:14:13.000But if you're going to make the case that the government should have the only authority to stop mass shooters, if you're trying to make the case that we shouldn't arm teachers, or we shouldn't arm private security guards, or that citizens shouldn't be armed, you're going to have to do better than that.
00:14:27.000You're going to have to do better than that.
00:14:29.000But who's really to blame on all of this?
00:14:46.000So a bunch of folks on the left are now going to people who have business deals with the NRA and urging them to cut off the business deals.
00:14:52.000So Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced today that they would end the discount that they have for NRA members, which is a business deal.
00:15:00.000Enterprise Rent-A-Car tweeted, Thank you for contacting us.
00:15:02.000All three of our brands, this would be Enterprise, Alamo, and National, have ended the discount for NRA members.
00:15:08.000This change will be effective March 26.
00:15:13.000Now it turns out that our corporations are going to be pressured to blame gun owners, law-abiding gun owners, for members of the NRA for this.
00:15:21.000Remember, if the NRA played any role in these shootings, the most role the NRA played in these shootings was having shooting classes for Jay Razzi students, and also training the guy who took down the shooter in Texas.
00:15:34.000Not one of these shooters has been a member of the NRA.
00:15:41.000It wasn't just Enterprise, by the way.
00:15:43.000Hertz came out, and they've said now they're going to disassociate from the NRA.
00:15:47.000Now, listen, we'll get to the NRA in a second and how the NRA has handled this, because I don't agree with everything that was said yesterday at CPAC.
00:15:56.000I had a blast talking to all the students and the young people.
00:15:58.000And I think I—I hope I said some important things to the media about how they've treated people who are gun owners and what they can do to help stop the spate of mass shootings.
00:16:07.000But I don't agree with everything that Wayne LaPierre or even Dana, with whom I'm good friends, said yesterday at CPAC.
00:16:14.000But the media's drive to blame this on gun owners is just insane.
00:16:18.000So Trevor Noah, the excreble host over on Comedy Central, the least funny man in America, I can safely say that because Samantha Bee's the least funny woman in America.
00:16:27.000So he's the least funny man in America, Trevor Noah.
00:16:29.000And he says that Marco, he mocks Marco Rubio because Marco Rubio went to this CNN show trial
00:16:37.000People were baying for the head of Marco Rubio and baying for the head of Dana Lash.
00:16:40.000Apparently, they were calling her a murderer.
00:16:42.000And Trevor Noah rips into Marco Rubio.
00:17:24.000Okay, so this idea that Rubio is, of course, the bad guy here.
00:17:27.000I'll be interested to hear what Trevor Noah has to say about the law enforcement officers.
00:17:30.000Already, you're seeing the spin starting from the left.
00:17:33.000What this really demonstrates is that a good guy with a gun can't stop a bad guy with a gun.
00:17:37.000No, what it demonstrates is that a useless person with a gun cannot stop a bad guy with a gun.
00:17:42.000It does not demonstrate that a good guy with a gun can't stop a bad guy with a gun, because it's always been a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.
00:17:48.000The problem here is you didn't have a good guy.
00:17:57.000And again, they just keep hosting these students to go on there.
00:18:00.000And the ones who they keep hosting are, of course, the ones who are the biggest advocates for gun control.
00:18:05.000There was one Parkland student who was—he was—this is the one of Zeif, actually, the next clip—where he was talking about Trump and suggesting, of course, that Trump listens to people like the NRA who are putting blood money in his pocket.
00:18:19.000I wonder how Samuel Zeif's parents voted for a county sheriff in Broward County, actually.
00:18:24.000Here's Samuel Zeif blaming Trump for the NRA giving him money or some such.
00:18:29.000Everyone saw on his note card and said, I hear you.
00:20:08.000Clearly there is, because Cameron Caskey, the student who castigated Rubio on stage, and said to him that he was like the Parkland shooter himself, which is, again, just morally deficient in every possible way.
00:20:18.000That was allowed to go on for minutes at a time, but some of the pro-gun students were told to basically condense their questions into the smallest soundbite.
00:20:24.000So there is a bias, but the bias does not extend to CNN producers were actually writing out the questions for the students.
00:20:30.000There's not any clear evidence of that at this point.
00:20:33.000Jake Tapper says that this is normally how it's done, and from what I've seen at other town halls, that's not a surprise.
00:20:39.000Okay, so I want to get to the NRA response to this now.
00:20:43.000And the NRA response to this has been some good and some bad.
00:20:48.000So first of all, I let Dana Lash speak for herself.
00:20:50.000So Dana, as I've said before, is a friend of mine.
00:20:52.000I'm going to try and put my biases aside here, because I like Dana.
00:21:11.000I had to have a security detail to get out.
00:21:13.000I wouldn't have been able to exit that if I did not have a private security detail.
