The Glenn Beck Program - ＂It's Not The Gun＂ (Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn) - 2⧸22⧸18

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00:00:10.060 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.600 The leading media story everywhere is still Parkland, Florida.

00:00:21.020 The students who are rallying for new gun control laws.

00:00:25.120 CNN, you should be ashamed of yourself.

00:00:26.880 They furthered the spectacle with a town hall last night.

00:00:30.760 And I've got a lot to say about that today.

00:00:36.040 They got to confront congressmen on stage, including Senator Marco Rubio.

00:00:41.860 When the media is not talking about these protests, what are they doing?

00:00:45.880 They are blasting conservatives for daring to criticize something so innocent and so pure.

00:00:52.640 This is being portrayed as grassroots, a student-led movement.

00:00:58.520 It received so much immediate high-profile support and coverage that it is now being propelled by the very non-grassroot sources.

00:01:08.880 I believe it was called AstroTurf.

00:01:13.500 Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg are now matching George Clooney's $500,000 donation to the March for Our Lives.

00:01:23.940 Where are these 16-year-olds cashing that check?

00:01:28.500 What are they writing that check to?

00:01:31.620 The March for Life?

00:01:33.100 Do these 16-year-olds know how they can set up a 501c3?

00:01:39.360 Wow, and that's pretty quick, too.

00:01:42.820 Where is the money going?

00:01:46.020 $2 million.

00:01:47.980 What's it for?

00:01:49.200 Oprah said this gun control movement reminds her of the Freedom Riders in the 1960s.

00:01:57.560 What an insult to the Freedom Riders. 0.69

00:02:02.080 I don't think so, Oprah.

00:02:05.300 This is a big part of America's current problem.

00:02:09.680 Everything is hyperbole.

00:02:11.900 Everything.

00:02:12.720 You put a hashtag onto something, make some signs, print some t-shirts.

00:02:16.840 Everybody loves a cause more than a real conversation.

00:02:20.160 I want to go into CNN, and I want to cheer for my team.

00:02:26.940 Fortunately, parts of America can still tell when something is being artificially whipped up into a frenzy.

00:02:33.600 People are concerned about the safety of their children.

00:02:36.700 We are concerned about what's happening with school shootings.

00:02:41.220 We are very concerned.

00:02:43.400 But you know what?

00:02:47.680 We disagree on what will work.

00:02:51.840 Last night, I have to break the news to you.

00:02:54.080 My guns broke out of the safe last night, and they killed five children in my neighbor's house.

00:03:02.120 I think mom and dad were also killed.

00:03:05.180 I don't know.

00:03:05.740 I don't have all the details.

00:03:06.840 I should have caught it, because I did catch my AR just randomly shooting little animals, and I did nothing.

00:03:19.100 The guns aren't killing people.

00:03:23.340 The guns aren't killing little animals.

00:03:27.280 People are doing that.

00:03:29.340 We have a problem with our soul.

00:03:34.620 The superintendent of the Needville School District, this is outside of Houston, doesn't want any part of all of this stuff.

00:03:41.600 Yesterday, he sent a letter to the district parents announcing that any students who participate in the protest of gun violence during school hours will receive a three-day suspension.

00:03:51.180 He says, life is all about choices, and every choice has a consequence, whether it's positive or negative.

00:03:58.520 A school is a place to learn and grow educationally, emotionally, and morally.

00:04:04.900 A disruption of school will not be tolerated.

00:04:08.440 We're here for an education, not a political protest.

00:04:12.640 Amen.

00:04:13.320 Now, if you want to have your kid protest, just accept the consequence.

00:04:20.760 The superintendent sees this movie.

00:04:22.560 I mean, jeez, I just thought of this.

00:04:25.420 I'm sorry to bring this up, but I bet even the Freedom Riders didn't have any kind of consequence for their action.

00:04:33.640 This superintendent sees this movement for the political storm it has become, and he's trying to head it off at the pass.

00:04:43.420 It's not unreasonable for the head of a school district to try to avoid conflict and maintain order during school hours.

00:04:49.740 Let me ask you this.

00:04:50.980 If the kids would have protested about the unconstitutional activities of our government under Obama, would everybody be tolerating this?

00:05:07.020 Newsflash.

00:05:08.020 Schools have to impose order or you won't be able to have school.

00:05:12.480 Every school handbook is full of student restrictions.

00:05:16.180 So, you could actually have school.

00:05:20.940 But because this is 2018, there are already calls for him to be fired for doing his job.

00:05:27.960 In times of crisis, I think we need to be reminded that it is still legal.

00:05:34.940 At least, what time is it?

00:05:37.520 It's still legal to have a differing opinion.

00:05:46.180 It's Thursday, February 22nd.

00:05:50.920 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:05:53.380 Boy, I did not feel it was legal to have a different opinion last night.

00:05:57.680 Did you?

00:05:59.060 Not in that room.

00:06:00.700 CNN.

00:06:02.580 Let me ask you.

00:06:04.320 CNN, why didn't you do?

00:06:05.660 If you think it's so important for people's voices to be heard,

00:06:09.080 when 50% of the country said,

00:06:13.860 this is wrong, this health care bill is unconstitutional,

00:06:18.780 why didn't you fill a stadium full of Tea Partiers 1.00

00:06:23.300 and then call Nancy Pelosi and the union bosses

00:06:27.740 and the White House to stand on that stage and be berated?

00:06:34.060 This was a witch hunt last night.

00:06:37.000 It was a witch hunt.

00:06:37.660 And you had people who clearly,

00:06:41.400 was there anybody who had the other side that was allowed to speak, really?

00:06:46.260 Without being shouted down?

00:06:48.100 No, not so, no.

00:06:49.140 Rubio and Dana Lash, Rubio at some level,

00:06:51.600 and then Dana Lash for sure, who did a great job.

00:06:54.040 But no, she was not giving any room to actually speak.

00:06:57.360 Of course not.

00:06:58.180 And the crowd was cheering and chanting the entire time.

00:07:02.820 I have to tell you, if I believed in either side,

00:07:07.620 in either side, I was frustrated.

00:07:11.180 Yeah, you got nothing out of that.

00:07:12.700 You got nothing out of that.

00:07:14.060 What you had was a bunch,

00:07:16.160 you had a bunch of teams,

00:07:18.480 and one team was wildly unrepresented in the crowd,

00:07:25.500 and so you had nothing but cheering

00:07:28.360 every time the other side made a point. 0.95

00:07:33.600 And it was just completely ridiculous. 0.94

00:07:35.540 I mean, there was no listening. 0.79

00:07:37.080 For example, Dana was making about making sure

00:07:40.160 when there are huge warning signs and red flags

00:07:42.640 that they are legally required to be put into the database

00:07:46.000 so other states know.

00:07:47.300 So you don't just go to another state,

00:07:49.140 and then that same person who has all sorts of mental problems

00:07:51.540 can go buy a gun in another state, right?

00:07:53.700 That is the basic point that she was making there.

00:07:56.600 And they would boo her for that 0.95

00:07:58.140 because she wasn't saying that she wanted to restrict guns

00:08:01.760 from law-abiding citizens.

00:08:03.500 Now, if you actually care about doing something

00:08:06.760 that can help solve the problem,

00:08:09.160 that solution is completely legitimate and must be done.

00:08:12.500 Nobody cared about any logical explanation on anything.

00:08:20.160 Mental health.

00:08:21.880 Mental health.

00:08:23.100 If you are deemed mentally dangerous to yourself or others,

00:08:28.980 we need a way to report that

00:08:31.920 and have that on the background check.

00:08:36.300 We don't have that.

00:08:38.340 Well, I don't think that criminal and crazy people

00:08:41.460 should have guns.

00:08:42.680 We agree with you.

00:08:44.440 We agree with you.

00:08:45.760 There is no way to get that done.

00:08:48.340 Well, are you saying that you won't take away guns?

00:08:52.020 No, I won't take away guns.

00:08:53.820 I won't take away guns from people who aren't mentally insane.

00:08:57.460 I won't take away guns from people who aren't evil,

00:09:00.640 who are law-abiding citizens.

00:09:02.660 No.

00:09:04.000 You know, here, can you hand me that, please?

00:09:05.880 Can you hand me that gun?

00:09:07.360 I can.

00:09:09.500 It's one of my favorite stories.

00:09:10.960 There was a guy who was out in California,

00:09:14.640 and he decided he had to take off all of his clothes.

00:09:19.600 It's in the 1960s. 0.99

00:09:21.260 He's nuts. 0.71

00:09:22.580 Clothes were not a thing we really needed in the 60s. 0.99

00:09:24.760 No, uh-uh.

00:09:25.340 So in the 1960s, he goes out, and he's shooting birds in California

00:09:30.820 with his shotgun, naked, you know, like all bird hunters do, apparently.

00:09:36.040 You don't really clothe when you're shooting birds.

00:09:37.900 Yeah.

00:09:38.280 He was also...

00:09:39.440 It was a policy of mine.

00:09:40.940 At least I don't know if that's...

00:09:42.060 Am I the only one?

00:09:43.540 Maybe.

00:09:43.940 He was also not, you know, the right season.

00:09:48.700 He was shooting any birds.

00:09:50.740 I mean, there were some real problems.

00:09:52.600 So a neighbor calls and says, 0.90

00:09:54.520 I got a naked hippie, and he is... 0.98

00:09:56.960 He's shooting birds. 0.97

00:09:59.120 So they're like, okay, we'll come pick up the naked hippie. 0.99

00:10:03.500 They came and pick up the naked hippie. 1.00

00:10:05.400 The naked hippie was carrying this gun, okay? 0.96

00:10:09.120 This shotgun. 0.99

00:10:11.160 One shot at a time. 0.98

00:10:13.460 They took this gun away from the naked hippie. 1.00

00:10:17.180 I wish I could say, and everything was solved. 0.93

00:10:20.820 The naked hippie was Charlie Manson. 0.94

00:10:24.300 He found other ways to kill people. 0.98

00:10:26.540 He didn't need the gun. 1.00

00:10:28.260 Crazy people will kill you whether they have a toothpick 1.00

00:10:33.420 or an automatic weapon. 1.00

00:10:36.540 It's not the gun.

00:10:39.560 For instance, I've had this gun for quite a while.

00:10:43.280 I've never killed anybody.

00:10:45.040 Isn't that weird?

00:10:46.060 Because this gun, well, I mean, it didn't kill anybody,

00:10:50.020 but it was killing birds, 0.96

00:10:51.660 and it was in the hands of an insane killer.

00:10:54.860 You'd think some of maybe the insanity would rub off on me, too.

00:10:59.440 It's not the gun.

00:11:01.120 It's not the gun.

00:11:02.280 It's the person and what they decide.

00:11:05.600 And you notice no one was focused on that.

00:11:08.560 Even the sheriff that came in and was talking to Dana.

00:11:12.460 I love Dana.

00:11:14.620 Dana left us to go to work for the NRA,

00:11:17.540 and when she told me she was leaving for the NRA,

00:11:19.660 I was like, go.

00:11:21.020 Go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:11:23.420 We love you here, but protect our Second Amendment rights, please.

00:11:26.820 Could we play the audio of her talking to the red flag failures?

00:11:35.620 It's not that one, I don't think.

00:11:37.040 It's the one where she's talking to the sheriff,

00:11:41.900 and the sheriff is denying some facts,

00:11:46.900 and he's trying to come on strong to Dana and win with the cheers of the audience.

00:11:52.320 Is it 39 visits, Dana's scene in town hall?

00:11:55.900 That's it.

00:11:56.320 Yeah, 39 visits.

00:11:57.360 Okay, here it is.

00:11:58.220 If we feel the totality of the circumstances rises to the level where we're concerned

00:12:03.720 this person might be mentally ill,

00:12:06.100 we need the power to take every firearm they have away from them 0.88

00:12:09.500 and bring them to a mental health facility. 0.51

00:12:11.900 39 visits did not meet that standard?

00:12:15.380 39 visits assaulting students, assaulting parents,

00:12:18.260 taking bullets and knives to school, did that not meet that standard?

00:12:20.920 Well, which are you speaking about specifically?

00:12:23.700 You seem to know about all 39.

00:12:25.020 Well, I know there's one Florida statute where if he's sending messages threatening to kill people,

00:12:32.500 that right there, under Florida state law...

00:12:34.940 Who did he send the message to kill people to?

00:12:37.120 BuzzFeed, AP, Reuters, Yahoo News, all reported that it was to other students.

00:12:40.780 Who was the victim?

00:12:41.900 It was sent to other students.

00:12:43.540 Dana, Reuters can't be a victim.

00:12:45.100 The only person who could be a victim is an individual.

00:12:47.380 Sheriff is what I'm saying.

00:12:47.900 So if an individual was threatened and it was real, that's a crime.

00:12:51.960 Yes, they were threatened with death.

00:12:54.740 They were threatened that they were going to bleed.

00:12:56.800 They were threatened that they were going to be killed.

00:12:58.960 Well, what's your specific case?

00:13:00.880 And he had already taken bullets and knives to school.

00:13:02.780 39.

00:13:03.540 He had already assaulted people.

00:13:05.160 He assaulted his parent.

00:13:06.440 He assaulted other students.

00:13:08.020 39 visits.

00:13:09.060 And this was known to the intelligence and law enforcement community.

00:13:14.720 Now, I'm not saying that you can be everywhere at once, but this is what I'm talking about.

00:13:19.360 We have to follow up on these red flags.

00:13:21.240 You're not the litmus test.

00:13:22.320 Doesn't that meet the standard?

00:13:23.100 You're absolutely not the litmus test for how law enforcement should follow up.

00:13:26.900 You're wrong.

00:13:27.620 There weren't 39 visits.

00:13:29.440 Some of them, they were GOA.

00:13:30.820 Some of them called from other states.

00:13:32.460 To say there were 39 visits, I don't know where you got those facts, but you're completely wrong.

