00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we mourn with the people of Uvalde, Texas, as we go through the facts, what happened, and we talk about how the Democrats did not miss a beat to try and push gun control legislation.
00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:28.000There's moments in time, and there are stories that happen where you just take a pause, and the evil that is committed is just so overwhelming.
00:01:42.000And it just impacts everything you do.
00:01:46.000And it kind of dominates the conversation for the time being between your friends and family members.
00:01:54.000There's some things that happen where the actions are so horrific, they're just so plainly evil that through any sort of human reason or reflection, you can't even imagine how someone would do that.
00:02:12.000Now, I'm, of course, talking about the school shooting that happened yesterday in Uvalde, Texas.
00:02:20.000We know that there is evil in the world.
00:02:23.000This show, we talk about a lot of evil things.
00:02:25.000We talk about how the few want to rule the many, about how our rights are being taken away, about the ever kind of growing organization of biomedical fascism.
00:02:38.000We are not a stranger to evil on this program.
00:02:43.000But when you have a situation that unfolded that would happen in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday, where a shooter goes in, and we're going to go through all the details of what we know and what we don't know, and seemingly randomly picked this school as a place to go in and just lock himself into a classroom and in cold blood murder children, fourth graders,
00:03:35.000But it's just so disappointing and predictable and bad for the country, by the way, where you can't just have like a moment where you internalize and you say, my goodness, that's really evil.
00:03:47.000Instead, it's almost this seamless action done by the media, and it's so wrong.
00:03:54.000And it's bad for the country, where instantaneously they get into a default setting of we need gun legislation, we need to abolish the filibuster.
00:04:06.000There should be some time of mourning and recognition of the act of evil.
00:04:12.000Now, this is going to get a lot of media coverage, we believe, for the foreseeable future.
00:04:17.000We're going to make some predictions on how this unfolds, but here's what we know.
00:04:21.000So, this undeniably evil person, which is just the closest thing to a demon I've seen in a very long time, and I mean that literally and figuratively, got in a fight with his grandmother, just killed his grandmother, and then gets into a car and heads toward an elementary school,
00:04:48.000crashes his car and totals his car outside of the elementary school, comes outside of the elementary school, comes outside of the car and walks into the elementary school and abandoned his vehicle, entered Robb Elementary School with a handgun, and he may have also had a rifle.
00:05:12.000The left is already immediately politicizing this about gun confiscation.
00:05:20.000Now, we are going to be forced to respond, and we will respond after we have a chance to mourn and actually talk about what happened.
00:05:28.000The type of gun that was used is going to be very important in us being able to respond to Joe Biden and all these politicians that want to confiscate guns.
00:05:40.000It's very important because Joe Biden is making an argument that we need to confiscate all automatic rifles.
00:05:52.000And so, those kind of particulars are going to be very important for us, people that actually appreciate constitutional rights and the right to protect oneself and gun rights, to be able to make a coherent argument in response.
00:06:04.000There'll be plenty of time to build that out, that's for sure.
00:06:08.000The suspected shooter, who may have had a handgun and a rifle, was also killed when law enforcement confronted him at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 83 miles west of San Antonio.
00:06:18.000Quote: It is believed that he abandoned his vehicle and entered Robb Elementary School.
00:06:22.000So, Lieutenant Chris Alvarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the suspect shot his grandmother, who was hospitalized in critical condition, apparently after he crashed nearby, went on campus and opened fire.
00:06:37.000He started shooting every single person that was in front of him.
00:06:41.000Officers outside could hear gunshots, but couldn't get in as they were met with a barrage of gunfire.
00:06:49.000They eventually resorted to breaking windows to evacuate children and staffers that they could.
00:06:56.000The Texas Department of Public Safety said the shooter was wearing body armor and carried a rifle.
00:07:02.000But Alvarez said on MSNBC, he believed the shooter wore a type of vest that tactical teams use.
00:07:07.000It's not clear if the shooter added ballistic protection to the vest.
00:07:12.000We now have learned that the shooter did not have a criminal history and was unemployed with no friends, no girlfriend that we can identify.
00:07:20.000Cut 68 is Bill Melusian doing a rundown of the facts that we know.
00:07:25.000And the morbid details that we are getting from this shooting is: this shooter went into one single fourth-grade classroom, locked himself in, barricaded it, and essentially almost all of the casualties from this incident were in that one single classroom.
00:07:42.000So that's just a small clip, short clip from Bill Melusian.
00:07:46.000And so he just locked himself in one classroom and Did the unspeakable, horrific act.
00:07:55.000Now, how he got these weapons, we will learn.
00:07:57.000What gun laws might have been violated in getting those weapons, we will learn.
