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00:46:25.100You were in the Supreme Court yesterday.
00:46:26.820And First Liberty was defending something that was a statue that has been around forever, commemorating those who lost their lives in World War I.
00:46:41.040And a bunch of atheists got together and said, this is in the shape of a cross.
00:46:47.000And the city is mowing the lawn around it.
00:46:56.460Well, it's kind of surreal, as you say, that we're even at the Supreme Court on this.
00:47:00.960I mean, this is the peace cross in Maryland, right outside of D.C.
00:47:05.160It was put up almost 100 years ago by mothers who lost their sons in World War I, along with the American Legion.
00:47:12.580And at this point, you know, before the Supreme Court makes its decision, we are at a point where the Court of Appeals said it's unconstitutional.
00:47:22.640After 100 years, we're going to have to tear it down.
00:47:24.680In fact, one of the judges on the appellate court said, why don't we just cut the arms off the cross?
00:47:42.940There's an approach, Glenn, that has been used now for many decades by the Supreme Court that has created just chaos in this whole area of the law, the Establishment Clause.
00:47:54.400Congress shall make no law respecting Establishment of Religion.
00:48:09.240And part of the test now is that if a person in the community were to walk by a memorial and they were to see that it's religious and it made it feel like an outsider in the community, then that's a violation of the Establishment Clause.
00:48:24.100And so it's kind of the it's what's called the offended observer gets to bring a lawsuit.
00:48:32.060And it's like Justice Gorsuch yesterday made clear, he said, we don't allow this in any area of the law.
00:48:38.040Somebody to come forward and say they're offended and therefore they have a right to, you know, bring lawsuits under the Constitution because they're offended.
00:48:45.560And but that's where we are with this.
00:48:48.480They they're a group of people, a small group of people that don't want this memorial.
00:49:15.920So why do you think that this went so well yesterday?
00:49:20.760Well, I think it's clear that there some people would say there might even be up to seven justices who agree that there's nothing wrong with this memorial.
00:49:29.540Again, the facts are so solid in this case.
00:49:35.460I mean, they're trying to say, well, they use the cross because they're supporting one religion over another and they're they're doing all this stuff.
00:49:42.820If you look at any history, you go back at World War One, millions of young men died and they were they were putting them in graves overseas so quickly.
00:49:51.920And they were just slapping a cross in front of everybody just to make sure they knew there was a person.
00:49:56.520And the pictures that came back were row after row after row of crosses as far as you can see.
00:50:03.300And there were poems written about this and everything else.
00:50:05.720So that was the universal symbol they picked to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
00:50:11.500And so the idea of tearing down this memorial after 100 years would just be a disgrace and it would be unfathomable.
00:50:22.920So I think the only issue that is coming out of this is going to be are they going to change the test of this test that's been used to kind of create these attacks on religious symbols and monuments and things around the country?
00:50:35.740And there were a number of justices, including the chief justice, who made clear that this thing is a mess.
00:50:44.820This test, Glenn, this tells you something.
00:50:48.120They use it when they want to knock something down, but then they ignore the test completely when they have to uphold something that the founders clearly thought was OK.
00:50:58.020So there was a case just a few years ago about can you have prayer to open city council meetings?
00:51:03.180Well, the founders had prayer to open their meetings.
00:51:17.080So they talked about this yesterday and said, this is I mean, we can do what we want as a Supreme Court, but we're forcing all the lower courts.
00:51:24.740They have no idea what the law is, what things to apply.
00:51:27.700And I think they know they need to do something.
00:51:30.460And I think there's a really good shot that they're going to get rid of what has created a really a catastrophe in this area of the law.
00:51:38.700Kelly, if I'm not mistaken, the way the court is ruling on things, there is a change in the court.
00:51:47.440And is it just the addition of of Gorsuch that is happening?
00:51:53.980Because there seems to be in when it comes to religion, that the Supreme Court is starting to define those boundaries a little bit clearer and actually protect.
00:52:06.400Haven't we had several cases this this session where they are protecting religious liberty?