00:13:36.660 Did they report it inaccurately?

00:13:38.120 They reported it inaccurately.

00:13:39.740 I will say the...

00:13:40.520 Okay, hang on just a second.

00:13:41.840 You know who the media was?

00:13:43.020 Yeah.

00:13:43.840 CNN.

00:13:44.600 CNN.

00:13:45.100 CNN.

00:13:45.500 Documents obtained by CNN show that law enforcement officers were responding to this killer's house on 39 occasions.

00:13:52.100 CNN.

00:13:53.280 Jake, where were you last night saying, Sheriff, you're actually wrong.

00:13:59.560 We reported that.

00:14:01.540 You know, they did that during the debates a lot to make sure that people understood.

00:14:08.720 Where was CNN last night making sure that that sheriff was discredited?

00:14:15.720 They were called 39 times.

00:14:19.200 And Dana's point is really the end of this conversation.

00:14:25.420 This kid had law enforcement in his house 39 times.

00:14:32.380 How much more of a red flag do you need?

00:14:35.700 He didn't come out of nowhere.

00:14:38.400 How much more of a red flag?

00:14:41.700 How many more laws do you need? 0.99

00:14:44.780 Jeez, man, they'll take kids who have a class two lookalike firearm, a finger gun, and they'll fingerprint those kids.

00:14:53.880 This guy, 39 times, and they just decide to leave the guns?

00:15:01.700 What other laws can we ignore?

00:15:04.160 I mean, obviously, there's a different cause for each one of these situations that you have to look at.

00:15:09.180 Some of them are Islamic extremism.

00:15:11.220 Some of them are mental illness. 0.82

00:15:13.060 There's been a large range of what these things have been.

00:15:16.620 However, this one blatantly was easily able to be solved because of mental illness.

00:15:24.280 He gave all kinds of signs.

00:15:25.540 This is not the guy from Vegas where there was no trail and no one knew this was coming.

00:15:29.720 This was a blatantly obvious one.

00:15:32.380 He was telling people, and those people told the FBI.

00:15:36.960 This has nothing to do with banning guns at all.

00:15:40.540 Nothing to do with it.

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00:17:05.900 You're not going to change her mind.

00:17:20.300 There's only one way to make America safely.

00:17:22.720 What you're going to have to do, as I said, this young generation, we didn't get it done, but you will get it done.

00:17:29.420 Vote in people who feel the same way you do.

00:17:33.220 This is the eighth tragedy.

00:17:35.600 The eighth tragedy where we have seen numerous tips that have been reported and red flags.

00:17:44.360 I mean, are we talking about prevention or not?

00:17:47.660 I mean, I think it's incredibly important.

00:17:50.180 Keep going.

00:17:50.740 In Charleston, they had to say, they had to come out and say that it was a paperwork error, that this individual was a prohibited possessor.

00:18:00.340 In South Carolina, you have to be charged with a felony, not just convicted, but charged with a felony.

00:18:05.860 And he should have never been able to purchase the firearm.

00:18:09.220 The worst school shooting with the murderer in Virginia, this individual was court-ordered to undergo mental health evaluations.

00:18:17.380 And he slipped through the cracks.

00:18:19.860 He would have never been able to purchase if this had been known.

00:18:23.220 This is what I'm talking about in terms of prevention and making sure that people who are dangerous should not have access to firearms without punishing law-abiding Americans who want to be able to have that same right to defend themselves.

00:18:39.220 So can I ask you a question, two questions?

00:18:43.180 A, how is that not totally reasonable?

00:18:46.980 If you're really trying to stop things, it doesn't necessarily mean you don't also want to ban guns.

00:18:55.280 Right.

00:18:55.400 How is that not logical?

00:18:59.440 I mean, I think you just said it.

00:19:00.480 If you actually are looking for a solution, it is logical.

00:19:03.320 Correct.

00:19:03.740 But of course they're not.

00:19:04.700 They're not.

00:19:05.760 And second question is really for CNN.

00:19:10.960 What did you expect this to be?

00:19:12.920 Yeah.

00:19:13.620 Really, what did you expect this to be when you've invited a crowd of people?

00:19:21.040 Thousands.

00:19:21.360 Who don't agree with anything other than ban the guns.

00:19:28.240 What did you expect?

00:19:30.680 You're going to have a reasonable debate with a mob?

00:19:34.740 This really was really close to a lynch mob for anybody who disagreed.

00:19:41.300 Yeah.

00:19:41.820 I mean, honestly, thank God, you know, they were able to, you know, secure that place because it was that was crazy.

00:19:50.140 That was crazy.

00:19:50.820 Again, like how many times have they, they've had debates before on CNN and what they'll do is they'll have 14 people sitting in chairs and they'll step up and they'll ask questions.

00:20:02.440 That would have been much more, if you wanted to get anything out of that, that would have been a reasoned approach.

00:20:06.380 This was world wrestling.

00:20:07.940 Yeah.

00:20:08.220 That's all that was.

00:20:09.760 You know, where everybody is wearing a tie instead.

00:20:13.060 But make no mistake.

00:20:15.820 You put on a WWE event last night, CNN, not news.

00:20:19.680 Glenn Beck.

00:20:21.480 Mercury.

00:20:21.960 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:34.900 Do you think CNN would have thought it would be helpful, helpful if after 9-11 or, you know what, even after some of the emotion cooled,

00:20:45.100 when the Islamic community wanted to build a mosque at Ground Zero, to hold a town hall where it was an auditorium full of victims' families who all thought alike that it was an insult to have Islam build a mosque at Ground Zero?

00:21:09.380 Do you think they would have thought that that would have been helpful for the dialogue?

00:21:14.800 Let's say we stage it around September 16th, 2001.

00:21:19.600 Yeah.

00:21:20.120 You know, make sure it's really close, really raw.

00:21:22.680 Because I think, honestly, when they actually were building that mosque, it would have been a very respectful room.

00:21:26.780 I'm not so sure.

00:21:28.180 I think it probably would have been.

00:21:30.040 You know, but still, you're right.

00:21:31.760 Maybe it wouldn't have been.

00:21:32.580 You put it right five days after it when it's as raw as possible.

00:21:35.840 And that's the thing.

00:21:36.460 They're just using these kids to build an emotional case for a policy they've been asking for forever.

00:21:44.280 It's despicable what they're doing.

00:21:47.380 You know, you look at, and I heard that one of the kids was on CNN or something this morning, and they were like, oh, well, people are saying you're being used by the media.

00:21:55.980 Are you being used by the media?

00:21:58.200 No, of course not. 0.97

00:21:59.320 That's ridiculous.

00:22:00.620 Well, no one knows they're being used or admits to being used by the media. 0.91

00:22:05.320 When you're 16 years old, you might not pick that up perfectly.

00:22:09.500 For example, has anyone from the media or anyone from the advocacy groups backing these people sat these kids down and said, hey, by the way, the most extreme policy that you're advocating for when you go on television every day will not take one gun off the street.

00:22:26.040 All it will do is limit future purchases.

00:22:30.700 So all the 330 million guns still existing in America would all still be there.

00:22:37.880 By the way, all the other types of guns would still be able to be purchased.

00:22:43.000 By the way, now this is what I'm talking about, the actual assault weapons ban.

00:22:48.240 By the way, so you're talking about 300, instead of 350 million in a number of years, you maybe you'd have 349 million.

00:22:56.220 But take into account that an AR-15 costs $2,000.

00:22:59.600 If you're someone who wants to go buy a gun and you have $2,000 to spend on a gun and then you buy your handgun instead and it costs $400, what are you going to do with that other $1,600?

00:23:09.260 Likely you're going to buy multiple guns.

00:23:11.460 So there is a good chance that this policy will actually increase the number of future guns and it's impossible for it to lower the amount of guns.

00:23:21.160 And yet every one of those kids goes up and says, we need to get these guns off the streets.

00:23:24.820 You're not getting any guns off the streets.

00:23:26.820 Has anyone explained that to them?

00:23:29.160 Of course not.

00:23:29.720 Of course not.

00:23:30.440 Of course not.

00:23:30.860 Because they just want the emotion from these kids.

00:23:33.180 And I don't care.

00:23:34.080 I think it's actually worse than what you say, because it's also not going to stop the sale of those guns.

00:23:40.980 It's going to change the rail of the gun.

00:23:44.800 It's going to change, you know, the part underneath the barrel.

00:23:48.080 Yeah.

00:23:48.540 That you hold on to that is spooky looking because it's black and it's plastic in it.

00:23:52.800 Oh, just put wood on that. 0.99

00:23:56.060 That's it.

00:23:56.480 And there's other modifications that would need to be made, right?

00:23:59.280 It's not just wood.

00:24:00.640 But that's a big part of it.

00:24:03.840 Define automatic weapon.

00:24:05.660 Or semi, I mean, sorry, assault rifle.

00:24:08.440 Right.

00:24:08.960 Define an assault rifle.

00:24:10.360 They have, you know, they did do an assault weapons ban here in the United States in the 90s.

00:24:16.060 And what happened was there was tons of guns that looked at the restrictions and then they just came out that were slightly different.

00:24:20.960 Yep.

00:24:21.320 And they were able to get around the music.

00:24:23.060 So if you want to get a semi-automatic rifle, then you're talking about a semi-automatic rifle ban.

00:24:30.500 But if you're talking about an assault rifle, what is an assault rifle?

00:24:34.980 Yeah, this has been, it's so annoying.

00:24:37.200 Every rifle is an assault rifle.

00:24:40.020 Every handgun is an assault handgun.

00:24:42.720 Every knife can be an assault knife.

00:24:45.240 An assault is something you do with something.

00:24:47.460 It's not, there's no category like that.

00:24:50.560 The same thing.

00:24:51.220 Weapons of war is their new one.

00:24:52.740 Weapons of war.

00:24:53.360 Yeah, because no one's ever used a handgun in war.

00:24:56.040 There's never been any, they used to put knives at the ends of guns so you could stab people with them.

00:25:01.080 And they still do at times.

00:25:02.680 Every weapon can be a weapon of war.

00:25:05.300 Right?

00:25:05.780 Like, how is the Islamic State advocating, completing their war on people in Europe? 0.97

00:25:12.700 By running them over at street fairs.

00:25:15.400 That is a weapon of war to the Islamic State.

00:25:18.320 These terms mean nothing.

00:25:19.760 They are just designed to make you feel emotional so that you will advocate for the policy.

00:25:26.720 And honestly, more than that, you will garner donations to Democrats and left-wing progressive activist groups so that they can gain more power.

00:25:36.820 It has nothing to do with these victims, and it's terrible to see them treated this way.

00:25:41.220 So I want to play a couple of things.

00:25:43.060 And next hour, Bill O'Reilly is joining us with his take on this.

00:25:47.120 And we'll go into a little bit of what Senator Rubio had to deal with and what he said.

00:25:52.120 Bill O'Reilly never has anything to talk about with CNN.

00:25:53.920 No, he really doesn't.

00:25:54.960 Especially when CNN's on the table.

00:25:56.660 I don't think he'll have any criticism.

00:25:58.380 He loves them.

00:25:58.700 He does.

00:25:59.060 Yeah, he does.

00:25:59.700 He loves them.

00:26:00.700 So let me, you know what's amazing?

00:26:03.620 I am probably the biggest, the only defender of CNN and Jake Tapper.

00:26:09.900 However, I defend them all the time when I think they're right.

00:26:14.280 This is, there is no excuse for what is happening right now.

00:26:18.280 They are, they are 100% in the bag for this agenda.

00:26:24.160 There is.

00:26:24.700 It's outward advocacy.

00:26:26.100 Not for, I wouldn't say from Jake Tapper, by the way.

00:26:27.980 I mean, that event was, and then the way it was set up was, I wouldn't say.

00:26:32.020 Can you imagine?

00:26:32.640 Imagine.

00:26:33.220 Imagine.

00:26:33.360 Imagine.

00:26:33.500 Imagine.

00:26:35.180 Let's have a, let's, let's, let's have a real debate.

00:26:37.820 You know, you know, people really need to be heard.

00:26:41.160 So let's bring the Tea Party in with all of the leaders of the Obama administration.

00:26:46.520 And let's put them in an arena. 0.96

00:26:50.340 And we'll, we'll make them like the Christians and we'll fill the place with lions. 1.00

00:26:54.560 And let's put them down. 0.99

00:26:56.220 Let's put them down there.

00:26:57.060 And then, you know, we're going to let them be heard.

00:26:59.100 And you can respond, Obama administration.

00:27:01.640 You can respond to everything they're saying.

00:27:04.380 And then we're going to end the show.

00:27:06.620 They've, they're going to read a couple of poems and they're going to sing a song.

00:27:10.700 Do you think CNN would have allowed that orchestration to happen?

00:27:15.920 I mean, let's look at even more recent history.

00:27:18.680 Remember how critical they were of Trump rallies when they would start screaming things about

00:27:24.080 the enemies, when, when people would start chanting things.

00:27:27.600 Uh, can you imagine you just put, uh, you know, put the opposing side of that argument

00:27:33.260 up in front of an entire rowdy Trump crowd, uh, that, and then have them come out and be

00:27:38.260 able to sing their, you know, country music ballad at the end of it that praises Donald

00:27:42.220 Trump.

00:27:42.720 I mean, it wouldn't, it's incomprehensible, real propaganda.

00:27:47.100 It's incomprehensible.

00:27:47.840 They act as if the only there's the, they act as if everybody knows that what we need

00:27:54.000 to do to save children is ban guns.

00:27:56.160 Right.

00:27:56.580 And, and the only reason that people aren't doing that is because they just want whatever

00:28:02.060 NRA money.

00:28:03.220 Right.

00:28:03.820 So every question is asked with that, that, that sort of current under it.

00:28:09.140 It's like, well, I mean, what point are these politicians in Washington finally going to,

00:28:13.920 to just watch, just do some point, are you going to understand the constitution?