00:08:01.000The left doesn't want to hear this, but this is the truth: that in society, there are some very sick people.
00:08:10.000And this person was demented and evil.
00:08:15.000Now, the left tried to spend the last couple of weeks trying to over-racialize this, all these mass shootings.
00:08:23.000We refused to do that and pushed back against it.
00:08:25.000They're going to struggle to do that here.
00:08:28.000I'm not going to say the shooter's name, but the shooter was Hispanic.
00:08:32.000So, they won't be able to racialize this one because they try to do that every single time.
00:08:37.000So, they're going to focus particularly on just guns and firearms.
00:08:43.000But it's a very important takeaway immediately as we try to get all the facts and take pause and not try to enthusiastically run into a position to change public policy too quickly, is to do the following, which is we must not allow emotions to dictate gun policy.
00:09:01.000Tyrants would love nothing more than to capitalize on an evil tragedy as an excuse to confiscate your guns and weapons and limit your ability to protect yourself.
00:09:12.000Unfortunately, I have been in this space for 10 years in the sense that I've seen many of these: Sandy Hook, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.
00:09:24.000What usually happens and what's going to happen in the coming days and weeks is there will be a coalition, a drumbeat, media coverage that will increase over a period of time.
00:09:34.000But then there is eventually a cooling off period, a week later, 10 days later, where then people say, wait a second, if you take guns away, how will I be able to protect my family against criminals?
00:09:46.000And then that cooling off period is typically when all of a sudden, hopefully, cooler and more reasonable heads can prevail.
00:09:54.000The sooner we can get to that, the better.
00:09:59.000The media is going to try to keep us in a position of mass hysteria, high emotion, to try to build a consensus of public policy for gun confiscation and for unconstitutional, anti-constitutional firearm legislation.
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00:11:31.000I wish he was just a buffoon, but he's got something in him and that motivates him that is just about power and is about something that isn't about being president of the United States.
00:11:49.000So he had an opportunity to unite the country and to mourn and not overly politicize yesterday.
00:11:56.000Instead, he went right into DNC talking points, anti-gun grabbing kind of sound bites.
00:12:04.000And I mean, I was traveling yesterday.
00:12:36.000Joe Biden said, look, I now, we need to pass gun laws.
00:12:40.000We need to pass the assault weapon ban.
00:12:44.000Joe Biden did not miss a beat or an opportunity to try and resurrect his plummeting poll numbers to politically capitalize on the blood and the suffering and the tragedy of what happened in Uvalde.
00:13:00.000And yes, I am accusing Joe Biden of politicizing this immediately.
00:13:05.000There is no other interpretation of it.
00:13:08.000The beginning of his speech was just fine.
00:13:09.000It was standard boilerplate presidential speech, trying to be magnanimous.
00:13:16.000But then when you start to go in and you start to recite one by one by one, trying to all of a sudden broaden this to be something that it isn't, that like the deer in Kevlar Vest's talking point, which they think sounds really good, but they just make fools of themselves when they do it.
00:14:27.000So, I mean, I don't like this, but we're going to have to do this.
00:14:32.000Every couple years, after MSD, Marjorie Stowman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, after Sandy Hook, we have to go dust off all of the arguments that we make to try to push back against the gun grabbers.
00:14:46.000I wish there was a moment where we could say, wow, that was really terrible.
00:14:49.000That person was basically the closest thing to a demon you're ever going to see.
00:15:24.000And we are going to add reason and cross-examination of actually where the majority of gun crime happens in America.
00:15:30.000The majority of gun crime actually happens in urban areas, in gang-related activity.
00:15:35.000And even if you look at all the gun crime in America, 33,000 gun deaths on average a year, 66% of them are deaths by suicide that are counted as gun deaths.
00:15:43.000We're the only country in the industrialized world that does that.
00:15:46.000If this is now what we have to do, which it looks like we will, then buckle up, everybody.
00:15:51.000Those of us that love the Constitution, we're going to now get back in.
00:15:54.000And I want Joe Biden to answer why $40 billion to Ukraine was a higher priority than hiring armed guards at schools and having single point of entry.
00:16:05.000Why is it that we're sending $40 billion to Ukraine, but no one thought, hey, maybe our schools are sitting ducks for maniacs that can go in and lock themselves and kill 19 children.
00:16:16.000And some people say that's a red herring.
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00:17:57.000Begrudgingly, we're going to get back into the gun control debate.
00:18:00.000We're now going to defend our rights against people that want to take them away.
00:18:03.000We're going to add clarity and we're going to add hopefully some wisdom to how we talk about weapons and how we talk about the Second Amendment against the highly emotional chatter that is going to enter the discourse.