00:52:13.180There's some huge signals coming out when this case is one of them.
00:52:18.260I think we now have five justices for the first time, maybe since the 1920s, who actually believe in following the written word of the Constitution.
00:52:28.040And that's that's going to result in things changing because they're going to say it's not about what we want.
00:52:33.700It's about what the framers said, what the Constitution said, what it means.
00:52:38.460And I think when it comes to religious freedom, we have five that are really pretty solid on religious freedom.
00:52:44.640I think Kavanaugh is a guy who I mean, he don't Kavanaugh as a young attorney donated his time on a case with me, you know, almost 20 years ago.
00:52:52.680He's been committed to religious freedom his whole life.
00:52:55.000He understands it. And I think the same about Roberts, who's considered a swing boat a lot of times.
00:53:00.380So I think we're going to start to see some clarity and some good decisions come out.
00:53:04.800And we're talking about the establishment clause.
00:53:06.800We have another case, the Coach Kennedy case.
00:53:09.540The coach got fired for going to a knee after the football game to say a 20 minute silent prayer.
00:53:15.460They issued a statement before conservative justices last month on that case that sent shockwaves throughout the country.
00:53:24.580And that is at the end of the decision that they had laid down, they actually said, you know, we've noticed that you brought a free speech claim first, not a free exercise of religion claim.
00:53:35.960And they said that might be because of this decision, which is called the Smith decision, that has created such damage to the free exercise of religion.
00:53:44.840And they said, but we haven't been asked to overturn that yet.
00:53:48.520So that's not a subtle hint that they're ready to go after some of these really bad cases that have really hurt religious freedom for the last, you know, four or five decades.
00:54:01.220And so both on the establishment clause and the free exercise clause, both the religion clauses, we're really excited.
00:54:20.940I mean, they they are so focused on him that you could go in and say every baby gets an automatic weapon through the Supreme Court or through Congress.
00:54:32.540And I don't think that the press would even focus on it because they're so focused on him.
00:54:38.560We we feel like we're losing the battles almost every day because we see these these huge leaps of power for the left that we're not seeing or hearing because nobody's reporting on these victories in the court and what's really happening in the court.
00:55:03.040This is I mean, I've been doing religious freedom work my entire life.
00:55:07.460And, you know, been working hard and I feel like everything we've all been working for for the last 30 years is beginning to happen and not in small ways.
00:55:19.040And I think this is this is going to be a huge return of power to the people getting the government out of sort of being the the religious monuments police.
00:55:30.580And, you know, part of things we're talking about just from the case yesterday, you know, think of all the, you know, the menorahs that have been so you can't put that menorah up in public around Hanukkah or you can't do the the nativity scene or you can't you can't have that Ten Commandments or I mean, oh, my gosh, you've got a steeple on your city seal.
00:55:50.380Well, you know, and so all that stuff is ridiculous if you're talking to the founders.
00:55:56.080And I think I mean, this case could end all of that and it'll affect much more.
00:56:01.660But that's just real life things that people are used to seeing.
00:56:04.960And so I think both the establishment clause and the free exercise clause, there's great hope.
00:56:09.600We'll have to wait and see what the decisions are.
00:56:11.740But I think it's going to be a really I mean, we're talking about decades changing sort of the hinge point of history, like we've had decades of some really bad law.
00:56:21.440And I think we're about to move towards some decades of some really good law and religious freedom and the First Amendment.
00:56:27.500I will tell you that David Barton told me that he said, Glenn, if the things come out the way they're feeling, he said, by the end of this session, he said, we may have more religious freedom than any time since the founding of the nation.
00:56:44.340He said they they've been screwing it up for so long.
00:56:48.140He said, I think we're going back to the way things were originally intended.
00:56:52.720Would you agree with that or is that too far?
00:56:54.540No, I do. I mean, it's kind of it's kind of silly.
00:56:57.700You know, most nonprofit groups like our legal firm have a vision statement and they're kind of pie in the sky.