00:28:20.100 This isn't about guns.

00:28:21.880 This is about rights.

00:28:23.860 The constitution of the United States.

00:28:26.220 It's number two on the top 10.

00:28:29.840 It's number two.

00:28:31.020 Yeah.

00:28:31.800 They see freedom of speech.

00:28:33.340 Oh, you got that down.

00:28:34.520 Well, not really.

00:28:35.340 Not if you disagree.

00:28:36.980 No.

00:28:37.460 Okay.

00:28:37.780 So freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

00:28:41.200 They don't have that one down.

00:28:42.240 You lose the first amendment.

00:28:45.020 If you lose the second amendment, you lose all the amendments.

00:28:48.260 If you lose the second amendment, that's why it's there.

00:28:50.560 So you don't lose all the other ones.

00:28:52.480 No, it's for hunting.

00:28:53.700 Oh yeah.

00:28:54.020 That's right.

00:28:54.600 Let me, let me play two quick clips from Dana last night who God bless her. 1.00

00:29:01.800 If there's anyone who could have pulled this off, it was Dana.

00:29:05.260 Thank God she's there.

00:29:06.080 Oh yeah.

00:29:06.520 Uh, so here she is trying to defend the second amendment when a teacher stands up. 1.00

00:29:13.200 Oh, this issue is this issue is about making sure that we're protecting innocent lives.

00:29:20.820 No innocent lives should be lost.

00:29:24.900 None of them should.

00:29:26.040 When the second amendment was ratified, they were talking about muskets. 0.86

00:29:30.820 We're knocking about muskets. 1.00

00:29:32.600 We're talking about assault weapons.

00:29:34.480 We're talking about weapons that of mass destruction that killed people.

00:29:39.280 Weapons of mass destruction.

00:29:44.060 Dana waits.

00:29:45.120 She obviously knows the answer to this.

00:29:46.440 She's just waiting there, pausing, letting the crowd die down, who think that the teacher's won.

00:29:54.560 What?

00:29:55.600 What?

00:29:55.980 Wait, are you going to play the rest?

00:29:57.800 And I want to know, what is your definition?

00:30:01.140 Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

00:30:03.060 Can you play the rest of that clip?

00:30:04.700 Can you get Mike to play the rest of that clip?

00:30:07.420 Because we didn't get her answer.

00:30:09.000 We didn't get her answer there.

00:30:10.660 The point of that one.

00:30:11.440 Should we try this militia one?

00:30:12.600 Yeah, play the asking about the militia.

00:30:14.780 Same type of clip.

00:30:15.260 And I want to know.

00:30:16.440 What is your definition of a well-regulated militia?

00:30:21.420 As stated in the Second Amendment, and using supporting detail, explain to me.

00:30:29.720 Oh! 0.60

00:30:31.160 She's got her!

00:30:32.620 She's a teacher! 1.00

00:30:33.360 She's got her!

00:30:34.000 She's treating her like a student.

00:30:35.600 She's going!

00:30:35.680 And using supporting detail, explain to me how an 18-year-old with a military rifle is well-regulated.

00:30:47.560 And the world, our country, our nation, is going to grade your answer.

00:30:51.960 See?

00:30:52.840 She's going to grade your answer.

00:30:55.180 Uh-oh.

00:30:56.600 See?

00:30:57.260 She's got her.

00:30:57.920 Now, and I want to say, as well, I can't, I, as a parent, I see my kids and these students.

00:31:05.700 I see my kids and the students that are here today.

00:31:07.440 Oh, she's just, she's stalling.

00:31:09.800 I'm not going to pretend to understand what you went through.

00:31:12.800 I, I, there are no words for it.

00:31:14.400 It's monstrous, and no, nobody should have to endure that.

00:31:18.200 I want to answer your question.

00:31:19.860 George Mason was one of the founders, and he said, the militia is the whole of the people.

00:31:23.920 It's every man, it's every woman.

00:31:25.660 That is who the militia is.

00:31:26.920 In the context of the time, a well-regulated militia meant an American man, an American woman,

00:31:32.340 a citizen of the United States of America, who could operate and service their firearm.

00:31:38.260 She just caught, you know, other than that, having that little fact that this teacher,

00:31:43.040 I don't even know if this teacher had, but this teacher was trying to use intimidation.

00:31:49.220 Yeah.

00:31:49.400 I mean, this was a, prove you're not a witch. 0.76

00:31:53.280 Exactly.

00:31:53.580 Prove you're not a witch.

00:31:54.400 And grade her answer, that would be an A+.

00:31:56.140 Yeah.

00:31:56.760 Because she, remember, she is, this is a woman who has written multiple bestsellers on this topic.

00:32:03.660 Yeah.

00:32:04.320 This is, you're not going to get over with the militia argument, which, by the way, was ruled

00:32:08.860 on, by the Supreme Court, twice, and both times, they said exactly what Dana said.

00:32:14.800 Uh, man, you know what it looks like?

00:32:17.880 I'm sorry to say this, it looks like the teacher didn't do their homework.

00:32:23.360 It's kind of a basic thing, know how somebody's going to answer before you ask the question.

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00:33:50.320 Glenn Beck.

00:33:52.200 Mercury.

00:34:05.960 Glenn Beck.

00:34:07.160 When the Second Amendment was ratified, they were talking about muskets. 0.96

00:34:12.240 We're not talking about muskets. 1.00

00:34:13.940 We're talking about assault weapons.

00:34:15.820 We're talking about weapons of mass destruction that killed people.

00:34:22.440 At the time, there were fully automatic firearms that were available, the Belton gun and the

00:34:26.760 Puckle gun.

00:34:27.400 And in fact, the Continental Congress reviewed a purchase of one of those firearms for the-

00:34:32.160 Don't make it right.

00:34:33.500 Well, what I'm saying is not more than just muskets available. 0.97

00:34:36.980 We don't say that no one has a right to free speech because of Twitter or social media.

00:34:43.500 But the point that you raised, and I think it's a good one, and I know what you're saying.

00:34:48.860 And believe me, I understand that.

00:34:51.740 I think all innocent lives should be protected.

00:34:54.000 I don't think that you should have ever had to gone through that.

00:34:56.140 But if I could change time and change circumstances, I would have done everything in my power

00:35:01.660 to prevent that.

00:35:04.760 Except take-

00:35:06.380 Wait, wait, wait.

00:35:07.200 What would that have been?

00:35:08.280 What would that have been?

00:35:09.140 If I could change time, what would you do?

00:35:12.400 What would you do?

00:35:13.000 Uh, probably put him in prison.

00:35:17.040 Put him in prison or remove the guns from his house.

00:35:20.660 Right, yeah.

00:35:21.400 Right?

00:35:21.820 You wouldn't go change time and then take all AR, you know, ARs off the market.

00:35:27.460 You wouldn't have done that.

00:35:28.460 No.

00:35:28.620 It wouldn't have changed anything.

00:35:29.800 If you could go back, you would do exactly what the FBI and the police should have done.

00:35:37.080 Yeah, you're right.

00:35:37.720 I mean, and if you look at it this way, everything that they said that had to do with gun control

00:35:43.480 got wild applause.

00:35:45.240 And it was the only acceptable answer from anyone on the stage, Democrat, Republican,

00:35:49.700 NRA, any of them.

00:35:50.800 The only acceptable response was we're going to tighten gun laws and implement gun control.

00:35:56.740 Let's just take this into another situation.

00:35:59.080 Let's say the same amount of people, 17 people, died by the same killer, except that killer

00:36:05.220 instead used a bomb.

00:36:06.560 Would they have had a forum for that?

00:36:09.180 Would CNN have even put it on TV?

00:36:10.840 Would they have all got around and talked to people about controlling explosives?

00:36:15.640 No.

00:36:16.540 This had nothing to do with the actual attack, with the exception of they're using the emotion

00:36:21.760 as fuel.

00:36:22.400 If this would have been done by a Islamic extremism in a nightclub, would they have this conversation

00:36:36.920 as well?

00:36:38.080 I don't even think so, because they wouldn't want to have highlighted that it was a Muslim

00:36:43.440 extremist.

00:36:44.120 Yeah, I mean, they may have done a gun debate after the pulse thing.

00:36:49.320 I don't remember.

00:36:50.680 I know we talked about a gun thing, but we were not allowed to even talk about Muslim extremism.

00:36:58.000 Right.

00:36:58.180 Like, the equivalent here is taking an Islamic extremist, right? 0.92

00:37:02.660 You're going in there, and then you're taking people who are viscerally against Islam or Islamic

00:37:09.920 extremism surrounding the mullahs, right?

00:37:13.740 And having them... 0.99

00:37:16.180 To the point to where they're saying all Muslims should be removed. 1.00

00:37:19.880 Right. 1.00

00:37:20.720 No.

00:37:21.880 No.

00:37:22.740 No.

00:37:24.360 Back in a minute with Bill O'Reilly.

00:37:33.020 Glenn Beck.

00:37:35.020 Mercury.

00:37:40.800 Love.

00:37:42.020 Courage.

00:37:43.760 Truth.

00:37:45.440 Glenn.

00:37:46.560 Back.

00:37:47.340 I was so disappointed with the town hall last night.

00:37:51.040 I don't think it did anything but make people on both sides of the issue really angry.

00:37:55.740 We didn't get any answers.

00:37:57.180 We didn't further the conversation.

00:37:59.500 It was a world wrestling event.

00:38:02.940 At least that's the way it felt to me.

00:38:04.800 But since CNN decided that this was their journalistic duty, I would like to cover a few

00:38:12.000 things with CNN.

00:38:13.140 First, let's start with the definition of hypocrisy. 0.97

00:38:17.440 Hypocrisy.

00:38:17.840 The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does

00:38:23.660 not conform.

00:38:24.460 Now, that's what the dictionary says.

00:38:26.160 Now, that's what the dictionary says.

00:38:27.760 But let me give you the actual audio clip of hypocrisy.

00:38:32.160 If I would like to, you know, if we want to explain it and have people understand it,

00:38:36.200 you know, people in the press.

00:38:37.280 Let's play the video of the incredibly brave CNN reporter that actually had the courage

00:38:44.700 to get into the face of a woman twice his age in front of what looks like her home.

00:38:51.160 Listen.

00:38:52.140 Being patriotic was the group that contacted and helped organize some of these activities

00:38:56.820 that you posted on your own Facebook account.

00:38:59.820 Those were legitimate.

00:39:01.460 Those were Russians.

00:39:02.980 They were not Russians.

00:39:04.040 I don't go with the Russians. 1.00

00:39:05.740 That group was Russian.

00:39:07.700 I have nothing to do with the Russians. 0.98

00:39:09.660 Well, apparently you did.

00:39:11.220 No.

00:39:11.980 Maybe you didn't know it, but you did.

00:39:13.960 Oh, my gosh.

00:39:16.040 Now, CNN was calling out this Florida woman for unwittingly promoting a Russian-coordinated 1.00

00:39:20.840 pro-Trump rally via Facebook.

00:39:23.020 The group he's referring to, Being Patriotic, was identified by the Mueller indictment as

00:39:28.600 part of Russia's operation to influence the election.

00:39:32.160 As per the indictment, Being Patriotic began reaching out to U.S. citizens in Florida around

00:39:38.280 July 2016 to help organize a Florida-goes-Trump rally later in the month.

00:39:43.140 The Russians, posing as Trump supporters here in the U.S., dupe people, like this Florida 0.99

00:39:48.640 woman, into promoting the event on Facebook.

00:39:51.760 Now, here's where that word hypocrisy comes in.

00:39:56.280 What exactly does CNN consider, quote, promoting a Russian-coordinated event?

00:40:02.920 Because if promoting means giving attention to a Russian-organized political rally, how

00:40:10.260 does CNN exactly explain this on November 12th?

00:40:14.900 After they pointed in that direction, they yelled, we're not going to be tolerating any

00:40:20.700 sexism or homophobia or racism.

00:40:23.860 And that is really the message.

00:40:25.600 All of sort of these protesters coming together, frustrated, angry, and all directed at the

00:40:31.260 president-elect.

00:40:32.200 Wow, that's weird.

00:40:33.160 That's CNN's coverage of the Trump-is-not-my-president rally in New York that happened on November

00:40:38.920 12th.

00:40:40.500 Both CNN and MSNBC reported nearly nonstop live updates throughout the rally every single

00:40:49.120 hour.

00:40:49.800 Michael Moore was even seen front and center marching with the horde.

00:40:54.040 So now what do we have here?

00:40:55.860 Page 23 of the Russia indictment fingers that specific rally as one of those organized by

00:41:03.480 the Russians.

00:41:05.100 CNN has an audience of almost 354 million households worldwide.

00:41:11.820 The lady in Florida, I've never seen her before, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a global 0.56

00:41:16.360 network in her backyard.

00:41:17.720 Is promoting a Russian, promoting Russian propaganda, spewing it on television, saying what that rally

00:41:26.300 is all about to several hundred million people, not a little worse than the few thousand that

00:41:33.340 this woman in Florida might have unwittingly reached in Facebook.

00:41:37.940 I want to make sure that we're not comparing apples to bananas.

00:41:42.580 They're both supporting a Russian operation.

00:41:50.000 Maybe CNN was just blinded by their incredible courage, but it seems to me they kind of miss

00:41:57.840 that sequoia-sized plank in their own eye. 0.95

00:42:02.240 The hypocrisy with these people is too much to bear. 0.55

00:42:06.100 But since they're doxing people that were unwittingly caught up in all of this, I wonder,

00:42:11.040 will they be knocking on the door of Michael Moore's Michigan mansion?

00:42:25.000 It's Thursday, February 22nd.

00:42:28.060 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:30.820 We have the one, the only, Mr. Bill O'Reilly joining us now.

00:42:34.560 Hello, Bill.

00:42:36.080 Beck, how you doing, man?

