The Glenn Beck Program - 'The Culture of Death' - 2⧸15⧸18

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00:00:10.340 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.840 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:19.960 Still a little bit under the weather. Hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.

00:00:25.000 888-727-BECK. Another school shooting. Another tragedy.

00:00:29.780 This time in Florida. 17 people were killed.

00:00:35.500 And as with every single tragic occurrence, this is being politicized from the very beginning.

00:00:45.300 They can't even say, wow, I mean, that is so horrible for these people and their families, their friends.

00:00:52.960 They got to go directly.

00:00:54.180 To trying to take the guns away from Americans.

00:00:57.120 Seems to be even faster than normal.

00:00:59.080 Yeah.

00:00:59.480 I would say it feels even faster than normal.

00:01:02.040 There's this sense of frustration from the left and the media that they keep, in their mind, losing that battle.

00:01:09.800 That, you know, they come out and they say that they want to take your guns away.

00:01:14.760 And people say, well, you're politicizing it.

00:01:17.820 And they back down.

00:01:18.780 And I think that they've now are pushing back.

00:01:20.700 The same way that they're pushing back against the idea that you should pray for victims and their families.

00:01:25.760 This is a big, big sticking point for the left right now.

00:01:28.100 They're very upset that people would have thoughts or prayers for the people who are involved in the shooting.

00:01:33.420 And so, they've decided now, we've always felt this way.

00:01:38.740 Let's be honest.

00:01:39.120 They've always felt this way.

00:01:40.260 They have always felt that they should be able to politicize these events.

00:01:42.980 And they've always felt that your stupid prayers are meaningless.

00:01:46.720 They've always felt both of those things.

00:01:48.660 They're superstitious.

00:01:49.460 Right.

00:01:49.780 And it's a mental illness if you're praying.

00:01:51.680 Yes.

00:01:52.140 And we'll have evidence of that coming up on the show today.

00:01:54.860 Yeah.

00:01:55.240 But they have now, they've always folded to those complaints.

00:02:01.080 When people say, they want to say, they say to each other, ah, these stupid prayers, these stupid thoughts and prayers.

00:02:08.020 I'm sick of hearing this.

00:02:09.220 I don't, they don't mean nothing.

00:02:10.640 And they've said that to each other forever.

00:02:12.040 But they don't say, they haven't said that publicly until recently.

00:02:14.520 Recently, they've decided that they need to lecture us about the idea that we would pray for the victims.

00:02:23.560 Peter King, the NFL reporter, not the congressman, but the NFL reporter, Peter King, he tweeted this.

00:02:31.340 Whoever says, a gun didn't do this, a sick person did.

00:02:34.280 Thoughts and prayers to all the families.

00:02:36.200 Now is not the time to discuss gun control.

00:02:38.620 Get lost.

00:02:39.820 Get off my feed.

00:02:40.940 You are not part of the America we need to strive for.

00:02:45.180 So I just want to make sure I understand that what the 93% of Americans who pray, because it's not just Christians, not just conservatives who pray.

00:02:57.200 Liberals who are Christians, they pray for victims. 1.00

00:03:00.540 You know who else prays for victims?

00:03:02.040 Muslims.

00:03:02.500 They do it five times a day.

00:03:04.620 Jews.

00:03:05.460 Every religious group.

00:03:06.760 Everyone except for atheists and maybe agnostics pray. 0.89

00:03:09.880 And in certain circumstances, they wind up praying anyway.

00:03:13.500 And you want to get rid of all of them.

00:03:15.160 All of them are not part of the America you need to strive for.

00:03:19.220 How about, by the way, all of the players you interview and make your living off of, Peter, like such as Carson Wentz and Nick Foles from the Philadelphia Eagles who pray a lot.

00:03:29.540 I'm sure you're not, I'm sure you're not going to be talking to them next year.

00:03:33.300 But beyond all of that, this idea that now it is okay for them to come out and just criticize the idea of thoughts and prayers.

00:03:40.680 It's just, it is, it's so revealing about who these people are on the left.

00:03:47.100 Oh yeah, they've completely dropped the mask.

00:03:49.760 They don't care anymore.

00:03:50.880 They're just open.

00:03:51.740 They're so, they hate it so much that they, the hatred has overcome their sense of reason.

00:03:58.240 Because like you said, 93% of Americans or thereabouts are people of faith of some kind.

00:04:06.580 I mean, there might be 7 to 10%, maybe 12% that are atheists or agnostic, but the vast majority of Americans are like-minded.

00:04:14.420 And by the way, the people who are agnostic and atheists would be included in this as, because thoughts are part of it.

00:04:21.000 It's thoughts and prayers.

00:04:21.880 I assume they're sending their thoughts if they're atheists, right? 0.84

00:04:25.860 Yes.

00:04:26.200 I mean, the idea that you can't have compassion and feel for victims because that's quote-unquote not enough.

00:04:33.280 Do you know, the things you're proposing are also not enough.

00:04:36.820 There's still going to be mass shootings if all the things you wanted to have enacted were enacted.

00:04:42.120 How many times have you been asked, how many of the, how many of these instances of these tragedies would have been avoided if your proposals would have been enacted already?

00:04:54.880 Who did they ask last time?

00:04:56.660 And it was, well, none.

00:04:58.160 It was none.

00:04:58.460 But we've got to do something.

00:04:59.600 None.

00:05:00.060 Yeah.

00:05:00.500 None.

00:05:01.140 Do something.

00:05:01.840 Well, none, but we've got to do something.

00:05:03.120 Similar to what you hear about global warming.

00:05:05.360 It's always do something.

00:05:06.500 It's always do something.

00:05:07.960 Just don't do the right thing.

00:05:08.900 You know what I heard today?

00:05:09.460 I think we have this audio coming up today, an interview with some congressmen.

00:05:13.140 They're like, you know, the outrage from supposedly neutral journalists that they can't believe that these incidents don't drive the action they choose, the action that they want, which is control over people who are law-abiding and their firearms, right?

00:05:31.600 I mean, that's all they care about.

00:05:32.880 And this outrage that they can't understand why each one of these shootings doesn't make the American public emotional enough to pass the things that they want.

00:05:44.420 What they don't realize is that it has nothing to do with that.

00:05:47.360 You're not supposed to pass laws based on emotion, number one.

00:05:51.160 The way you're supposed to pass laws are based on sober decision-making in times when you're not in crisis.

00:05:56.620 When you make decisions in moments of crisis, they're bad decisions.

00:06:00.680 That's exactly why we have the process we have.

00:06:03.480 Yes.

00:06:04.080 To prevent massive mistakes when you're too emotional.

00:06:08.860 To prevent doing the wrong thing too quickly.

00:06:12.740 But by having to go through this process, it gives you a chance to really review it, look at it, think about it, and hopefully avoid the bad mistakes.

00:06:22.100 It's part of the beauty of our process.

00:06:24.120 It really is.

00:06:25.360 It's designed that way.

00:06:27.040 And so the journalist cannot understand why America does not rally to their cause, their chosen cause, because they feel like, I am emotional because of this, therefore we should act in some way.

00:06:41.560 And look, the idea that you want to stop these things is completely rational.

00:06:45.360 Of course we all want to stop these things.

00:06:47.080 A lot of people on the left are, well, this pro-life party, this supposedly pro-life party, don't give a damn when people get murdered in schools.

00:06:58.160 What are you talking about?

00:06:59.660 We give lots of dams.

00:07:01.320 I want to stop this.

00:07:02.160 I mean, I've said this before on the air with Sandy Hook, in that it's beyond horrible.

00:07:10.520 It's beyond, it's literally one of the worst things that's ever happened in the country.

00:07:14.300 Just based on reading the individual accounts and how it occurred and who it occurred to, these little kids.

00:07:23.960 And again, the same thing happens again.

00:07:26.180 We are all horrified by it.

00:07:28.060 Every conservative in America is horrified by it, but we don't believe the things you're saying you want to do will work.

00:07:35.540 We don't believe the things you're saying you want to do are constitutionally available to you as options.

00:07:42.460 And the fact that you can't see that shows that this is not about politics.

00:07:48.660 You know, how many different policy prescriptions could we give to stop these things, Pat?

00:07:53.640 Yes, guns, let's just say for a moment that guns are one of the things you could talk about, right?

00:07:59.540 But you could also talk about mental health.

00:08:01.700 You could also talk about security guards in schools.

00:08:03.840 Keeping families together.

00:08:04.880 Keeping families together.

00:08:07.500 We've talked about probably dozens of these things.

00:08:10.840 Do you notice, let's just say, let's say, let's look at this from completely liberal, crazy liberal perspective.

00:08:17.000 That 80% of this problem is due to firearms and their availability.

00:08:24.140 You know I don't believe that at all, okay?

00:08:26.460 I don't believe that.

00:08:27.000 There's more firearms now.

00:08:28.500 Gun crime has gone down dramatically.

00:08:31.840 So there's no sensible reason to me to make that argument.

00:08:34.800 But let's just say that's 80% of the problem.

00:08:36.900 If you're a liberal and you give a damn about these victims, why wouldn't you pursue the other 20%? 0.94

00:08:43.960 They wouldn't even consider them.

00:08:45.000 Why not lock down the low-hanging fruit that supposedly everyone agrees on?

00:08:50.660 Why are you chasing the thing the Constitution prevents you from getting?

00:08:55.360 It shows.

00:08:56.420 They don't give a damn about these victims.

00:08:58.680 No, they don't.

00:08:58.980 What they care about is their own political power.

00:09:02.740 And all they care about is this idea they can go on and look like they're better than the Republicans for a week while everyone's talking about this story.

00:09:12.300 They don't care.

00:09:15.000 And it's blatantly obvious because you could pursue tons of these other strategies to limit these things that Republicans aren't going to fight you on.

00:09:23.840 They're not going to fight you on these things.

00:09:25.300 They constantly go back to the same option that they know they can't have because the American people don't want them to have it.

00:09:33.940 And the Constitution prevents them from getting it.

00:09:36.500 And now it's gotten to the point where they just flat out lie.

00:09:39.980 They just blatantly lie to try to get their gun control legislation passed.

00:09:49.980 18 of these this year?

00:09:53.180 We've had 18 school shootings this year?

00:09:57.100 I think most people hear that and what they think is, God, I'm uninformed.

00:10:02.100 Right.

00:10:03.000 Where have I been?

00:10:04.140 These have been happening so often.

00:10:05.680 I'm not even hearing about them.

00:10:07.260 And this is what the stat is designed to do, by the way.

00:10:09.380 Yes.

00:10:09.920 It's to make you feel like there's so many of these things.

00:10:12.140 They're so overwhelming that you can't even keep up with them.

00:10:16.340 You don't even hear about almost all of them.

00:10:18.840 They're so common.

00:10:19.540 We don't even talk about them.

00:10:20.520 They don't even hit the news cycle anymore.

00:10:22.000 I know.

00:10:22.620 That's what it's designed to do.

00:10:23.680 Can we get the details of this in a minute here, Pat?

00:10:25.160 Yeah, we will.

00:10:26.940 It's incredible.

00:10:28.300 Incredible how misleading this is.

00:10:30.080 You honestly won't even believe how bad the stat is.

00:10:32.280 It is just a flat out lie.

00:10:33.980 It's not even misleading.

00:10:34.900 It's so much worse than that.

00:10:36.280 And they know they're lying about it.

00:10:38.620 888-727-BECK will have details on that coming up.

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00:12:25.860 It's Pat and Stu for Glen.

00:12:28.600 Still sick.

00:12:29.400 All right.

00:12:32.180 What are the details?

00:12:33.300 Because you hear these things thrown out by the left all the time.

00:12:36.700 This is the 18th time this year we've had a school shooting.

00:12:42.420 It's February 14th, yesterday.

00:12:45.820 And already there's been 18 this year.

00:12:49.860 Really?

00:12:50.840 Where have I been?

00:12:52.380 Yeah.

00:12:53.180 I guess I haven't checked my Facebook feed in a while.

00:12:56.300 You know what, Pat?

00:12:56.700 It's not that.

00:12:57.660 It's just these are so common now.

00:12:59.140 They don't even get reported?

00:13:00.100 They don't even get reported.

00:13:00.940 People don't even care.

00:13:02.460 Yeah.

00:13:02.800 People don't even care because it just comes and goes.

00:13:04.960 They happen so commonly that you don't even realize they're going on anymore.

00:13:10.240 So I love that statistic.

00:13:11.560 The other one is, and we'll talk about this later too, we're unique among nations.

00:13:16.720 This is the only place this happens.

00:13:20.880 Okay.

00:13:21.760 So the 18 statistic, how are we so stupid and uninformed and ignorant?

00:13:27.400 We didn't even know.

00:13:28.340 I thought this was the first one of the year.

00:13:30.340 Right.

00:13:31.140 And that you'd be wrong for that because there's been 18.

00:13:35.140 I'm now going to give you the details to all 18 shootings.

00:13:38.760 Okay.

00:13:39.420 Oh, no.

00:13:39.940 Are you ready?

00:13:40.820 This is this.

