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Glenn Beck talks about gun control, gun rights, mass shootings, and much more. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and radio host who has been out of the country for a few weeks. He is back in the United States now.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, a special guest on the Glenn Beck program. It's Glenn Beck.
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Thank you very much. Thank you. I thought I would do my own podcast here just for a little while.
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Today's podcast is great. I have been out of the country for a couple of weeks and
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I have a few things that I really want to talk about. That is Epstein,
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that's gun control, your gun rights, and so much more. Great podcast. You don't want to miss it.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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In an average year in the U.S., there are 31,000 homicides, suicides, or accidental shootings,
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resulting in around 15,000 deaths per year. However, private citizens use firearms for
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self-defense between 800,000 and 2.5 million times a year. The wide range is because so much
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defensive gun use goes unreported to the police. But if you look at those stats, that means firearms
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are 80 times more likely to be used to protect and defend life versus taking life. By the way,
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that comes from the CDC. Of the defensive gun uses by private citizens in the U.S., between 80,000 and
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200,000 of those involve women using a firearm to defend herself from sexual assault. That's just
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from the oh-so-conservative Journal of Criminal Law. The FBI crime data set says the ATF estimates
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there are currently 290 million firearms in private ownership in the U.S. That's excluding
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any kind of collector or replica firearms. That is up from 210 million guns in 1995. So that's a 29%
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increase in 24 years. Yet over that same time span, violent crime in the U.S. has fallen by 50%,
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and violent assaults involving a firearm have fallen by 55%. Again, just from the FBI.
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The United States boasts the highest firearm ownership rate per capita. 89 firearms owned for
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every 100 citizens. The next closest country is Yemen. That has about half the gun rate per capita.
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The U.S. has firearm ownership rate that is 12 times that of the U.K., 40 times that of China. Yet despite
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such a huge firearm ownership rate, the U.S. is not in the top 10 of homicide rates. Nor are we in the top
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20. Nor are we in the top 30. Nor are we in Casey's top 40. If you measure the total number of
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international homicides per 100,000 citizens, the United States comes in at 103. That's about in the
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middle. By the way, that is from the oh-so-conservative U.N. homicide stats. Using U.N. data, researchers
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are confirming now at Harvard that in Western democracies, there is a negative correlation
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between firearm ownership rates and gun homicide rates. Meaning, John Lydot has been right this
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whole time. More guns does equal less crime. Despite having some of the most restrictive firearm
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laws among Western democracy, the United Kingdom has a violent crime rate that is more than four
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times that of the U.S. The U.K. population suffers 2,034 violent crimes for every 100,000 citizens.
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If, in the U.S., we endure 466 per 100,000, why is it such a problem here? Why should we be more
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like England? In fact, almost every country in the U.E.U. has a much higher rate of violent crime
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per capita compared to the U.S. These are things that we like to call facts. During mass shooting
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events in the U.S., the average number of deaths when police end the mass shooting is 14.3.
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The average number of dead when a private citizen with a gun ends the mass shooting is 2.3.
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And by the way, I'm not one of those that believes that 2.3 equals a mass shooting.
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But if you are, let's take those stats. If you're waiting for the police to arrive to stop a mass
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shooter, six times more people will die. Police officers from federal to local levels
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kill an average of 606 criminals per year. Private citizens using firearms in self-defense
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kill 1,527. I'm not going to wait around for the police to protect me.
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There is a false narrative going on. And now even the Republicans are starting to fall into
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this trap. They're afraid. They're afraid. Why are they afraid? Because they don't know
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the stats. Oh my gosh, you know what this is? This is white nationalism. That's what this is.
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This is white nationalism. Really? Is that what this is? Right now, people are claiming that there
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were 250 mass shootings in America. 250 in the last 12 months? Really? Well, yes. If you agree that mass
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shootings mean two or more people injured or killed, well, that would mean that duel that
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Hamilton and Burr had was a mass shooting. That was called a duel.
