The Glenn Beck Program - SPECIAL EDITION： The DEFINITIVE Debunking of the Left’s Gun Myths

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Glenn. We've seen how the left uses every tragic event to try to infringe on our

00:00:05.600 Second Amendment right. The same people bring up the same myths about guns over and over again,

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00:01:13.380 We really would appreciate it. Last week, I was walking through my kitchen when I got a news alert

00:01:19.180 on my phone. It read there has been a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.

00:01:25.520 And when you saw that you probably felt sad and angry and felt empathy for the victims.

00:01:32.080 But I felt a little different. I felt scared. At that moment, I had two kids had an elementary school

00:01:39.940 in Texas. Now, while rationally, I knew the odds of our school being affected were low,

00:01:46.240 you can't help but have that moment where your heart skips a beat. I mean, it's just natural.

00:01:52.120 And no parent should have to go through that. The left wants to paint us as heartless monsters.

00:01:57.540 But that's not true. We hate gun violence just as much or more than the left does. We not only grieve

00:02:05.660 for the victims, but we also see the rights that have protected the nation's freedoms withering away.

00:02:11.980 And we also know what comes next. It's understandable to feel emotion after what we saw in Texas.

00:02:19.800 Emotion comes naturally. It's easy to prey on people's emotions to try to push through an agenda.

00:02:27.240 Never let a crisis go to waste after all. And some of the lowest forms of humanity will even try to

00:02:34.060 exploit this tragedy for their own personal benefit. But I don't want to be Beto O'Rourke.

00:02:43.180 I want to do what does not come naturally. I want to suck every last ounce of emotion out of this

00:02:51.460 for the next hour. And I want to focus on the truth. There is a time to be emotional when you

00:02:58.280 see that news alert on your phone. There's a time to go against what seems rational when you're a

00:03:04.420 police officer about to run into a classroom and take on an active shooter. But this is the time to

00:03:10.860 act rationally, to make sober decisions based on facts and reason and to know the truth.

00:03:19.660 On this episode, we are going to look at some of the most common myths, misunderstandings,

00:03:26.560 outright lies, all of them being told by the left and the media about guns. What is the truth about

00:03:32.720 gun violence? Have we really had 27 school shootings this year? Why is this happening all the time over

00:03:39.100 and over again? Is it true that more guns means more murder? How can we stop this? What about

00:03:45.820 Australia's approach? Did that work? Why doesn't this happen in other countries? And what are about

00:03:51.480 our rights? I mean, Joe Biden is always saying you couldn't own a cannon at the time of the founding.

00:03:55.840 Is that true? Can we and should we ban AR-15s? Are AR-15s really 200 times as deadly? And would

00:04:04.520 banning assault rifles even work? Did it work last time we tried it? The truth is, whenever something

00:04:11.120 like this happens, we hear the same arguments over and over again. The same people telling the same

00:04:16.800 lies or, at the very least, ignorantly repeating those lies over and over again. My hope is to give

00:04:24.880 you a resource that you can continue to come back to whenever you see these lies start to spread.

00:04:29.860 It's the definitive takedown of all the left's gun lies. We start debunking next.

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00:06:02.720 STU with Upside. Hi, this is Glenn Beck, and you are listening to a very special episode of

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00:06:24.340 debunked for 20 bucks off your subscription to Blaze TV. Let's get right into this. Remember the goal

00:06:28.840 here. The left wants you to give up a constitutionally guaranteed right that cannot

00:06:33.780 be infringed. That is a heavy lift for them. The first step in that process is to make you feel

00:06:40.220 overwhelmed. You need to feel like this is always happening, like it never stops, like everywhere you

00:06:47.160 turn is another school shooting. You've seen this headline probably online over the past week.

00:06:51.760 There have been 27 school shootings in 2022. So far, it comes from Education Week. They've been

00:06:59.300 maintaining a list of school shootings for several years. But to get to 27 and make you feel overwhelmed,

00:07:06.280 they include stuff like this. In Illinois, a seven-year-old student was grazed by a bullet

00:07:11.160 when a gun in another student's backpack accidentally discharged. That counts as a school shooting.

00:07:17.460 In North Carolina, a teenager was shot and injured in the school parking lot during a fight over a gun

00:07:24.120 on a teacher workday. So not in the school, not on a school day, but still a school shooting.

00:07:31.760 In Florida, a male student shot and injured an 18-year-old student. Police say the shooting

00:07:37.820 appeared to have been a result of a dispute between the kids. So a shooting occurred, yes. It was an

00:07:44.380 isolated incident, however. It was not a random attack on the entire school. Ten more of the

00:07:50.200 recorded school shootings didn't even take place inside the schools. Several were in parking lots,

00:07:55.760 a few more in buses or vehicles around or en route to the schools, and a handful took place after

00:08:01.140 school hours during sporting events or graduation ceremonies. Of the 27 recorded school shootings this

00:08:06.820 year, if you think about what a school shooting really elicits in your head, about four of them

00:08:13.240 were even close to what most of us would think of when we hear about students being killed at school,

00:08:19.040 and that includes Uvalde. And only one child in addition to Uvalde has died, thankfully. There is a

00:08:25.620 reason why we always refer to events that happened four years ago and 10 years ago, because the reality

00:08:33.200 is not that we have constant school shootings, but rather that we have had one really, really

00:08:39.500 horrific incident very recently, and it's on our minds. I want to add a little perspective here,

00:08:46.160 because the media wants you to believe that your kids are constantly in danger, and perhaps more

00:08:52.040 importantly, that they are the only ones that have the solutions, these solutions that could easily 0.99

00:08:57.780 be implemented if, if, if, if just those darn Republicans would get out of the way. That's the way they talk 0.99

00:09:04.160 about this stuff. The average kid goes to school for about 180 days a year. The average school has about 500

00:09:10.620 students in it. That's about 90,000 students, student days per school per year. Right now, our focus is

00:09:17.540 understandably on one school in Uvalde, but there are 150,000 schools in America. That's 13.5 billion times

00:09:28.000 every year that a kid goes to school, and almost every single kid on almost every single day never has

00:09:34.100 to face anything like what we saw last week. In fact, even if your child went to school in Uvalde on the

00:09:42.680 day of the shooting, you still had about a 99.5% chance that your kid came home. Now, that's not

00:09:50.640 acceptable in any way, obviously. It needs to be 100%. This doesn't make anyone who has to deal with

00:09:57.140 the impossible grief of losing a child feel any better, and the physical and emotional scars are

00:10:02.520 going to haunt this community forever. It goes way beyond those who are killed in the incident. But I lay it

00:10:09.040 out this way for two reasons. Number one, your best defense against this happening to you or someone

00:10:15.140 you love is not gun control or even red flag laws or even armed security at every school. Your best

00:10:24.020 defense is the odds. It's true. The media wants you to think that this country is filled with maniacs

00:10:32.360 looking to murder kids around every corner, but that's not who we are. Statistically, even when you

00:10:37.780 consider the terrible mass shootings that we've experienced, school remains one of the safest places

00:10:42.660 your kids will ever be. They might be learning CRT instead of math, but they are not constantly on the

00:10:48.680 verge of catastrophe. The second reason I point this out is to illustrate how difficult of a problem this is

00:10:56.300 to solve. Think back to your days in school. Remember that kid who was, you know, a little bit off, and you

00:11:04.280 thought maybe he might wind up showing up at a school with a gun. If you can't remember that kid,

00:11:10.840 I hate to break it to you. It was probably you. But every school has one or more of these guys that,

00:11:17.780 I don't know, they might just go off the deep end at any moment. At least that's what we think.