00:42:37.340 I'm very good.

00:42:38.820 CNN.

00:42:39.540 Are you okay?

00:42:40.000 I'm good.

00:42:41.420 I was a little frustrated last night with the CNN debacle, but they are claiming that

00:42:47.700 you will not come out and take a stand against those who are saying that these kids are nothing

00:42:57.840 but, you know, actors.

00:43:00.280 Well, I said on Bill O'Reilly.com yesterday that I had to watch it because it's my job

00:43:06.200 so that my listeners don't have to watch the CNN thing.

00:43:10.200 But I didn't expect anything other than a very sharp pro-government point of view in the sense of controlling weapons.

00:43:20.640 So, you know, you were absolutely right when you said, okay, what do we get out of that?

00:43:27.020 And we didn't get anything.

00:43:28.100 We got a bunch of empty rhetoric.

00:43:29.680 Not to criticize the kids.

00:43:31.100 Some of the kids are sincere.

00:43:32.280 Some of them are being used.

00:43:33.940 I mean, it's the same thing with adults.

00:43:35.620 Some are adulterous, sincere.

00:43:36.960 Some are being used.

00:43:37.880 I thought it was useless to basically talk about things that are unrealistic. 0.63

00:43:47.180 There are things that we can do to make it more difficult for people to kill and maim Americans. 0.97

00:43:55.200 Did you notice, Bill, that no one was interested in anything else other than banning guns?

00:44:03.160 Well, you know, they don't even know what that means, the kids I'm talking about.

00:44:07.080 The far left, obviously, wants the government to have as much control over our lives as possible.

00:44:12.600 And one of the ways the government would have control is to disarm the population so the population could not defend itself.

00:44:19.660 That's never going to happen in this country, ever.

00:44:23.500 It's just unconstitutional, and there's no way it's going to happen unless there's a coup d'etat.

00:44:28.680 But in a democracy, it's not going to happen.

00:44:30.740 All the polls say that Americans don't want the government confiscating all weapons.

00:44:36.320 But it gets worse than that, though.

00:44:39.640 It's basically using children, teenagers, traumatized kids from Broward County, Florida, to spout things that they don't understand.

00:44:50.220 And you can't challenge the student or the teenager.

00:44:54.200 If you're a broadcaster, you can't say, well, do you really know the history of this?

00:44:58.060 Or, well, do you know the unintended consequences of doing something like that?

00:45:02.180 Because then you're bullying them.

00:45:05.140 You see?

00:45:05.860 This is paramount for your audience to understand.

00:45:09.360 The techniques of the left have changed in the last 12 months to say that if you support Donald Trump, you're a white supremacist.

00:45:17.020 If you support having Americans be able to arm themselves, then you're supporting the killer in Broward County. 0.99

00:45:26.760 If you criticize LeBron James for saying that Trump doesn't care about anybody, you're a racist.

00:45:33.040 You see what it is? 0.99

00:45:34.160 It's a demonization across the board that if you object to any left-wing policies, then you're a horrible, horrendous person. 0.90

00:45:42.980 That's what's happening here.

00:45:44.860 And the kids in the forefront are illuminating that.

00:45:49.120 So let me go back to the original question because I don't even think you understand it.

00:45:52.060 Because I don't think you pay attention to it.

00:45:54.600 Because honestly, I wouldn't have paid attention to it.

00:45:56.340 Because it comes from places like the Gateway Pundit, which has absolutely zero credibility.

00:46:02.120 There are people now on the fringes, like Gateway Pundit and obviously Alex Jones, that are saying that these kids are all crisis actors.

00:46:14.040 No, I don't believe that.

00:46:15.540 Yeah.

00:46:15.820 I don't think there's a coordinated effort to mass bus kids' places so they can act up.

00:46:26.080 I think that there is a peer pressure, and this is, again, very important, a peer pressure on teenagers to be anti-gun at this point in history.

00:46:36.960 And peer pressure is everything in the teenage world.

00:46:40.680 So let me take that a step further.

00:46:44.020 Who is George Clooney writing a $500,000 check to?

00:46:48.100 Who is Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey matching that?

00:46:51.500 They've raised now $2 million.

00:46:53.720 Right, right.

00:46:54.500 Where is that money going?

00:46:56.460 Yeah, what this is, and that's an excellent question, Beck.

00:46:59.080 You really recovered from the flu nice.

00:47:01.280 Yeah, thank you very much.

00:47:02.560 You're not delirious any longer.

00:47:04.040 Yeah, well.

00:47:04.880 It's an excellent question.

00:47:06.360 So what this is all about is the, it's the, like the Women's March.

00:47:11.220 Yes.

00:47:11.600 It's absolutely identical to the Women's March.

00:47:15.160 What was the Women's March? 0.99

00:47:16.740 That was an anti-Trump extravaganza.

00:47:19.440 So if pro-life women wanted to march, they couldn't. 1.00

00:47:25.640 Remember that?

00:47:26.680 They were told, go home.

00:47:28.380 If you believe in, you know, abortion control, we don't want you.

00:47:34.440 So forget about the women thing. 0.95

00:47:35.820 That just blew up.

00:47:37.080 So it was essentially the Women's March was, we hate Trump. 1.00

00:47:39.720 So what this march is coming up is that anyone who believes in Second Amendment rights is a fascist and a sympathizer with mass murderers. 0.93

00:47:51.240 That's what this march is about.

00:47:53.140 But wouldn't that, I mean, if you know anything about fascism, wouldn't that be more along the lines of the definition of fascism?

00:48:02.320 But then you're going behind the curtain, see, and most Americans aren't going to do that.

00:48:06.600 What they're going to see is they're going to mobilize millions of people.

00:48:09.960 And believe me, George Soros' money will be behind this.

00:48:12.360 All the far-left money will be behind this.

00:48:14.620 Clooney's a far-left guy.

00:48:15.880 Everybody knows that.

00:48:16.640 That doesn't mean that they're hiring these kids.

00:48:20.560 It means they're supporting their cause and helping get the word out, et cetera, et cetera.

00:48:26.240 The kids are pawns.

00:48:27.980 The kids are being used to affront a movement to severely restrict weaponry in America.

00:48:39.960 So the kids are being used as the poster people for that.

00:48:43.860 And the kids don't know it.

00:48:45.600 And they don't know the complicated nature of the issue.

00:48:49.240 They don't know unintended consequences.

00:48:51.160 They don't know any of that.

00:48:51.960 But if you said to me, hey, Sidney, do you really know, then you'd be a bully.

00:48:58.000 So that's why you see no commentators on any network challenging any student who says anything.

00:49:03.000 Do you think that CNN was acting responsibly last night?

00:49:11.260 Well, I mean, CNN has a right to put on whatever they want.

00:49:14.500 And they knew they were going to get a big audience, and they did.

00:49:16.880 And CNN is fervently, word of the day, fervently liberal.

00:49:25.740 I mean, this is to the point of outward advocacy.

00:49:28.280 They're in business to promote left-wing causes, and so is MSNBC and NBC.

00:49:33.940 Have you noticed, though, a difference here, Bill, with this debate, though, that they're always left-leaning?

00:49:39.080 There's always an undercurrent of liberal leaning.

00:49:41.820 Yeah, but now they're activists.

00:49:41.920 This is activism.

00:49:42.960 Yes, now they've taken the next step, and they're always left-leaning.

00:49:48.780 They're always biased to the left and doing little things to promote a point of view that would advance liberalism.

00:49:55.860 But now they say, you know, that didn't really work.

00:49:58.580 Look who we have in the White House.

00:50:00.320 That didn't work.

00:50:01.400 So now we're going to be activists.

00:50:02.860 We're going to be using our power and our influence to change policy and to move the country into a left-wing situation.

00:50:11.960 And one of the strategies of that is to destroy anyone individually who speaks up against it.

00:50:20.620 And that's why you saw the attacks on Laura Ingraham.

00:50:23.480 All right, that's why you saw the attacks on me.

00:50:26.920 Because if you can marginalize those people, then everybody else is shut up.

00:50:30.940 Do you know, and I said this on BillOReilly.com last night, and I was the only one that stuck up for Laura Ingraham and told America that she isn't a racist.

00:50:41.080 I've known a woman for two decades.

00:50:42.540 She's not a racist.

00:50:43.980 She's clearly not a racist. 0.90

00:50:44.900 And I made a big deal out of saying that.

00:50:47.000 But even her own network didn't do it.

00:50:49.860 I mean, because they're afraid.

00:50:51.880 They're afraid of being branded racist.

00:50:54.800 So it's working.

00:50:56.160 What the far left is doing is absolutely working.

00:50:58.780 And the kids in Florida are just the latest, just the latest in the strategy to make it impossible to hear both sides of the story.

00:51:11.460 CNN doesn't want both sides of the story.

00:51:13.540 Come on, it's a joke.

00:51:14.320 So we're going to pick it up next with, so what happens next?

00:51:19.300 Where are we headed?

00:51:21.000 What are we headed for?

00:51:22.120 And what's Bill's idea of the best way to avoid trouble?

00:51:30.180 By the way, you can get commentary like that every day at BillOReilly.com.

00:51:35.660 Not for free, though.

00:51:36.820 Well, you should subscribe.

00:51:38.600 He's got all sorts of great packages.

00:51:40.220 It's BillOReilly.com.

00:51:42.220 BillOReilly.com is where you would go for that.

00:51:45.040 Thank you very much, Stu.

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00:53:00.380 Bill O'Reilly, how do you...

00:53:03.860 I know you don't like to do future predictions, but what are we headed for?

00:53:10.620 Another couple of shootings like this, and we'll be tearing each other apart.

00:53:17.040 Yeah, I think that can be avoided by legislation that concentrates on harm reduction.

00:53:26.740 Harm reduction.

00:53:27.940 For example, there is no reason why any American should be allowed to buy a gun under the age of 21.

00:53:39.060 It's scientifically proven that your personality is not formed until you're 25,

00:53:43.680 and deadly weapons can lead to all kinds of bad things, so you raise the gun purchase to 21.

00:53:53.520 Then you have a universal background check law, all right, so that people who have done bad things in Idaho

00:54:00.660 and they try to buy a gun in Virginia, the Virginians know that.

00:54:05.300 Those are just harm reduction, common sense, and yeah, I mean, you're going to get a little bit of opposition, but not much.

00:54:12.400 So those can be passed.

00:54:13.980 And then the states have got to swing into action.

00:54:16.280 I mean, Beck, you live in Texas, correct?

00:54:18.720 All right, I live in New York.

00:54:20.740 Is there any reason that both states cannot mandate that every public school have two or three armed guards on campus

00:54:27.340 based on the population of the school?

00:54:30.160 No.

00:54:30.520 They have to have them.

00:54:31.860 Those are salaries paid for, just like teacher salaries, just like coaching salaries.

00:54:36.920 You have armed guards on campus, and you have them there for 10 hours or wherever you need them,

00:54:41.960 whenever the kids are there.

00:54:43.480 Why don't we have that law? 0.99

00:54:45.100 Why isn't that happening?

00:54:46.160 This is called harm reduction, and there are very few downsides to this, okay?

00:54:51.740 It's logical.

00:54:53.100 And then once you do that, and particularly with the armed guards in the schools,

00:54:56.800 you make it 1,000 times harder for a guy to walk in and do this kind of carnage.

00:55:01.680 And so to me, I do this kind of legislative stuff, and then you're never going to stop all of these crazy massacres ever,

00:55:11.340 but you'll be able to cut them down, and you'll be able to say to the American people,

00:55:16.240 we are trying.

00:55:18.240 We are doing what we can do.

00:55:20.160 And none of this intrudes, by the way, in the right for American adults to protect themselves.

00:55:26.720 None of it intrudes.

00:55:27.660 So let's do it.

00:55:28.320 So there's a couple of things that I want to ask you about.

00:55:32.480 First, I noticed that you didn't, that's not delving into the root of the problem.

00:55:37.660 I mean, those are all good suggestions, but it's not delving into the root of the problem.

00:55:41.220 There's harm reduction.

00:55:42.180 There's harm reduction.

00:55:43.500 Reduce harm.

00:55:44.560 But there is something wrong with us, Bill.

00:55:48.400 There's something wrong with our society.

00:55:50.600 There is a hole.

00:55:51.540 Of course there is.

00:55:52.020 Of course.

00:55:52.680 And we have talked about it, you and I have talked about it, for the last 10 months.

00:55:56.380 You know, the spirit of the country is depressed and divided.

00:56:03.160 And now, instead of respecting other people's opinions that differ from your own, we hate them.

00:56:09.080 And this is being driven by a mass media and the Internet, which is hateful.

00:56:14.980 You can't get away with it, from it.

00:56:17.580 You can't get away from it.

00:56:19.220 You turn on the cable news, it's hate.

00:56:21.980 You turn on the computers and you read the Facebook comments, it's hate.

00:56:26.400 So, of course, that's going to find its way into the daily interactions between Americans.

00:56:33.260 But I still believe that most people are essentially good people, reasonable people.

00:56:39.560 But I think our leadership is weak, and we don't have people explaining, you know, harm reduction.

00:56:47.000 We don't have people like that.

00:56:48.300 What do you think about Trump's suggestion that we arm teachers?

00:56:53.380 No.

00:56:54.140 I'm a former teacher.

00:56:55.800 I had enough time, problem, you know, persuading the urchins to pay attention. 1.00

00:57:02.100 And I don't want to point a magnum at them.

00:57:04.740 You know, I don't think that's what he's, I don't think that's what he had in mind.

00:57:08.660 Right.

00:57:09.540 Oh, I see.

00:57:10.680 No, teachers need to teach, armed security personnel need to maintain order.

00:57:17.940 Okay, that's not hard.

00:57:19.140 That seems like the most logical thing.

00:57:20.900 People keep saying, this is going to be a, it's going to feel like you're in a police state.