00:21:17.000There were people rushing the stage and screaming, burn her.
00:21:21.000And I came there to talk solutions, and I still am going to continue that conversation on solutions, as the NRA has been doing for before I was alive.
00:21:29.000Okay, so that story is confirmed by the fact that you can actually hear in the audio, we played it yesterday, people shouting out at her that she's a murderer while she's on stage, and Jake Tapper, nobody at CNN stops it and says, guys, calm down, we're trying to have a discussion here.
00:21:41.000Instead, it just continues, and Jake has said online, well, I didn't want to, I didn't want to tell people what they could feel.
00:21:47.000It's not a matter of telling people what they can feel.
00:21:49.000It's a matter of providing good news stuff.
00:21:51.000It's a matter of providing good news content.
00:21:54.000It's a matter of ensuring that you're not just doing a propaganda special, and CNN failed in that.
00:21:58.000I mean, I've never seen a propaganda special quite like that on national TV.
00:22:01.000Now, Dana, in response to this, said something that I think is not true, and I don't think is useful or good.
00:22:07.000She said that many people in the media love mass shootings.
00:22:09.000Now, maybe what she meant by this is that there are people in the Ratings Bureau who look at the ratings, and they say, look at our ratings today.
00:22:15.000If what she meant by this is that people in the media are fine with mass shootings, or want to, or are happy about mass shootings, then that of course is not true.
00:22:24.000She should have been a lot more specific in her language here.
00:22:26.000She said at CPAC yesterday, a lot of folks in the media love mass shootings.
00:22:30.000I will say again, I think there are people in the media who use mass shootings as a lever for their favorite politics.
00:22:36.000But I don't think anybody in the mass media is sitting around going, God, I hope 15 kids die today at a school.
00:22:39.000I think that's a slander on members of the media.
00:22:42.000And I say that because I think the media have been slandering me.
00:22:44.000I think the media have been slandering Dina.
00:22:45.000I think the media have been slandering everybody on the right by suggesting that we have bad motivations, that we don't care when kids get shot.
00:22:51.000So I think it's silly for us to suggest people on the left don't care when kids get shot.
00:22:54.000We cannot have a good conversation, a useful conversation in this country if we keep saying the other side doesn't care when kids get shot.
00:23:00.000If you really believe that your political opponents are such evil human beings that they don't care when kids die, we can't have a conversation at all.
00:23:09.000If you actually believe the person who lives next door to you doesn't care if your child dies in a bloody hail of bullets, then you're going to be much more likely to pick up a gun and go after that guy.
00:24:08.000Listen, I think they care too much about their ratings.
00:24:09.000I ripped them from the stage yesterday suggesting that they should put their morality ahead of their ratings and stop showing the names and faces of the shooters.
00:24:16.000But I wouldn't suggest that they actually like the shootings, that they actually want the shootings to happen.
00:24:20.000Like, that I don't think is appropriate.
00:24:22.000Wayne LaPierre from the NRA did this, too.
00:24:24.000Again, I think this doesn't actually serve the NRA's interests.
00:24:25.000What the NRA should be doing right now is saying, listen,
00:24:27.000We want to stop this stuff as much as you do, and it's insulting and disgusting when you suggest that we don't.
00:24:32.000But to reverse the charge and suggest that people in the media actually like the mass shootings, it's too much.
00:24:36.000Wayne LaPierre did the same thing yesterday.
00:24:37.000Again, I don't think this is the smart move.
00:24:39.000The elites don't care not one whit about America's school system and school children.
00:24:47.000If they truly cared, what they would do is they would protect them.
00:25:13.000He doesn't want to talk about the fact that since the assault weapons ban lapsed in 2004, we've seen a 239% increase in gun-related deaths.
00:25:23.000He doesn't want to talk about the blood that has spilled all over his hands because of the lax policies that he's pushing.
00:25:31.000He wants to make people afraid, and he wants to tell people lies and distortions, rather than deal with the fact that he is essentially a trafficking
00:25:41.000In fear, in order to line the pockets of his clients in the gun manufacturing industry.
00:25:51.000Now, Alison Camerata had on Dana Lash today, and I want to show you two clips of that, because one of them, I think, demonstrates the lack of credibility on the part of the media, and the other demonstrates why it's a mistake to castigate the media and say they don't care about mass shootings, which, of course, is not true.
00:26:05.000Here's the first one, Alison Camerata saying, listen,
00:26:07.000When you say that we like mass shootings, that's just nonsense.
00:26:09.000And here, I have to agree with Alison Camerota.
00:26:22.000I do think that many in the media do, because they like the ratings aspect of it.
00:26:26.000And that's true, because it's wall-to-wall coverage.
00:26:29.000They put the murderer's face up on loop, on televisions all across America, more than they discuss even the victims or survivors.