00:57:05.720You know, if if this happens, this would be nirvana. Right.
00:57:10.440And ours is to return the country to the religious freedom.
00:57:32.820And so I think we're going to start to see decisions go back to what that founding vision was and the religious freedom that this country was built on.
00:57:40.840And I think that's only going to be a blessing for the country and the future of everything we do.
00:57:45.640Wow. Kelly, thank you so much. And thank you for the hard work that you've put in for so long.
00:57:50.260Chief counsel, First Liberty Institute, if you want to be involved, you want to donate.
00:57:55.060I mean, they are doing amazing work right now.
00:57:58.880First Liberty dot org. First Liberty dot org.
00:58:04.200Now, if we could just get the justices to be good on the freedom of speech part, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment.
00:58:27.420Spend money where you spend the most time.
00:58:29.540So, the author is like, works at home and has figured out now that the office chair would be a better value because then thieves are considering buying like a video game.
00:58:41.160But they're saying eight cents per hour is what they figured out it actually costs.
00:58:49.080Which is like, that's pretty cost effective.
00:58:50.380If you're working at home to get like an X chair, for example, if I might suggest, you are at a point where you're basically spending nothing for the amount of time you're there.
01:03:52.740What happens when you get everybody together and we're one big powerhouse that has the has the clout that can move as one body?
01:04:04.240We saw the reason why Fox News became as big as it was is because it was big enough and powerful enough to say we don't care and mount offensives instead of being on defense all the time.
01:06:34.200Thanks for being so honest in your Quillette story.
01:06:37.740Can you take us through, maybe start here, the guy who broke up with you because he was crying and said he just couldn't date a Republican anymore?
01:06:51.640Yeah, so I worked on this piece for a long time, right, because I wanted to combine my personal experiences with people I interviewed with broader trends that I observed in the progressive world and in the LGBT media.
01:07:04.720And it eventually all found its way back to one place.
01:07:08.060If you identify as conservative but you also happen to be gay, life in neither side of the aisle is particularly comfortable for you.
01:07:14.900So for me, that meant that I have experienced, honestly, widespread intolerance from other people in the LGBT community who should understand more than anyone that it's okay to be different.
01:07:26.800So that includes a boyfriend of multiple months who broke up with me in part because he was uncomfortable with my political views, which are by no means radical.
01:07:36.380And that's just another example of intolerance that I've experienced, honestly, too many times to count from left-wing gay people.
01:07:42.520Now, Brett, I mean, as a guy who, you know, just was never good on the dating scene at all, that sounds like something that somebody could have said to me.
01:07:56.520And really, they didn't know anything about my politics.
01:07:59.540They were just, like, looking for something.
01:08:01.980You know, it's not you, it's me kind of stuff.
01:08:18.520You know, when I first started putting myself out there on the dating scene in college, I would have people who would match with me on dating apps or on websites just to tell me to go and kill myself or off myself or that I was disgraced to the community, right, because I was a little bit well-known around campus for my conservative viewpoints and those sorts of things.
01:08:38.440So because it's been a reoccurring trend, I can tell you that I'm pretty confident it was not just another excuse.
01:08:46.240So tell me about, because I think there's a lot of people that feel like they don't have a home anywhere.
01:08:51.940And, you know, when it comes to gay people, you would think that it's a clear match because a conservative should be about the constitutional principles that we have, which basically say, leave me alone.
01:09:07.760I'm different, and I thought we were supposed to celebrate that I'm different and you're different and we're supposed to get along.
01:09:38.020How do you deal with the difference between the two parties?
01:09:42.940Well, so first off, Glenn, I totally agree with you.
01:09:45.140I think that I'm not personally a huge social conservative, but I do identify as a constitutional conservative for the reasons that you just mentioned.
01:09:52.480You know, what does the First Amendment do if it doesn't protect your right to think differently, to be different, to have freedom of conscience?
01:09:59.760And so that's one of the reasons I find the left-wing movement that's moving in on all these freedoms so unappealing.