00:18:47.000David Hogg and all these people that were being platformed by celebrities all around a massive push for gun control, which of course was just a midterm push for the Democrats.
00:18:58.000This was in February and March of 2018.
00:19:01.000If I remember correctly, Parkland happened on Valentine's Day of 2018, February 14th, 2018.
00:19:11.000And it just unfolded for months of gun control chatter.
00:19:18.000So in a moment, we're going to be joined by Drew Hernandez, who is actually on the border and then zipped over to Uvalde to do some frontlines reporting.
00:19:27.000He helps run, he runs Frontlines for us at Turning Point USA.
00:19:32.000He had an amazing clip that came out where he was actually showing illegals getting put into buses and just walking into the interior of the United States.
00:19:40.000So the attack began at 11:30 a.m. when the gunman crashed his car outside the school and ran into the building, according to a spokesman for Texas Department of Homeland Security Safety.
00:19:50.000A resident who heard the crash called 911 and two local police officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter.
00:19:57.000It was not immediately clear where on the campus that confrontation occurred or how much time elapsed before the authorities arrived on scene.
00:20:05.000To help make clarity of all this is Drew Hernandez, one of the best frontline reporters in America.
00:20:09.000We're honored to have him at Turning Point USA.
00:20:16.000What are we missing in this tragic, horrific situation that our audience should be aware of?
00:20:23.000It's definitely a horrific situation, Charlie.
00:20:26.000And obviously, all the noise, the political noise that is predominantly coming from the left, the far left, they immediately pounce on this.
00:20:55.000Obviously, local law enforcement was that it was actually a Border Patrol agent that took down this murder that was killing children, a couple of teachers and adults.
00:21:04.000So what's happening is I think a lot of information that's coming out specifically about the shooter is accurate, isn't accurate.
00:21:14.000But what we do know is that this shooter did live locally.
00:21:18.000He did attempt to kill his grandmother before he headed to the school.
00:21:23.000And I talked to a couple eyewitnesses on the ground.
00:21:25.000And it sounds like he had some kind of confrontation.
00:21:29.000And local law enforcement confirmed this as well.
00:21:31.000He did have a confrontation with his grandmother.
00:21:36.000But once he tried to murder his grandmother, he left his house, took a truck, drove it to the school in the back of the school, ran it into a ditch, got out with his firearms, and then just started bum rushing the school and opening fire on some of the children.
00:21:51.000Now, some of the details about this shooter are conflicting, but what we do know is he seems to be somewhat of a loner, somewhat kind of quiet, kept to himself, was bullied.
00:22:00.000Apparently, some reports are coming out that he was bullied for having a lift, bullied for being different.
00:22:06.000He was messaging people on Instagram, on social media, saying that he was going to do something violent, sending pictures of his magazines, of his weapons to random people, random girls on the internet.
00:22:16.000Apparently, he worked, allegedly, he worked at Wendy's as well.
00:22:19.000He would send disturbing, kind of inappropriate messages to women.
00:22:23.000He sounds somewhat of an infel as well.
00:22:35.000But I'm en route right now back to Uvalde right now.
00:22:39.000We're going to do some more digging on the ground to confirm some of these reports that we're seeing on social media.
00:22:45.000We're going to talk with some of the surrounding residents and neighbors and people that live in the area.
00:22:50.000I mean, last night, what was very sad, Charlie, is that the parents, and this is what really, I was going to be honest, this is what really pissed me off yesterday when I was watching this, is when I'm there on the ground, the parents were in a civic center and they were waiting for confirmation to learn whether their child was massacred or not.
00:23:09.000And they were there, I think, till about maybe midnight when the reports started coming in to confirm that their child was dead or not.
00:23:16.000They weren't even reunited with their children yet.
00:23:18.000And before that even happened, the far left and these political hack jobs, okay, are already taking to Twitter and social media, politicizing something that shouldn't be politicized, making it about gun control, okay?
00:23:32.000Using a crisis and not letting it go to waste.
00:23:34.000They're already using these children and politicizing them before the parents could even confirm whether their child was dead or not, Charlie.
00:23:48.000They don't even have the decency or respect to allow the parents to confirm whether their child is dead or not before they even take to social media to politicize a tragedy.
00:23:58.000So, I mean, it's just, it's a horrific situation, Charlie, but I think just immediately politicizing it is just ridiculous.
00:25:06.000President of the United States, frail, confused, bitterly partisan, desecrating the memory of recently murdered children with tired talking points from the Democratic Party, dividing the country in a moment of deep pain rather than uniting.