00:26:37.000That individual's name has been mentioned and is still mentioned on your network.
00:26:43.000It's just malicious, actually, that you would say that.
00:26:45.000I don't know anybody in the media who likes mass shootings.
00:27:02.000You say that I'm responsible for these mass shootings.
00:27:04.000And now, Alison Camerota, the shoe's on the other foot, and Alison Camerota can't even acknowledge that this is exactly what the media have been doing, which they have, right?
00:27:11.000So here is Dana being in the right and Camerota being in the wrong.
00:27:15.000You're saying that it's malicious, but yet on your network you've allowed accusations against me and millions of law-abiding Americans to be indicted as child murderers.
00:27:24.000I've watched you, Allison, on your program.
00:27:41.000And making it even easier for these horrifying people to get guns because if you can't get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you running?
00:27:51.000Hey guys, are you gonna be able to go back to school?
00:27:54.000Right, we played that clip on the show the other day.
00:27:55.000So here's Alison Camerota saying, no one's called you a murderer.
00:27:58.000That kid called her a murderer right on Alison Camerota's show, and Alison Camerota sat by and did nothing.
00:28:05.000So that is not, so again, dishonesty, dishonesty, and more dishonesty from the media.
00:28:09.000That doesn't mean the people on the right should fall into the trap of accusing their political opponents of being bad human beings, except insofar as the people on the left accuse us of not caring about dead kids.
00:28:18.000Okay, by the way, another piece of breaking news.
00:28:21.000This is just—how many red flags do you have to miss here?
00:28:24.000And then standing outside, four deputies.
00:28:29.000Here is—this is a call, according to The New York Times, a transcript excerpt from Adam Goldman of The New York Times of an FBI tipster warning the Parkland shooter in January, quote,
00:28:40.000I just figured I was talking to the operator and she transferred me.
00:28:42.000I'm like, I said to her, I don't know how to go about this, but on the Instagram account I have, I wouldn't say he's crazy by blood, but I would consider him bleep.
00:29:50.000He's thrown out of all these schools because he would pick up a chair and just throw it at somebody, a teacher or a student, because he didn't like the way they were talking to him.
00:29:55.000I just think about, you know, getting into a school and just shooting the place up.
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00:31:07.000All righty, so, you know what, let's just go right to things I like, things I hate in the mailbag, because I'm all, honestly, I'm emotioned out at this point.
00:32:23.000It really doesn't focus too much about what happened in Iraq.
00:32:26.000It focuses a lot more about the adjustment home and how there's a lot of veterans who are falling through the cracks, which certainly is true.
00:32:33.000I guess it's a little bit hard on the military, but as somebody who's never been through this, I can't really say that that's for sure.
00:33:06.000I know Moles liked this movie, which is one reason to hate it.
00:33:09.000But the movie Lady Bird is getting all sorts of plaudits because Greta Gerwig is a first-time director, and apparently if you're an actress and you can also do a plausible job of direction, then we think that you're the greatest thing that ever lived.
00:33:19.000This movie, I thought, was extraordinarily twee.
00:33:22.000Twee is just a word meaning kind of cutesy.
00:34:40.000You know, with your work ethic, just go to City College and then to jail, and then back to City College, and then maybe you'd learn to pull yourself up and not expect everybody to do everything.
00:35:57.000And this is why when people who are cultural libertarians, not even governmental libertarians, I'm sort of a governmental libertarian, but cultural libertarians, people who say that community values don't matter very much, that we're atomized individuals.
00:36:09.000When people on the left say that you can just destroy the social fabric, no problem.
00:36:12.000That virtue no longer is an aspect of our common heritage.
00:36:17.000When people say that, it inevitably is going to lead to more governmental tyranny, or it's going to lead to a reinculcation of virtue.
00:37:47.000If the worry is that your leftist family members are going to forcibly prevent you from getting guns by going and testifying in front of a judge, then maybe that would happen once in a bajillion tries.
00:38:02.000It's possible that I'm wrong, but this is why you need a high evidentiary bar.
00:38:05.000You can set a high evidentiary bar by suggesting that it's not just by preponderance of the evidence, that it's beyond a reasonable doubt that this is the case, for example.
00:38:12.000There are different standards of proof that you have to meet.
00:38:14.000Beyond a reasonable doubt is usually a criminal standard.
00:38:17.000Preponderance of the evidence is usually a civil standard, but you can set up whatever standard you want there.
00:38:21.000Brandon says, Ben, what is your opinion on right-to-work states?
00:38:36.000And it is certainly the case that Washington is a lefty state.
00:38:40.000It is also true in the state of California.
00:38:41.000You have to be a member of a union in order to work in certain areas.
00:38:44.000Right to work should be a constitutional amendment.