00:11:20.960 And we have 150,000 schools and over 13 billion student days to try to defend. Changing some gun

00:11:30.920 laws is not going to stop a problem that is such a needle in a haystack. I know it doesn't feel this

00:11:38.420 way, but this is not an epidemic. Mass shootings at school are incredibly rare events. And that's not

00:11:47.660 me saying that. Those are researchers at Northeastern University. Quote, this is not an epidemic. Mass

00:11:53.620 school shootings are incredibly rare events. These are exceedingly rare events. We're not talking about

00:12:00.440 even one in a million. Even if you include mass shootings that aren't in schools, we're talking

00:12:04.980 about something like one in a hundred million. Your chances of being killed in a mass shooting are

00:12:10.200 probably no greater than being struck by lightning. Again, that's not me saying that. That's a

00:12:16.920 criminologist from the Minnesota Department of Corrections who literally wrote the definitive

00:12:21.660 history on mass murders in America. Quote, mass shootings are exceedingly rare events. The average

00:12:28.040 annual rate of U.S. mass shootings is less than one per 100 million people. Chances of being killed in a

00:12:34.180 mass shooting are probably no greater than being struck by lightning. End quote. This isn't a needle in a

00:12:41.260 haystack. It's a speck of dust on a needle in a haystack. And that's what makes these incidents so

00:12:48.140 difficult to stop once they have become ingrained into the dark reaches of our culture. But even if

00:12:54.880 they're rare events, why are they increasing so much? Here's the thing. They're not. I know it feels like

00:13:04.080 they are, but they're not. Over the past 30 years, the most dangerous year when it comes to risk of

00:13:11.340 dying from a school shooting was the year I graduated high school, 1994. That's not me saying

00:13:20.300 that. That's Northeastern University. Again, here's the chart to show you exactly how it looks. This goes

00:13:26.400 back to up to 2015. This particular chart obviously doesn't include the last week, but there's not been a

00:13:31.640 rise above Sandy Hook level violence since then. And what you see is that we have a major downtrend,

00:13:38.480 down since the mid 90s. That's in schools. And the overall peak of mass shootings in this country was

00:13:44.600 not 2021. It was 1929. Mass shootings get a lot of attention, and that is understandable. But it's also

00:13:54.060 the main reason why they occur. The attention, the spectacle, the pain, the anguish, the terror,

00:14:02.040 the fear. That's what these shooters are after. But the simple truth is this. White supremacists and

00:14:09.200 scary looking guns get the focus from our president and our politicians. But mass shootings only make up 0.97

00:14:15.280 about 0.2% of the murders in this country. 0.2%. Yes, of course, we should do whatever we can within the bounds

00:14:27.560 of the Constitution to eliminate that 0.2%. But even if we're completely successful at doing so, we still have

00:14:36.740 99.8% of murders that still remain, the overwhelming majority of which occur in Democratic-run cities

00:14:46.460 supported by decades and decades of Democratic voters and policies voting in Democrats over and over and

00:14:54.980 over again. And that's why the president and the media don't want to talk about it.

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00:16:09.220 Stew Does America, the definitive debunking of the left's gun myths. If you like what you hear,

00:16:15.400 make sure you take a second right now and follow Stew Does America for new episodes every weekday,

00:16:20.580 or you just click the link in the show notes. Today, we're debunking the biggest claims about guns on

00:16:25.800 the left and in the media. If you want more of this type of stuff, subscribe, blazetv.com slash

00:16:30.120 stew. The promo code is debunked. It'll save you 20 bucks off your subscription. The foundation of the

00:16:36.160 left's claims on guns is the more gun control you have, the less violence you have. But fundamentally,

00:16:41.960 we know this isn't true. Look at the recent past here in America. Americans buy more than guns today

00:16:48.520 than they did in the 1990s, about four times the number of background checks performed than in 1999.

00:16:54.600 But violent crime has decreased radically since those years, with homicides falling almost by half

00:17:01.400 between 1991 and 2020. So what does that mean exactly? In a period where violent crime has fallen

00:17:09.880 by half, we've added 150 million guns to the country's constitutionally protected private arsenal.

00:17:18.580 Again, 150 million more guns, half the rate of violent crime. But our rates are still higher than

00:17:28.280 other countries. And that's true. So why don't we just do what Australia did? To give you some

00:17:34.440 background about Australia, in 1996, a man killed 35 people with a semi-automatic rifle in Australia.

00:17:41.180 12 days after this happened, they passed the National Agreement on Firearms, or the NFA.

00:17:48.620 A quick side note here, it's always a good idea to pass new laws when you're in the middle of national

00:17:54.300 mourning. What could possibly go wrong? But it wasn't just a set of gun control laws. It was a full-fledged

00:18:01.500 gun confiscation program. The measure prohibited automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles,

00:18:06.940 made it tougher to get a license, tightened ownership rules, made people demonstrate a

00:18:11.820 genuine need for their guns, take a firearm safety course, launch a mass gun confiscation program,

00:18:19.760 among a million other things. Before we move on, it's important to realize that this program

00:18:24.440 goes much farther than any of these sensible gun solutions that any Democrat has the balls to propose.

00:18:31.780 This confiscation program collected about 650,000 guns. Think about that. They forcibly bought back 0.85

00:18:41.140 somewhere between 20 and 35% of all the guns in Australia. To do that here, you'd have to

00:18:48.060 forcibly buy back close to 150 million guns. And if you somehow got past the cost of all of that,

00:18:57.040 and the fact that it's obviously unconstitutional and somehow avoided the civil war that it would

00:19:03.320 start, you would still have as many guns on the street that you had in the 1990s when violent crime

00:19:10.720 rates were twice as high. And you'd still have a country with double the amount of guns per capita

00:19:17.260 than any other country on earth. So it doesn't make any sense. But did it actually work in Australia?

00:19:25.100 Was it a success in Australia? Left wing outlet Vox attempted to make that case following the

00:19:30.840 Texas shooting with this headline, Australia confiscated 650,000 guns, murders and suicides

00:19:37.380 plummeted. Of course, even their own write up of the research doesn't support that headline.

00:19:43.700 Quote, bottom line, Australia's gun buyback may well have saved lives, likely by reducing homicides and

00:19:51.380 almost certainly by reducing suicides. Again, Australian lessons might not necessarily apply

00:19:57.560 to the US given the many cultural and political differences between the two countries. But in

00:20:02.220 thinking about gun violence and how to limit it, this seems like a worthwhile thing to look at.

00:20:10.880 Got that? The headline is Death's Plummet. The article seems like it might be a worthwhile thing to look

00:20:19.160 at. Even this, though, is a stretch. And you can tell by the way they write the article. For example,

00:20:24.620 here's their big mic drop claim. Ready for it? The Rand authors conclude the strongest evidence is

00:20:30.320 consistent with the claim that the NFA caused reductions in firearm suicides, mass shootings and

00:20:35.440 female homicide victimization. So how are they scamming you? Well, first of all, they give it away in the

00:20:41.940 disclaimer from the paragraph directly before their big mic drop moment. Here it is. Quote, a 2021 meta

00:20:48.500 analysis of the available evidence conducted by the Rand Corporation found that it's very tricky to pin down

00:20:54.340 the contribution of Australia's policies to a reduction in gun violence due in part to the preexisting

00:21:00.480 declining trend that when it comes to overall homicides in particular, there's not especially

00:21:06.460 great evidence that Australia's buyback had a significant effect. Nevertheless. And then they

00:21:14.480 have their big mic drop moment. Nevertheless, they nevertheless to all of that. That's like Elaine on

00:21:21.180 Seinfeld yada yadaing sex. And note the words they use here. There's not especially great evidence.