01:10:06.360But what I'll say is that it's a combination of two things that creates this political homelessness.
01:10:10.500In part, it is what you have identified, that there's some lingering intolerance among the conservative movement.
01:10:17.060I will say, among young Republicans, I've really had extremely welcoming and accepting experiences.
01:10:23.940But, you know, the reality remains that half of Republicans don't believe in gay marriage.
01:10:28.920And I don't think that that makes them terrible people or evil or anything.
01:10:32.720But it does make me, obviously, not fully comfortable with the people who I would otherwise politically largely agree with.
01:10:39.540And the same thing is true on the opposite side of the spectrum, right?
01:10:47.300Because the progressive LGBT media ecosystem essentially acts like gay people who aren't liberals don't exist.
01:10:55.040You know, you go to these websites, QueerTea.com, LGBT Advocate, and Out Magazine,
01:11:01.960and they have articles praising gun control and bashing Ivanka Trump.
01:11:05.900And they call this the gay agenda, right?
01:11:08.020They're basically acting like all gay people think with their body parts, and we're not individuals.
01:11:12.060So they're trying to erase the 20% or so of LGBT people who don't think like that.
01:11:46.120And later, it became about undesirables, making sure that we don't create any more undesirables.
01:11:52.500The reason why government got into marriage in the first place, they're all bad, and they have no place in anybody's marriage.
01:12:00.960But as long as if you want to get married, I don't care.
01:12:05.220If I want to get married, you shouldn't care.
01:12:08.040But we shouldn't be in people's lives.
01:12:10.700The problem with conservatives, I think, is there are some that are just like, it's wrong, and God says it's wrong, and that's all there is to it.
01:12:17.740But there's, I think, a bigger majority of conservatives that say, look, that's them.
01:12:38.540I think the position that you're articulating is very intellectually honest.
01:12:41.980And I think that the people who are still holdouts against gay marriage, I hope that they can kind of come see the light, especially because I try to make the gay marriage argument from a case for family values, right, almost to appeal to conservatives.
01:12:55.280But I think you hit on something that I do think is partly the own fault of the LGBT community, right?
01:13:01.480When you have an LGBT advocate class that does target religion entirely, right, they're not just seeking freedom for to be who you are, to have kids, to get married.
01:13:12.500They're seeking freedom to force other people, right?
01:13:15.220Like, for example, Jack Phillips, the baker who didn't want to bake the gay cake.
01:13:19.120The LGBT advocate class has really forced some conservatives to kind of dig in into their trenches because they're not just looking for freedom.
01:13:26.740They're looking to force their views onto other people, and that's where I think both sides get it wrong because a society that's truly tolerant lets you have the right to be Christian and me have the right to be gay, and we all just live our lives in peace.
01:13:41.480One other thing, Brad, is how is it, and I say this really with socialists, but also, you know, gay people as well, a group of people, socialists, in Hollywood that had to, were blacklisted, were tried, some of them went to prison, had to live in the closet, either because of their sexuality or because of their political beliefs.
01:14:06.180Is it just vengeance, or why can they not see they're doing this, they're becoming the monster that they fought against?
01:14:20.580The causes of this kind of veil of intolerance that's sweeping the progressive movement and kind of the LGBT far left crowd, I'm not sure exactly what the cause is.
01:14:30.160I will say that we have a tendency across our society when there was historic kind of oppression or anything to try to swing back to the, not to the middle, but too far to the other side.
01:14:40.300And I think that the LGBT advocacy class has no, has not been an exception to that rule.
01:14:45.840They've absolutely done that because we have to acknowledge the fact that for a long time, LGBT people have really faced some terrible conditions in American history.
01:14:54.180And I think largely that's not true today, and that's great, but that is probably why I think a lot of these people have swung far to the other extreme.
01:15:02.980And that's understandable, but it's still fundamentally misguided.