00:13:41.380 When you hear 18, this is these are the 18 they're talking about. 0.95

00:13:44.240 Okay.

00:13:45.660 What we're talking about are school shootings.

00:13:47.520 What do you think of when you think of school shootings?

00:13:48.720 You think about the one yesterday.

00:13:49.700 What happened yesterday?

00:13:49.900 That's one of the 18, as we know.

00:13:51.500 So there's 17 others.

00:13:53.560 January 23rd in Benton, Kentucky, two people were killed and another 15 were shot at Marshall

00:13:58.600 County High School.

00:14:00.060 Okay.

00:14:00.220 So that one I think qualifies as what we think of when we think of a quote unquote school

00:14:05.140 shooting.

00:14:05.660 It's a mass shooting.

00:14:06.400 It's a mass shooting event, an active shooter type of situation, 15 injured.

00:14:09.840 Now only two killed, obviously two more than should be killed, but 15 shots.

00:14:14.140 In addition to that, that qualifies as what we think of.

00:14:19.000 And you might say, okay, I may or may not have heard of that one.

00:14:21.560 So there's one.

00:14:22.300 Okay.

00:14:22.420 Here's the others.

00:14:23.200 Okay.

00:14:23.340 So there's now there's 16 more.

00:14:25.260 Here they are.

00:14:26.380 And January 31st, a fight broke out at a Pennsylvania high school.

00:14:29.360 A 32 year old man was shot and later died.

00:14:32.020 Okay.

00:14:33.160 Now that's not a mass shooting event, right?

00:14:35.020 That's it was a fight that broke out.

00:14:37.060 It's not the same thing at all.

00:14:38.240 Not the same thing at all.

00:14:39.300 Not at all what you would think of.

00:14:40.820 Okay.

00:14:41.840 January 20th, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

00:14:43.800 A football player was shot and killed.

00:14:46.060 It was one player.

00:14:47.240 We don't know.

00:14:47.660 I don't have all the details of the incidents here, but it was not a mass shooting event.

00:14:51.540 Gang bang event.

00:14:52.540 Who knows?

00:14:53.000 Who knows?

00:14:53.320 Could be.

00:14:53.740 But again, one person being shot is not what you think about when you think about these

00:14:58.820 incidents.

00:14:59.840 Italy, Texas, January 22nd, a teenage girl was wounded by shots by a semi-automatic handgun.

00:15:05.260 Okay.

00:15:05.520 Again, she was wounded.

00:15:06.480 One person was wounded.

00:15:08.000 Now, you might think that's not a mass shooting, not a mass shooting.

00:15:09.960 And also, wouldn't it make sense that you didn't know about one person being wounded

00:15:14.960 in a shooting in Italy, Texas on January 22nd?

00:15:17.860 That wouldn't necessarily rise to the point of major national news coverage, right?

00:15:23.900 Right.

00:15:24.040 I mean, obviously, things happen all the time.

00:15:26.500 They're terrible when they do, but that's not a national news story.

00:15:29.540 Same day, Louisiana, a 14-year-old boy was injured in a shooting.

00:15:33.220 Okay.

00:15:33.320 Another injury in the shooting.

00:15:35.020 These are the 18 school shootings that have happened this year, supposedly.

00:15:38.400 February 1st, Los Angeles, five children were injured in an accidental shooting.

00:15:43.080 So it was not-

00:15:43.740 Definitely not the same thing.

00:15:44.400 Definitely not the same thing.

00:15:45.760 February 5th, Maryland, a teenager was shot and injured outside of a high school.

00:15:49.620 One teenager was shot, not killed, but injured outside of a high school.

00:15:54.560 Okay.

00:15:55.660 Next up, February 5th, Maplewood, Minnesota.

00:15:58.480 A third grader pulled the trigger on a cop's gun.

00:16:01.080 No one was injured.

00:16:02.320 They are counting that as a school shooting.

00:16:05.100 A third grader pulled the trigger on a cop's gun.

00:16:08.940 No one was injured.

00:16:10.840 That is a school shooting to the media.

00:16:14.460 February 8th, in New York, a shot was fired inside a metropolitan high school.

00:16:18.300 No one was injured.

00:16:21.060 On January 25th, in Mobile, Alabama, a high school student fired a gun on campus.

00:16:25.920 No one was injured.

00:16:28.300 On January 26th, in Dearborn, Michigan, shots were fired from a car in a parking lot.

00:16:32.780 No injuries were reported.

00:16:35.340 Okay.

00:16:35.800 That's probably a drive-by shooting.

00:16:37.800 Right.

00:16:38.360 A lot of these are probably, you know, gang violence or disagreements between people.

00:16:45.880 It's not the same thing at all.

00:16:47.840 It's not even close.

00:16:48.760 And what on earth would make you hear about a third grader pulling the trigger on a cop's gun and nobody was injured?

00:16:54.840 Why on earth would you be alerted to that in the media?

00:16:57.200 You wouldn't.

00:16:57.580 You wouldn't.

00:16:58.160 And, of course, none of these media sources that are complaining about the 18 shootings reported something like that.

00:17:05.360 They didn't report about this one either.

00:17:07.120 On January 15th, a bullet traveled through a residential hall's dorm room.

00:17:11.420 No injuries were reported.

00:17:12.880 The same day, Texas, a bullet was accidentally fired through a classroom wall at a criminal justice center.

00:17:19.840 No one was injured.

00:17:21.840 At a criminal justice center?

00:17:23.360 At a criminal justice center.

00:17:24.340 That doesn't sound like a school?

00:17:25.460 That I guess was on campus.

00:17:25.780 Right.

00:17:25.980 I guess was on a campus.

00:17:27.020 Okay.

00:17:27.340 January 4th, a gunshot was fired at a high school in Seattle through an office window.

00:17:31.940 No one was injured.

00:17:33.440 January 10th, a shot was fired shattering a California State University classroom window.

00:17:37.860 No one was injured.

00:17:40.000 We have two more to go.

00:17:41.720 Do you think so far there's been 16 shootings I've told you about?

00:17:44.580 There's been one other one.

00:17:45.680 One other one.

00:17:46.800 One.

00:17:47.100 Right.

00:17:47.400 And a couple of bad incidents, but the things that have existed forever.

00:17:51.480 Mass shooting, there's been one other one.

00:17:53.160 Here's the last two.

00:17:56.240 January 3rd, a man shot himself in a former school's parking lot.

00:18:01.300 Suicide's not the same.

00:18:02.640 And again, what law prevents a guy from taking his handgun and shooting himself in a parking lot of a school?

00:18:09.380 I can tell you one law.

00:18:10.840 You're not allowed to bring the gun on the school property and you need it anyway.

00:18:13.620 Yeah.

00:18:14.360 There's already a law that should have prevented that and it didn't happen.

00:18:17.440 Last one, January 10th, a teen killed himself in an Arizona elementary school bathroom.

00:18:24.120 Again, not the same thing.

00:18:25.500 Not the same thing.

00:18:26.560 So what you have here is the media telling you there's been 18 school shootings and what they are including in that is a 3rd grader pulling the trigger of a cop's gun and no one was injured.

00:18:36.720 Almost all of those circumstances that I told you about, there were no injuries reported whatsoever.

00:18:42.300 And the media is trotting that stat out as if it's supposed to make you give up your 2nd amendment rights.

00:18:49.620 That is incomprehensibly disingenuous.

00:18:53.800 It's sickening.

00:18:55.180 As you point out, Pat, it's just a lie.

00:18:57.340 It's just a lie.

00:18:58.360 By the way, it comes from a gun control group, an advocacy group for gun control.

00:19:03.420 Now, even they say there's only been 6 fatalities, shooting fatalities.

00:19:08.420 And as I pointed out, suicides are included in that.

00:19:12.640 You know, some guy who's troubled has a handgun, which is no one is, none of this legislation would stop him from having.

00:19:19.220 And he decides he's going to go to a parking lot.

00:19:21.320 We have no idea if it has anything to do with the school.

00:19:23.020 He just went to a parking lot and shot himself in a parking lot.

00:19:25.860 No one else was hurt.

00:19:26.800 And then some of these are insane.

00:19:30.060 Someone getting shot, a bullet going through a window with no injuries reported whatsoever.

00:19:35.660 Why on earth would that make national news?

00:19:37.580 They know it wouldn't.

00:19:39.220 Nothing occurred.

00:19:41.080 Nope.

00:19:42.140 And yet they'll still trot this out.

00:19:43.900 You will hear this from dozens of people in the media today.

00:19:47.680 Because they just don't question it.

00:19:49.740 You know, and sadly, I heard it from a student at the school.

00:19:52.880 You know, they were talking about one of the students who survived this incident.

00:19:55.900 And he goes on CNN.

00:19:57.480 And he starts saying, look, you know, this is the 18th one of these this year.

00:20:01.640 This is the 18th this year.

00:20:02.900 Why don't we do something?

00:20:04.980 Why don't we do something?

00:20:06.280 Sure, we should do something.

00:20:07.900 But the thing you're suggesting is the thing you can't get accomplished.

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00:21:25.900 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:28.260 Pat and Stu for Glenn as he continues to try to get over whatever it is he has.

00:21:33.540 888-727-BECK.

00:21:35.500 That sounds really...

00:21:36.600 I think...

00:21:37.020 Well, they thought it was the flu, right?

00:21:38.300 He's been very...

00:21:39.280 It's that type of situation.

00:21:40.900 We don't know for sure if he actually has the flu.

00:21:43.540 But he's not doing well.

00:21:45.140 I guess everyone in his household is sick right now, which is something that's affecting a big chunk of the country right now.

00:21:50.700 Oh, man.

00:21:51.340 There's a lot of people here who have just, you know, the place is basically like empty.

00:21:54.620 It looks like a Chernobyl studio right now, post-Chernobyl.

00:22:00.680 So it really is hitting everybody now.

00:22:03.800 So we're trying to figure out why the left won't take the steps that are absolutely doable.

00:22:14.720 And one of those steps is so easy.

00:22:19.000 No legislation.

00:22:19.760 No legislation needs to happen.

00:22:21.740 You just stop saying the name of the person and showing them.

00:22:25.180 Because a lot of these people just want...

00:22:27.440 They want to be noticed.

00:22:28.880 They want fame.

00:22:29.900 They want to go down in history.

00:22:31.260 We'll take that away from them.

00:22:32.500 Yeah.

00:22:33.800 If everybody committed, and we already have.

00:22:36.300 I've stopped saying the names of these people the last couple times.

00:22:38.900 You'll notice you haven't heard his name here today.

00:22:40.380 Nope.

00:22:40.740 We're not going to say his name.

00:22:41.960 I'm done.

00:22:42.340 I'm done making these people famous.

00:22:43.700 Right.

00:22:44.140 I'm done.

00:22:44.840 If that stops...

00:22:45.640 I mean, that could stop, I don't know, 20% of them.

00:22:48.820 But if it only stops 1%, isn't it worth doing?

00:22:52.840 Because this is the thing.

00:22:54.200 What you'll hear, and we have tons of audio of media members and congressmen saying, like,

00:22:59.020 I just don't understand why every time we have one of these shootings we say we should do something

00:23:03.040 and then we don't do anything.

00:23:04.320 And it's like, well, the thing you want to do is something that a good chunk of the country

00:23:07.920 thinks, A, won't be effective.

00:23:10.200 B, is unconstitutional.

00:23:12.480 Why not go after the things that you can do?

00:23:14.340 And the media is completely guilty in this.

00:23:16.500 They ask every time.

00:23:17.600 They complain about Congress not doing anything.

00:23:20.040 Why won't Congress do anything?

00:23:21.800 You know what?

00:23:22.240 Here we are.

00:23:23.420 We have this big shooting.

00:23:24.740 All of this emotion.

00:23:26.060 Why don't they do anything?

00:23:27.200 Congress has failed you.

00:23:28.820 They blame Congress constantly when this step is a step that I think logically could actually

00:23:35.320 help the situation.

00:23:37.320 And they won't do it.

00:23:38.740 And if you think, okay, what are you talking about?

00:23:40.700 Just because their name's not out there.

00:23:42.800 It's not going to do anything to the situation.

00:23:44.940 Let me give you, I think, a legitimate argument for why that's not the case.

00:23:51.300 They act as if we are facing a wave of violence that has never been contemplated in human history

00:24:00.620 with these mass shootings.

00:24:02.360 And obviously, it has become a trend since the late 90s where we've seen these much more

00:24:09.840 frequently than before that.

00:24:11.140 Now, the worst mass shootings in U.S. history go back to the 20s.

00:24:14.940 But recently, we've seen this as it's become a thing, right?

00:24:19.580 Why has it become a thing?

00:24:21.200 Because in that time, in the time where these have become part of our annual or biannual news

00:24:30.860 cycle, we have seen gun violence drop by enormous amounts.

00:24:38.980 So far less people are being killed by guns.

00:24:42.760 There's a lot more guns out there than there's ever been, but far less people are being murdered

00:24:47.800 by guns.

00:24:49.720 Okay?

00:24:50.140 We all recognize that as a fact.