00:21:29.040 What does that mean? That, my friends, is the Vox translation of this line from the study. Quote,

00:21:36.420 in total, evidence is weak for an effect of the NFA on firearm homicides. Why would you turn evidence

00:21:44.500 is weak into not especially great evidence? I mean, I guess weak is not especially great. But the only

00:21:52.960 reason you'd say it like that is to fool your own readers. In the analysis from Rand, they looked at

00:21:59.020 five studies, four of which try to actually compare real world Australia before and after the gun

00:22:04.720 buyback. Here's what they found. This is remember, this is the study they're talking about. A 2015

00:22:09.380 study found, quote, no evidence of an effect. It also found a notable drop in non firearm homicides,

00:22:17.840 but nothing significant with guns. A 2016 study found, quote, no evidence of an effect, though it also

00:22:25.980 found a bigger difference in non firearm homicides. A 2018 study found, quote, no evidence that trends

00:22:34.700 differed for firearm and non firearm assault, assault mortality for men or women. Another 2018 study found

00:22:42.700 a small decrease in homicide rates as opposed to a prediction made by the authors of the study of a

00:22:49.360 synthetic future. And this only showed up among women. Men showed no statistically significant

00:22:55.060 difference. I'll also note that somehow Vox seemed to have missed a few of the other studies on this

00:23:00.140 topic, like this one from the University of Melbourne that concluded there is little evidence to suggest

00:23:05.500 that the Australian mandatory gun buyback program had any significant effects on firearm homicides.

00:23:11.200 Or this study from the British Journal of Criminology that said, quote, the gun buyback and restrictive

00:23:16.720 legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia. Of course, all these studies are filled as well

00:23:26.200 with references about why you just can't apply Australia's non existent solution to the United States. Luckily,

00:23:33.820 Rand also did a study of gun laws generally. For all those people that say the science is settled, that there are

00:23:41.380 easy ways to stop mass shootings and gun violence. Here's what Rand found. I'm going to give you all of these for full

00:23:48.540 transparency. Raising the minimum age for purchasing guns, inconclusive effect on firearm homicides. Raising the minimum age for

00:23:56.420 possessing guns, inconclusive. Mental health prohibitions, inconclusive. Domestic violence prohibitions, inconclusive.

00:24:05.140 Background checks through the dealer, you know, aka the background checks we already have. They say there is a moderate amount of

00:24:10.960 evidence that they are helpful. But background checks for private transfers, the ones the left is always

00:24:16.120 begging for, inconclusive effect on firearm homicides. Gun licensing, inconclusive. Waiting periods, the lowest

00:24:23.880 confidence level, limited evidence. It changes firearm homicide rates. Ban on assault weapons, inconclusive.

00:24:31.320 Bans on high capacity magazines, inconclusive. Bans on low quality handguns, inconclusive. Child access

00:24:39.480 prevention laws. Inconclusive. How about pro-2A reforms like shall issue concealed carry? Surely that's

00:24:46.680 going to make rates of violence skyrocket, right? No, inconclusive. The only policy that had what they

00:24:53.920 considered supportive evidence of a rise in homicide was stand your ground laws. But remember, and this

00:25:01.400 doesn't sound right when you say it, but homicides aren't always bad things. The legal definition of

00:25:08.900 homicide is, quote, when one human being causes the death of another. Not all homicide is murder. And some killings

00:25:17.140 are, some killings are manslaughter and some are lawful, such as when justified by an affirmative defense like

00:25:23.700 insanity or self-defense. So it would make sense that stand your ground laws would increase self-defense

00:25:30.500 shootings. I won't read all the categories again for you, but there's a similar result when it comes to mass shootings.

00:25:35.920 Inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive,

00:25:42.240 and inconclusive. You guessed it. The point here isn't to say that no laws could ever have any effect.

00:25:49.200 Some of these policies you probably would even support. But it's important to understand that we

00:25:54.120 have little to no evidence that they actually work. This is not the equivalent of water freezing

00:26:00.160 at 32 degrees. But the left has to present it like it's a rock solid science because their goal

00:26:07.860 is not to solve the problem. It's to vilify you, the gun owner, the conservative. You can't just be

00:26:14.420 someone who disagrees. You have to be someone who's denying science, risking the lives of innocent

00:26:20.100 children just so you can get your jollies at the range. It's a despicable tactic, but it's also

00:26:26.540 essentially the official Democratic Party platform at this point. So, okay, okay, okay. So if none of

00:26:34.200 these laws show any real effect, why doesn't this happen in other countries? Here's the thing.

00:26:40.320 It does. If you listen to these claims carefully, they always use a little sleight of hand.

00:26:46.780 First of all, they eliminate all mass killings that were committed by and sanctioned by various

00:26:52.720 governments, which of course hold all of the top one zillion places on the mass murder countdown.

00:26:59.040 But they also eliminate everything outside of other rich countries. It's not really clear why

00:27:05.120 wealth would be the characteristic to look for when you're comparing these things. Part of it,

00:27:09.620 I guess, would be better record keeping. But more conveniently, it allows them to eliminate a lot

00:27:14.480 of countries that look a lot worse than us. One researcher who decided to look at the entire world

00:27:19.740 wrote up the results in the Chicago Tribune, quote, from 1998 to 2015, the U.S. makes up 1.49% of murders

00:27:27.440 worldwide, 2.20% of the attacks, and less than 1.15% of mass public shooters. All these are much less

00:27:36.880 than America's 4.6% share of the world population. Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public

00:27:43.900 shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European

00:27:51.540 countries such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland, and Russia all have had at least 25% higher per capita

00:27:58.980 murder rates from mass public shootings. Another trick the media uses is that they simply just don't

00:28:05.660 adjust for population. The U.S. is a big country. It's a lot bigger than New Zealand. We have way more

00:28:13.260 mass shootings than New Zealand. That's true. But on a per capita basis, you are over 4.3 times as likely

00:28:20.220 to be killed in a mass shooting in New Zealand than you are in the United States. Now, some might argue

00:28:26.560 that they had that one big shooting, and that's messing up their numbers. But even if you take out the

00:28:32.800 Christchurch shooting, you are still about 1.7 times as likely to be killed in a mass shooting in New

00:28:38.340 Zealand than you are in the United States. The bottom line is all of these country-to-country 0.99

00:28:44.860 comparisons have incredible amounts of problems. We are a different country with different problems

00:28:50.580 and different trends and different cultures and different times have different cultural crimes

00:28:56.220 of spectacle. Some places it's terrorism. Some places it's cars running over crowds. Some places

00:29:03.340 it's political assassination. I mean, it certainly was here back in the 60s and 70s. Maybe it was serial

00:29:09.220 killers after that, and then there was extremist terrorism, and now it seems to be mass shootings.