00:57:25.320 Do you feel like a police state when you go into a bank, or when you go to an NBA game?

00:57:29.240 I don't feel like I'm in the middle of a police state when I go see the Mavericks.

00:57:32.200 You go through a metal detector, you don't have guns.

00:57:34.420 There are armed security there to protect the people.

00:57:36.160 You feel safe.

00:57:37.600 Yeah, feel safe.

00:57:38.060 And you're allowed to then enjoy the game, or, I don't know, learn, or make out for the first time.

00:57:44.000 I don't know what you do in school anymore, but I don't think it's learning.

00:57:51.440 Glenn Beck.

00:57:53.380 Mercury.

00:58:03.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:04.860 Wayne LaPierre is currently speaking at CPAC, and he is on a roll.

00:58:12.540 Real freedom requires protection of all of our rights.

00:58:15.520 He has been talking for about 10 minutes about the socialists that are coming after all of our rights.

00:58:23.400 Bill, any off-the-cuff response to that?

00:58:28.440 I think LaPierre makes stronger points when he stays away from ideology.

00:58:34.860 You know, the socialist thing, I don't think that helps him.

00:58:39.000 What he did in the beginning of his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland

00:58:46.520 was effective in the sense that he said, look, the government has all these laws, okay?

00:58:52.860 Well, they really don't prevent anything, do they?

00:58:56.340 We have laws about sneaking into the country.

00:58:58.480 How many people have snuck into the country?

00:59:01.420 20 million?

00:59:03.160 All right, we have laws against opioids.

00:59:06.260 You know, it's supposed to sell narcotics. 0.95

00:59:08.820 How many people are selling narcotics?

00:59:11.520 So basically the point is that, yeah, the government can say, we're going to ban all guns,

00:59:17.380 but you're still going to have massacres because people aren't going to obey that law.

00:59:21.860 That's strong because you can back it up with facts.

00:59:25.140 You can see.

00:59:25.660 And it's also, you know, when you get into the constitutionality of it,

00:59:30.460 the overwhelming force is on the side of people who want to have the ability to protect themselves.

00:59:40.580 That's what the constitution says.

00:59:42.900 So if LaPierre and the NRA stay there, they win.

00:59:47.280 If they go over into, you know, the socialists are going to come in the middle of the night

00:59:51.900 and take your pistol, they lose.

00:59:54.220 So that's my analysis.

00:59:55.560 Let me ask you this.

00:59:56.900 Elk Grove Historical Society in California was going to do a mock revolutionary war battle.

01:00:03.240 And then the city found out that they were going to bring muskets. 0.95

01:00:07.140 Now, every argument I have ever heard from the left says the Second Amendment meant muskets.

01:00:17.420 Okay.

01:00:17.980 Why is it then the city officials have said the reenactment cannot include muskets?

01:00:26.300 I don't know.

01:00:27.320 They have to use sticks.

01:00:29.060 It's a revolutionary war.

01:00:30.540 What are they going to have?

01:00:31.520 Slingshots?

01:00:32.040 They're using sticks.

01:00:35.600 That's just politically correct nonsense.

01:00:37.740 So I'd move out of that town.

01:00:39.100 What is it?

01:00:39.460 Would you say Elk Grove?

01:00:40.540 Elk Grove.

01:00:41.720 Yeah.

01:00:42.080 We'd have to move.

01:00:43.380 Let me take you to Billy Graham.

01:00:48.400 Any thoughts on Billy Graham this week?

01:00:50.160 Billy Graham is a great man.

01:00:52.080 I think he was what we were talking about before, the disintegration of spirit in America,

01:00:58.400 that our spirit is being just obliterated by all of this hatred.

01:01:04.420 I think Billy Graham countered that, and that if you listen to his missions and his speeches,

01:01:11.520 he was always trying to uplift.

01:01:13.320 He didn't use religion as a cudgel.

01:01:15.520 He didn't say, you know, if you do this action, you're going to go to hell.

01:01:19.400 It wasn't that way.

01:01:20.300 He was basically saying, look, if you believe in spirituality, if you believe in a just God,

01:01:26.340 that will help your life.

01:01:27.380 It will give you hope.

01:01:28.260 And if you live in a certain way, you will be rewarded.

01:01:31.900 Those are all uplifting spiritual tenets, and he was very, very effective at doing that.

01:01:37.220 I think his son, Franklin Graham, does that, too.

01:01:39.800 I've listened to Franklin Graham now, and I think he's very, very on point in trying to

01:01:46.560 stop this mass hatred that we're seeing in America.

01:01:49.800 Bill, CPAC is happening this weekend.

01:01:53.140 Last year, they invited Milo, and we saw how that ended.

01:01:58.260 This year, they have not only invited Marion Le Pen from the National Front, but they

01:02:05.400 also had a panel.

01:02:06.240 What was the name of that panel?

01:02:07.340 It was about conservatives being silenced in social media or something, and it included

01:02:13.420 Pamela Geller and Jim Hoff from Gateway Pundit and all these really fringy characters.

01:02:20.740 They've removed Hoffman.

01:02:21.580 I don't know much about this.

01:02:22.800 As you know, I'm not a big ideology guy.

01:02:25.820 I don't really.

01:02:26.800 I'm not a party guy.

01:02:27.900 And I'm not an ideology guy.

01:02:29.820 I'm a problem solver.

01:02:31.440 Well, to bring, right, but to bring Le Pen in.

01:02:34.540 Yeah.

01:02:34.980 I mean, that's all an anti-immigration play.

01:02:37.320 I don't know why CPAC wants to concentrate on the Muslim threat. 1.00

01:02:42.720 We seem to have a pretty good policy now in this country on dealing with ISIS and the 1.00

01:02:48.480 others.

01:02:49.240 So I don't know why this is a continuation.

01:02:52.040 There are certainly more important things to talk about.

01:02:54.380 Like what?

01:02:55.400 Give us something.

01:02:55.920 Well, basically, the corruption, this is really a threat to our freedom, and people are not

01:03:05.700 figuring this out.

01:03:07.520 The corruption of the media, because the media now has turned from fact-finding, which they

01:03:16.000 are not interested in at all, to trying to launch a coup to remove a sitting president.

01:03:23.380 I mean, that's what's happening.

01:03:24.480 You guys know that.

01:03:25.780 This is a media coup.

01:03:27.920 After this gun control thing calms down, which will be probably in the next five days or so,

01:03:33.680 you know what's going to come up again?

01:03:35.180 The women. 0.81

01:03:35.540 The women are going to be trotted out again to get Trump marginalized, to get him out of 0.98

01:03:41.680 office.

01:03:42.500 That's what's going to happen.

01:03:44.460 So the media now uses vast power and its privileges under the Constitution not to inform the American

01:03:52.440 public, but to try to put someone in power, whether it's a Nancy Pelosi or take someone out of power.

01:04:03.000 That's what they're in business to do now.

01:04:05.900 That's a huge story.

01:04:07.840 And this has happened in the last, since Trump was elected, but it was before then when they

01:04:13.800 tried to put Barack Obama in power and were successful.

01:04:17.360 Wow.

01:04:17.480 When I asked you what was really important, I assumed I was going to get a rundown of the

01:04:20.660 latest deals at BillOReilly.com, and you did not come to the club without that.

01:04:24.580 Oh, thanks for reminding me.

01:04:25.340 Oh, jeez.

01:04:27.980 No, we're doing really well on the website.

01:04:30.120 I mean, we want, I think people are catching on.

01:04:32.440 No, Bill, you're not.

01:04:34.120 We're not doing well?

01:04:34.900 No, you're not doing well.

01:04:35.960 I read it in the press that you and I are not doing well, that we started this, and

01:04:42.040 that's why Fox is doing their thing online, because it didn't work for us, and so they're

01:04:47.160 going to do it.

01:04:47.900 I didn't see that.

01:04:49.420 I didn't see that article.

01:04:50.940 I'll just send them to you.

01:04:51.820 They're hysterical.

01:04:52.880 Yeah.

01:04:53.280 I mean, look, we're doing very well on BillOReilly.com.

01:04:57.080 People are, you know, marketing is the key to that, which, and I thank you, Stu, for recommending

01:05:01.900 that, for reminding me, because people are distracted.

01:05:05.660 It's hard to get to them.

01:05:07.140 But all of the cable news networks know that when Donald Trump leaves the building, whatever

01:05:14.200 circumstance that may be, when he leaves, cable news collapses.

01:05:18.880 And, you know, we're in the forefront of giving people honest information.

01:05:25.600 I believe you do that, and I do that.

01:05:28.300 And I think that will prosper going forward.

01:05:30.520 I think so, too.

01:05:31.240 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

01:05:33.480 Thank you very much, Bill.

01:05:34.420 I appreciate it.

01:05:34.960 All right.

01:05:35.200 I will talk to you soon.

01:05:35.960 You bet.

01:05:36.260 Thanks, guys.

01:05:36.480 Bye-bye.

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01:05:45.320 I heard Bitcoin.

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01:05:53.320 It was from about 6,000 to 11,700, I think it hit.

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01:06:01.080 Oh, my gosh.

01:06:02.340 It's up and down a lot.

01:06:03.560 Yeah.

01:06:03.840 I mean, look, Bitcoin is something that you don't want to do.

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01:06:11.280 Bitcoin, I mean, it has gone up to, from 1,000 to, what was it, 19,000 or 20,000 to 6,000.

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01:06:22.560 To 11.

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01:06:24.860 I mean, if you, if you're planning on a retirement plan, per se.

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01:08:08.280 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:08:19.100 Glenn Beck.

01:08:22.480 Hey, Sarah, do we have time for the Russia meddling segment?

01:08:28.780 Do you have all of the audio clips and visuals for that?

01:08:31.660 I'd like to, you know, I started the hour with what was happening with the media and Russia.

01:08:41.480 And it is important that we understand that we are playing into Russia's hands. 0.80

01:08:48.860 Russia wants to divide us. 0.89

01:08:51.080 Russia wants us to be yelling at each other and not trusting anything.

01:08:56.360 The media continues to miss this story.

01:09:00.740 When Alexander Dugan said on Super Tuesday, what do you think he meant when he said this?

01:09:09.960 This is first truly interesting election campaign.

01:09:14.860 It shows that America is on the brink of a revolution, especially if the elite won't give the power to people.

01:09:24.900 Goodbye.

01:09:26.760 You've watched Dugan's guideline on Super Tuesday.

01:09:30.620 I've got the feeling that the liberals themselves won't leave the U.S. and the humanity alone.

01:09:38.160 We should help them to do that.

01:09:41.560 We should help them to do that.

01:09:45.360 Huh.

01:09:45.820 He believes that we are primed for a revolution.

01:09:49.980 And if the elites don't leave us alone, they'll help us.

01:09:56.340 Dugan's rant was April 2016.

01:09:59.440 By that time, Russia had already been planning their attack on us for two years.

01:10:03.900 According to the recent 37 page indictment, Russia's strategic goal was, and I quote, to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

01:10:20.300 Notice that the election objective was not about which candidate won.

01:10:26.980 It was objective, but not the only reason.

01:10:32.660 Sowing discord, which is a fancier way of saying unleash chaos.

01:10:37.740 That was their primary goal, not to get somebody elected.

01:10:41.320 As Dugan hinted at, Russia wanted us on the brink of revolution, and they are just launching their plan to help us along. 0.67

01:10:49.540 And that plan, via leaked communications mentioned in the indictment, was to conduct, quote,

01:10:56.140 information warfare against the United States of America.

01:11:00.660 So how did they plan on doing that?

01:11:03.160 By stoking tensions on both sides of the issue that we are fighting over, social justice and politics.

01:11:11.320 And if you look, in almost every case, the Russian operation played both sides of the aisle, fiercely opposing a candidate or issue in, you know, in one rally,

01:11:24.720 and then staunchly supporting that issue in the candidate simultaneously in a different rally or post.

01:11:31.740 They created social media groups specifically designed for them to fight each other.

01:11:37.200 One group, called Black Matters, here is, if you are happening to watch, here is the images of African Americans that have been killed by cops with the words,

01:11:49.260 never forget.

01:11:50.700 This was Russian paid for. 0.98

01:11:52.740 A separate post by a different Russian group.

01:11:55.680 Said, another gruesome attack on police by a BLM movement activist.

01:12:00.260 On our hearts are with those 11 heroes.

01:12:03.980 So they're paying for both sides?

01:12:06.880 Regarding Muslims, one group, called Stop All Invaders, posted this.

01:12:12.980 Sharia law should not even be debatable.

01:12:15.900 You can't enter a foreign country and set up your own set of laws and regulations that contradict most of the world's moral stands.

01:12:22.720 Near the same time, another page was created, and it included this post from United Muslims of America.

01:12:29.620 The time has come to understand one simple thing, that we're American Muslims, and we are American, and we support Hillary.

01:12:37.120 Save American Muslims. 0.98

01:12:39.420 Wait.

01:12:41.040 Against? And for?

01:12:43.480 There were pro-Trump ads claiming to make America great again.

01:12:47.520 There's an example of one.

01:12:49.140 And then there was anti-Trump ads that said,

01:12:52.040 Racism won, Ignorance won, Sexual Assault won, Stop Trump, Stop Racism.

01:12:56.460 There was even pro-LGBT posts organizing counter-protests to the Westboro Baptist Church. 0.97

01:13:03.660 Keep in mind, while this Russian troll was posting a pro-LGBT ad from St. Petersburg,

01:13:10.740 news reports were beginning to come out that the gay community was being rounded up and thrown into internment camps in southern Russia.

01:13:18.020 On November 12th, four days after the election, two opposing rallies were organized in New York City.

01:13:25.420 The first was designed to show, quote, show your support for President-elect Donald Trump.

01:13:30.900 The second was called Trump is not my president.

01:13:34.740 The latter was covered enthusiastically by CNN and MSNBC.

01:13:40.060 Michael Moore even came out to lend his support.