00:24:54.180 There's no argument with that statistic.

00:24:55.860 I'm not making it up.

00:24:56.900 We have had a massive drop in gun violence since the 90s.

00:24:59.940 A massive drop.

00:25:01.020 Yet in this time, we have seen people with high profile mass shooting events increase.

00:25:08.300 Why is that?

00:25:09.040 What's the motivation there?

00:25:11.360 We don't have an increased appetite to kill people because the numbers, even with these

00:25:17.780 mass shooting events, are down.

00:25:19.400 If you take the mass shooting events out, they're down even further.

00:25:22.660 They're down really significantly.

00:25:25.160 So why on earth do these things happen?

00:25:27.480 I would submit to you that a large portion of that is because of the situation, particularly

00:25:33.340 with the Columbine shooters, which is what really started this, is they became legends

00:25:37.640 in a quote-unquote community.

00:25:39.480 They became famous.

00:25:41.540 They became the people who did these things.

00:25:43.700 And now there's this competition to constantly up the amount of people you're able to kill.

00:25:49.780 And Vegas is probably the best example of this, where a guy does this in a situation where

00:25:55.280 he takes an elevated position in a crowd.

00:25:57.500 It's very well planned.

00:25:59.720 He's not putting these things all over the internet.

00:26:02.860 And why?

00:26:03.780 Why do we do these things?

00:26:05.600 The fame, this sort of legendary status in their own minds and their own community's minds,

00:26:10.300 I think does play into this.

00:26:11.740 I think some of these people do these things because of the attention they get afterwards.

00:26:16.160 I don't think there's any doubt about that.

00:26:17.380 Right, and so this is not a situation where you need to go, you know what, we need Republicans

00:26:20.980 and Democrats to come together in Congress to make sure that broadcasters can no longer

00:26:25.440 say these names.

00:26:27.240 Every one of these media sources that will complain to you about Congress not taking action

00:26:31.000 can, with executive action, nothing needs to be passed, just stop making these people

00:26:37.380 celebrities.

00:26:38.720 Stop it.

00:26:40.040 That's all they have to do.

00:26:41.500 They can do it today.

00:26:42.980 Pretty easy step.

00:26:43.640 And a couple have.

00:26:44.200 I don't know, I know we have here, at least many of the people here on the air, just individual

00:26:49.880 decisions have done that recently.

00:26:53.380 I think, you know, I feel like I heard Anderson Cooper at one point say he's not going to be

00:26:57.300 giving attention to these guys anymore and saying their names.

00:27:00.220 But it should be widespread.

00:27:01.820 There's no, all, it's this, I want, I want ratings.

00:27:05.280 I want to get the information out there.

00:27:07.100 I want people to watch my show.

00:27:08.420 So I have to do it.

00:27:09.300 I have to do it.

00:27:09.980 We don't have to do it.

00:27:10.900 We do not have to make this idiot 17 year old into some sort of celebrity for this.

00:27:16.660 We don't have to do it.

00:27:17.840 We can sit here and watch him die in jail as a nameless, faceless zilch. 1.00

00:27:24.580 We can all come together and make that happen.

00:27:27.680 And, you know, it's not going to stop every one of these things.

00:27:29.820 Nothing's going to stop every one of these things.

00:27:31.300 But that's the thing that we can all, we can easily do with no legislation, with no

00:27:36.200 controversy.

00:27:37.040 We can just do it.

00:27:38.540 Will they?

00:27:39.060 No, probably not.

00:27:40.820 Probably not.

00:27:42.020 I mean, let's use the left's response to, uh, will it stop everything?

00:27:47.060 Well, no, but if it stops one, isn't it worth it?

00:27:50.300 And the answer to that is yes.

00:27:52.460 When you can just do it this easily by not saying the guy's name, not showing his face,

00:27:57.160 maybe that discourages somebody.

00:27:59.200 Maybe they say, hey, I'm not going to get famous from doing this.

00:28:02.580 Uh, I think, you know, sadly, they'll probably try something else and there'll be a new, but

00:28:07.520 maybe this has happened, you know, back in the day when there was these, all the political

00:28:10.560 assassinations, right?

00:28:12.160 You know, that was the thing of that time.

00:28:14.020 Like, I think the political assassinations of the sixties and seventies were the mass

00:28:18.700 shooting events.

00:28:19.380 People who wanted to get attention, people who wanted to make a statement, people who

00:28:22.680 wanted to draw attention to the ideology, went after famous people and tried to kill

00:28:27.500 them.

00:28:28.260 And over time, there's been less and less of those.

00:28:31.320 Did we cure that because of guns?

00:28:33.320 Did we, what did we do?

00:28:35.140 Largely, that went away because something else replaced it, right?

00:28:38.640 Now people are trying mass shooting events and they're trying different things to, to get

00:28:42.220 attention.

00:28:42.620 There's always going to be those people that are always going to try those things, but

00:28:45.980 we have a real step that we could take there.

00:28:47.820 That's easy, low hanging fruit.

00:28:50.020 You know, again, I keep going back to this, but like they, you can, you can bitch and 1.00

00:28:54.280 complain about Congress all you want.

00:28:55.920 Congress is representative of the people and a large portion of this country doesn't

00:28:59.040 want their guns taken away because you feel like they shouldn't have them because

00:29:02.900 they're law abiding citizens.

00:29:04.160 You know what?

00:29:04.880 We've got a constitution as a second amendment that specifically stops you from, uh, from

00:29:10.480 taking guns away from law abiding citizens.

00:29:12.620 It's exactly what it does.

00:29:14.480 And you know, you want to amend the constitution.

00:29:16.360 You can go after that one.

00:29:17.360 Good luck with it.

00:29:18.280 You know, good luck with that.

00:29:19.680 But really you got a major barrier there.

00:29:21.580 Why wouldn't you chase after the things that you can easily do?

00:29:24.080 And the reason is because it's got nothing to do with these victims.

00:29:28.200 Nothing.

00:29:28.980 They don't care.

00:29:29.660 They don't care about the victims.

00:29:30.820 They pretend to, but they don't.

00:29:32.600 If they did, they'd really tackle the heart of this issue.

00:29:36.680 And the heart of the issue is not the gun.

00:29:39.020 It's just, it's not, it defies all logic to just keep saying without the guns, we wouldn't

00:29:46.120 have any of this.

00:29:47.220 Well, I mean, that's madness.

00:29:49.240 Like you said, we have more guns now than we've ever had in the history of the world.

00:29:53.100 And yet gun crime, violent crime using guns has decreased exponentially since the late

00:30:01.060 eighties, early nineties.

00:30:02.100 Yeah.

00:30:02.600 They used to have upwards of 2000 murders or more in New York every year.

00:30:08.300 Now it's around five or 600.

00:30:10.120 That's a huge, I mean, it's too many still, obviously, but it's a huge step in the right

00:30:17.760 direction.

00:30:18.180 And the two things that have happened in that time is a, as you point out a lot more guns

00:30:21.580 owned by American citizens and be a real move to the conservative side when it comes to

00:30:27.180 laws.

00:30:27.840 I mean, there has been, we have gone through a period of opening up gun laws more than,

00:30:34.880 than, than closing them.

00:30:37.380 We're not closing loopholes.

00:30:39.140 You know, some states have done that.

00:30:40.260 You know, there's been, you know, certain states have passed things, mainly blue states

00:30:44.100 have passed gun control legislation, but largely it's, you know, we, as Americans have come

00:30:48.860 to a conclusion that we like the second amendment.

00:30:51.580 You know, we, it's been one of those things that we're kind of, we're kind of fans of

00:30:54.400 and, uh, and it's been a movement in that direction and, and gun violence has dropped,

00:30:59.760 dropped.

00:31:01.580 So I just don't.

00:31:03.180 And the left knows that Americans, uh, like the second amendment.

00:31:08.240 They know that most Americans respect the constitution, don't want to change the, which is why they'll

00:31:13.760 never talk about the real issue.

00:31:15.200 And then they want the, the second amendment, uh, overturned.

00:31:20.020 Yeah.

00:31:20.120 They, they want the second amendment erased with the 28th amendment, which states that,

00:31:25.800 uh, Americans don't have the right to keep and bear arms.

00:31:29.340 Yeah.

00:31:29.720 That's what they want.

00:31:30.520 And then they just won't admit that because they won't stay in power that way.

00:31:35.200 And there's this, you're right.

00:31:37.560 You're totally right.

00:31:38.800 And there's this really disgusting, uh, approach that I think the left and the media takes all

00:31:46.620 too often, which comes down to, they are waiting for that moment where something happens that is

00:31:55.160 so horrific that you are moved emotionally to abandon your second amendment rights, that you

00:32:01.540 will be so upset by some incident, some terrible, terrible incident that you will say, you know

00:32:08.500 what, I, I just, I don't want these anymore.

00:32:12.200 Do whatever you have to do to stop it, which is why you have a constitutional amendment, by the

00:32:15.800 way, to stop that exact thing, right?

00:32:18.280 Because so people don't get emotional and give up rights that they should have.

00:32:21.680 And so that's what they're waiting.

00:32:22.760 And they can't understand what, why Sandy Hook wasn't enough, why this shooting won't be

00:32:28.540 enough, why Vegas, why the pulse shooting won't be enough for you to be emotionally moved

00:32:33.520 to abandon those rights.

00:32:34.920 That is their path to get this done.

00:32:37.840 Hopefully at some point you will be so upset by one of these tragedies that you will say,

00:32:43.100 do whatever you have to do, even if it violates the constitution.

00:32:47.260 And, you know, look, I am emotionally moved enough to be tempted to do things like that

00:32:53.300 by some of these incidents.

00:32:54.840 They are so horrific.

00:32:57.000 I mean, Sandy Hook, I keep coming back to it.

00:32:58.640 It's one of the worst things I've ever, one day, it was one of the anniversaries and I

00:33:02.560 sat down and I was reading through news stories and somehow I clicked on something and went through

00:33:06.080 all those stories.

00:33:07.220 It is, you can't be moved more than hearing the stories of a bunch of first graders being

00:33:15.380 slaughtered for no reason, by the way, no ideology attached to it, just a crazy person who decided

00:33:21.440 to do it.

00:33:22.140 If it doesn't rip your heart out, you're not human.

00:33:25.200 It does rip our heart out.

00:33:27.120 Number one, we don't think what you're prescribing will be effective.

00:33:31.180 Number two, even if it were to be effective, you'd need to amend the constitution to do

00:33:36.040 it.

00:33:36.740 And you're not even attempting it because you don't care.

00:33:38.500 And there's a process for that, by the way.

00:33:40.540 Yeah, there is.

00:33:40.600 You could do it.

00:33:41.400 You could do it.

00:33:42.460 You could try.

00:33:43.300 So try.

00:33:44.660 But I mean, the idea that we should abandon these rights for something that most likely

00:33:50.280 will not be effective is not something that I'm interested in.

00:33:53.860 It has nothing to do with not being moved emotionally enough by people dying.

00:33:57.400 I get moved emotionally by people dying for all sorts of reasons.

00:34:02.440 You know, cancer, murders with knives, car accidents, abortion.

00:34:09.440 I'm moved by all of them.

00:34:11.400 It's not about being moved.

00:34:13.640 It's not about letting the not enough emotion flowing through my veins to change my mind on

00:34:19.000 this.

00:34:19.180 You have to make decisions in sober ways, ways that aren't influenced by emotion.

00:34:25.560 You have to make decisions based on logic and reason.

00:34:31.620 And that is the problem here.

00:34:32.860 They're trying to find this special sauce that will make us, you know, dig up this emotion

00:34:39.280 that just, we just say, you know what, screw all those rights.

00:34:42.080 You're right.

00:34:42.980 That's what they're rooting for.

00:34:44.000 And they can't understand why the American people haven't been pushed there yet.

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00:36:22.140 Glenn is still sick today, so it is Pat and Stu for Glenn.

00:36:26.320 And another school shooting, which we're talking about today.

00:36:30.700 And, of course, the left is trying to take advantage of again, as they always do.

00:36:38.320 They politicize this every single time.

00:36:40.600 And they won't look at the actual causes of this.

00:36:44.560 They won't consider anything other than the gun.

00:36:49.960 It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:36:52.900 Because, as you said, Stu, if it just solves 5 or 10% of the problem, if it takes out 5 to

00:37:00.580 10% of these shooters, wouldn't that be worth doing?

00:37:02.820 Yeah.

00:37:03.100 Or continually saying, if it saves one person, won't it be worth it?

00:37:06.420 Well, yeah.

00:37:07.520 Then do it.

00:37:08.660 Let's look at mental health.

00:37:10.080 Yep.

00:37:10.980 And a lot of people asking on Twitter for the list of the 18 shootings that we went over

00:37:17.380 earlier.

00:37:17.860 I'll post that at World of Stu here in just a minute.

00:37:19.780 But as I was going through my feed, I'd love this comment from Justin.

00:37:22.860 The media said they'd stop saying the word redskins, but they still promote these killers. 0.99

00:37:28.960 And that's such an easy, easy, easy fix.