00:29:15.000 Of course, the biggest difference between us and other random countries is that we have a second

00:29:20.840 amendment. So unless you're going to repeal it and then start going door-to-door collecting weapons,

00:29:26.360 good luck with that. All of these comparisons are meaningless. We already have all of these guns in

00:29:33.340 private hands. And I might note one other thing to the left. Even if you take some of these guns and

00:29:40.520 make others harder to buy, there's still a border to our South that you seem to have absolutely no

00:29:47.700 interest in protecting. So until you want to deal with that, you have absolutely no credibility.

00:30:04.220 Hi, this is Glenn Beck, and you are listening to a very special episode of Stew Does America,

00:30:09.700 the definitive debunking of the left's gun myths. If you like what you hear, make sure you take a second

00:30:15.720 right now and follow Stew Does America for new episodes every weekday, or you just click the

00:30:21.240 link in the show notes. Welcome back. Help us debunk more of the left's lies. Go to blazetv.com

00:30:27.060 slash stew. The promo code is debunked. You'll save 20 bucks off your subscription, and you'll help

00:30:32.280 support efforts like this to take the lies out of the news. It's really hard to do. It's happening all

00:30:38.360 the time. They're constantly stretching the truth and telling lies. We need to call them out on it.

00:30:42.680 So if you watch Joe Biden bumble his way through his speech last night, and if you've watched him

00:30:47.220 bumble his way through the gun debate for as long as you've seen him in public life, you have

00:30:51.920 definitely heard this claim. The Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of

00:30:58.060 people could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn't buy a cannon. Very

00:31:03.160 beginning, the Second Amendment didn't say you can own any gun you want, as big as you want. You

00:31:06.800 couldn't buy a cannon when, in fact, the Second Amendment passed. When the amendment was passed,

00:31:11.420 it didn't say anybody can own a gun and any kind of gun and any kind of weapon. You couldn't buy a

00:31:16.980 cannon when this amendment was passed. The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed,

00:31:24.620 you couldn't own a cannon.

00:31:29.400 Hmm. Let's just drop this one quickly. Joe Biden, as with many other things, has no idea what he's

00:31:38.920 talking about. David Harsanyi wrote a book about the history of guns in America. He notes, quote,

00:31:43.520 there is zero historical evidence that Americans were barred from purchasing or constructing any type

00:31:48.960 of weapon they pleased. Not only are there numerous accounts of the American military using or purchasing

00:31:54.700 private cannons, privateers, as the name strongly suggests, relied on their own cannons as well.

00:32:02.640 The right to own a cannon is so ingrained in American history that literally Lewis and Clark

00:32:09.440 owned them, along with a rifle that could shoot 30 times before reloading. By the way, David French,

00:32:16.800 who is even sympathetic to some restrictions like red flag laws, wrote, quote,

00:32:20.960 It is historically indisputable that the founders protected the rights of Americans to possess weapons

00:32:27.400 that gave individual citizens far greater military parity with the government than American citizens

00:32:33.820 possess now. The musket was the principal weapon of armed conflict in the 18th century. An American

00:32:41.420 leaving his home with a musket was on par with a member of the Continental Line. Not so with an 0.98

00:32:47.900 American who possesses any number of AR-15s or AK-47s. The contemporary gap between civilians

00:32:54.240 and the military is vast and growing. Weapons of war indeed. How about this? These are a couple of

00:33:02.600 historians for you. It seems highly unlikely that there were restrictions on the private ownership

00:33:07.580 of cannons, said Julianne Sweet, a historian and director of military studies at Baylor University.

00:33:13.580 David Cappell, research director and Second Amendment project director at the Free Market

00:33:17.560 Independence Institute, agreed, quote, I am not aware of a ban on any arm in colonial America.

00:33:25.000 Charles C.W. Cook points out, we don't need the past tense here. Americans can still buy a cannon.

00:33:31.560 If the cannon you want to buy was manufactured before 1898, it's a muzzle loading model,

00:33:37.000 you can do so without regulation. If it is a saluting cannon, it is also exempt. And if it's neither

00:33:43.340 a saluting cannon or a pre-1898 model, you need to pay a $200 tax stamp, fill in some forms,

00:33:50.720 wait a bit, and well, that's it. Cannons are categorized as destructive devices under the 1934

00:33:57.960 National Firearms Act, and they're legal under federal law and in most states. You may have to

00:34:03.740 jump through a few hoops to get one, but get one, you assuredly can. As even left-leaning PolitiFact

00:34:12.600 notes, Biden was unable to come up with an example of a law banning private ownership of cannons and

00:34:20.420 historians of the period doubt that any existed. To the contrary, there are documented instances of

00:34:26.360 privateers or privately owned vessels setting sail with cannons during the period. We rate the statement

00:34:33.200 false. As amazing as it is that they would actually call Biden out, what is more amazing is the date

00:34:41.560 of this fact check, June of 2020. This guy was called out years ago for blatantly false claims by a bunch of

00:34:51.740 historians, and he's still trotting out as a central part of his argument on guns two years later that you

00:34:59.500 couldn't own a cannon back when the Second Amendment was passed. Now, some might argue that Joe Biden is just

00:35:06.040 an idiot, and that's true. But no one other than him is talking about cannons. Is that true? Well, I guess so. He seems 1.00

00:35:14.860 to be the only one talking about cannons. Why not just ban AR-15s? Well, that depends on what your goals are.

00:35:21.320 Is your goal to ban a scary-looking gun, or is it to stop gun violence? Because AR-15s are not the issue

00:35:28.140 here. Rifles of all types, but including the AR-15, are a minuscule part of the problem. Quote,

00:35:35.660 all rifles together, accounting for only 2.5% of homicides. In fact, more people are killed each year

00:35:43.860 by personal weapons, also known as hands and feet. Yes, more hands and feet kill people

00:35:52.120 than AR-15s. And that's, by the way, not just AR-15s, all rifles combined. The number is just

00:35:58.560 slightly higher for AR-15s and all rifles combined than clubs and hammers, and is less than one-third

00:36:06.240 of knives. And restricting the purchase of guns doesn't go very far. According to the Bureau of

00:36:13.600 Justice Statistics, only 1.3% of state and federal prisoners used a firearm that they acquired from a

00:36:21.540 retail source. Your laws are cute and everything, but criminals don't care about them. So where did

00:36:28.220 they get their guns if they had them? The number one source by a mile was, quote, off the street slash

00:36:34.400 underground market. The second biggest category were guns that were bought for them illegally by

00:36:41.000 relatives and friends. Many of them were also shockingly stolen, which I believe is also technically

00:36:47.620 illegal. Some were found at the scene of other crimes. Add it all up, about 90% of these guns came

00:36:55.640 from other means. These things happen about 12 times as often as purchase at gun stores, and about

00:37:03.300 112 times as often as the purchase of one of these guns at the vilified gun show. How does this relate

00:37:12.520 to mass shootings, though? Well, you know, it does seem like most mass shootings are carried out with AR-15s,

00:37:19.520 and undoubtedly some of them are. The majority of them, though, use handguns. And remember, we already

00:37:26.800 tried banning, quote, unquote, assault weapons long, long ago. How did that work out exactly? Well,

00:37:34.860 there's been a renewed effort lately to try and claim that assault weapons and the ban of them in the 1990s

00:37:40.480 was successful. But the government itself told the story correctly 20 years ago. Here's what it said.