01:13:42.560 One of the big problems with the rallies is that no one could figure out who was in charge.

01:13:47.720 No one could identify the organizers.

01:13:50.340 Hey, Morgan, can you tell who has organized this rally?

01:13:53.620 It has been suggested that so many of the protests across this country have been impromptu rallies.

01:13:59.320 I mean, it's been supported by a very diverse array of constituents.

01:14:02.920 Is there someone in charge here?

01:14:04.420 Right now, this is a lot of different groups of people who have come together with no necessary.

01:14:11.640 Stop.

01:14:13.080 Okay.

01:14:13.880 This is all in the indictment.

01:14:16.120 Defendants and their co-conspirators organized and coordinated political rallies in the United States.

01:14:21.120 And to conceal the fact that they were based in Russia,

01:14:23.880 defendants and their co-conspirators promoted these rallies while pretending to be U.S. grassroots activists

01:14:28.520 who were located in the United States but unable to meet or participate in person.

01:14:33.520 There's more to this.

01:14:37.280 A lot more to this.

01:14:40.460 We're both being used by Russia. 0.80

01:14:46.160 Will someone pay attention?

01:14:58.920 Glenn.

01:15:00.120 Beck.

01:15:01.000 Mercury.

01:15:03.520 Love.

01:15:09.100 Courage.

01:15:10.840 Truth.

01:15:12.560 Glenn Beck.

01:15:14.040 Andrew Pollack, he was the father of one of the victims of the shooting last week.

01:15:18.800 He implored the president yesterday.

01:15:20.340 How many schools, how many children have to get shot?

01:15:23.460 It has to stop here with this administration.

01:15:27.140 Please, please, please never let this happen again.

01:15:30.380 That's Samuel Jeff.

01:15:31.540 He's a student who witnessed the shooting.

01:15:33.560 He pleaded to Trump while he was crying yesterday.

01:15:36.900 Please never let this happen again.

01:15:39.560 Last night, Trump found himself awash in a room full of raw emotion.

01:15:44.420 People affected by the shooting and Sandy Hook and Columbine gathered for a town hall to relay their experiences to the president.

01:15:52.880 He was courteous, he was gracious, he was moved by the parents and the children that were affected by these needless atrocities.

01:16:00.540 And he agreed.

01:16:01.360 We have to strengthen background checks.

01:16:03.720 We have to have enhanced mental health measures.

01:16:07.700 In the face of this tragedy, he seems to be ready to make real change on how we purchase firearms going forward.

01:16:14.780 But is this the right answer?

01:16:17.120 Is this the most effective thing we do?

01:16:20.280 We obviously need better security at schools and better FBI surveillance.

01:16:24.880 But would banning assault weapons, like some of the children at the town hall called for, make any difference?

01:16:33.300 You know, if you're disturbed, you're going to find a way to accomplish your sick goal, whatever tools you have at your disposal.

01:16:40.900 It's unfair and quite frankly, delusional to think differently and not also to think that the Trump administration or any president has the absolute power to please, please never let this happen again.

01:16:55.920 There's nobody that can make these shootings stop.

01:17:00.220 Can we do a better job trying to catch the people beforehand?

01:17:05.380 Yes, but no administration can make it stop.

01:17:09.220 No administration ever will.

01:17:11.720 I believe Trump will try in earnest to appease these victims.

01:17:15.580 I just hope his solution is constitutional and, more importantly, or as importantly, effective.

01:17:23.660 But above all, separated from emotion.

01:17:35.760 It's Thursday, February 22nd.

01:17:39.220 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:42.060 Boy, the book that we wrote, what, three years ago and put out, Control, Exposing the Truth About Guns, has never been needed more than it is right now.

01:17:52.340 I urge you to pick this book up and grab it on Amazon.

01:17:56.300 It's a small paperback.

01:17:58.000 We've made it so you could keep it, you know, in your back pocket.

01:18:01.780 It has, oh, man, holy cow, 25 pages of footnotes in the back.

01:18:08.740 So, because I never want you to quote me.

01:18:11.300 I want you to quote the original source.

01:18:13.900 And it has all of the stats and all of the arguments one by one laid out.

01:18:19.000 So, you can have an intelligent argument because that's what we, the only thing that is going to get us through this is trying to have an intelligent argument.

01:18:29.340 Screaming at each other or coming, you know, unarmed in an intellectual gunfight.

01:18:35.380 That person is going to lose.

01:18:39.200 They're unarmed.

01:18:40.640 They are unarmed.

01:18:42.220 Come to the table with the facts.

01:18:45.220 The topics are we should start drafting a bill to ensure Newtown or shooting like this never happens again.

01:18:51.620 Guns are lethal.

01:18:52.960 No one wants to take your guns away.

01:18:54.940 Boy, did you hear the father last night?

01:18:56.620 So, the father last night, and I think we have it, the Rubio.

01:19:03.080 I think it's a victim's father, Senator Rubio, and he did exchange.

01:19:06.780 Yes, that's it.

01:19:07.500 Listen to this. 0.99

01:19:09.080 He first accuses Rubio of being pathetically weak. 0.99

01:19:13.060 Go ahead, play this. 0.97

01:19:15.580 I do believe what you're saying is true.

01:19:17.480 I believe that someone like this individual and anyone like him shouldn't have any gun.

01:19:21.740 Not this gun, any gun.

01:19:22.820 But I want to explain to you for a moment the problem with the law that they call the assault weapons ban.

01:19:28.200 And if you'll give me and indulge me for a minute to explain to you the problem.

01:19:32.280 First, you have to define what it is.

01:19:34.660 If you look at the law and its definition, it basically bans 200 models of gun in this combat.

01:19:40.940 220 specific models of gun.

01:19:43.260 Good, good.

01:19:44.760 Okay?

01:19:46.020 But it makes, but it, but it, it allows legal 2,000 other types of gun that are identical.

01:19:53.280 Identical.

01:19:54.940 In the way that they function, in how fast they fire, in the type of caliber that they fire, in the way they perform.

01:20:02.400 They are indistinguishable from the ones that become illegal.

01:20:04.560 And the only thing that separates the two types, the only thing that separates the two types, is if you put a plastic handle grip on one, it becomes banned.

01:20:14.640 If it doesn't have a plastic handle grip, it does not become banned.

01:20:17.720 So let me explain, if I may, just for a moment more.

01:20:19.880 Are you saying, are you saying you will start with the 200 and work your way up?

01:20:24.660 Notice that?

01:20:25.320 I would explain to you what has happened.

01:20:27.620 And notice the cheers.

01:20:28.740 If we can start, we can do that.

01:20:30.780 It's a good place to start.

01:20:33.780 So this is what the left has to understand.

01:20:37.340 Anybody who is intellectually honest on the left and says, why can't we just do common sense?

01:20:43.320 Well, because this kind of language scares everybody who says, wait, you guys want to take away guns.

01:20:52.260 Well, good.

01:20:53.520 That's a good start.

01:20:55.140 Then are you going to go after, let's get this done, then we'll go after the other 2,000 guns.

01:21:00.440 Wait a minute.

01:21:01.020 Wait a minute.

01:21:01.480 Wait a minute.

01:21:02.460 What are we trying to do?

01:21:04.060 The people that I heard speak last night were emotional, and I understand that.

01:21:13.800 If I just lost my daughter a week ago, and I'm talking to somebody, and I don't believe in guns, I just think that they're whatever, I am really angry.

01:21:28.600 And I am going after, and I shouldn't be listened to, I should be heard, but I shouldn't necessarily, you shouldn't design policy around an angry, grieving father, mother, friend.

01:21:42.460 Grief brings in really bad decisions.

01:21:46.280 So I understand the feeling.

01:21:48.780 But if you listened last night, where did we get out of this?

01:21:56.520 You scared the people on the right because of statements like that and the cheers behind.

01:22:05.020 Good.

01:22:06.280 Good.

01:22:07.120 Then we'll start there.

01:22:09.080 No, wait a minute.

01:22:11.120 That's the problem.

01:22:12.640 That's why there is no middle ground.

01:22:14.860 That's why we can't have a common sense conversation, because no one trusts the other.

01:22:23.040 Now, I could flip this around and say, I'm sure that there are people on the left that heard Marco Rubio say he's not going to take, or he will take money from the NRA, and they believe that it's money that is influencing Congress.

01:22:37.460 It's not.

01:22:38.400 It's the membership of the NRA.

01:22:41.580 That's what scares Congress.

01:22:43.320 The membership, not the money.

01:22:46.680 So you hear, well, he won't stop taking money.

01:22:51.240 So there, and so now you don't trust.

01:22:54.980 If we're going to do anything, we have to base everything on reason.

01:23:03.380 You're not going to get that in an emotional debate.

01:23:06.080 You're going to get my side is better than your side.

01:23:11.160 Honestly, we were playing a clip earlier today.

01:23:13.940 I've got four monitors sitting in front of me, and we were playing a clip, and it was just an audio clip.

01:23:19.380 So I was looking for the video that went with it, and I looked down at the bottom video, and I thought that was the video for about five seconds.

01:23:30.000 It wasn't the video.

01:23:32.000 It was the crowd at the Olympics last night because I heard the audio of people shouting and cheering, and I just went down, and I thought, okay, well, man, look at that.

01:23:47.520 Oh, my gosh.

01:23:48.140 No, that's the crowd at a sporting event.

01:23:53.420 That's not the way to make national policy.

01:23:56.600 No, there's something very peculiar about the way we're doing this.

01:23:59.480 You know, you're going to emotional, grieving 18-year-olds to try to find out what we should do with national policy, and their recommendation is that non-grieving, non-emotional 18-year-olds don't have the capacity to own a firearm.

01:24:18.920 So we're saying that the people who are making policy are not capable of exercising their Second Amendment rights.

01:24:27.460 It's a very strange thing to do, and honestly—

01:24:33.100 When did we get to the point to where we didn't say as a culture, leave the families alone?

01:24:41.420 Well, I mean, obviously, they want to be involved in this, right?

01:24:44.200 They are willing participants because they think they're doing something important.

01:24:47.860 And as you said, Glenn, you go through something like this.

01:24:50.520 I will give—personally, I'm going to give you a complete pass on anything you say.

01:24:54.300 Everything you say could be wrong.

01:24:55.600 You could start speaking in languages I don't understand.

01:24:58.060 You could do anything you want at this point because I know if something like this happened to me, I would be blurting out all sorts of stuff that's a lot dumber than even this, you know, than arguments that aren't buttoned up.

01:25:09.980 Yes.

01:25:10.200 But it's the media that I have the problem with here.

01:25:13.080 The media knows, and they've been clear about this.

01:25:16.520 They say it after every shooting, we don't understand.

01:25:19.980 We thought that after Sandy Hook, they'd finally do the thing that we wanted them to do, and they didn't do it.

01:25:25.820 And then we thought after the Pulse shooting, they'd finally do the thing we wanted them to do, and they didn't do it.

01:25:31.100 Because what their whole plan is, wait for something to make people so emotional that they abandon the rights that they've been given.

01:25:39.180 By God.

01:25:40.440 They will abandon those rights because the emotion will overcome them.

01:25:45.300 And they never let a crisis go to waste.

01:25:48.740 This is exactly what you're seeing playing out right now.

01:25:51.240 This does not make the people who are making emotional arguments, it doesn't make them bad.

01:26:00.500 If there's no criticism of them, I can't even comprehend what they're going through.

01:26:05.140 But the idea that the media takes them out and says, puts that show on last night, where you have thousands of people who all agree are going to shout down anyone trying to make a point that is rational on the other side,

01:26:17.940 serves nobody unless you are an activist group.

01:26:21.700 If you're an external advocacy group, which is not what CNN is supposed to be, then I understand that.

01:26:28.400 But the several times, some of the speakers or the people who are asking questions said, look, I want to like you.

01:26:37.240 That was a father who was speaking to Rubio.

01:26:39.920 Somebody else said, you know, I want to believe that you are going to be part of the solution.

01:26:45.740 And, you know, anybody here who agrees that we have to take these guns off the streets, I will support.

01:26:57.800 Well, wait a minute.

01:26:59.780 Wait.

01:27:01.400 No, that's the right.

01:27:04.760 What's the big deal on that?

01:27:06.500 Hey, if you as long as you agree with me 100 percent, I won't kill you.

01:27:10.240 Well, it's the it's the old compromise of the Obama administration.

01:27:12.700 Look, I'm willing to talk to anybody who will do the thing that I want them to do.

01:27:15.300 Right.

01:27:15.780 Well, that's great.

01:27:16.520 Thank you for that.

01:27:17.300 That's not having a dialogue.

01:27:19.440 No, that's not trying to work through the issues.

01:27:21.900 I have to hear you and I do hear you.

01:27:25.040 I hear you.

01:27:26.480 But have you taken the time to hear us?

01:27:29.460 Have you taken the time to hear?

01:27:31.240 Wait a minute.

01:27:31.760 What that dad just said makes half the country lose their mind, makes half the country go.

01:27:38.920 See, they are coming for all of them.

01:27:42.260 And that wasn't misspoken.

01:27:45.120 They knew what he said.

01:27:47.180 He knew what he said.

01:27:49.340 Let's get rid of all of these.

01:27:51.680 Whenever you hear somebody in the media say, you know, Australia did it.

01:27:56.300 Australia took all of the guns.

01:27:58.460 Yeah.

01:27:58.620 Well, 30 some odd percent of them, which which in the United States would be between 60 and 100 million guns.

01:28:06.220 Let's let's look at let's look at Great Britain.

01:28:09.160 The police don't even have guns.

01:28:12.620 The police don't have guns.

01:28:15.620 And how how is it working in Australia?

01:28:19.060 Well, I mean, it didn't do much of anything, to be honest with you.

01:28:22.800 It showed multiple studies showed.

01:28:24.880 And I posted this yesterday on my Facebook page.