01:15:05.820And Brad, it seems like the lesson learned a lot of times from these longer struggles with groups that have had tough times in America is to pick a group that they think is helping them, whether it's whatever group in the government, Democrats, Republicans, that they think is helping them, and then kind of stick to that side for a long period of time afterwards.
01:15:26.480But it seems to me the decision should be made in a way of thinking about collectivism versus individualism.
01:15:34.220And if you're a minority group or a group that's had troubles with the government in the past, the last thing to me you would want is the government to have more power in a centralized place where whenever X, Y, or Z group decides, you know, the country decides that they're the enemy next time, they're again going to be vulnerable.
01:15:53.340If we empower people who are individualists, who believe in small government and limited government, to be able to do these things and run the country without making these decisions as to what groups they don't like, isn't that just better for everybody?
01:16:07.340Yeah, I could not agree with you more there, because one thing that drives me crazy is the same LGBT progressive advocates who will tell you the government is viciously oppressive are the same ones who want to take everyone's guns away.
01:16:19.040To the point that I'm saying, it makes perfect sense to me, right?
01:16:23.040If you really think that the government has a history of being oppressive to certain groups, and I do, then you should want that government to be as small as possible, because clearly it's shown that it can't handle widespread power.
01:16:33.300So I would love to see more LGBT people applying the lens of their experiences really to the question of today of how much can we really let people go and start running people's lives, because individualism really is the ethos of my personal philosophy, and honestly, it should be that for more gay people.
01:16:52.380So how can people like us, or just regular people who are just listening, who are not members of the gay community, how can we help bridge a gap? What can we do?
01:17:06.840Well, so it starts with a couple things. It can be hard at times to reach the other side when they feel trapped into this us-versus-them mentality, which is in part driven by kind of the identitarian dogma of intersectionality on the left.
01:17:20.460But it's also, I think, driven by when you have high-profile conservatives who will say, or high-profile conservative media who will sometimes say or make comments or take positions about LGBT issues that are just either inflammatory and unfair or needlessly controversial.
01:17:41.220For example, I mean, if you're going to have traditional views about gender, I can respect that position.
01:17:46.480But if you go out of your way to whenever you're debating it with somebody, tell them that they're mentally deranged, right, with a transgender person, you're being needlessly antagonistic, and you're turning other people off from, I think, just your entire political movement with that.
01:18:00.180So I think you can have the views you're going to have, but it's about taking an approach where you can try to meet people in the middle and try to make arguments that will appeal to them and won't activate their us-versus-them mentality.
01:18:11.380I tell you, Brad, I don't know if you've ever read this.
01:18:14.240My dad made me read it when I was in high school, and I read it begrudgingly, and I picked it up recently.
01:18:20.440And it has all of the answers we need.
01:18:23.940It really does, even though it was written in, you know, the Great Depression.
01:18:27.940It's how to win friends and influence people.
01:18:30.020And basically, it just said what it says, what you just said, just said, why not listen to other people, see what they're feeling, see what they need, see how you can help and just help them, help them.
01:18:45.660And, you know, and be comfortable with that.
01:18:50.560And then, all of a sudden, you'll notice, wait a minute, my life has changed somehow or another, because you're just being cool with everybody and really listening to them.
01:19:02.060Brad, thank you so much for your article, and thanks for being on the program.
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01:28:29.240After Parkland, the shooting in Parkland and trying to look at the role that banks and credit cards play in these things,
01:28:36.740I really decided to take a deep dive into this.
01:28:39.940The article is called Devastating Arsenals Bought with Plastic and Nary a Red Flag.
01:28:45.600It is a New York Times investigation that looks at mass shootings, every single major mass shooting in America since Virginia Tech in 2007.
01:28:52.480And it really reveals how credit cards have become such a crucial part of the planning of these massacres in a way that I have to say I did not even appreciate myself.
01:29:01.540The article is written by Andrew Ross Sorkin, works for the New York Times.
01:29:10.160Now, something tells me he's never fired a gun in his life.
01:29:12.920But when he wrote the article, how banks unwittingly finance mass shootings in the New York Times.