00:37:45.960 Although the ban has been successful in reducing crimes with assault weapons, any benefits from this

00:37:52.020 reduction are likely to have been outweighed by a steady or rising use of non-ban semi-automatics

00:37:58.760 with large-capacity magazines, which are used in crime much more frequently than assault weapons.

00:38:04.920 Therefore, we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence.

00:38:11.200 And indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence

00:38:17.460 based on indicators like the percentage of gun crimes resulting in death or the share of gunfire

00:38:23.180 incidents resulting in injury, as we might have expected, had the ban reduced crimes with both

00:38:28.160 assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. Got it? So, boil it down. There may have been fewer deaths

00:38:34.580 by assault weapons, but they were just replaced by additional deaths by handgun. He later went on to

00:38:40.600 clarify, in general, we found really very, very little evidence, almost none, that gun violence

00:38:49.120 was becoming any less lethal or any less injurious during this time frame. So, on balance, we concluded

00:38:55.520 that the ban had not had a discernible impact on gun crime during the years it was in effect.

00:39:02.160 The study's author went on to say that the assault weapons ban could potentially produce at least a

00:39:08.940 small reduction in shootings if allowed to remain in place for a longer time frame. So, maybe at some

00:39:16.140 point in the future, it might have started to work eventually. Quite the endorsement there.

00:39:23.880 The left-wing media has now just begun to literally fabricate evidence out of thin air now.

00:39:30.420 Unfortunately for them, Kevin Williamson caught them in the act. Saul Cornell is a professor at Fordham and a

00:39:36.940 contributor to Slate. He recently made the claim that AR-15s are 200 times as deadly as muskets.

00:39:45.540 So, where did this claim come from? When pressed, he referenced a 1964 military study, which is

00:39:53.060 interesting because the cartridge used in the AR-15 typically wasn't even developed until a decade

00:39:59.400 later, after 1964. So, it's weird that they would have referenced it in 1964. When pressed by Kevin

00:40:05.760 Williamson, he basically said he took a military machine gun from the study that was listed as 115

00:40:13.260 times as deadly and then just increased the number because, well, because he wanted to.

00:40:21.880 Eventually, Slate decided to issue a sort of correction, which still doesn't seem to have much

00:40:26.580 of a basis, but that's not really the point. As Williamson notes, quote, I have a good deal of

00:40:30.940 experience in writing about bias in gun policy journalism, but this is not bias. It is fabrication.

00:40:38.120 Here we have a professor at a major university writing an article in a major media outlet.

00:40:42.920 on the subject of a very contentious public policy matter. And the first claim of fact in the piece

00:40:50.160 is simply made up in order to bolster a weak argument made by a writer who believed, with good 1.00

00:40:57.380 reason, apparently, that he could count on the bias and laziness of his editors and the stupidity of 0.99

00:41:04.040 his readers to permit the fabrication to go undetected and unchallenged. And this is the crux of it, 1.00

00:41:11.060 of the whole show, honestly. The media hopes they can get away with saying whatever they want,

00:41:17.300 whenever they want, true or not. Most people will have no idea that they're lying. And even if they

00:41:25.020 get caught, they can always fall back on the emotion of the moment to shield them. We need to do

00:41:32.120 something. They say it over and over and over again. But this idea of running quickly in any

00:41:39.360 direction, even if there's a brick wall in the way, is just blather. We need to do something just

00:41:45.620 means we need to do exactly what I want you to do. When the American people hear that, they instinctively

00:41:53.040 want to push back. And now you know why they find it so important to take your rights away.

00:42:00.040 Hi, this is Glenn Beck, and you are listening to a very special episode of Stew Does America,

00:42:10.940 the definitive debunking of the left's gun myths. If you like what you hear, make sure you take a

00:42:16.740 second right now and follow Stew Does America for new episodes every weekday, or you just click the

00:42:22.460 link in the show notes. You know, sometimes these gun control measures seem like good ideas. Sometimes

00:42:27.420 they sound decent even to conservatives. Some of the stuff is, I don't know, it wouldn't be super

00:42:32.940 restrictive to my life. It's not that big of a deal. And that's an understandable instinct. Some of the

00:42:38.100 stuff, if we were actually dealing with honest brokers, maybe some of the stuff could be stuff

00:42:41.560 that you could talk about with the other side. The problem is they're not honest brokers. There is an

00:42:46.720 agenda here, and it's quite clear what they want to do in the long term. And every time you see one of

00:42:53.460 these little baby steps, you have to realize that you're just shortening the time frame until they

00:42:58.180 get what they want, which is your ability to protect yourself, your constitutionally guaranteed

00:43:05.880 God-given rights are going to go away. They do want to get all of these guns off the streets. They do

00:43:14.060 want all of the powers that you're seeing being utilized right now in Canada, where they just said,

00:43:19.200 basically, guns are going to be banned completely with this generation. You can't transfer them.

00:43:26.500 You can't sell them. You can't buy new ones. So guess what happens eventually, boys and girls?

00:43:33.020 The problem is if you give them an inch, they will take a thousand miles. Every single time the same

00:43:43.540 thing happens. And that's why it's so important for you to know the facts and how to push back against

00:43:48.240 these arguments to make sure we don't get caught up in their traps, because that's what they're

00:43:52.700 laying here. Traps for all of us. We did everything we could today to get through as many of those

00:43:59.180 traps, as many of those gun myths as was possible in this hour. But of course, we couldn't fit

00:44:04.540 everything in. I will tell you, Glenn Beck wrote a book a few years ago that goes into even more depth

00:44:10.400 and deals with a lot of the constitutional arguments associated with this as well. It's called

00:44:15.300 Control. And if you don't have it, you should have it in your library or on your device.

00:44:20.720 But we still have tons of stuff that we prepped for you in this special today. So this is what I'm

00:44:25.140 going to do. We're going to extend this episode on our podcast feed. So wherever you get your

00:44:30.700 podcast, you can go there, look for Stude's America, or you can just go to studebunksmyths.com.

00:44:36.760 That'll get you there directly. That's the only way to get the full extended episode of what we're

00:44:42.000 doing tonight with all of the myths that we could come up with to debunk. While you're there,

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00:45:15.100 side. Hi, this is Glenn Beck, and you are listening to a very special episode of Stude's America,

00:45:20.620 the definitive debunking of the left's gun myths. If you like what you hear, make sure you take a

00:45:26.220 second right now and follow Stude's America for new episodes every weekday, or you just click the

00:45:31.940 link in the show notes. All right, welcome to our extended bonus coverage here. Stude debunks gun myths.

00:45:38.060 We went through a ton of them already. We appreciate you hanging out and trying to get as

00:45:42.860 much information on this really important topic as is possible. I was flipping through my cards here,

00:45:47.900 and I looked at this U.S. murders by weapon chart that we featured, and there's a viral video that's

00:45:54.240 going around that's about this chart, basically. It's a guy out in front of the NRA convention.

00:45:59.660 He's wearing like an oxygen going up his nose, and he's got a liberal comes up to him and says,

00:46:06.620 hey, you know, what do you think about gun rights? And he says, you know, guns are used in less murders

00:46:12.320 than hands and fists, I think he says. And the guy pulls out his phone, and he goes, and he pulls up

00:46:20.600 the chart, and he's got the chart on his phone. He goes, no, actually, it's guns are way higher than hands

00:46:25.600 and fists. And the guy just sits there like, uh, and he doesn't know what's going on. He doesn't know what to say.