00:37:31.540 They won't even say the name of an existing team, a good portion of them.

00:37:36.060 Yeah.

00:37:36.260 Including, by the way, Peter King, who I was quoting earlier and saying he's one of the

00:37:40.000 people who won't say the word redskins.

00:37:42.380 And, you know, but yet they'll promote the amazing, you know, the shooting and they'll

00:37:49.580 give attention to their ideology.

00:37:51.520 And they're, I mean, I think there's been an interesting odd experiment we should go over

00:37:54.960 next hour on these shootings.

00:37:56.440 That's actually kind of proved that I think this can help a little bit.

00:37:59.340 We'll do that next hour here on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Stu.

00:38:01.920 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:38:21.480 Love, courage, truth.

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00:38:34.580 Pat and Stu for Glenn, who's still sick today.

00:38:36.960 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, Beck.

00:38:39.360 Big shooting yesterday, of course.

00:38:41.020 Another awful, awful tragedy in Florida.

00:38:43.920 Seventeen kids killed.

00:38:45.220 Uh, and so today, because the answer from the left is always get the guns, take away

00:38:54.140 the guns.

00:38:54.760 We need more gun control. 0.83

00:38:56.600 Uh, why today we're kind of trying to figure out what actually would help this situation.

00:39:04.600 I think, you know, we've stumbled on at least one thing that would be incredibly easy.

00:39:10.060 Take no effort, no legislation.

00:39:12.680 Stop saying the name of the shooter every time somebody does this.

00:39:18.820 Thus, they don't become famous.

00:39:20.660 Thus, they don't hit celebrity status.

00:39:22.620 And, and it may discourage some because some of them have mentioned, in fact, have said that

00:39:28.320 they wanted to be known.

00:39:29.440 Some of them have said they were enamored with, uh, with the Columbine shooting or whoever,

00:39:34.440 and kind of followed that blueprint.

00:39:36.700 So, remove that completely.

00:39:39.800 And, who knows if that does, if that discourages somebody from, from doing this.

00:39:44.600 And, I think it's not just the name, too.

00:39:46.020 It's also sort of the picture, the ideology.

00:39:49.600 Right.

00:39:49.900 The manifesto.

00:39:51.600 What's the, what's the thing they want to get out of this, right?

00:39:55.160 Yes.

00:39:55.820 Remove all of that.

00:39:56.820 Most of these people have some reason, whether it's fame or whether it's, I want to draw attention

00:40:02.280 to X, Y, or Z cause, uh, that, that, that, you know, comes out of this.

00:40:07.080 Now, obviously, it's something that investigators need to know and understand, and so they can

00:40:10.860 look at certain movements and certain ideologies to look for threats, obviously.

00:40:14.860 But it's not something that we need to all be obsessed about.

00:40:17.480 Let me give you an example of an unintentional experiment in what we're talking about.

00:40:22.540 Now, the Vegas shooting happened, the biggest shooting in U.S. history happened a few months

00:40:28.940 ago, right?

00:40:30.560 And, here's a guy who goes to try to, essentially, the most death possible.

00:40:37.540 He tries to set a record, almost, right?

00:40:39.060 He gets an elevated position.

00:40:40.920 He fires down into a very dense crowd.

00:40:43.740 A crowd that probably didn't realize gunshots were coming for a significant amount of time

00:40:47.880 because of loud music, right?

00:40:49.140 I mean, think about all the things this guy did to maximize the amount of debt, right?

00:40:53.760 But what was different about that guy was that he didn't have an ideology, right?

00:40:59.460 He didn't have, there's been no known motive for why he did this.

00:41:03.920 And in addition to that, there's been arguably a bungled investigation in which we've had no

00:41:11.060 information coming out, just because, not because the media made a good decision and said,

00:41:14.620 you know what, we're not going to cover this, just because we haven't been able to get a

00:41:17.400 lot of information from the police, you know, the investigation, whether it's not necessarily

00:41:23.080 due to incompetence.

00:41:24.320 Some of it has been, I think, especially the way they've communicated to the people.

00:41:29.220 But in addition to that, it just, you know, it's been really hard.

00:41:31.920 The guy covered his tracks.

00:41:33.040 He wasn't a guy who made threats online.

00:41:35.040 He didn't have a lengthy set of writings that described what his motivation was.

00:41:38.900 Go back to that and stop for a second.

00:41:40.320 Think about, do you know who is, what his name is?

00:41:43.200 You could probably name right off the, without me even asking you, what the names of the Columbine

00:41:47.020 shooters were, right?

00:41:48.720 But do you know who the guy, Vegas, there's a lot more people who died at Vegas.

00:41:52.580 It's a much, it was a much more brutal episode.

00:41:56.960 Can you, off the top of your head, name the guy, and you might be able to, Pat, because

00:42:00.220 you're, you know, in the media talking about this stuff every day.

00:42:02.280 But I think most people would have no idea what that guy's name is.

00:42:05.540 Did he get fame out of that?

00:42:07.040 No.

00:42:07.200 Did he get any of those things?

00:42:08.620 And I think it was an unintentional experiment into the way you could cover these things.

00:42:13.080 We've got to cover the victims.

00:42:14.040 We've got to cover the incident at some level, but we don't need to focus and obsess about

00:42:18.580 these people's ideologies, their names, their photos, what they did, who they grew up with.

00:42:24.860 Investigators need to know that stuff.

00:42:26.100 We don't need to obsess about it.

00:42:27.820 Now, the information is going to get out there with the internet.

00:42:29.980 I'm not saying you can ban information or anything like that, but individual media members

00:42:33.200 can make easy choices to not focus on those things.

00:42:37.120 And the idea that they won't, when they don't need legislation, they don't need any of these

00:42:40.480 things that they say are so difficult.

00:42:41.640 They don't need Congress getting in their way.

00:42:44.020 They don't need the Constitution doesn't get in their way on this one. 0.99

00:42:46.920 They could just stop doing it.

00:42:48.880 And, you know, we've done it here at The Blaze.

00:42:50.760 I mean, you know, it's at least I have personally.

00:42:53.480 I know Glenn has talked about it.

00:42:54.780 I know you've done it.

00:42:56.400 You know, there's just no reason for us to make these people famous and create yet another

00:43:01.540 incentive for them to show off in the way that they think is viable.

00:43:07.300 There were some warning signs for this guy, too.

00:43:10.440 And we've got to figure out how you can capitalize on that and maybe intervene ahead of time because

00:43:16.600 the kid was obviously troubled and he's been described in pretty much every story as troubled.

00:43:24.760 Plus, he had posted things online that a person in, I think, Tennessee saw and alerted the FBI and said,

00:43:32.780 hey, do you know about this guy?

00:43:35.500 Yeah.

00:43:35.820 So we've had some there were some red flags there.

00:43:40.740 Yeah.

00:43:40.920 BuzzFeed is reporting at one point he said, quote, I'm going to be a professional school shooter.

00:43:46.500 Right.

00:43:46.780 And in a YouTube comment.

00:43:47.840 And that's something the FBI actually tracks down and looks into.

00:43:51.480 And apparently they actually did content, contact the person who made the complaint at the time.

00:43:56.440 But not the kid.

00:43:57.480 Right.

00:43:57.700 But I guess they never actually followed up on it beyond that, at least as far as we don't know yet.

00:44:01.740 It's still too early to know for sure.

00:44:03.520 Yeah.

00:44:03.840 These things do tend to play out over long periods of time.

00:44:07.180 But still, I mean, there was there were signs here that there was a problem.

00:44:10.820 I mean, I think I think if you as you watch this develop, there's been some reports of,

00:44:14.220 you know, of, you know, it was, you know, it's Valentine's Day, right?

00:44:21.040 You know, and there were some reports of him being a stalker of some other individuals.

00:44:25.020 And we don't know if that's part of the cause of it.

00:44:27.700 But again, I think, like, you have to know the basics, but you don't need to you don't

00:44:33.640 need to make a shrine to these people.

00:44:35.660 And that's what winds up happening.

00:44:37.000 Well, if we say really nasty words about them and, you know, then we're not making a shrine

00:44:41.800 out of them.

00:44:42.180 And I think obviously I understand that.

00:44:43.480 I don't think people are I don't think the media is intending anything bad by this, but

00:44:48.180 I think it is feeding into it when we're in this culture with everyone wants to be their

00:44:53.000 own broadcaster, everyone wants to be on YouTube, everybody, everybody's got social media, they're

00:44:56.520 all trying to get attention.

00:44:58.480 How is it possible that you don't think that this is playing into it?

00:45:03.540 They are.

00:45:04.340 They're trying.

00:45:05.180 I mean, people will jump off of, you know, roofs and break their legs.

00:45:09.420 They'll light themselves.

00:45:10.080 They'll eat Tide Pods to become famous.

00:45:14.380 They really want it.

00:45:16.580 Yeah.

00:45:17.020 The American people really apparently want to be famous and they'll do almost anything

00:45:22.280 to get there.

00:45:23.020 And, you know, you have these people who want attention, who think their life is gone

00:45:27.020 in a bad direction.

00:45:28.920 They don't think they can get attention or become famous for positive things.

00:45:33.240 So they try to find the most negative thing possible and exploit it.

00:45:37.180 And 90% of the time, we as the media just give into it.

00:45:42.500 Say, yeah, you know what?

00:45:43.540 Well, we got to tell people the story.

00:45:44.820 We got to tell people.

00:45:45.380 So we got to do what I'm obsessed about everything this guy ever wrote.

00:45:47.720 So we could we could do that on our own.

00:45:49.600 Yeah.

00:45:49.740 Again, no legislation needs to be done there.

00:45:52.540 Another thing.

00:45:53.280 And I don't I don't know exactly what you can do about the mental illness situation.

00:45:58.340 The difficult one.

00:45:59.340 It's a really tough one.

00:46:00.520 It's really hard.

00:46:01.480 And the desensitization to the value of human life.

00:46:08.480 A lot.

00:46:10.020 Well, these shooters just don't care.

00:46:11.740 They don't care about the value of human life.

00:46:13.880 It's been completely desensitized to them.

00:46:16.220 I don't know if that's through movies and media and video games that they play and obsess over all day long.

00:46:23.680 I don't know.

00:46:25.140 But is the abortion culture part of that, too?

00:46:27.860 Because we're fine with with taking the lives of 62 million babies over the last 43, 44 years.

00:46:36.800 That doesn't matter anymore.

00:46:39.260 Yeah.

00:46:39.680 I mean, that's an interesting one to bring up because, you know, I don't know that there's a direct connection right between that.

00:46:46.460 But it just makes a culture of death.

00:46:48.520 Exactly.

00:46:48.920 We've talked about this before.

00:46:49.640 It's a it's a culture of throwing life away that it's not that big of a deal.

00:46:52.840 Now, I think you can legitimately make an argument that part of the reason that our society has stopped valuing human life in general is because we've decided that there are a lot of people.

00:47:07.860 It's not just babies, but it's also people who are elderly, people who are at the end in the middle of end of life care that we just have this idea that life isn't as valuable as we once thought it was.

00:47:18.300 Yeah.

00:47:18.880 Now, if we were to come out and say, you know, what we need to do is cure that, because I think morally I do argue for that strongly.

00:47:24.600 But if we were to come out and say the only way that we can solve this is if we cure the culture of life, the only way we can do that is making abortion illegal.

00:47:31.220 Now, that would be an impossible political climb right now.

00:47:36.460 You know, I will still push for it till the day I die.

00:47:38.420 But it's an impossible political cure.

00:47:42.240 If we were to go to the Democrats and say, you know what?

00:47:44.680 The only thing we need to do.

00:47:45.920 And every time every media personality went on the air and said, what we need to do is make abortion illegal.

00:47:49.800 That would be that would really change the way that our society thinks about life.

00:47:53.920 When we knew we would never be able to get that done.

00:47:57.040 Right.

00:47:57.940 At least in the short term, that would be similar to what the left is doing with guns.

00:48:04.420 Every time one of these incidents comes out, it's exactly right.

00:48:07.220 They make this argument that we need to do things that they know constitutionally they can't do and or politically can't do.

00:48:16.140 And that half the country believes that these things would not be effective or are not legal.

00:48:22.340 And yet they make the same arguments every time hoping and wishing and praying that at some point you will get so lost in your emotion that you'll make a decision based on something other than the Constitution or what you actually believe.

00:48:35.160 And that is a that's a dark freaking road to try to get a bill passed.

00:48:40.340 That is a dark road.

00:48:41.720 And it's not about you're not supposed to make you're not supposed to pass bills when you're in the middle of a this is why we don't have the victims of of this shooting deciding the punishment of the shooter.

00:48:52.260 We don't do that because we don't think emotions should be part of this process.

00:48:57.860 We want to suck the emotion out of the process and make decisions based on things other than emotion.

00:49:02.840 And I mean we could play you I just you know I just saw Megyn Kelly doing it on the beginning of her show Don Lemon did it last night this morning CNN with Allison Camerata and Chris Cuomo same exact thing.

00:49:18.860 It's just this emoting.

