The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 960 - Our Kids Need Fathers, Not 'Gun Control'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a common thread linking the mass shooting in Texas to

00:00:03.900 so many other mass shootings and much of the crime and violence in our society that is

00:00:07.260 fatherlessness. This is the aspect of the problem the media doesn't want to talk about, but we will

00:00:11.280 today. Also, reports now suggest that the cops on the scene at the shooting took upwards of 90

00:00:15.600 minutes to neutralize the shooter. How could that have happened? And does this disprove the good guy

00:00:20.480 with a gun concept, as the left is claiming? Of course not. I'll explain. Plus, Barack Obama puts

00:00:24.720 out what may be the worst tweet of the decade. Beto makes an ass of himself once again. Evergreen 0.99

00:00:29.600 headline there. Another teacher records herself grooming her students and her daily cancellation.

00:00:33.740 Is it true that we're the only country where these kinds of mass shootings happen?

00:00:37.360 We'll deal with that false narrative today and much more on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.700 Details are emerging, as the media likes to put it, about the mass shooter who slaughtered 21 people,

00:02:05.660 including 19 children, at an elementary school in Texas. You don't need to read these details

00:02:10.920 because they're entirely predictable. In fact, I did predict them. I accurately predicted his whole

00:02:16.080 life story, basically, yesterday on this show before having read these reports. Not because I'm

00:02:21.100 Nostradamus. These are, you know, there are certain things we all always assume about these

00:02:27.060 shooters, and we're almost always right, all of us. The patterns are so clear that even the least

00:02:33.440 perceptive among us can't help but notice them, even if some of those in the least perceptive group,

00:02:39.540 including much of the news media, which certainly falls into that group, would prefer that we don't

00:02:43.400 notice them. According to his family and those who knew him, we're told that the shooter was a loner,

00:02:48.720 didn't have many friends, spent, it would seem, most of his time alone, online, staring at various

00:02:54.760 screens, had a history of bizarre, disturbing behavior. He once came to school with self-inflicted

00:03:00.000 cuts all over his face. And of course, the most inevitable detail of all, he did not have a father

00:03:07.320 in the home. His home life was not stable. He lived, apparently, with his mom. In fact,

00:03:13.220 some of the information about his personal life is coming from the mother's boyfriend,

00:03:17.080 not the shooter's father. Not much is known about the father, except that he lives somewhere else in

00:03:22.580 the neighborhood, and he has a criminal record. So does the mother, another revelation that surprises

00:03:27.940 nobody. Shortly before the shooting, he moved out of his mom's house. Cops were called. There's all

00:03:34.220 kinds of domestic things going on. Moves in with his grandmother, and his grandmother was the first

00:03:38.520 person he shot on the day of his bloody rampage. Unstable home life, no father in the home, mass

00:03:46.160 shooter. This is not a unique combination. A huge and disproportionate number of mass shooters come from

00:03:55.860 fatherless homes. Now, it's not an airtight rule, of course. Sometimes boys raised in homes with both a mom

00:04:02.000 and a dad will still lash out in the most violent ways imaginable, as was the case, I believe, with

00:04:07.820 the shooter in Buffalo. I think he had both a mother and father in the home. But those are really the

00:04:12.240 exceptions. And even in those cases, the father may have been present physically. That doesn't mean he

00:04:16.740 was present in any of the ways that really matter. Now, there's no way to really know how many mass

00:04:21.200 shooters come from homes with fathers who were present physically and actively invested in their

00:04:27.560 children's lives because that's not the same thing, necessarily. Now, you can't quantify that. It

00:04:34.120 doesn't lend itself to bar graphs. But there's every reason to assume that the number is very small,

00:04:38.700 if not zero. I mean, the number of mass shooters that come from homes where the father is there and

00:04:43.440 actively engaged and invested in his children's lives. What's the number? How many homes like that

00:04:51.120 have produced a mass shooter? I think we have every reason to assume that it's very, very small.

00:04:59.080 And the problem runs much deeper. Mass shooting statistics are just the tip of the iceberg,

00:05:03.340 of course. Over 60% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. Over 80% of youths in prison are

00:05:09.480 from fatherless homes. 70% of high school dropouts are from fatherless homes. 70% of kids in drug abuse

00:05:15.040 treatment centers are from fatherless homes. Almost all of the gun violence in our cities, almost all

00:05:21.400 of it is committed by young males who were raised without fathers. And we know that because the

00:05:26.280 fatherless home rate in those communities often runs upwards of 80% or higher. The fatherless home

00:05:33.580 epidemic is a verified, legitimate national emergency and should be treated as such.

00:05:39.200 Now, the fatherless factor is just one part of the equation. The other part is that nearly all of

00:05:46.420 the kids who fall into these statistics are boys. You know, pretty much every mass shooter in American

00:05:52.140 history, with rare exception, has been a male. 93% of the inmates in federal prison are men. 90% of

00:05:59.540 murders are committed by men. The majority of rapists and child molesters are male. Again, not all, 0.98

00:06:03.940 but the majority. Men are three times more likely to kill themselves. Much more likely to drop out of

00:06:12.080 school. Much more likely to end up homeless. Much more likely to end up abusing drugs. Now, our culture

00:06:18.080 looks at the picture as I painted it and, well, they conclude that masculinity is toxic, right? A blight on

00:06:25.900 the earth. And the culture then proceeds to try to fix the boy problem the way you fix like a dog. 0.66

00:06:32.280 It sees that boys are inclined to be aggressive, so the culture wants to force them to be mild.

00:06:39.860 It sees that boys are likely to take dangerous risks, so it encourages boys to take no risks at all.