00:46:30.640 He says, oh, but I still want my Second Amendment rights. Then they're basically like,

00:46:34.800 this guy, oh, look at this sucker outside of the NRA. He doesn't know what he's talking about. 0.99

00:46:38.520 Now, of course, when you look at the chart, we have the chart again, by any chance.

00:46:41.720 If you look at the chart, what he meant, of course, was rifles. He's heard the chart. It's true. Rifles

00:46:47.540 are used less than hands and fists. We mentioned it just a second ago. He had heard the statistic,

00:46:52.660 but got it kind of slightly wrong. And, you know, it was wrong. But to try to make this guy out to be

00:46:58.620 an idiot who didn't know what he was talking about, it's totally unfair. The point is the AR-15 1.00

00:47:03.420 is used in much less, fewer deaths than, uh, than hands and feet. Uh, and he, and he messed the stat

00:47:10.080 up. I'm sorry. He's not a pro. That's one of the reasons why we wanted to do this particular special

00:47:14.960 is because I, you know, I know when we were putting this together, we were looking for all

00:47:20.700 these gun myths and then someone would come up and they'd be like, what about this claim? What about

00:47:24.620 the cannons thing? And I was like, you know, I, it's been a while. I kind of remember that. I

00:47:29.540 mean, that's not true. I'm pretty sure, but it's been a while since I looked it up. Let me look it

00:47:33.040 up. I take some time. We do the research. We bring you all the quotes and everything else. So you have

00:47:37.820 them all in one place. And now next time you hear somebody, probably Joe Biden saying that you can go

00:47:43.500 back and come back to this special and know where the information came from, get the sources, see the

00:47:48.160 charts, see the quotes, see who said it, all that stuff. It's all in one place because, you know,

00:47:53.280 I don't know if you're like me, I've done too much, too many brain cells are dead already.

00:47:58.300 I can't remember everything anymore. I want to make sure I can come back to a resource

00:48:01.540 that I trust. So hopefully you're getting that out of the special tonight. Let's, I want to go

00:48:05.620 through a few of these other things that we had prepped and just didn't have a chance to get to.

00:48:09.740 And one of the things I want to talk about is this idea that 90% of people support these common

00:48:17.220 sense gun measures. This is a thing, a trope that the left brings out all the time. You'll see it from

00:48:22.920 mainstream media sources constantly. And part of it is actually true. When asked, people respond to

00:48:29.920 polls and say generally about 90% of people, sometimes it's in the 80s, sometimes it's in the

00:48:34.680 90s, support things like universal background checks. Now there's big caveats to that statistic.

00:48:40.940 Number one, most people don't understand the nuances of gun laws. They don't understand that

00:48:45.800 almost every weapon purchased right now already goes through a background check. If you were to go from

00:48:51.420 zero background checks to universal background checks, the support probably would be around,

00:48:57.420 you know, maybe not universal, but from where, from zero to where we are now, it'd probably be

00:49:01.360 around 90%. People would want, people want some sort of background check done on the majority of gun

00:49:07.340 purchases. However, they don't know that they're already checked. I mean, I, you know, I am not a gun

00:49:13.520 guy. I've talked about this before. I'm not a guy who's constantly at the range. I do own some

00:49:17.420 firearms until they were lost in a tragic boating accident. Uh, not that long ago, all of them at

00:49:22.860 the bottom of the lake, never to be recovered. So that's unfortunate. But I, at one point did buy,

00:49:27.940 uh, I bought several guns and, uh, some of them I bought at gun stores. Uh, but I did buy one at a

00:49:33.700 gun show and I've heard the gun show loophole thing over and over and over again. I pretty much thought I

00:49:40.500 could have sent in my 10 year old and he could go buy one. I mean, that's pretty much the way the media

00:49:44.320 presents it. But of course that's not true. I went through a full background check, just like I did

00:49:49.140 at the gun store. Uh, you know, that is kind of what goes on with almost every gun purchase. So

00:49:54.540 that's part of the reason why that number is so high. And then 90%, they're not supporting the

00:49:59.980 democratic proposal. They're just supporting the idea that people should have background checks

00:50:05.360 generally when guns are purchased. Now go beyond that. Uh, the, the left has fooled themselves

00:50:12.100 with this. They have actually hurt their own movement by believing the hype on these polls,

00:50:17.380 which I think any, any person who really works in politics has to know the truth here.

00:50:22.760 The truth is that 90% don't support the democratic policy in Maine. Uh, they, uh, they decided to put in

00:50:29.460 a background check, uh, bill, um, basically to be voted on by the people and they put it out there

00:50:36.180 and they made it really like tailored to conservatives, right? So one of the big complaints

00:50:41.780 about background check laws are, well, what about, what if I'm giving my gun to my son when he gets,

00:50:47.400 he turns 18, I just want to give him the gun or I pass away. I want to hand it down to him.

00:50:51.300 Um, do I have to get a background check to give the gun to my son? What if we're out hunting and

00:50:56.460 I'm using my gun and my buddy wants to use it. If I hand it to him, technically that's some violation.

00:51:01.800 If I don't have a background check, all this stuff, you know, they're, they're not the vast

00:51:06.580 majority of, of, uh, of, of transfers of guns, but you don't want to, you see how seriously

00:51:11.940 they take gun crimes. I used to live in Pennsylvania and I lived one block away from the river. So

00:51:17.900 every day when I commuted to work, when we did the show at CNN and at Fox, I would go one block

00:51:23.220 to the river. Then I would cross a bridge. I'd be in New Jersey and I'd go for another, about a mile

00:51:27.200 before I got to the train station. And then I got on the train and come to New York. Well, I was

00:51:31.360 terrified, terrified that I would forget and leave my gun in my trunk and then get pulled over in New

00:51:38.260 Jersey and then go to prison because that has happened to people who have just gone across the

00:51:44.040 river to the convenience store or to a restaurant or whatever, get pulled over and then wind up going

00:51:49.520 to prison because they're gun criminals. So this is a serious thing. Anyway, the main law was tailored

00:51:56.760 to those concerns. They really did go after and try to persuade conservatives to say, okay, we'll go

00:52:02.860 along with this. Now they did a study and basically try to figure out what was the expected support level

00:52:08.680 for this, uh, this vote when they went in front of people. This was in 2016. They expected 83% of the

00:52:16.120 vote. However, it didn't even pass. They only got 48% of the vote. That's because answering a question

00:52:23.360 to a pollster seems like the right answer to say is, of course I'm for background checks. Yes,

00:52:27.420 of course. But in reality, when you're faced with the actual policy, it was only 48%. It didn't even

00:52:34.080 pass. The other States were essentially the same stories though. Some of them did pass in California.