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If you look at the real numbers, mass shootings, these are coming from people now that say that
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two or more victims have to be injured, including the assailant, but let's just take that number
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because that's the number you get 250 from. Well, the reality is that 75% of those mass shootings
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are black or Hispanic males. And 99% of mass shootings involve handguns because the vast,
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vast majority of mass shootings by two or more, that definition would end up being gang or drug
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related violence. So banning assault weapons or anything of the type would have zero material
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impact to lives saved or lost due to mass shootings of two or more. When you actually look at mass shootings
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and you call them what they really are, it's not two, maybe it's four, maybe it's six, I don't know, but it's
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definitely not two. You go from a number of 250 to six mass shootings. Now that is still six too many, but that
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number is at least reasonable. Six mass shootings. That is horrible. But let's use that number now six,
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because surely we can prove that it was white supremacy that did it until you realize that even
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when you look at the numbers this way, it's now half we're white. So you either have 75% of the 250
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killings being black or Hispanic, or you have half of them being black or Hispanic. Either way, it doesn't
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seem like a white supremacist problem. And either way, banning ARs don't work, wouldn't solve it. So
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what would? So I'm going to say something that is not heard, I guess, in America. Not nobody wants to
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talk about this. But the shootings in America are not the problem. Any shootings that we have
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in America, those are symptoms. Because here's the truth. We're sick. We are a really sick culture
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right now. We are sick as a people. We're sick as a nation. Culturally, we're sick as individuals. Many
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of us are sick. Suicides are way up. Why? Because of the razor blades? Or because people are sick?
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The drug epidemic is the same. Is that just because China is doing the opioid war against us now? Is
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that the reason? Or is it that we're sick? Is it that we could fix the opioid? We could fix suicides by
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tougher laws. Does that even make sense? Something in us has changed. Something within us, our neighbors,
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our families, our towns. What is the disease that is eating us? Because it's killing not just the
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innocent or just the guilty. It's killing both. It's killing all of us. Politicians, media,
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and frankly, most Americans don't say a word weekend after weekend of the latest 25 dead in Chicago. They
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don't say a word about it. Why? Because we know the shootings there are a symptom. Just like the
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shootings in the rest of America are a symptom. The shootings in Chicago are a symptom of hopelessness
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and fatherlessness. Education or lack thereof of broken families. That is what is causing the
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shooting in Chicago. It's not the gun. Quite frankly, you take away the guns and the African
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American community will be as helpless to protect themselves as they were when the Democratic clan
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came riding into town with their horses and their robes and their torches and took the guns away
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from the African Americans for their own safety and protection. Well, maybe it's our children.
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Maybe the children are the problem. You'd never give scissors to children and have them run around
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with them. Yeah, well, we're not children. But perhaps that is one of the infections that we
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refuse to diagnose. We more and more every day ask the government, corporations, public institutions,
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to treat us like children, not just children. In fact, we ask our children to act like adults.
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Hey, kids, you're four. Let's go to the library and meet a drag queen who's going to tell you how to
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twerk. What the hell is that? Hey, you're 14. You can make the decision on your own about a child.
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You want an abortion? You have a right to it. But once it comes to paying for your health care,
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no, you've got to be 24, 26, 30, 30, 40, you're not really responsible for anything.
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It gives us an excuse to have everything we want, do whatever we want, and never have to pay for our
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own sins. But I'm not a child and I don't wish to be treated like one. Our children, they're treated as
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helpless babies. And that is an infection in and of itself, causing so many of our children to become
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ill. They don't want to be treated as morons, babies, or endless, never-ending children.
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15-year-olds have changed the world. But that's only when they're expected to.
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They rise to the occasion. And just as the occasion is calling our children the loudest,
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we medicate them. We tell them to conform to an increasingly meaningless and senseless set of
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doctrines. We fail to actually educate them in any real and meaningful manner.
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We don't teach them how to think. We teach them what to think. We baby our children. We lower the
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bar. We expect less when they are crying out for more and more. And then what do we do? We offer
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them a hopeless and worse yet meaningless worldview and future. Then a third of us adults claim we expect
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too much from them. Another third of us adults say, well, it's not our kid. And finally, maybe a third.
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Take a look at our failing marriages, our growing debt, a life that is without purpose.
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Meanwhile, most of Americans claim our children are just lazy.
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All the while they continue to pile up the unprecedented debt on their shoulders,
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making them effective slaves to a future so we could have whatever we want right now.