00:49:19.800 I don't understand last time this happened and I thought this would be the time that people finally are moved to do the thing I want them to do and they still won't do it because they don't want to do it.

00:49:32.980 It's not it's like they think that eventually something so tragic will make them think like your local TV host your national TV host the person telling you the right thing to do.

00:49:43.580 And man it is really frustrating it is because that's that I wish it is we can't have a normal debate on this because you're trying to make it this emotional pass it in 10 seconds situation.

00:49:54.040 How many times the left told us about how evil the Patriot Act is how evil it was because we passed it in a moment of national crisis before we even really had the chance to look at what was in it.

00:50:05.180 Right. And you know we've talked about this as regret that now Ted and it was misused right we didn't we didn't look at that and say wait what are all the negatives that can happen with this bill.

00:50:15.900 We didn't look at that because we were frantic that another plane was going to crash into something.

00:50:22.040 That's that's not the best time to make that decision right if we would have stopped and said okay like let's let's pass the very minimum things that we can do and let's look at expanding the particular parts of this that are important.

00:50:32.040 That would have been a better way and you know what people would have thought well wait in a month the emotion will be gone.

00:50:38.460 We might not be able to get that pass good that that means you probably shouldn't have passed it right.

00:50:45.680 I mean if you can't get it passed in a month that it's probably not a good idea to pass it and we are taught it's you know they brought on a bunch of these kids that were in the shooting yesterday on CNN over the past 24 hours and they talked to them and and they make

00:51:01.780 really emotional cases and they say why can't we do something and it pulls it obviously pulls your heartstrings.

00:51:07.960 You know what they're saying they won't even say gun control most of the time.

00:51:10.700 They'll just say you know we keep saying we need to do something and they won't do anything do something do something they won't even admit and they bring on these kids and the kids you know quote the stats like well you know this is the 18th school shooting of the year which is not true.

00:51:23.700 If you missed our one we can maybe go through that again before the end of the show not true but the point is we shouldn't be we shouldn't be listening for leadership on the bills that we pass from teenagers who were just involved in a tragedy.

00:51:39.500 That is not that's not how our government's supposed to work.

00:51:41.880 We can feel bad for them.

00:51:43.660 We can send our thoughts and prayers.

00:51:45.620 That is something we can do as much as you mock it.

00:51:48.080 But but that is not the way that you're supposed to pass legislation you know people have been so critical of Donald Trump for flying off the handle and not and letting his emotions get to him in these situations.

00:52:00.500 These same media people hammer Trump over that all the time and yet here we are after every one of these tragedies where emotion is king it can't be king.

00:52:11.040 That's why you have the second amendment the second amendment was specifically designed to say hey you can't just overturn this on a whim when something bad happens you got to really go through a process and I want it to be a long lengthy process it's always there for you you can always attempt it if we've made mistakes in this constitution you have this this process that's always available that you can turn these things around and that's happened in our history but it's supposed to be a slow deliberate process and that's the thing they want you to abandon.

00:52:38.920 They want you to abandon logic and reason in these moments and and ignore the fact that gun violence is down by 50 percent just ignore that this is you should feel something right now so you should pass the bill that we want and that's it's a terrible way to do to run a country.

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00:54:38.140 Chuck in Florida.

00:54:40.900 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:54:41.980 Hi.

00:54:42.100 Good morning Pat and Stu thanks for letting me into your parlor.

00:54:48.240 Listen you know when Murphy got up on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday and immediately called for gun control I was screaming at the top of my lungs please one of you feckless conservatives get up there and point out that it's the last 50 years of progressive policies that have caused the situation where our moral fabric

00:55:10.060 It's gotten to the point where kids are picking up guns and shooting up other kids.

00:55:14.520 I mean it goes clear back to when they started it with the no-fault divorces and then got in through all the doors for the mental institutions open.

00:55:24.540 You know you can they divided everybody up into groups that all hate each other.

00:55:29.040 They they're all progressive policies.

00:55:32.120 Every one of these shootings could probably be traced back to a progressive policy in somebody's life.

00:55:38.120 That the progressives have taught them to be this way.

00:55:42.080 And you know we need to instead of talking about gun control we need to every time someone brings it up we need to throw it right back in their face look at your progressive policies that have broken down our society and we need to end them now.

00:55:55.020 What do you think?

00:55:56.520 I mean it's a big part of it right?

00:55:58.780 It is.

00:55:59.200 I mean I think.

00:55:59.780 Thanks Chuck.

00:56:00.260 Appreciate it.

00:56:00.560 That's true.

00:56:00.740 I mean you know it is true and but there's no Republicans in office anyway who are adept at making these arguments.

00:56:11.280 They just they seem to take that they seem to absorb it.

00:56:14.180 They they don't seem to refute the what the Democrats are saying.

00:56:19.640 I don't understand it.

00:56:20.920 It's always left up to us and talk radio to defend conservative values.

00:56:25.740 And I I don't know why Republicans can't do it.

00:56:29.280 Yeah.

00:56:29.480 I don't know either.

00:56:30.280 I mean you know even from the stupid talking points that everybody's controlled by the NRA.

00:56:35.120 Oh good.

00:56:35.960 I mean you know a few thousand dollar donation from the NRA to a candidate is going to make them decide they want children dead.

00:56:42.180 I mean how stupid do you have to be to believe that?

00:56:44.140 Honestly like you have to be abject. 0.70

00:56:47.700 You just have to be a moron.

00:56:49.820 I'll leave it at that.

00:56:50.600 But you have to be a moron to believe that.

00:56:53.460 And by the way I think it was 538 today might have been the New York Times did a a study of what they asked experts on guns and and crime.

00:57:04.280 What measures could be enacted in gun control in the gun control realm that would actually be effective and start stopping mass shootings.

00:57:11.820 They went through and they decided to ask everybody.

00:57:14.200 Okay.

00:57:14.720 What what what what would be the best one to do.

00:57:16.540 And the number one thing they came up with from all these experts was the assault weapons ban.

00:57:23.100 Now this is something that has already been tried.

00:57:29.020 They did this in the 90s and the Department of Justice found there was no decrease in murder because of it.

00:57:36.420 This was their number one recommendation.

00:57:39.340 If you did this this would be the best thing.

00:57:41.420 They've already done it and there was no decrease in murder rates.

00:57:45.020 So I you know look is there something in there somewhere.

00:57:49.140 I mean you know they talked about the bump stock thing from the last shooting and you know could that be prevented.

00:57:54.940 They think they can do that through maybe regulation rather than legislation.

00:57:59.380 I mean there's a lot of talk about that.

00:58:01.280 But I mean like it's not to say that there's nothing around guns that that can be talked about.

00:58:07.000 You know but you gotta be super careful.

00:58:09.100 And again you have the limitation of the Constitution.

00:58:11.060 They've already gone past the limitations of the Constitution.

00:58:13.100 They've already passed tons of stuff that is completely violates the Second Amendment.

00:58:17.560 I'm kind of moved by the phrase shall not be infringed.

00:58:21.180 That seems pretty clear.

00:58:24.020 Yeah really strong.

00:58:24.980 Pretty darn clear.

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00:59:52.500 So I'm on my way home last night after work and after the TV show which you can see again today at 530 called The News and Why It Matters.

01:00:02.540 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn by the way who's still sick today.

01:00:04.740 But I'm listening to a supposedly conservative talk show host and he's arguing for gun control.

01:00:12.600 You don't need AR-15s.

01:00:15.580 You don't need I love that argument.

01:00:18.420 You don't need automatic weapons.

01:00:21.160 You don't know what first of all you don't know what I need and you don't know what I may need in 10 years or 15 or 20 years from now.

01:00:26.480 I may very well need a machine gun to protect myself from a from an oppressive government.

01:00:32.540 Right and you can't even have the machine gun.

01:00:34.100 You can't even have an AR-15.

01:00:35.360 Right.

01:00:35.960 But so you can't determine what I what I need and what I don't need.

01:00:41.800 But you know his callers are obviously going crazy because it's a conservative station and and they're asking him where he's coming from.

01:00:50.180 Where does it say in the Second Amendment he asks that that that it's OK to have an AR-15 or an automatic weapon.

01:00:56.980 Well I'll tell you where it says in the phrase shall not be infringed that's that's where it says yeah the Constitution doesn't list the things you can have it says the things that can't government can't take away from it's a charter of negative liberties right on purpose yeah on purpose right just for this reason because they knew they couldn't list every right you'll eventually have.

01:01:18.760 So what they did was list the things government can't do to you right I mean you know I don't like listening to people talk about Kim Kardashian does not interest me I don't like it if I tried to ban it I could say well where in the First Amendment does it say you could talk about Kim Kardashian she's not even mentioned.

01:01:37.060 Well yeah I know what they said is I can't stop you from talking about anything the First Amendment you can talk about it I can't it has nothing to do with what if they come up with new words that we've never heard before like it's such a silly argument and disingenuous people obviously like there's there's a thing going on where we say well we really want that we really don't want people with guns that can shoot a lot of people therefore we should apply that desire of ours and apply it and just insert it in the Constitution.

01:02:07.060 and we'll find a slot for it that's kind of the way we've been looking at this for a long time that isn't I mean we even conservatives have done that over over time there's been I think excessive regulation on the Second Amendment and this comes from a guy who's not a gun guy I am not I am not necessarily interested in guns I don't particularly have that interest interest in going to the range other than ask me to go shooting all the time I don't have a passion for it at all I do have a passion for the Constitution of the Second Amendment exactly which says what was that phrase again Pat

01:02:36.780 shall not shall not be infringed it's really super duper clear clear as it gets now I don't know that there's any other I don't know if there's a more clear amendment in the Constitution than the second I it just it's just so obvious shall not be infringed all right well there's you can't do this you can't do all of these gun regulations and that's why they deemed Chicago's regulations unconstitutional

01:03:06.780 probably be unconstitutional as well same in D.C. and New Orleans and wherever else they're doing these egregious gun laws 0.99

01:03:14.140 in D.C. it happened too right after Heller right in Chicago I mean you know we all know that it's an individual right to bear arms that's now been decided by the Supreme Court

01:03:23.200 I know the left loves to talk about settled law yeah so I'm sure they'd accept that although for some reason that one's not settled

01:03:29.220 I don't know why either is Citizens United and really anything they've ever had against them that that's not settled law eventually they'll get that overturned

01:03:37.060 but I mean Roe versus Wade super duper settled settled constitutional law not in the Constitution yeah

01:03:42.680 okay uh all right triple eight seven two seven back um I wanted to make sure we really quickly are make everyone aware of the real story

01:03:50.880 yeah going on with the shooting okay Alex Jones has it oh he does he does and now he's not saying he's so often he does

01:03:58.100 I want to make sure you understand he's not saying this is what happened oh okay okay he's very clear about that

01:04:03.280 he's just bringing it up in a vocal way he's not saying it he's just making you aware of the possibility

01:04:09.660 with his vocal cords which is different than saying saying okay all right all right let's listen to Alex explain

01:04:15.520 the Democrats have been caught in false flags before I'm not saying this is a false flag he's not I'm just

01:04:21.900 saying but they've been talking about massacres and things people don't leave them alone and

01:04:26.180 remember the memo so if there are massacres threatening massacres that makes them suspects when they've been

01:04:32.700 threatening massacres and who knows what mentally ill person they've wound up or what's happening or is 0.69

01:04:38.940 this gang related we don't know the media will say that I said it's a false flag of the Democrats did it

01:04:43.320 I did not say that no he didn't see he didn't questioning the long history that these folks

01:04:48.080 have now they've been apparently I didn't say it I just I'm just saying it I did but I didn't say it

01:04:53.220 I'm just saying that I didn't say it what when I said it at the beginning there were the Democrats

01:04:59.220 have been talking about massacres everything what is a massacres I don't know but they've been

01:05:04.160 massacres for a long time apparently if if they don't release the memo what was the memo what did

01:05:10.180 that have to do with it I don't know I don't know he's a magician man but he didn't say it I want

01:05:14.540 you to know he didn't say he didn't say he did not say it he just said they're well known for these

01:05:18.540 false flags and this could be another false flag but he's not saying that the Democrats are doing

01:05:23.280 this false flag every shooting with this guy every shooting and every terrorist attack is a false flag

01:05:31.720 is there anything real that happens in the world no there are no flags there's no flags there's only false

01:05:36.940 only false ones there's no shootings there's only pretend shootings right I'll bet you in two weeks

01:05:42.480 maybe sooner he'll be saying these are uh crisis actors right I mean isn't this what we get from from him

01:05:50.580 you wonder if he's learned his lesson he's had to make multiple uh public apologies for these for what

01:05:55.380 he said immediately after that so I think maybe he's uh learned a lesson to to to couch it in that language

01:06:01.240 which is why he's saying he's not saying right that's why because yeah he's gotten in some trouble

01:06:06.980 because first of all he said sandy hook was a false flag and he discussed it often and then he says

01:06:11.900 I never said sandy hook was a false flag well yeah you did yeah you you really did yeah kind of uh

01:06:18.960 in fact more than kind of he just did he said exactly that yeah Earl in Ohio you're on the you're on the