00:52:38.780 They expected 91% only got 63 in Washington. They expected 81% only got 59 in Nevada. They expected 86%

00:52:47.400 and only got 50%. And this is because people don't actually support these policies the way the media

00:52:55.320 wants you to believe that they do. They want everyone to believe these policies are overwhelmingly

00:53:01.100 popular. People want these gun restrictions. Gun owners are demanding them, but they just won't give

00:53:07.040 them those restrictions on law abiding citizens who aren't the ones committing the crimes as we covered

00:53:12.540 earlier in the program. And, and this is goes on as well. Nate Cohen from the New York times pointed

00:53:18.660 this out that guns are a very specific issue in America. You know, I, I kind of breezed by this

00:53:24.860 quickly in one of the, in one of the segments of the past hour, but it's not like we like guns here in

00:53:31.800 America. We freaking love them. They are, I mean, arguably one of the most centrally defining

00:53:39.340 characteristics of our culture. And I know Europe would say, yeah, that's why we never have anyone

00:53:44.820 die in our lands. I mean, sure. People run over thousands at a time at, you know, street fairs,

00:53:50.280 but generally speaking, we never have any shootings, which of course, as we covered earlier, isn't true

00:53:54.480 either. But like guns are a central part of who we are in this country. We are one of only, it depends

00:54:02.620 on who you ask. I would say we're the only one with a actual second amendment in our constitution.

00:54:08.000 Some people say there's as high as three countries in the world that have that type of thing. But the

00:54:13.720 second highest gun ownership per capita is Yemen and Yemen's I think 52 per 100 people. We're at like

00:54:21.900 120, 120, 130. We have more guns than people. Nobody else has half as much except Yemen, who is slightly 1.00

00:54:32.020 over that amount when it comes to gun ownership. We really do love our guns. And there's just no way

00:54:39.780 you're going to reverse 200 years of history by a couple of laws. These things are not going away.

00:54:47.080 You better do what you can around the margins to try to manage the situation. And that's why

00:54:51.820 security and mental health and those types of things are far more likely to get done and far more

00:54:57.920 likely to actually make a difference. To give you a sense of how unpopular gun restrictions are with

00:55:05.020 Republicans, they are less popular than Hillary Clinton. I kid you not. This is from Nate Cohn's

00:55:13.400 analysis. In California, they looked at heavily Republican counties and found in 2016, when the

00:55:19.840 gun background check bill was, the referendum was going through, 31% in those counties voted for Clinton

00:55:27.240 for president and only 30% supported background checks. In Maine, same story, 35% supported Clinton

00:55:34.460 for president, only 27% supported background checks. And other issues were just as popular. I mean,

00:55:43.000 45% would rather support taxing the rich for schools, 45% legalizing marijuana, 46% raising the minimum

00:55:52.140 wage among conservative counties. And yet 19 points behind that was background checks for guns. These

00:56:01.800 are not as popular as the media wants you to believe. And as I think we covered in extreme depth,

00:56:07.520 probably too much depth, honestly, probably too much detail, but I really wanted to paint the picture

00:56:12.380 for you. This is not settled science that any of these things really do much of anything. There's

00:56:19.700 no, they're trying to act like, like it's, you know, the 212 degrees is when water boils. That is not what

00:56:27.080 this is. It's a totally different situation. And you've seen them do this on so many different issues.

00:56:32.700 It's science that trans men are actually men and not women. It's science that, you know, CRT should 1.00

00:56:42.300 be taught in schools. It's science that every, every COVID thing they said from beginning to end with

00:56:49.920 masks and all the rest, that was all settled science, global warming, settled science, everything

00:56:54.380 settled science. They have to make you look that way to bully you. And that's just not the case with

00:57:01.080 these gun laws at all. Another big thing we wanted to get to, but didn't have the chance is the idea

00:57:06.680 that these are all white people. You notice how these are all white males doing these mass shootings. 0.93

00:57:11.720 You get a bunch of white males. They come out there, they're shooting up schools. They're, 0.99

00:57:16.400 they're all racist. This is a white supremacy problem over and over and over again. You hear 0.99

00:57:20.440 the same thing. And you always know when it's not a white guy, like in Tulsa, because they don't,

00:57:25.800 they report on it for like 10 minutes and a bunch of people tweet that this has got to be white

00:57:29.800 supremacy. And then they delete their tweets and the story is forgotten forever. Uh, that is just

00:57:35.480 the pattern every single time. Here's the graph of the ethnicity of mass shooters between 1982 and

00:57:42.060 2022. I'd say there's about 130 on this list. About 68 of them are white. 21 are black. 11 are Latino,

00:57:52.440 Asian, uh, eight, uh, and then native American three. And you might say, well, look, that proves 0.90

00:57:58.000 white people are all the mass shooters. They're by far the biggest amount. Yeah. But white people 0.99

00:58:03.400 are also the biggest part of the country. About 56% of these mass shooters are white. That is far 0.99

00:58:10.060 lower than their population represented, uh, representation would lead you to believe you'd

00:58:15.360 think they'd be about 70, 75% of mass shooters and instead are only about 55% of mass shooters. So

00:58:23.160 there's a huge difference there. And I will tell you right now, any EU Asians out there, we're watching 1.00

00:58:28.280 because you are overrepresented in these ethnic numbers. And if we've learned anything, we know

00:58:33.900 that ethnicity is the most important defining characteristic of any person. I used to think

00:58:39.680 that skin color wasn't supposed to matter, but now we know thanks to Ibram X. Kendi that it's the only 0.97

00:58:44.560 thing that matters. Um, let's see, let's go through some of this as well. And how about defensive uses of

00:58:50.080 guns? We had a ridiculous Congress person. Uh, we played the audio on a radio today, uh, yelling 0.98

00:58:57.060 that these things are never stopped. Guns don't stop these mass shootings. It's never happened before.

00:59:02.580 It had happened the week before, but defensive uses of guns are a, uh, something that happens all

00:59:09.700 over the place all the time. I tweeted a video today actually of an amazing, amazing video. It's a video

00:59:16.300 from inside somebody's house where he's looking through the people. He sees somebody coming up to

00:59:22.040 the door and he, uh, uh, turns around, calmly walks inside. Then you see the door get kicked down.

00:59:28.600 And as they, the burglars try to come in, he's just got an AR-15 pointed right at their chest. The

00:59:34.680 second they, they kick that door down and man, you want to see people move fast. Wow. They go

00:59:40.960 really quickly the opposite direction. It's at Studos America. If you want to see the video

00:59:45.400 and it's really illustrative of, of, of these types of situations, uh, here, let me give you

00:59:50.040 some of the facts here. This is from, uh, the journal of quantitative criminology.

00:59:53.640 Armed citizens use guns to defend themselves at least 989,883 times every year. The journal of

01:00:00.720 criminal law and criminology published a study by scholars, Gary Kleck and Mark Gertz that revealed

01:00:05.940 that gun owners use their legally owned firearms to defend themselves. An average

01:00:09.800 of 1.8 plus million times per year center, uh, for disease control and prevention. Now,

01:00:17.240 as you know, they're never wrong about anything. Uh, they estimated annual defensive gun use

01:00:22.200 ranges from about 500,000 to more than 3 million times per year. That's significant. And the best

01:00:29.560 thing, the best thing and the worst thing about defensive gun use is like the video I told you

01:00:35.660 about, there were no shots fired. There was no trading of gunfire. It wasn't a shootout. The gun

01:00:43.260 just ended the crime. The crime doesn't even get really recorded. And maybe because they kicked the

01:00:49.380 door open, I guess maybe that one would if you reported it to police. But the bottom line was

01:00:52.680 there's nobody hurt. There's nobody injured. Nothing was stolen. No one was, went to the hospital.