01:28:27.500 If you go to Facebook, Stubergear, or I think you shared it as well, the Glenn Beck page.

01:28:33.240 It goes through all everything that happened there.

01:28:36.060 But it was they showed that there was no discernible change in murder rates.

01:28:42.240 Remember, this is.

01:28:44.060 20 times as far as any proposal goes in the United States right now, this is way further than an assault weapons ban or anything like it.

01:28:50.580 It goes much further than that.

01:28:51.700 They purchased 30 percent of the weapons in the country and there was no discernible drop in in murder rates.

01:28:58.960 The same thing happened when we did a assault weapons ban here in the United States.

01:29:05.000 What you found was that there the Department of Justice found there was no change in murder rates.

01:29:11.380 It didn't affect it at all.

01:29:12.640 It's not going to.

01:29:16.660 This is and I don't know where you're going to get this.

01:29:20.220 I don't know where you're going to have this conversation.

01:29:22.300 And, you know, maybe it's up to maybe it's up to us.

01:29:26.000 The conversation needs to be had.

01:29:28.520 Look, let's stay on the actual facts.

01:29:32.300 It's math.

01:29:33.420 It's math.

01:29:34.000 Let's stay on the actual facts.

01:29:37.480 Let's look at history.

01:29:39.120 What works?

01:29:39.980 What doesn't?

01:29:41.200 If you can come up with a proposal that works, let's discuss it.

01:29:45.760 But please understand that.

01:29:49.060 Yes, I love my children.

01:29:51.560 But I also believe the best way to protect my children is through a constitution, a constitution that allows me to make the decisions that are best for me and my family.

01:30:07.860 I believe that we have a right to free speech.

01:30:13.940 How does one protect that speech if you don't have a weapon?

01:30:19.160 Remember, the weapons were taken from the Germans and the Jews for their own protection.

01:30:29.200 How was anyone able to do anything to stop Hitler? 0.94

01:30:35.080 How was anyone?

01:30:36.780 You weren't.

01:30:38.620 You didn't have a right to self-defense.

01:30:42.140 Now, everybody.

01:30:43.080 Oh, it's crazy.

01:30:44.280 Oh, that will never happen here.

01:30:45.680 Listen to what the left is saying about Donald Trump right now.

01:30:50.820 They're already saying that he's akin to Hitler.

01:30:54.620 Listen to how many of those of us on the right thought that Obama may not leave office.

01:31:02.640 It can't happen here.

01:31:04.720 What kind of world are you living in?

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01:32:25.800 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:32:34.360 Glenn Beck.

01:32:36.900 It's unfair to ask Stu because he's read the book Control.

01:32:40.340 But Stu, what is the percentage of shootings, mass shootings, that have happened in a gun-free zone?

01:32:51.160 Can I get a little bit of a range, like a few percent?

01:32:54.020 Because then I'll go with zero.

01:32:55.800 I'll give you 5%.

01:32:58.620 I'll go 5%.

01:32:59.780 How many have been in a gun-free...

01:33:02.820 If I've got a 5% range, I'm going 5%.

01:33:05.500 According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, and it's in the book Control, gun-free zones, areas where guns are not allowed, have been the target of more than 98% of all of the shootings.

01:33:25.280 It's incredible.

01:33:26.160 More than 98%.

01:33:27.200 It's only about just over 1% that mass shootings have happened in a...

01:33:33.620 Why on earth?

01:33:34.480 I mean, because one of the arguments was, well, no, a lot of them commit suicide, so they don't care if there's going to be guns at schools.

01:33:40.020 They don't care if there's going to be security guards, so they would commit suicide.

01:33:43.600 Their goal is to maximize the damage.

01:33:46.760 So even if they're going to commit suicide at the end of it, it doesn't matter.

01:33:49.700 They want to have as little resistance as possible so they can accomplish their goal.

01:33:54.200 I mean, look, you can say that the teacher with gun thing is not a good idea.

01:34:00.220 I mean, you know, I know a lot of people are acting as if teachers are incapable of handling firearms.

01:34:06.360 I don't understand this.

01:34:07.700 That's not the teachers that I knew, but still, you should never, of course, be forced to handle them.

01:34:12.020 The coach, I believe the coach that died last week, I think he was a gun owner. 0.67

01:34:17.700 Yeah, I think you're right.

01:34:18.580 I mean, he put his body in front of, with no chance of survival.

01:34:25.640 Right.

01:34:25.760 I mean, give the man a chance.

01:34:28.600 People keep saying, you don't want shootouts in school.

01:34:31.380 Well, that's only true until one person starts shooting.

01:34:35.440 Then you do want shootouts in school.

01:34:37.960 You want someone who's going to step up and stop it.

01:34:40.260 What do you want, a shooting range?

01:34:41.620 Is that what you want?

01:34:42.380 I mean, no, no, no.

01:34:44.000 A shooting range where the targets can't shoot back.

01:34:46.660 Right.

01:34:46.820 You don't want a shooting range.

01:34:48.780 No.

01:34:49.160 You want someone to be able to stop it.

01:34:51.840 What happens if, let's say, police were stationed all around school?

01:34:56.800 Are you telling me you wouldn't want a shootout with police?

01:35:00.560 Of course you would.

01:35:01.540 Of course you would.

01:35:02.300 Of course you would.

01:35:03.080 And no one would attack that school.

01:35:04.840 By the way, that 1% number, I just want to make sure that you understand that the actual

01:35:10.260 number of shootings that have happened in a place where you could have a gun since 1950,

01:35:18.240 two.

01:35:19.440 Glenn Beck.

01:35:20.500 Two.

01:35:21.320 Mercury.

01:35:29.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:31.220 Really excited to have Jordan Peterson on again tomorrow.

01:35:34.260 He's going to be joining us.

01:35:35.380 He is the author of a new book called 12 Rules to Live By.

01:35:38.380 It's really great.

01:35:39.940 I really wanted to hear his opinion on what's happening with the gun debate and how this is

01:35:45.080 all playing out and how we should be behaving.

01:35:50.640 Also, the new catchphrase with the media is about toxic masculinity.

01:36:02.100 Toxic masculinity.

01:36:04.220 What exactly is toxic masculinity?

01:36:07.440 We'll talk to Jordan Peterson on tomorrow's program.

01:36:10.400 You don't want to miss that.

01:36:11.620 Welcome to the program, Pat Gray.

01:36:12.800 Speaking of toxic masculinity, Pat Gray joins us.

01:36:15.980 Right?

01:36:16.560 Right?

01:36:19.320 I'm a little concerned that our republic is literally at stake right now.

01:36:23.740 It's literally at stake.

01:36:25.380 The Second Amendment is the amendment upon which all the rest of our rights rest.

01:36:31.400 Right?

01:36:31.940 I mean, that's why it's there.

01:36:33.180 Where do you get a tripe like that? 0.96

01:36:36.340 Well, from a group of old, dusty white slave owners. 0.99

01:36:41.380 Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. 0.87

01:36:42.800 So, you can't trust that line at all.

01:36:45.980 Yes, at all.

01:36:47.280 But how about the theme of that event last night?

01:36:51.680 I know these people have been through a horrible thing.

01:36:54.040 I understand that.

01:36:55.020 But for them to all say, you know, like the one guy said, and this was kind of repeated

01:37:01.520 over and over again.

01:37:02.540 And essentially, it's look at me and tell me you agree with what I'm saying or we're all

01:37:08.760 going to attack you in mass. 1.00

01:37:11.000 You're a witch. 1.00

01:37:12.000 You must agree with my line of thinking or I don't want to hear from you at all anymore. 0.97

01:37:19.060 Now, they keep saying, we're not going to allow anyone to shut us down or take away our voice,

01:37:24.200 but you're taking away everybody else's.

01:37:26.160 You're taking away everybody else's opinion.

01:37:28.640 Well, because you drove this bus into the ditch.

01:37:32.900 Get into the back.

01:37:33.880 That's right.

01:37:34.380 Oh, wait a minute.

01:37:34.980 Who said that?

01:37:36.320 Oh, yeah.

01:37:37.240 That's right.

01:37:38.120 I do remember that.

01:37:38.860 Barack Obama said that.

01:37:40.100 Barack Obama said that.

01:37:40.500 You know, it's interesting, too, because we look at the two events that happened yesterday.

01:37:45.580 How often is Donald Trump accused of being, you know, of leading with emotion and all

01:37:51.560 of his rallies?

01:37:52.220 Remember how uproarious they were?

01:37:53.760 And this guy is constantly like lowering our discourse.

01:37:57.280 I mean, you know, there's obviously something to that at times.

01:37:59.980 But look at this.

01:38:01.000 Look at the two events yesterday.

01:38:02.160 The CNN event and the event where Trump sat around with people affected by this tragedy

01:38:07.420 and talked to them, the listening event he did, you got way more out of that than you

01:38:12.720 did out of the CNN event last night.

01:38:13.880 I don't think you got anything but anger on both sides out of that event, because if

01:38:17.600 you don't agree with the Second Amendment, you were screaming at the top of your lungs

01:38:22.420 and cheering for the kids.

01:38:24.320 If you do agree with the Second Amendment, you were screaming at the top of the lungs, at

01:38:28.780 the crowd, and cheering for, you know, Dana and Marco Rubio.

01:38:33.500 I didn't hear much of that.

01:38:35.140 Did you hear any of that?

01:38:36.260 I didn't hear much of that.

01:38:37.340 I didn't hear anybody on the side of the NRA and Dana.

01:38:40.500 No, no, no.

01:38:40.940 Oh, you mean you at home?

01:38:41.960 Me at home.

01:38:42.540 Yeah.

01:38:43.080 Yeah, yeah.

01:38:43.600 You were...

01:38:44.200 Because nobody was there doing that.

01:38:45.920 No.

01:38:46.580 I mean, they...

01:38:47.040 Well, but you remember.

01:38:47.920 They jam-packed that audience with like-minded people.

01:38:50.780 In your selective memory, Pat, you remember when we were all upset about the constitutionality

01:38:56.900 of Obamacare, and you remember when CNN filled an arena full of tea partiers, and then we 0.97

01:39:04.040 were allowed to say whatever we wanted to Nancy Pelosi and the leadership, and then they let

01:39:10.920 us...

01:39:11.220 I'm getting older now.

01:39:12.380 Then they let us sing a song and have poetry at the end to close it out.

01:39:17.840 You remember that?

01:39:19.100 No, but again, I'm getting older.

01:39:20.960 Maybe my memory's not quite as sharp as it once was, but I've completely wiped that event

01:39:26.340 out of my mind.

01:39:27.180 Yeah.

01:39:27.440 Really?

01:39:27.840 Yeah.

01:39:28.420 Yeah.

01:39:28.660 Isn't that strange?

01:39:29.460 Yeah.

01:39:29.740 It is not strange.

01:39:30.860 Mass hypnosis.

01:39:32.500 That's all it's been.

01:39:33.580 That's...

01:39:33.820 Yeah.

01:39:34.120 Right.

01:39:34.520 Yeah.

01:39:34.800 Right.

01:39:35.580 And how about Trump even coming out of this, talking about comprehensive background checks?

01:39:39.180 I don't know what that means, but if you can improve the background check, great.

01:39:42.720 You know, good.

01:39:43.760 So let's not miss anybody, but what I'm concerned about is the mental health.

01:39:48.740 Screening before you buy a gun?

01:39:50.520 What does that entail?

01:39:51.620 Okay, so...

01:39:52.500 Do I have to go see a psychiatrist before I buy a gun? 1.00

01:39:56.100 Well, you're already nuts. 1.00

01:39:57.840 You want to buy a gun. 1.00

01:39:58.720 Yeah.

01:39:59.140 Well...

01:39:59.460 So here's the thing.

01:40:02.980 If the background check is the way that we...

01:40:07.880 If you are seeing a doctor and you are dangerous to yourself, and we have a high standard on

01:40:14.440 this, and it means that that now goes to your background check, then I'm fine with it.

01:40:23.280 Here's the...

01:40:25.340 You're going to have to change HIPAA laws for that, though, right?

01:40:27.280 Oh, yeah.

01:40:27.660 I mean, it's not a simple thing to do.

01:40:29.520 No.

01:40:30.420 But if that's what it means, that the information that is already there, for instance, the Air

01:40:38.020 Force, they knew that guy was in jail.

01:40:40.380 They knew that guy was unstable.

01:40:42.120 He shouldn't have had a gun.

01:40:44.040 It did not transfer onto the background check.

01:40:47.420 If it just means that information that is already there that says you should not have

01:40:52.200 a gun is transferred to that background check, I'm good with it.

01:40:56.100 If it is, well, we're going to have a new little mental health thing, uh-uh.

01:41:01.260 No.

01:41:02.300 No.

01:41:02.940 Yeah.

01:41:03.480 And everybody who's ever been on an antidepressant can't own a gun, nor can anyone in their household

01:41:08.540 because you can't have a gun in that house where somebody's on antidepressants.

01:41:11.520 If it goes to that route, well, you can't support that.

01:41:14.700 There's just no way we can allow that.

01:41:16.340 You can't.

01:41:16.540 Pat, they're not talking about that.

01:41:17.880 They're just talking about common sense.

01:41:19.620 Right.

01:41:19.800 Common sense.

01:41:20.460 That's right.

01:41:21.140 How common sense did you feel there was last night?

01:41:24.640 How much common sense did you actually hear?

01:41:26.640 I felt it from Dana.

01:41:28.060 There was common sense from Dana.

01:41:29.540 Yeah.

01:41:29.920 There was common sense from Rubio.

01:41:32.100 There was...

01:41:33.240 I didn't hear any common sense from the other side.

01:41:35.680 That was all emotion.

01:41:36.460 It's all emotion.

01:41:37.320 All emotion.