01:29:24.740He starts by pointing out that there have been 13 shootings that have killed 10 or more people in the last decade.
01:29:29.960And in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards.
01:29:34.360Virginia Tech, Binghamton in 2009, Fort Hood, Aurora, San Bernardino, Orlando, Sutherland Springs and Vegas.
01:29:42.800And he pointed out that over the course of eight months before the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, the shooter opened six new credit card accounts just 12 days before the shooting.
01:29:54.000He spent twenty six thousand five hundred thirty two dollars on a Sig Sauer MCX two two three caliber rifle and a Glock 17 nine millimeter semi automatic pistol and several large magazines.
01:30:07.400He also bought thousands of rounds of ammunition, and then he went out and bought a seventy five hundred dollar ring for his wife that he bought on a jewelry store card.
01:30:20.060Should the bank have allowed him to do that?
01:30:23.800Because before that month, he spent about a thousand fifteen hundred dollars a month.
01:30:27.800The difference was so dramatic that two days before the shooting.
01:30:33.840The the killer frantically searched Google for credit card unusual spending and credit card reports all three bureaus.
01:30:41.620He searched FBI and why banks stop your purchases.
01:31:46.200Do you think the left would be doing business with Citibank if this was reversed?
01:31:51.800If Citibank said we're not going to do any transactions or any financial services with any doctors that will not support abortion?
01:32:01.560Do you think the left would have Citibank's attention yet?
01:32:06.400CEO Michael Corbett said the policy, quote, is intended to preserve the rights of responsible gun owners like myself while relying on best sales practices to keep firearms out of the wrong hands.
01:32:20.440The new policy does not restrict Citigroup customers from using the company's cards from gun purchases.
01:32:28.520Bank of America took similar approach.
01:32:30.900They stopped giving loans to gun manufacturers.
01:32:40.020Overwhelmingly, however, good news is banks and credit card companies have refused to take part in any kind of monitoring.
01:32:46.480So you have Bank of America and Citigroup.
01:32:50.120Do you do business with either of those?
01:32:52.020Remember, the left, if they were told, no, no, no, it's not the whole doctor thing.
01:32:57.880No, it's just if they if they say that a minor can have an abortion.
01:33:05.460I mean, after they're after they're 18 or 21, that's fine.
01:33:09.040But if they if those people are saying they can have an abortion without their parents permission under 18.
01:33:15.240Why, we're not going to do any financing for that organization.
01:33:19.000Do you think the left would put up with that?
01:33:21.840Now, even if the banks and the credit card companies agreed to start monitoring purchases, gun sales are tough to track because they many times appear on statements as, you know, sporting goods or retail shop purchases, you know, places like retail or like Walmart, et cetera, et cetera.
01:33:40.300Sometimes discount stores, it'll just be marked variety.
01:34:58.840Whether the transaction is legal or not, they have to report it.
01:35:01.860And banks must report the transactions over $5,000 if somebody just has a feeling that's suspicious.
01:35:09.660There are also laws that restrict gun purchases.
01:35:12.460Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, firearms dealers must report if someone buys two or more handguns in a span of five business days.
01:35:22.860There's also a lot of official blowback from the idea that the banks could monitor our purchases, effectively compiling a list of all the gun owners.
01:35:32.300Last year, John Kennedy, not that John Kennedy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, introduced the No Red and No Blue Banks Act.
01:35:45.080The bill would prohibit the federal government from giving contracts to banks that would discriminate against lawful businesses based solely on social policy considerations.
01:35:57.260Even the ACLU has come out against monitoring by credit card companies, saying that those efforts they are afraid to prevent mass shootings could infringe on individual rights.
01:36:12.700Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU, the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, he says,
01:36:20.580quote, the implications, the implication of expecting the government to detect and prevent every mass shooting is believing the government should play an enormously intrusive role in American life, end quote.
01:36:36.440Which brings us back to Andrew Ross Sorkin's New York Times article.
01:36:41.760Sorkin doesn't seem convinced by any of this stuff.