01:00:57.240 No one ended up in a cemetery. It was just an event that could have been much, much worse and instead

01:01:03.040 wound up being nothing. That's what guns do in the overwhelming majority of cases. They stop the

01:01:11.360 event before it starts. And that's one of the issues that I find to be so perplexing. The left has gone

01:01:19.340 down this road for a very long time where they've said, well, security isn't the answer. Maybe it can help

01:01:23.440 occasionally, but it's going to make kids feel like they're in a police state. And, you know, look,

01:01:27.480 when I go to a bank, I don't feel like I'm in a police state. And I understand certain things of

01:01:31.660 value need to be protected. We do it at federal buildings. We do it at courthouses. We do it at banks.

01:01:35.840 Why don't we do it at schools? You know, and they say, well, there's one study out there that we didn't

01:01:40.740 get a chance to go through. It's really light on detail. So there's not much to really pick apart.

01:01:44.820 They just kind of give you the summary and not really the underlying data. So I didn't think it was worth too much

01:01:48.320 time. Plus, it's just obvious that it's not true. The idea that secure, if you

01:01:53.400 have armed guards, you are more likely to have a mass shooting. Now, there's a bit of a chicken

01:02:00.200 and the egg problem going on here. And to their credit, the study authors do note that it's not

01:02:05.880 controlled for characteristics of the school. So, I mean, one of the big issues here is kind of one

01:02:12.820 of the reasons you have armed guards is if you've already had problems. So you're probably more likely

01:02:16.980 to have issues at a school that has armed guards because they put the armed guards there because they

01:02:21.520 were worried that something might happen. So there's a chicken and an egg situation going on

01:02:25.000 there. But the thing to remember more than anything else is all 100% of mass shootings

01:02:31.520 end with armed security. All of them. That's what happens. The question for you is not whether they

01:02:38.980 end with armed security. The question is whether the cops come after the shooting is done

01:02:45.620 or if they're there in advance and can have at least a chance to prevent it. As we saw in Parkland,

01:02:52.200 having an armed guard on premises does not mean there's no chance of a mass shooting. If the guy

01:02:58.280 decides to sit by the stairs, well, no, it's not going to work very well. You need to have people

01:03:02.820 who are actually doing something. If you've got 19 cops outside of the school room while the shooting

01:03:08.680 is going on, no, it's not going to work that well. But at least it gives you a chance. At least it gives

01:03:14.620 you an opportunity to fight back. You put one of these gun-free zones out there. These people know

01:03:21.020 without exception, they will go into a place where no one can protect themselves. And that is not a

01:03:27.320 place I want my kids to be. So anything else here? The Connecticut assault weapons ban we were going to

01:03:33.720 talk about as well. I just felt like it was a little too in depth to go into in a short period of

01:03:41.420 time. They passed an assault weapons ban. There were a bunch of studies on it. One of them in

01:03:45.340 particular, the one that shows the evidence that it worked, basically they couldn't, and this is a

01:03:52.260 problem with these studies, and I will give some leeway to the authors of these studies, in that

01:03:58.920 you don't have two Connecticut's, right? You don't have Connecticut 1 and Connecticut 2, and you pass the

01:04:04.180 assault weapons ban in Connecticut 1, and everybody, all the same people are there, and they all do the

01:04:08.000 same things, and we can judge easily which one worked and which one didn't. You don't have that.

01:04:11.780 What the authors tried to do, and I would say did intentionally to make their numbers look better,

01:04:17.900 was to create what they call a synthetic Connecticut. Yes, beautiful synthetic Connecticut. I grew up in

01:04:26.300 regular Connecticut. I can't imagine what synthetic Connecticut might be like. It's got to be a

01:04:30.880 wonderful place to go. So synthetic Connecticut basically was a amalgamation of Rhode Island and a

01:04:38.300 couple of other areas to make it kind of like Connecticut with the same general demographics

01:04:42.200 and the same general population and all the rest. The issue, of course, is there was one big shooting

01:04:47.260 in Rhode Island in this time period, which makes up almost the entire difference between synthetic

01:04:53.000 Connecticut and regular Connecticut. So, I mean, basically what we can say here is that we defeated

01:05:00.480 our gun policies have defeated SimCity, but other than that, I don't think we learned all that much.

01:05:07.180 You guys have been great in sending in a bunch of different claims, and I would encourage you to

01:05:12.100 keep doing it. This is something we want to do more of. We want to take these claims, especially these

01:05:17.420 big ones that seem to last forever, and debunk them one by one and give you kind of a collection of

01:05:24.380 videos and podcasts that you can come back to when these things come back in the news. It's an

01:05:30.220 important part of pushing back against these mainstream media narratives when they don't have

01:05:35.900 the facts on their side, but they do have this authoritative voice that you're supposed to trust

01:05:41.400 that most people don't have time to go read a bunch of nerdy studies to learn every bit of the back

01:05:49.880 side of these efforts to change your mind. I mean, that's what they are. These are efforts to change

01:05:56.440 your mind, so you think, man, I mean, there are a lot of these mass shootings, and maybe they are

01:06:01.200 going the wrong way. This is a real problem in our society. I started the show today telling you

01:06:07.240 about that moment where I saw the news alert, and my heart dropped for a second. I mean, I can't imagine

01:06:12.220 none of the stuff, none of the stuff we've talked about is going to make a family that has dealt with

01:06:17.540 feel one little bit better. When these terrible things happen, there's no answers. There's just

01:06:26.320 no answers, and it is incredibly frustrating to have to talk and tell people, hey, there's nothing

01:06:34.720 we can do, but there are some things we can do. I don't want to say it's hopeless. It's not going to

01:06:41.300 say that we can't work around the margins to make these things a little bit better. There's some evidence

01:06:46.440 that some of these things can help in certain ways. It's not as easy as we want to believe it is,

01:06:52.320 though. It is really, really hard if you have a free society, a society with 400 million guns out in

01:07:00.500 the population, a society that allows people to move freely, that doesn't have a great mental health

01:07:08.020 situation, does not treat that particular ailment very well, and is a country where, you know,

01:07:15.640 someone like this guy in Uvalde can have no criminal record, and people will say, well, what about a

01:07:23.400 red flag law? Well, you know, the red flag law, I would look at what he did and say all sorts of red

01:07:28.940 flags all over the place, but the person who is closest to him, his best friend, had an extensive

01:07:35.940 interview, and he covered a lot of this stuff and said he did all sorts of weird stuff and said weird

01:07:39.980 things, and I thought he was joking, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he ends it with,

01:07:43.340 I never would have thought he was capable of doing something like this. It is really, really hard

01:07:50.940 to figure out who is going to do something like this and how to stop them without convicting people

01:07:58.280 of crimes they had not yet committed. It is really, really hard if we value freedom to stop this stuff

01:08:05.000 completely. Luckily, the overwhelming majority of people are good. They actually are good people.

01:08:11.620 They don't want to commit crimes. They don't want to hurt others. They are generally speaking good

01:08:16.120 people. All we can do is do our absolute best to be vigilant, and hopefully the events over the past

01:08:21.640 couple of weeks have encouraged some people to say, you know, that weirdo that I know, I'm gonna bring

01:08:29.420 that up to somebody because, I don't know, that went a little bit far. We already have seen one case

01:08:34.620 like this where a student said, hey, you know, I think there might be a problem there. They looked at some

01:08:41.800 of his messages, and it looked like he was at least fantasizing about doing something terrible, and they

01:08:46.440 caught it early. That's good. There are things that we can do, but it's important to understand

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The Glenn Beck Program - June 05, 2022

SPECIAL EDITION： The DEFINITIVE Debunking of the Left’s Gun Myths

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