01:41:37.780 It's all you agree with me, or you're a bad person. 1.00

01:41:40.640 You're evil. 0.99

01:41:41.620 You support the NRA. 1.00

01:41:43.020 They're evil. 0.98

01:41:43.820 And if you accept money from them, you're doubly evil. 0.91

01:41:46.720 It just...

01:41:47.560 It's ugly. 1.00

01:41:48.640 It's like throwing Christians to the lions. 1.00

01:41:52.300 It's bad. 0.96

01:41:52.440 I really thought it was...

01:41:53.300 I felt it was that way entirely.

01:41:55.480 I thought it was a witch hunt.

01:41:56.500 It was.

01:41:57.000 There was nothing you could say.

01:41:58.620 No.

01:41:58.820 There was nothing you could say.

01:42:00.140 Even when you supported...

01:42:01.640 I mean, Marco Rubio supported raising the age to 21 for these weapons, and they still

01:42:06.300 boot the heck out of them.

01:42:07.240 I mean, I don't understand. 0.92

01:42:08.500 I mean, I just don't get that.

01:42:11.500 I don't either.

01:42:11.980 Okay.

01:42:12.240 You've got to be 21 to drink.

01:42:13.920 Okay.

01:42:14.620 But you have to be 17 to go to war.

01:42:17.920 Yeah.

01:42:18.260 You've got to raise the military age at that point, right?

01:42:20.120 Raise it to 21, too.

01:42:21.220 Yeah.

01:42:21.360 You can't use it.

01:42:22.580 You have to.

01:42:23.220 And the registration for the draft, I think.

01:42:25.500 Oh, yeah.

01:42:25.900 Absolutely.

01:42:26.300 If you're going to do the selective service stuff, you better raise that to 21 as well.

01:42:31.100 And all of these kids who are teenagers support not being able to buy a gun until they're

01:42:36.680 21?

01:42:37.180 You can trust them with a policy, but you can't trust them with a gun.

01:42:39.640 Yeah, right.

01:42:39.800 You can trust them to design the national gun policy, but God forbid they actually own

01:42:43.440 one themselves.

01:42:44.120 They say themselves they can't be trusted with that.

01:42:46.540 Thomas Massey tweeted this.

01:42:47.960 Why should a 20-year-old single mom be denied the right to defend herself and her kids? 1.00

01:42:53.320 We should lower the age to buy a handgun to 18 instead of raising the age to buy an AR

01:42:58.840 to 21.

01:43:00.760 I mean, I think he's right on that, honestly.

01:43:03.160 Dana made a similar point when she talked about a victim of rape who has discussed that

01:43:07.760 she wished she had a gun to defend herself.

01:43:10.160 Dana said to herself, she's a female living on her own at 20 years old. 0.53

01:43:13.860 She should not be able to protect her house or her apartment.

01:43:17.660 Her body?

01:43:18.320 Her body.

01:43:18.840 I mean, look, this is a constitutionally guaranteed right.

01:43:23.320 And the idea that we're going to make, we're going to increase the age until you can achieve 0.99

01:43:26.860 it, to me, is completely ridiculous.

01:43:29.840 Something else that is troubling to me is that these kids seem to be making it out about 0.76

01:43:34.360 our generation is imperiling their generation by not doing what their generation wants us

01:43:40.220 to do.

01:43:40.720 It is, by the way, it is also their generation doing the shooting. 0.82

01:43:44.240 Yeah.

01:43:44.760 This kid was 19 years old.

01:43:46.580 He wasn't 49.

01:43:47.980 He was 19 years old.

01:43:49.720 He's in your generation.

01:43:51.700 Could any of you guys have embraced this kid?

01:43:54.100 I don't know.

01:43:54.980 Could something else have been done by the people who knew him best?

01:43:58.700 None of us knew the guy.

01:44:00.040 None of us.

01:44:00.640 And we all know, of course, the answer to that one is yes.

01:44:02.880 If 39 visits to his house in seven years from the police, including, not including the

01:44:09.100 YouTube comment and the call to the FBI a month before he actually did the shooting from someone 0.94

01:44:14.420 who said, this guy's crazy. 0.76

01:44:15.860 He has guns. 1.00

01:44:16.620 He's going to go shoot people. 0.99

01:44:17.740 And they did nothing. 0.99

01:44:19.120 That's our fault.

01:44:20.520 That's, that's a, that's a, that's me.

01:44:22.420 A guy who has two guns and has never committed a crime with him.

01:44:25.280 That's Pat who has, that's Glenn who has 974,000 guns, but has still never committed a crime

01:44:30.520 with them.

01:44:30.820 I've lost them all.

01:44:31.720 I don't know what happened to any of them.

01:44:32.800 That's what I heard.

01:44:33.100 I heard that you don't have any anymore.

01:44:34.960 They've gone.

01:44:35.520 Me too.

01:44:36.280 That is so weird.

01:44:37.280 Yeah, it's weird.

01:44:37.760 Wait, you guys have both lost all of your guns?

01:44:39.860 Lost them.

01:44:40.280 Yeah.

01:44:40.500 I don't even know.

01:44:41.060 Well, I haven't lost them.

01:44:41.780 I didn't lose them.

01:44:42.420 I gave them to the military.

01:44:43.660 I, you gave them to, yeah, they're weapons of war, so I gave them to the war people. 0.98

01:44:46.880 I melted mine down in the back, backyard.

01:44:48.980 You did?

01:44:49.780 You melted them down?

01:44:50.920 I melted them down.

01:44:51.800 Really?

01:44:52.220 Yeah, I did.

01:44:52.740 Why, so, wow.

01:44:54.240 So, when you said you lost them, well, it's like we lost Billy Graham too.

01:44:59.300 Oh, okay.

01:44:59.740 It's not like I lost them, I lost them.

01:45:01.580 It's like I lost them.

01:45:02.700 They're gone now.

01:45:03.200 They're gone.

01:45:03.380 Because it seemed like you were making up the story as you were going along.

01:45:07.040 No.

01:45:07.740 To potentially, and maybe the story's not completely honest is what it seemed like,

01:45:11.340 but that's not true.

01:45:12.020 How do you, why would I?

01:45:13.360 What?

01:45:13.640 Why would anyone?

01:45:14.360 Why would you?

01:45:15.300 Well, I, you have to say, it would be a lot of melting knowing how many firearms you own.

01:45:19.980 I'm a big man.

01:45:20.740 Still, you know, you just want the people when they come for the guns to know you're wasting

01:45:24.640 your time here because I don't have any.

01:45:27.060 Yeah, I melted them.

01:45:27.740 See that, see that nice bench back there?

01:45:29.880 We made it out of the melted steel.

01:45:31.940 May look just like the one you could buy at Home Depot.

01:45:34.540 It's definitely not.

01:45:35.680 It's not that one.

01:45:36.640 It's definitely not.

01:45:38.100 I hate to bring this up, but you've hit on two things that have happened before.

01:45:44.980 One, a society gets so polarized that the newspapers are printing different accounts of the same

01:45:56.880 event, but they don't even reflect the facts either side.

01:46:02.960 It doesn't reflect this.

01:46:05.140 You could watch it and read one newspaper and then read the other newspaper and go,

01:46:10.460 that's not the same event.

01:46:12.860 That's happened before.

01:46:14.740 The other thing that happened before was it's your generation that got us here. 0.95

01:46:21.220 And both of these happened in Canada.

01:46:23.760 Am I right?

01:46:24.880 Is that, is that a good?

01:46:25.640 No, no, no, no.

01:46:27.300 I'm surprised.

01:46:28.000 But it also led to confiscation of guns.

01:46:32.040 Yeah.

01:46:33.120 Yeah.

01:46:34.520 I don't know what country that happened or when, what time period.

01:46:37.720 Okay.

01:46:37.880 I'm just saying it.

01:46:39.300 Theoretically.

01:46:39.880 You can't even bring it up.

01:46:40.800 No.

01:46:41.020 If I bring that up, I know what you'll say.

01:46:44.140 Uh-huh.

01:46:44.540 It always ends with a bullet.

01:46:46.200 Nah.

01:46:47.200 I don't know. 1.00

01:46:47.660 I'm just waiting for the big protest, uh, where we see the signs, Trump is a fascist. 0.98

01:46:55.900 Let's give him all our guns. 0.96

01:46:57.600 Because that sounds like a good dual angle approach on the problem.

01:47:02.260 There's just no logic or reason.

01:47:04.200 No.

01:47:04.320 There's just, there's just, you can't be afraid that the government may be fascistic and say

01:47:11.600 we should give the government all our guns. 0.91

01:47:14.400 What the hell is wrong with you?

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01:47:52.600 So it sees everything when somebody is trying to get into your house.

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01:48:14.200 So go to simply safe, Beck.com right now.

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01:48:22.260 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:48:31.120 There's a couple of other, uh, pieces of audio that we want to get to.

01:48:39.720 Um, first let's start with, uh, SC Cup.

01:48:42.560 Yeah, here's SC Cup talking.

01:48:43.940 I mean, look, everyone that's talking guns right now.

01:48:45.760 Here's, here's this exchange from, for the SC Cup, uh, unfiltered.

01:48:49.960 There's some very, there's some very tangible things that can be done.

01:48:53.200 Let me ask you ladies.

01:48:54.180 No, no, no.

01:48:55.080 Tangible things that can be done is, is, is absurd.

01:48:57.420 If it were a tangible thing that could be done, it would have been done when Democrats

01:49:00.640 held the White House, the House, the Congress.

01:49:02.380 I can tell you why.

01:49:03.160 I'll give you three letters.

01:49:05.160 N.R.A.

01:49:06.160 Oh.

01:49:06.540 Far too much control, Essie. 0.67

01:49:08.180 You're saying Democrats are also acting out of the lab of crimes at the NRA.

01:49:12.780 Absolutely.

01:49:13.360 You didn't know that there were Democrats who were beholden to NRA.

01:49:15.920 Oh, no, I do.

01:49:16.700 54 of them lost their house seats in 1994 when they tried the first assault weapons, though.

01:49:18.420 Okay, so then be clear.

01:49:19.620 So then don't act like it's absurd.

01:49:21.600 No, no, no.

01:49:22.140 It's so sad that this is the energy in this, in this conversation when people die.

01:49:26.960 Like, it doesn't have to be here.

01:49:28.400 Okay, that sounds really good.

01:49:29.680 But let's talk in fact.

01:49:31.300 When you say it's tangible to pass an assault weapons ban, it actually isn't.

01:49:36.160 That's why Democrats didn't do it when they had total control. 0.94

01:49:39.060 No, it's now time for us to take the NRA out.

01:49:43.320 But they did mean take the NRA out.

01:49:45.180 It means it's time for us to limit the control the NRA has over the Congress because people

01:49:49.720 are dying.

01:49:50.540 It means that we start standing up organizations and fund them to do things very differently

01:49:55.360 from what the NRA is doing.

01:49:57.280 Millions of people who make small dollar contributions, like me.

01:50:00.320 What would you, you want to take me out?

01:50:01.740 How do you do that?

01:50:02.680 What I just said, if you wanted to have a conversation instead of just a debate.

01:50:06.140 No, I am.

01:50:06.160 I'm asking, how are you going to take me out?

01:50:07.000 But you're not listening.

01:50:09.020 I'm asking a very real question.

01:50:10.760 Yeah, so do you want to listen?

01:50:12.920 To take the NRA out?

01:50:14.080 Oh, no, I'm just talking platitudes.

01:50:15.100 I just don't think, I don't think.

01:50:16.860 Do you want to listen now or do you still want to host?

01:50:19.220 I'm asking.

01:50:19.620 Okay, so what I said was there's organizations that are being stood up to combat the narratives,

01:50:26.260 the policies that the NRA pushes, and we need to fund those organizations to ensure

01:50:30.660 that the NRA's voice is not just muted, but we completely take them out.

01:50:36.980 This is all you need to know.

01:50:41.560 We're not actually looking for solutions.

01:50:44.120 No, of course not.

01:50:45.140 We are looking for funding to be able to combat the NRA.

01:50:52.940 That's all this is about.

01:50:55.180 This is not about, let's make sure that no children are harmed.

01:50:59.040 This is about taking out the NRA.

01:51:02.060 And I have news for you.

01:51:03.100 It's not the NRA's money.

01:51:05.620 It's not.

01:51:06.240 It is the NRA's membership, people who own guns, who are law-abiding citizens, who take

01:51:14.000 gun safety more seriously than anyone on television, that are left, right, and in the middle.

01:51:24.100 And I will say this.

01:51:25.040 This is a little known fact about our system of government, but the NRA actually gets to

01:51:29.140 cast no votes.

01:51:30.880 They get no votes in the system at all.

01:51:34.320 Like Marco Rubio made this point.

01:51:35.660 He came in and ran as a person who believed in the Second Amendment.

01:51:40.120 So the NRA supported him.

01:51:42.040 So they're not controlling his vote, as they would not probably agree with this 21-year-old

01:51:46.320 limit that he's going to vote for.

01:51:48.140 There is a very well-documented and book written by the left about the Tides Foundation and about

01:51:54.840 how and why it was started back in the 1980s.

01:51:57.480 You're a conspiracy theorist if you believe the Tides Foundation influences Congress or elections. 0.99

01:52:05.320 You're crazy. 1.00

01:52:06.620 You're crazy. 1.00

01:52:08.020 Yet the big, bad, evil NRA has got to be stopped now. 1.00

01:52:14.200 Wow.

01:52:15.140 Wow.

01:52:16.200 I'll have to check out your star chamber maybe later.

01:52:23.740 Glenn.

01:52:24.860 Back.

01:52:25.780 Mercury.

01:52:26.320 Mercury.

01:52:26.420 Mercury.

01:52:26.480 Mercury.

01:52:26.600 Mercury.

01:52:27.020 Mercury.

01:52:27.980 Mercury.

01:52:29.580 Mercury.

01:52:30.520 Mercury.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 22, 2018

＂It's Not The Gun＂ (Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn) - 2⧸22⧸18

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