01:06:26.380 Glenn Beck program hi we have a high cap problem on our our weapons the common thread I believe

01:06:35.120 is also the antidepressants in this country has been handed out like candy and nobody really follows

01:06:41.960 this every one of these guys the smoking gun and the common thread is antidepressants and and and I've

01:06:49.580 actually had a friend of mine I put you know actually at the veterans hospital it was mental and I want to

01:06:54.600 tell you you can't just go into a psychiatrist and get a pill and then send them home to the family

01:06:59.500 and that is what's happened is the valuation of an individual is not being evaluated on all these

01:07:06.920 antidepressants and I truly believe if you're on an antidepressant you shouldn't have a gun be allowed

01:07:13.420 to own a gun and it ought to be tracked wow that's a lot of people uh appreciate the call Earl but that's

01:07:19.960 I mean that's tens of millions of people yeah who are on antidepressants I think it's you know

01:07:25.120 important to look at this you know because I think as a part of this equation there should that be

01:07:30.760 studied I think sure right I mean why wouldn't we look at it well yeah I think all of this stuff

01:07:34.760 needs to except for gun control needs to be studied yeah I think there is a bit of a chicken

01:07:38.900 and the egg situation with antidepressants in that you know you don't get on them unless you're

01:07:45.140 having an issue so the people if the people who have issues and have shooting and commit shootings

01:07:50.060 uh it's not necessarily surprising they would have had psychiatric treatment or uh you are on

01:07:55.660 antidepressants or other drugs we don't know that you know like we don't know that the drug is causing

01:07:59.940 it I mean they went on the drug for a reason right right so it's you know but I mean is it part of the

01:08:04.560 equation to look at I think sure yeah I want to look at especially when you hear the side effects on

01:08:08.280 all these drugs that are advertised wait it's an antidepressant that may cause me to become suicidal

01:08:13.340 isn't that what I'm trying to prevent what wait what I just that's that's why I'm taking your

01:08:22.360 medicine and so I won't be this diet pill may make you move in next to a buffet you may make

01:08:29.040 poor real estate decisions based on buffet location if you ever pay attention to the list of side

01:08:33.980 effects so there's about three benefits that are mentioned at the beginning of the commercial and

01:08:38.140 the other 57 seconds are it may kill you it's true in a lot of different ways

01:08:43.180 many so many of those are like the odds of it happening that's so low but they force these

01:08:48.260 companies to put every single negative outcome in the commercial so it makes the advertisement

01:08:53.000 virtually ineffective it's really strange this might even give me brain tumors and tuberculosis

01:08:59.960 i don't want that uh josh in utah welcome to the glenbeck program 0.95

01:09:04.880 josh you there guys hey yeah go ahead i think one of the biggest things that's the most common thread

01:09:13.580 in all this is the greedia as i call them rather than the media because they're more about ratings

01:09:19.840 and everything else and they want to be the first one out with the first name and everything else

01:09:23.580 but if you look at all the killings that happen the weapon doesn't always stay the same but the media

01:09:30.220 does yeah it's true yeah it's true and you know look the name's gonna get out there there's social

01:09:36.220 media there's the internet i mean it's gonna get out there in some way but there's no reason to feed

01:09:39.520 into it i still think too there's something about there's a difference between you know someone

01:09:44.120 tweeting about your name and someone being on cnn dissecting all of your views for hours and then

01:09:49.840 running documentaries about it no question um you know i think that's part of it but i mean

01:09:53.480 another part of it is just we need to understand the real threats here and i think too much has been

01:09:59.760 uh ignored and luckily we have people like stephen king uh the author uh who can kind of inform us

01:10:07.000 and really hit home with the reality of the situation has he shared more wisdom he has uh now uh rick

01:10:13.660 i don't know if you know rick wilson he's a republican consultant is on media a lot um he's you know he

01:10:19.620 was talking about um about the idea of uh ms 13 being a danger and he said uh you're much more

01:10:28.380 likely to be killed in uh in florida by an opioid overdose than ms 13 uh and he was making a point

01:10:34.620 saying you know hey you know maybe ms 13 shouldn't be our top concern and he's you know kind of a guy

01:10:40.300 who's uh you know he's opposes trump and so it's not necessarily a big surprise that he'd have that

01:10:45.340 viewpoint uh but stephen king took him to task because he tweeted that rick wilson tweeted that

01:10:50.260 before the shooting happened stephen king responded uh again again this is the tweet you're from rick

01:10:58.940 wilson you're a hell of a lot more likely to be killed in florida uh than by an over opioid overdose

01:11:03.900 than ms 13 stephen king's response don't tell that to the parents of the kids who got shot in

01:11:08.220 broward county today sport because stephen king thought ms 13 the gang was a gun he thought it was

01:11:17.000 ar 15 because he's an idiot my gosh oh yeah tell that he thought is unbelievable this is how dumb 0.95

01:11:28.160 well did did the shooter use an ms 13 i don't know no one's even covering that i will say this uh for

01:11:35.120 all the i mean because it's these things are freaking i hate these days i hate talking about

01:11:39.600 this i hate that this keeps happening i hate that our society is sick enough that this continues to 0.61

01:11:45.260 occur but man do mass shootings really bring out the stupid of so many people and and look and that's

01:11:53.600 it's what we've been talking about the whole day pat it really does it brings out the stupid and at

01:11:57.720 some level you can even understand it you're so emotional you're just going to say things that are

01:12:01.420 stupid you're going to say ms 13 is a gun you're that stupid in those moments that's why you don't 0.64

01:12:06.680 make laws in those moments it's not the time to make laws because you're overcome by emotion and

01:12:12.240 you're not making decisions rationally uh so i mean i i guess that comes back to the theme of the day

01:12:17.840 here and we've seen this we have so much you know crazy audio that we can play for you even

01:12:23.380 crazier than the alex jones arguably um and we should get to that we have your phone calls as well

01:12:28.840 at 888-727-BECK but i just you know i can't i can't get past the way people handle these things

01:12:36.880 there is no real desire for someone to solve it they want this gun control bill they want to take

01:12:42.700 away your guns because they've ideologically wanted they know it inflames their base and they've been

01:12:47.600 wanting that forever and they try to use every one of these things to get that through when again

01:12:52.260 even if let's say a quarter of the problem in their minds is on other issues why don't you take

01:12:56.560 those up when you you don't have no control of the republic you don't have control of the senate

01:13:00.760 you don't have control of the house you don't have control of the presidency you know there's

01:13:04.260 opposition on the only thing you ever ask for why not ask for something else why not entertain the

01:13:09.100 idea of of you know armed security guards which has been proposed by many again like would that help

01:13:15.200 i mean obviously it would be harder to shoot up a school if someone was there a trained security

01:13:19.900 agent with a gun now you might not like that in almost every case yeah since what was it 1956

01:13:25.400 these have happened in uh gun-free zones yeah in almost every case it's like 98 or 99 percent of

01:13:32.660 the cases because if unless you're a complete crazy uh person with no you know like uh there have been

01:13:38.360 some uh mass murderers who are just so insane they weren't making rational choices leading up to it

01:13:43.820 but i mean like you know look at uh you know so many of the school shootings it's they just make an

01:13:48.440 easy decision well i know there won't be guns there right i know there won't be guns in that

01:13:52.120 movie theater i know i can walk into any of these places and i know there won't be resistance why

01:13:56.420 would i go they don't happen that often at gun stores people don't go walk into the into uh you

01:14:01.920 know the police department all that often and try to mass shooting generally speaking they go to places

01:14:06.480 where they know they will face zero resistance and that's why these laws i mean we know for a fact

01:14:12.820 this shooter yesterday obviously he brought broke the law for murder but he broke multiple other laws

01:14:19.580 he shouldn't have had the gun in the school it was a gun-free zone he broke tons of other laws and no

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01:15:31.800 glenn beck mercury

01:15:35.820 honestly a lot of people were saying that it was going to be him and stuff like that we actually

01:15:48.200 we threw a lot of kids through jokes around like that saying that he was the one that screwed up

01:15:52.080 the school but it turns out you know everyone predicted it it's it's that's crazy wow he must have come

01:15:57.860 on the campus right yeah he was on the third floor he knows the school layout he knows where everyone

01:16:02.340 would be at as of right now he's been in his own fire drills he's prepared for this stuff

01:16:06.240 i mean the guy there were a lot of warning signs here this is not about the gun there were all

01:16:12.260 kinds of warning signs about this guy and they were all ignored

01:16:17.980 isn't that what we should focus on isn't that what we should talk about how do we help somebody in this

01:16:25.500 situation before they get to this point that's what we should be talking about not how to overturn

01:16:32.460 the second amendment but that'll be the focus that's always the focus 888-727-BECK

01:16:39.500 glenn back mercury

01:16:48.540 love courage truth glenn back today it's pat and stew for glenn who's uh out sick again today

01:17:04.620 uh you can also listen to my show pat gray unleashed uh immediately following this on the

01:17:09.100 blaze radio and tv network where we've been talking about the school shooting of course

01:17:13.980 yesterday in florida yet another one loss of lives of 17 kids at school uh just horrific again and of

01:17:23.700 course and no sooner does it happen than the gun control stuff starts and we just heard from the

01:17:30.680 superintendent of the school system now is the time to discuss common sense gun control now is the

01:17:36.740 time for common sense gun reform there's never a time for that as long as you have the second 0.84

01:17:44.040 amendment there's never a time for that it's a following a constitutional amendment there could be a

01:17:47.240 time for that you're right and look you know there obviously are plenty of gun restrictions in this

01:17:51.620 country and you know certainly more at the state level than there are federally uh you know if there

01:17:58.220 was something that could fall into the context of the constitution somehow that would help uh you

01:18:04.260 know violence obviously everyone would be open to it you know i mean i think you wonder very

01:18:08.940 realistically about a slippery slope type of situation i mean one of the reasons why you need

01:18:15.080 to defend every single gun law is because the second they get the one they're talking about they're

01:18:19.800 going to go for 10 more and then you're going to be defending those and they won't talk about

01:18:23.660 anything you know desensitizing of human life that's really an issue i i don't i don't know if

01:18:31.100 it's a video game situation where you've killed so many things on the on the video game that you

01:18:35.080 now feel like everything is a video game even real life wasn't that the situation they thought or they

01:18:43.240 suspected with one of these killers adam lanza or one of them uh was uh like obsessed with video games

01:18:51.340 and they thought he had maybe been desensitized a little bit to human life uh how about the

01:18:57.580 abortion industry desensitizing us to human life they don't care about 62 million babies being killed

01:19:03.800 couldn't care less and they're teaching that to our children and they're teaching uh to our children

01:19:08.540 just how important that is to them that boy you better not take that from me i you can't take that

01:19:13.600 right from me if i want to if i want to end the life of this baby i can uh we've eliminated god from

01:19:20.440 our lives in our society uh listen to this candidate i believe he's a u.s senate candidate

01:19:28.000 in tennessee uh about thoughts and prayers i just want to pop in and share some fantastic news

01:19:36.480 with everyone uh i was talking to some republican friends and um we were talking about the most recent

01:19:43.680 school shooting in parkland florida that's uh going on right now and the good news is thoughts

01:19:49.400 and prayers stopped the entire shooting right in its tracks and we don't have to worry about guns

01:19:54.240 anymore because we have thoughts and prayers and none of this is ever going to happen again so all

01:19:59.100 those thoughts and prayers they worked uh nobody got injured nobody's going to die and uh in fact when

01:20:05.620 you pray a whole lot about it guns actually just stop working completely you can stop bullets

01:20:11.420 with prayer yeah i know it's crazy that uh that you know i i didn't believe myself it's time to bail

01:20:18.380 the bid isn't working i know you're still trying to make it work it's not happening it's time to bail

01:20:23.520 what a douche i know again this idea that this is their solution shows you know people like to use

01:20:30.260 the phrase why trump won i mean if that that is not a great explanation of it the fact that you're

01:20:36.020 going to come out after a national tragedy and mock people praying for the victim showing compassion

01:20:40.160 you might not think it's going to solve all the problems but the idea that you come out and mock

01:20:44.700 people for praying for victims or if they're atheists sending their thoughts to the families to try to

01:20:51.540 comfort them in a difficult time you're the the idea that you're acting as if that is an enemy

01:20:56.860 tells us a lot about who you are as a person and we saw this all over uh twitter uh media personalities

01:21:05.600 it's just thoughts and prayers are not enough i heard it again this morning we have the cnn

01:21:09.440 uh representative uh ted deutsch i don't know if it's in this clip or not uh he he can we play one

01:21:16.800 of these clips uh this is you know he's on cnn this morning and this is the it's the top 10 arguments

01:21:23.220 just recycled over and over and over again for every one of these things and none of them have worked

01:21:26.980 right like if you're a liberal you've said i want these i want these things to happen you haven't

01:21:31.180 been able to get them happen would at some point would you try thinking about something else here's

01:21:34.560 a representative ted deutsch i don't know how many times i have to ask the question about why we can't

01:21:39.900 stop this do you have any wisdom on this well it's it's not wisdom that we need it's action that we need