00:25:21.000His voice rising, amplified only as he repeats the talking points he repeated for over 35 years in the United States Senate, partisan politics being the only thing that animates him.
00:25:35.000Never let a crisis go to waste, as Ram Emmanuel would say.
00:25:39.000And we know how to defend the Second Amendment.
00:25:44.000We know how to add a different factual and reasonable narrative.
00:25:50.000But we're onto the game at this point, unfortunately.
00:25:53.000Joe Biden had an opportunity to say, look, I obviously want more gun control, but we're just going to focus on the tragedy at hand, and we're not going to try to make this a victory for one political party.
00:26:06.000But putting points on the board for the Democrat National Committee is the only thing that might get Joe Biden a little bit excited.
00:26:14.000Joe Manchin was asked about gun control legislation.
00:26:17.000He said he would do anything I can to move common sense gun legislation forward, but refused to eliminate the filibuster to get gun legislation through the Senate.
00:26:27.000So it doesn't look like that's going to be happening anytime soon.
00:26:29.000It's going to happen, though, probably.
00:26:31.000A bunch of states are probably going to pass more gun control legislation that might get struck down in the courts.
00:26:37.000Thankfully, the courts have been doing a good job of upholding it.
00:26:41.000But we know this, and we talk about it every time one of these tragedies happen, which is a gun is a tool.
00:27:19.000Well, there was early indications that this individual was previewing his acts of violence.
00:27:28.000I just want, if you're hearing my voice and you have a child that goes to school and they hear something from somebody that isn't quite right, intervention is necessary, getting people the help that they need and taking those things seriously.
00:27:42.000Now, whether or not this person was under surveillance or was kind of on the list of local police or the FBI remains to be known.
00:27:56.000I'm sure the information is out there.
00:27:57.000We're going to find it how this individual got his weapons.
00:28:00.000That's going to be a huge part of the discussion in the coming days and months to come.
00:28:07.000Now, some of you are probably saying, Charlie, you know, this is a tragedy.
00:28:13.000How much time are you going to focus on this?
00:28:15.000Well, this is a purely defensive measure.
00:28:18.000I want to be very clear, which is covering this from a human perspective is necessary.
00:28:28.000But I'm going to read you some of the tweets and some of the quotes from leading Democrats, which forces our hand to get equally as political.
00:28:38.000As begrudgingly as I have to do that, in a time of national tragedy, in a time that takes your breath away, where someone goes and locks themselves in a room and kills 19 fourth graders, then we're going to have to get back into the debate and we will win.
00:28:55.000We will win the debate because facts are on our side and the moral argument to be able to defend yourself is on our side.
00:29:02.000But instantaneously, Democrats did not even allow the bodies to be identified.
00:29:09.000While the bodies are still not identified, they are swooping in to repeat their long-held aims and objectives for gun confiscation.
00:29:19.000So then it forces a defensive countermeasure by those of us that love liberty.
00:29:24.000And we say, okay, if you want to talk about gun crime, you want to talk about the need to defend yourself, then so be it.
00:29:30.000We believe it's too soon to do that, but we are not going to allow tyrants and political operatives to try to capitalize on the suffering of a nation to be able to shred our Constitution.
00:29:54.000Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Eric Swallow, Hillary Clinton, all of them with these incredibly vomit-inducing, morally sanctimonious, yes, if you only give us more political power to go take your guns away, these things wouldn't happen.
00:32:11.000They can serve in our military, but they're not allowed to buy weapons.
00:32:18.000The Democrats want to lower the voting age to 16, yet they don't believe 18-year-olds can be trusted with weapons.
00:32:25.000Now, if Joe Biden said, man, it's terrible that someone this demented and this terrible, that this just demonic was able to get their hands on weapons, like, okay, there's an argument against that.
00:33:07.000So if Joe Biden wants to raise the voting age to 21, if he wants, how about he wants to raise whether or not you could serve in our military?
00:33:49.000But Joe Biden just so recklessly starts to play into the age thing, which, by the way, should be an insult to every veteran and every person that is 18, 19, 20 that wants to be a police officer.
00:33:59.000Every person that's 18, 19, 20 that owns weapons and handles them correctly and professionally, that is an indictment to the hundreds of millions of people.
00:34:09.000And by the way, you don't hear about these kinds of incidents in Israel because their citizens are armed.
00:34:13.000If you've never been to Israel, it's one of the most remarkable things.
00:34:17.000And this is what I always laugh with: these anti-gun Democrats who pretend to be pro-Israel.
00:34:21.000Whether you go to Hebron or if you go to Gaza, but if you go to any part of Jerusalem, someone might be out on a date with somebody and they will have a weapon around their back on their shoulder ready to go.
00:34:41.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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