00:38:47.000You should be able to work in any industry that you want to without being a member of a union.
00:38:51.000Unions are fine in the private sector when people are voluntarily joining them and when kneecaps aren't being broken.
00:38:55.000They're not good in the public sector, and the silly, idiotic, legislative idea that you are going to legislate, that you have to be a member of a union to work as a teacher, undermines the interests of students.
00:39:07.000Remember, when there's a public sector union, the people they are collectively bargaining against are the taxpayer.
00:39:11.000That's the person on the other side of the table.
00:39:13.000If you're in a private sector union, and you are collectively bargaining, you're doing so against the person who owns the business.
00:39:20.000Okay, we own the federal government, which means that every time a union bargains with the federal government, they are bargaining with the taxpayer.
00:39:25.000What makes it worse is that when they're not actually bargaining with you or me, they're bargaining with elected representatives.
00:39:29.000And those elected representatives take donations from whom?
00:39:33.000From exactly the people with whom they are bargaining.
00:39:35.000So that's not, that's a pretty corrupt cycle.
00:39:38.000There's a good book called Shadow Bosses by a friend of mine named Mallory Factor that goes into all of this.
00:40:12.000And this is, you know, one of the arguments against legalizing hard drugs is that this skews your ability to reason and makes it so that you can't actually have free choice in how you choose to behave.
00:40:23.000And so we have to limit that dramatically.
00:40:24.000Whatever it is, there's no excuse for people to be living on the streets.
00:40:27.000One of the ways that you can clean up this problem is by taking people who are living on the streets and either putting them in a facility against their will, so they can clean out.
00:40:35.000And if they're mentally ill doing that, or if they're a drug addict, putting them in a facility where they will clean out and be taken off of drugs.
00:41:52.000A heavy bias toward talking about things that matter to us.
00:41:55.000We talked a lot about our religious heritage.
00:41:56.000We talked a lot about how many... I mean, I asked her on first date how many kids she wanted.
00:42:01.000This is the difference between dating for marriage and dating to just date.
00:42:03.000Now, in the Orthodox community, you're typically dating for marriage because you can't date for sex because that's not something you're supposed to be doing.
00:42:08.000So that means that you actually have to date for values, which I think is a good thing as a general matter.
00:42:14.000Ann says, Dear Ben, I've been enjoying you in the DailyWare for the past six months.
00:42:17.000After the crazy election, I started taking the Hillsdale College Constitution 101 online, being frustrated when politicians, MSM, and people toss around tidbits of the Constitution to suit their agenda.
00:42:26.000What I've discovered is very few people understand or have truly studied the Constitution.
00:42:31.000My question is about executive orders.
00:42:33.000When, how, and what is the criteria for their use?
00:42:35.000Seems since FDR it's been used regularly and may be out of control.
00:42:37.000The answer is yes, it has been used regularly, and yes, it is out of control.
00:42:41.000So, executive orders have existed since George Washington, but what an executive order was designed to do is there was a piece of legislation and it would say, we direct the president to go and impose this law.
00:42:51.000And so the president would then write an order to like the three people who worked for him, because it was a very small executive branch,
00:42:56.000And say, you three people are authorized to go do it.
00:43:42.000So, 35 was probably the equivalent of 50 in our society.
00:43:45.000So, in an age when people who are 26 years old are still on mommy and daddy's insurance and live at home and aren't married and have no kids, no, I don't think we should necessarily lower the age to be president.
00:43:55.000I wouldn't want—like, right now, if one of these kids from Parkland were to run against Trump, that kid might win.
00:44:02.000That seems not like a great idea to me, because I don't—
00:44:07.000The standards for our presidency are so low already.
00:44:32.000She didn't agree with it completely, because she believes gay married couples should still get the same tax bonus as heterosexual married couples do.
00:44:38.000I said to her I didn't know about this specific issue, and we ended the conversation there.
00:44:43.000Well, if she already accepts the idea that the federal government only has an interest in marriage because of raising families and children, then why should there be a federal tax benefit that accrues to you because you're sleeping with someone with whom you are incapable of having children naturally?
00:44:58.000That doesn't seem to me to make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:45:01.000I don't think there should be tax benefits for any of this stuff, by the way.
00:45:03.000I think the government discriminating in favor of certain couples and against other couples just seems like a fool's errand at this point.
00:45:09.000I don't think anybody is having more kids based on the tax benefits.
00:45:14.000But the idea is that if the government is going to confer advantages based on what it gets out of the deal, the government gets a lot less out of the deal from gay couples than it does from straight couples in terms of childbearing and rearing, obviously by statistics.
00:45:27.000And that will always be true no matter what, because people like having sex.
00:45:30.000And when straight people have sex, there's a chance of a baby.
00:45:32.000And when gay people have sex, presumably with each other, there is no chance of a baby.