01:21:45.900 i just um i appreciate the interview that you just did with the two students and and i um uh as they

01:21:53.760 were leaving i just went to tell them uh how brave i thought they were and and he looked at me and

01:21:59.040 and he said um we want action and that's uh that that's coming from someone who had to endure

01:22:06.120 just unspeakable horror yesterday what happened here just went action in an incredible community

01:22:12.980 full of wonderful people the kids at the school i was at the school just a few weeks ago um these are

01:22:19.600 some of the best kids you'll find anywhere and this is considered it was voted the safest town in florida

01:22:26.280 right and so what all that that shows us is that no one is immune from this kind of from this kind

01:22:32.380 of slaughter and look i i have to tell you for all of the people who have been saying you can't

01:22:38.860 politicize this for the people who have who have gone to attack anyone who said anything about the

01:22:43.440 need to to do something the only people who are politicizing what happened here the loss of life

01:22:49.520 the tragedy that the one of the worst days that anyone here will ever experience are the people

01:22:55.720 who don't want to know right are the people who are looking for any reason to to give congress one

01:23:02.040 more chance to be silent and and you shouldn't have to feel the way i do you shouldn't wait wait

01:23:08.540 nobody's saying we shouldn't do anything right what we're saying is let's do the right thing yeah

01:23:13.180 something that will actually work do the right thing i'm so tired of hearing we got to do something

01:23:18.060 do the right thing yeah and you notice and this happened over and over and over again as i was

01:23:23.640 listening to the news over the past 24 hours they didn't say anything about gun control there

01:23:28.500 it's always this this nebulous call to action about something because they know the american people don't

01:23:36.660 want this to happen to law-abiding citizens and that's who it would affect obviously there's 300

01:23:42.440 million guns in this country if you want a gun to go shoot up a place you're too late and you're

01:23:48.040 too late to restrict them it's it's very easy to get them unless you're gonna now come to door to

01:23:53.020 door and take them away from people and that's not is that what you're proposing yeah you don't

01:23:57.000 want to try that that won't work out well uh can we listen to don lemon from last night oh geez we

01:24:01.980 like don lemon don you know said uh glenn on the show many times and i would say that this is just a

01:24:06.400 very this is very typical of of the coverage last night this exasperated how can this be happening

01:24:12.640 again um uh emotional plea to the to the audience to uh to adopt you know gun control his point of

01:24:22.100 view right and so again you didn't you we didn't hear in that last clip him say well what we want

01:24:27.360 or x y or z when it comes to gun control it's just they just keep saying we need action and the only

01:24:32.420 action they'll accept obviously is gun control here's uh don lemon uh talking about playing the

01:24:38.200 odds in our society there's another fact that we need to face every single one of us is just playing

01:24:44.140 the odds at this point the odds that in a country of 325 million souls that we won't be the ones who

01:24:51.400 get hit by the next bullets that start flying stop for a second here of course we are i mean of course

01:25:01.080 we are we're also playing the odds that when we commute to work we won't be killed in the accident

01:25:05.840 we're the people we we're hope we're playing the odds that our smoke detector doesn't go out the

01:25:11.660 same time a fire starts we're all playing the odds every single day that is exactly what we're all

01:25:16.980 doing and you know what that should be not discomforting comforting because the odds of

01:25:21.660 you getting involved in one of these situations are so impossibly low that you can actually find

01:25:28.100 legitimate comfort if you understand probability that this is never going to happen to you most

01:25:33.320 likely and that doesn't give comfort to the person who's just been involved in something like this

01:25:36.740 but like think about think about it this way worst mass shooting in our history las vegas

01:25:41.900 worst mass shooting i think it was 58 people killed in the las vegas shooting you could have been

01:25:49.740 anywhere else in the in america other than las vegas obviously but if you were in las vegas you could

01:25:55.100 have been anywhere else but at that concert you could have been in the building where the bullets were

01:25:59.140 coming from and had no risk of being caught in this shooting with the exception of the the security

01:26:04.400 guard now think about this you went to vegas and you went to that concert of the people who were at

01:26:11.660 the concert 99.8 of them survived like i am not saying that that is a justification to be like oh we

01:26:19.360 should never care about mass murderers again but i wish we could get to a place where people understood

01:26:25.040 that you know the odds are actually really comforting yes if you're gonna talk odds yeah

01:26:28.940 the odds are great yeah you're good you're probably never gonna have to do thank god you're probably

01:26:34.480 never gonna have to deal with this and remember how uh commonly this point was made when it came to

01:26:40.640 terrorism when back in the day when we were saying hey we gotta take islamic extremism seriously 0.73

01:26:45.300 and they'd say there's better chance of you being killed back in your car to work than being killed

01:26:49.720 by a terrorist an argument to never take uh this seriously they constantly were berating us with

01:26:56.380 those things and in reality it is a comforting truth that most likely you will end your life for

01:27:03.020 something a lot more boring than a terrorist attack thank god that most people will die of

01:27:08.180 something that's a lot less interesting that is something though in our society and you know what

01:27:13.300 it is it's a function of a free society it is at some level the price we pay that some maniac that

01:27:21.780 we don't know and has never seen us before can do something to harm us that is part of our

01:27:26.720 construction of our society you know maybe you don't need to deal with that in north korea maybe 1.00

01:27:31.000 only kim jong-un makes those decisions in north korea and you don't have to deal with it i don't know

01:27:34.300 i feel like the trade-off is okay now that that does not mean that we don't do every single thing that

01:27:38.920 we can to stop these terrible incidents from terrorist attacks to things uh like this mass

01:27:44.780 shooting which i would also clarify you know classify possibly as a terrorist attack depending

01:27:49.460 on his motivation still though it's it is part of it and and and we all have to deal with it we deal

01:27:55.240 with it every single day are we going to be the one uh example when we go into a basic surgery where

01:28:00.520 the doctor screws up are we playing the odds there yeah we're playing the odds there we're playing the

01:28:05.320 odds every single day you drive down the street there is a there are two yellow lines that separate

01:28:12.240 you from a car careening at you at 55 miles an hour depending on the road we all trust and play

01:28:18.520 the odds that that person driving at you isn't the one idiot who decides they're going to smash the car 0.75

01:28:23.200 into you head on for no reason every day we do this and we trust people it's something that you

01:28:27.400 should probably realize with life and it's why we make the point all the time when it comes to faith

01:28:32.060 and and your morals and the way you live your life get it in order because you don't know when that

01:28:37.160 last day is coming you are playing the odds every single day so you know that part it just drives me

01:28:42.780 freaking crazy because people act as if that's i mean i think john mayor made the same point and don

01:28:47.500 should probably consider just making the same points as don mayor that maybe they're not the best

01:28:51.040 points but we go on with a more john don lemon don't be the one that gets that that phone call

01:28:56.820 about someone you love who did your son your daughter your brother your sister your spouse

01:29:05.460 or your parent even a friend anyone you know the phone call that changes your life but with every

01:29:13.520 deadly shooting in this country the odds get worse and worse and worse are you really willing to keep

01:29:20.060 playing those odds your life is too precious for that the lives of our loved ones are too precious the

01:29:26.280 lives of the people in our cities and towns are too precious have we forgotten that life is a gift

01:29:31.660 it's a disgrace that this is still happening after sandy hook columbine virginia tech emmanuel ame church

01:29:41.440 pulse nightclub shooting las vegas the list goes on and on and on this is who we are right now

01:29:49.260 but is this really who we want to be a country where anybody at any time could be shot to death

01:29:57.060 and then when a bunch of people are killed and lives are shattered we are sad and maybe angry and

01:30:03.560 then we forget and we move on until the next time with the tragedy remaining in the headlines

01:30:08.720 for even a shorter time than it did before so just forget politics here this is about lives the lives

01:30:18.620 of all americans we need to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people everyone agrees with that

01:30:24.220 people who oppose gun control will say today is not the day to talk about it and you know what they

01:30:29.840 are absolutely right because the day to talk about it was weeks months years or decades ago and yes of

01:30:36.500 course we also need to make mental health a priority in this country but guess what we can do both we

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01:31:06.140 any gun law would stop him he violated several gun laws the way he used his gun it's just it's just

01:31:12.720 irritating by the way we should talk about president trump is supposed to make a statement it's 0.55

01:31:16.320 interesting that uh right before the statement has come out it appears that steve mnuchin the

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01:33:06.800 glenn beck mercury

01:33:10.760 glenn beck president trump is now addressing the nation on the school shooting let's listen

01:33:26.580 and we heard for the entire community of parkland florida that is now in shock and pain and searching

01:33:36.140 for answers to law enforcement first responders and teachers who responded so bravely in the face of

01:33:44.440 danger we thank you for your courage soon after the shooter i spoke with governor scott to convey our

01:33:54.220 deepest sympathies to the people of florida and our determination to assist in any way that we can

01:34:03.580 i also spoke with florida attorney general pam bondy and broward county sheriff scott israel

01:34:13.340 i'm making plans to visit parkland to meet with families and local officials and to continue coordinating

01:34:21.980 the federal response in these moments of heartache and darkness

01:34:27.360 we hold on to god's word in scripture i have heard your prayer and seen your tears i will heal you

01:34:37.840 we trust in that promise and we hold fast to our fellow americans in their time of sorrow

01:34:45.520 i want to speak now directly to america's children especially those who feel lost alone confused

01:34:53.360 or even scared i want you to know that you are never alone and you never will be

01:35:01.600 you have people who care about you who love you and who will do anything at all to protect you

01:35:12.080 if you need help turn to a teacher a family member a local police officer or a faith leader

01:35:21.400 answer hate with love answer cruelty with kindness we must also work together to create

01:35:30.400 a culture in our country that embraces the dignity of life that creates deep and meaningful

01:35:38.080 human connections and human connections and that turns classmates and colleagues into friends and

01:35:44.800 neighbors our administration is working closely with local authorities to investigate the shooting

01:35:52.400 and learn everything we can we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure

01:35:59.760 our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health later this month i will be meeting

01:36:08.240 with the nation's governors and attorney generals we're making our schools and our children safer will be

01:36:16.080 our top priority it is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference

01:36:24.960 we must actually make that difference in times of tragedy the bonds that sustain us are those of family faith

01:36:36.880 community and country these bonds are stronger than the forces of hatred and evil and these bonds grow

01:36:45.600 even stronger in the hours of our greatest need and so always but especially today let us hold our loved

01:36:57.360 ones close let us pray for healing and for peace president trump on the tragedy in florida yesterday more

01:37:04.960 to come on the glenbeck program with the tears glen back mercury

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01:38:18.960 this is the glenn beck program with pat and stew and uh jeffy joins us as well uh rick scott

01:38:29.680 has made the statement we want to make sure this never happens again here's a problem you can't

01:38:35.840 you can't make sure it never happens again no matter what you do no matter what you do right

01:38:40.160 well they took they took we can't safety wrap our society i'd love to i wish we could but we can't

01:38:46.400 yeah you got to take the steps you can obviously but you cannot guarantee it's not going to happen

01:38:51.680 again no matter what you do you can take every single gum from every single person and you can't

01:38:56.560 guarantee it's never going to happen again well i mean there's going to be sticks and rocks and

01:39:01.440 knives and and they'll also find guns and get them illegally i mean the worst mass shooting in

01:39:06.880 history was not in america it was in norway norway i mean i you know it's and it was where

01:39:11.520 is that possible what's the deal guns are banned there yeah like how did that happen yeah what

01:39:16.240 yeah stunningly yeah that still happened uh so i mean that's the worst mass shooting i i should say

01:39:22.060 it's the worst mass shooting by some crazy person in the context we're talking about all of the really

01:39:25.940 bad mass shootings came from governments uh just so you're aware uh hundreds of millions of people

01:39:32.360 have been killed in that way yeah about those but we those aren't mass shootings we let's not talk

01:39:36.660 about those uh there was a one of the students at parkland high school uh was asked about gun

01:39:41.020 control on msnbc here's how he responded i had two classes with him back sophomore year

01:39:45.760 i never really associated with him or talked to him until one day i got paired to do a project with

01:39:50.440 him and he just started talking to me he was telling me about how they got expelled from two

01:39:54.940 different private schools he was held back twice he had aspirations to join in the military and he

01:40:00.220 enjoyed hunting so what was your reaction when you heard that it was him

01:40:03.980 i wasn't surprised but it was kind of unfortunate to hear how if you were a lawmaker an adult in a in a

01:40:14.440 decision-making uh position how would you stop do you think the kind of thing that happened today a kid

01:40:20.940 who'd been thrown out comes back with a weapon and takes out whatever grievance he's been walking

01:40:26.620 around with in his head gun wise i don't think there's any way to prevent it you outlaw guns

01:40:32.460 just creates higher demand for it i think it has to do with mental health though oh not what he was

01:40:38.160 looking for three different times in three different schools i think he should be helped out

01:40:43.420 wow yeah that was a surprise yeah uh nbc news right there wait what you guys didn't tell me he was

01:40:54.160 going to say that what he didn't go along with our gun control uh thought that's what we were talking