01:36:45.160He would prefer if the government stepped in and forced credit card companies to start monitoring their customers or at least the credit card companies that, you know, made that choice of their own volition.
01:37:00.380Listen to this and interview with him on PBS.
01:37:38.340But MasterCard, interestingly, recently went to a website that had some hate speech on it and said, we're no longer going to allow you to use credit card transactions using MasterCard because of this hate speech.
01:37:51.520So there are companies that are taking positions, if you will, on some of these things.
01:37:55.800And the question is how that can work in relation to guns.
01:37:58.200Now, so he's I guess he's all for the hate speech, by the way, that hate speech was not hate speech.
01:38:05.520That hate speech came from a friend of mine and a friend of this program.
01:38:09.680That hate speech was speaking out about the Muslim Brotherhood and not in hateful ways.
01:38:15.320A guy who used to brief Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on what Islamicists really want.
01:47:18.820I'll tell you about that here in a second.
01:47:20.520But what what I just set up was how the New York Times columnists and how others, including now the governor of New York, is pressuring these financial institutions based in New York.
01:47:37.620Citigroup, MasterCard, all of these all of these people, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo.
01:47:46.080That look, if you're going to do business with gun stores, gun manufacturers, you're going to help, you know, these what do you call them?
01:48:14.560We don't want to we don't want to have financial services.
01:48:17.680And the American people who believe in the Second Amendment still do businesses, the business with Citigroup, still do business with MasterCard.
01:48:31.280Then you are giving them the rope to hang yourself with.
01:50:11.240Well, what happens when you pass a law that says you cannot do it without the gun manufacturer or the gun store being involved?
01:50:22.020And then on the other side, you have financial institutions no longer giving loans or doing any financial transactions for manufacturers or gun stores.
01:51:07.660It's Peter King of New York, and that bill will extend the amount of time firearms dealers must wait for a response from the background check system before the sale can proceed from three days to 20 days.
01:51:24.540Well, that's what's happening with technology.
01:51:26.600Glenn, it's getting harder and harder for computers to communicate with each other slower and slower and slower.
01:51:31.500Could take up to 20 days to get a response on that one.
01:51:45.980So when the Obama administration was in, and this happened during the Clinton administration, and gun store owners, correct me if I'm wrong, they would wait the full three days.
01:53:15.120The guy who went on, he first of all set off a bomb in downtown, in the downtown to try to kill the prime minister.
01:53:22.300And then took a boat over to an island where they were having a retreat.
01:53:27.300It was like a camp for kids of really rich parents, basically, and went and slaughtered 69 of them at one big time when there was really nobody over there.
01:54:09.300He knew going over there he was going to have no resistance whatsoever.
01:54:12.560Now, a lot of them, there were counselors and there was people who were running the camp, a lot of them.
01:54:15.960If you try to do that in Texas, most likely one of them, even at a camp, is going to have a firearm, unless, of course, the government has told them it's a no-gun zone and they can't go into it.
01:54:26.920But like there was no, there was no gun law that stopped that.
01:54:31.900There was no person to put up a defense.
01:54:35.160It was basically just a bunch of kids running for their lives on an island.
01:54:41.560So I want to tell you part of a personal story here and ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies.
01:54:51.160My family in the last couple of weeks have has gone through a significant scare security wise and significant, probably one of a bigger scare than we've had in a very long time.
01:55:10.620And so we had a gun discussion in our family and one of my daughters is in love with two of my daughters and love with shooting and everything else.
01:55:22.600My other daughter just doesn't like it.
01:55:25.240She just doesn't feel comfortable around it and she never has.
01:59:33.800And so when they see it, they freak out.
01:59:35.700We make fun of these people all the time that report, you know, individuals that look suspicious and they're just carrying a gun.
01:59:41.240Like, that's actually a right in the Constitution, but it's so foreign to so much of the country.
01:59:45.300And in some of the parts of the country, and they don't understand it, parts of the country, somebody wearing a gun is like, that woman over there has a purse.