01:41:00.520 to jeez was there anything i mean that surprised you jeffy watching this coverage surprised i don't

01:41:06.880 know about surprise i mean he had all the markers you know everybody that talked just like this student

01:41:11.160 who knew him or had crossed his path knew that he was he was he was crazy eyed you know he was a he

01:41:17.300 was an issue and they tried to take some steps to in fact they banned him from the campus yeah when he

01:41:23.400 was carrying a backpack i mean it was just you know no backpacks at the school they banned him from

01:41:29.220 campus he was kicked out of school every student said you know they threw up the the markers have bad

01:41:35.580 crazy people still act right i heard i heard some so apparently he came back with guns instead of a

01:41:40.860 backpack then what do you do right too bad there's not a i don't know an armed security guard on

01:41:45.800 campus well i believe they have security i think they did actually actually have uh armed police

01:41:49.880 officers who are uh show up and i don't think they're there all day but the police officers from

01:41:55.480 parkland uh come to uh the school more than once a day like they come in the morning a couple of

01:42:01.860 police officers and then they make frequent rounds and come in the afternoon so while they're not

01:42:06.860 there all the entire day they are present let's be honest about it a as someone who thinks that

01:42:13.340 that's an interesting thing to talk about as far as you know having advanced security i know i you

01:42:18.240 know i wanted in my kid's school you know um but it's not going to stop everyone either i mean it

01:42:23.140 probably means that kid goes after the security guard hopefully that delays him enough for more kids

01:42:27.940 to escape hopefully the security guard sees him coming and is able to win the battle like but it

01:42:32.500 doesn't guarantee there's no more shooting the students did have some uh so a little bit of

01:42:36.920 training on what to do if there was a problem i mean i heard an interview with one girl that said

01:42:40.840 we'd gone through this you know before and had some uh some kind of training about uh shooting if

01:42:46.360 there was a shooting maybe save some lives absolutely i mean when you think how how horrific

01:42:50.840 it is that right now we have 17 that have died right possible more that are in critical condition

01:42:56.640 five or six more when you think how horrible that is i mean it's a miracle that it's not more

01:43:03.760 yeah the way he went into the school with the fire alarm he smokes i mean yeah it's just a miracle

01:43:09.240 that more aren't i heard one interview with a kid who was in one of the rooms and uh he said they heard

01:43:15.200 the first gunshot and didn't know what it was thought maybe it was you know fire you know you always

01:43:19.340 hear the same thing like i thought it was fireworks or whatever um and then then they heard the fire

01:43:24.540 drill thing go off and they came out so they'd actually heard the and we don't know yet if he

01:43:29.200 pulled it this particular class uh yeah so told her yeah because people walked out and into the

01:43:33.860 hallways and then they were sort of sitting ducks at that point right um the one girl some of them

01:43:37.800 ran to the shooting not knowing which way it was coming from they were trying to escape it ran the

01:43:41.380 wrong way and i guess people turned them around luckily well the one girl uh that was interviewed 0.94

01:43:46.320 talked about how her teacher got shot by actually saving them uh you know they had heard the fire alarm

01:43:52.020 when it was the second one of the day yeah and then it shut off and they were like they stopped

01:43:58.280 they were on the stairwell and they stopped and then they heard gunfire and the teacher was like

01:44:02.700 back to the room now yeah and they went into they all huddled into the room and the teacher was

01:44:09.240 trying to attempting to close and lock the door when he got shot yeah it seems like there was a couple

01:44:14.040 teachers who were really heroic including one of the football coaches and right yeah and so the

01:44:18.900 students said that then they were huddled in the room you know just scared out of their minds and

01:44:24.820 they heard uh crews go by and uh i mean there's an example of miracle i mean that's they literally

01:44:32.240 were sitting targets yeah i mean and look you know it's just you hope that you're not in this

01:44:38.700 situation and you do everything that you can to prevent it obviously there's over a hundred thousand

01:44:42.880 schools in the country i mean i don't know how you're going to you know i don't know how you're

01:44:47.440 going to do it i mean we talked about the list of 18 school shootings that have happened legitimately

01:44:50.640 there's been two this year not 18 i mean two as you would think of as a mass shooting event

01:44:55.060 and one three people died here this one obviously 17 people died uh but i mean with a hundred thousand

01:45:01.920 schools it's going to be there's we all know there's no way to prevent these things there's no way

01:45:08.220 we even saw this i mean we've seen mass stabbing attacks well in other countries that don't have

01:45:13.200 guns we've seen massive explosions you know go through europe and all the islamic extremism that 1.00

01:45:18.740 has happened there and those attacks just because they're terrorism doesn't mean that those attacks

01:45:22.660 don't count everyone's like oh this never happens in other countries i don't know uh think about going

01:45:27.120 to a concert in europe and tell me if those things don't happen so think about going to a street fair

01:45:31.380 in europe and tell me those things don't happen just because they're using a car or sometimes they

01:45:35.140 are guns uh they they do happen uh i mean and you can't deny it here's how you stop all school

01:45:41.180 shootings homeschool everybody homeschool i gotta tell you everybody home i gotta tell you what

01:45:46.600 between the time i left uh here yesterday and got home the shooting was in progress and i was never

01:45:53.740 so happy as to have my children watching the coverage at the house yeah yeah yeah i was oh thank

01:46:00.040 you it's it's you know it's it's hard i i think you still again look at this and you say the odds of

01:46:05.240 the situation are like your kids are probably relatively safe at school it's probably more safe at school

01:46:10.100 than they are at the local you know walmart or uh driving to certainly driving down the highway

01:46:14.940 right um but i mean i understand this another interesting part of this i thought was uh that

01:46:20.260 the the shooter what happens at the end of these shootings number one they shoot themselves in the

01:46:25.540 head yeah they go number two the police shoot them in the head those are the two options in these

01:46:29.800 shootings so this guy's in custody which is very strange sure and the reason why it seems like he's

01:46:34.060 in custody is he attempted the quick change escape yes he did uh which i don't know if i've ever

01:46:39.140 actually seen if you don't know quick change it was a movie with bill murray and gina davis right

01:46:44.000 um isn't she in it yeah it was gina davis from back in the late 80s early 90s a long time ago and

01:46:49.960 a i freaking love that movie if you've never seen it it's a it's an all-time classic but i think you

01:46:53.820 love that movie because you were too young to know better i've watched it recently i i it's a

01:46:58.220 it is a a plain classic for me you have those movies that are plain it stands i i kind of

01:47:04.400 download it and keep it on every device in case i'm bored and i can just watch 20 minutes of a

01:47:07.860 movie it stands up because you realize you just have to get past the fact that there's no technology

01:47:12.320 yes no look there's it's very strange because they you'd think today would be a lot harder to

01:47:18.320 pull this one off but what the guy in quick change bill murray dresses up as a clown and he dresses

01:47:22.840 up as a clown and he goes in and robs a bank and of course obviously he gets surrounded

01:47:26.820 they're in the middle of new york city and his way of getting out is he changes from the

01:47:31.900 spoiler alert he's changed he changes from this happens in the first 15 minutes of the movie so

01:47:37.100 it's probably okay and it was 1989 um but he changes his clown costume and he puts on normal

01:47:42.340 person clothes and when he keeps talking to the the hostage negotiator he says you know what i'm

01:47:47.220 going to release three hostages and when he leaves he leaves as one of the hostages so he leaves

01:47:53.160 and it comes out smart it's a brilliant plan so apparently what happened here um either he was

01:47:58.380 watching quick change or came up with the idea on the fly instead of killing himself or being shot

01:48:01.680 by police he put down i guess put down his guns or whatever and walked out as part of the evacuating

01:48:07.520 student body so he walked out as one of the students and apparently took them an hour to capture him

01:48:13.920 wow it almost seemingly worked i will say that the i would some of the footage i saw of the swat teams

01:48:19.980 and the police officers uh coming into the school and and clearing the school those gentlemen earned

01:48:25.920 their pay uh yesterday uh they came in and i mean talk about they didn't know where the student was

01:48:31.100 they didn't know who was firing they didn't know where the shots were coming from you watch them go

01:48:34.920 into the classrooms and have all the kids you know raise their hands and put down their devices and

01:48:39.340 shut their phones off and get them out of the school and clear the school i mean that's a that's a

01:48:44.160 tough job i was really i mean think about just think about the moments after a shooting like this you

01:48:49.280 have this mass shooting people are i mean god the horrific imagery you're witnessing as you're

01:48:55.240 walking through these hallways but you don't know if there's another right in a closet you don't know

01:49:00.200 if someone's going to pop out from behind a door especially since in almost every case we're told at

01:49:05.260 the beginning they think there's another shooter there's another always where every time you don't

01:49:10.180 know if he planted a bomb somewhere inside the school when you open up a door something's going to

01:49:14.500 go off you have no idea what you're about to face and these guys do this every time and you know the

01:49:19.960 fact is they think about what we just went through in the last year where police officers were vilified

01:49:25.780 by so many take nfl players taking a knee on the field to show how bad these people are and it takes

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01:49:52.200 thanks jeffy i appreciate you joining us and it's always oh i almost believe that almost a great it's

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01:51:27.980 triple eight seven two seven beck uh so so far 17 people uh killed yesterday in this uh shooting

01:51:37.400 of another another troubled kid a 19 year old who obviously had serious mental issues

01:51:43.560 uh the school had uh kicked him out of school they'd taken some precautions by keeping him off

01:51:49.820 campus with i guess if he showed up with a backpack he was not allowed to be there

01:51:54.120 um it shouldn't have been there really for any reason if you got kicked out of school right

01:51:59.260 yeah um you will be hearing this 18 school shootings stat quite a bit you'll see it at

01:52:04.120 the bottom of tv screens on cable news 18 school shooting this year just this year should we go

01:52:08.400 on through one more one run through this if you happen to miss this earlier uh and i've posted it

01:52:12.120 on twitter at world of stew if you want to go through it and share it um here are the actual

01:52:16.280 number of school shootings we know the one yesterday that's one there was another one that i would say

01:52:20.120 fits the same profile of what you would think of as a school shooting a mass school

01:52:23.840 shooting uh january 23rd benton kentucky two people were killed another 15 shot at marshall

01:52:28.960 county high school here are the rest of the 16 um a fight broke out at a pennsylvania high school

01:52:34.200 one 32 year old man was shot and later died a football player was shot and killed those are

01:52:39.460 the uh the places where people were killed um in an aggressive manner uh twice uh people shot

01:52:45.820 themselves on school grounds one incident featured a man shooting himself in a former high school

01:52:49.640 parking lot okay that's a suicide that's a suicide different thing a teen killed himself in an

01:52:53.740 arizona elementary school bathroom another uh suicide uh then you have uh a um january 4th

01:53:02.080 gunshot fired at a school in seattle through an office window no one was hurt shots fired

01:53:06.180 shattering a california state university classroom window no one was hurt uh texas in texas a bullet

01:53:11.920 was accidentally fired through a classroom wall at grayson college criminal justice center no one was

01:53:17.140 hurt january 15th a bullet traveled through a residential hall dorm room no one was hurt on january 25th

01:53:22.860 a high school student fired a gun on campus no one was hurt on january 26th shots were fired from

01:53:27.760 a car parking lot no one was hurt on february 5th in minnesota a third grader pulled the trigger on a

01:53:33.440 cop's gun no one was hurt on february 8th in new york a shot was fired inside a metropolitan high

01:53:39.600 school no one was hurt there are four more that resulted in an injury um but again would you hear

01:53:49.640 this see there's a teenage girl wounded in shots from a semi-automatic hot handgun 14 year old boy

01:53:54.360 was injured in a shooting five children were injured in an accidental shooting a teenager was

01:53:58.900 shot and injured outside of a high school so i would say one other one of the 18 shootings

01:54:03.640 there have been two there's two that have would fit this profile though one of them two people were

01:54:09.260 killed which is obviously terrible um but not you know the scale of these incidents i think they're

01:54:14.440 trying to communicate to you hey these things happen all the time they happen so often that you don't

01:54:18.200 even notice about notice them but is anyone against a cop having a gun inside of school

01:54:23.060 if a third grader pulls the trigger accidentally and no one was hurt is that a national incident

01:54:27.560 no no i don't think so and they're inflating these numbers intentionally to make you believe

01:54:32.480 that this is such a widespread problem and it is a horrible horrible problem though again

01:54:38.520 violence rate from guns is down by about half and so and that's including these school shootings

01:54:46.080 that have happened and other mass shootings that have happened around the country uh so it's not a

01:54:51.560 problem with gun violence it's a problem with these particular incidents and it would be great to figure

01:54:56.220 out a way to try to to to curtail them but it is not limiting uh you know uh gun use for citizens that

01:55:05.140 that are that obey the law it's not gonna it's not gonna work and that's a big problem it's also not

01:55:09.640 legal and that's all they're trying to do though that's all they're trying to care about

01:55:13.340 is enact gun control glenn beck mercury

The Glenn Beck Program - February 15, 2018

'The Culture of Death' - 2⧸15⧸18

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