00:06:45.420 It sees that boys are wild, you know, so it tames them. It sees that boys are boys, and so it tries to

00:06:54.000 turn them into girls, literally. And that strategy has been a disaster. As we work to try to sort of 0.96

00:07:01.980 neuter and feminize boys, all of the problems listed above have only gotten worse.

00:07:08.840 So what can we do about it? The solution brings us back to the beginning. Fathers. Boys need to be

00:07:15.220 taught how to be boys, and they need fathers to teach them that. A mother can't really teach her son 1.00

00:07:22.260 how to be a man any more than I can teach my daughter how to be a woman. I can teach her how a 0.94

00:07:27.060 woman ought to be treated, and that's a very important lesson that fathers can provide to 0.77

00:07:31.120 their daughters. But I can't shape her in her femininity the way that my wife can. Likewise, 0.96

00:07:38.340 my wife cannot form and harness our son's masculinity the way that I can. And neither can we, of course,

00:07:45.440 rely on TV or pop culture or the schools, media, the government, any of those institutions to do the

00:07:51.400 job. They're not going to mold my son. They're just going to simply obliterate him. Or at best,

00:07:59.380 they're going to give him this kind of confused cartoon version of what a man is, which is why

00:08:03.860 when you look around at society, you see a bunch of cartoon men walking around. Not so much masculine

00:08:12.140 as like imitating what they think masculinity is supposed to be. So everywhere a boy turns,

00:08:18.980 if he can't turn to his father, he will find powerful forces trying to drag him into self-loathing,

00:08:26.060 despair, confusion. Now, you know, you hear from feminists all the time that say that masculinity 1.00

00:08:31.760 is fragile. And they're sort of right, actually, because a boy's identity is, in a way, a fragile

00:08:40.480 thing. The same is true of girls. You know, children are, in a lot of ways, fragile.

00:08:49.600 And we often hear how kids are very resilient. And in certain respects, they are. Like a kid can

00:08:55.120 take a tumble from six feet high and just get up and hop up and be perfectly fine. Whereas, you know,

00:09:01.320 if it were me, I would be laying in bed for the next five and a half weeks.

00:09:04.180 But emotionally and psychologically, they're not resilient, actually. It's just that a lot

00:09:11.360 of times the harm that's done to them, you can't see it manifest right away. So you assume that

00:09:14.740 they're fine, but they're not. Children need to be formed in their identity. They need to be

00:09:22.860 protected. Or they'll be consumed by all these evil forces out there. So a boy needs someone,

00:09:30.700 his father, namely, to show him what to do, how to maneuver in the world, how to harness his

00:09:35.960 masculine energy, how to be a boy, how to be a man. Or else he'll figure it out on his own,

00:09:40.820 finding no help anywhere else. And the result may literally kill him. And dozens more, perhaps.

00:09:47.300 Now, it should be clear to anybody listening, if they're listening honestly, so that's not going

00:09:52.240 to count like media matters. But if you're listening honestly, it should be clear that the point here

00:09:56.680 is not to make excuses for young men who do horrible things. Okay? The point is to figure

00:10:04.000 out how to produce fewer young men who do horrible things. That should be our objective. And if we all

00:10:13.460 agree that more young men these days seem to be doing horrible things, that that would mean that 0.78

00:10:18.840 this is not inevitable. It doesn't need to be this way. Something can be done to reverse the trend.

00:10:23.940 And it's got to go way beyond changing, you know, it goes way beyond anything that like a simple

00:10:33.440 policy can fix. And it's got nothing to do with gun control. Because even if we were to pretend

00:10:41.160 that you could make a change to gun control laws, that would actually prevent every potentially bad

00:10:49.740 person from getting their hands on a gun, which you can't. But I'm just saying,

00:10:53.220 for the sake of argument, hypothetically, if you could, make a change. And so it's going to make

00:10:58.160 it that all these horrible young men can't get their hands on guns. Okay, well, we still have all

00:11:04.300 these horrible people, though, don't we? That's still a big problem. And there's still a danger

00:11:10.220 to society. Even if you were able to remove one of the potential tools they could use to inflict

00:11:19.180 damage. One of the potential weapons, can't remove them all. And we're still stuck in a

00:11:25.240 society with these kinds of people. So the real question is how to produce fewer of them.

00:11:29.940 Not how to produce fewer men or fewer boys generally, but fewer of these types of people.

00:11:40.320 And this is what we can do. Have fathers in the home, raising their sons. We can and should do

00:11:46.860 other things too, but it should start with getting fathers back in the home and keeping them there.

00:11:51.720 Fathers and mothers both play an integral role in the spiritual and emotional formation of a child.

00:11:56.660 You take one or both away, and there's a chance that the child becomes emotionally and spiritually

00:12:02.620 deformed. Not just a chance, a very good chance. This is a very simple formula. There's no disputing 0.99

00:12:08.100 it, just ignoring it. And oftentimes in our society, we do choose to ignore it. And I think for a few

00:12:14.120 reasons. For one thing, the left-wing cultural narrative requires us to deny the distinction between

00:12:19.380 men and women, which means denying the distinction between mothers and fathers. According to

00:12:23.560 progressivism, the nuclear biological family is but one type of arrangement, one variant, which is

00:12:30.620 equal in every way to families with one mom or two moms or three dads or whatever. And none can be

00:12:37.040 judged more ideal than the others. Even though progressives obsess over organic milk and free-range

00:12:42.220 chickens, they pretend that the natural organic family, the family as it was meant to be, as it naturally

00:12:46.720 is in no way superior to the modified versions. But to connect violence to broken homes is to admit

00:12:55.700 that kids benefit from having mom and dad in the same house, which is why they don't want to admit

00:13:00.420 that. Progressives can make no such a mission. So they continue blaming bad things on inanimate

00:13:08.060 objects rather than fatherlessness and divorce. But for another thing beyond ideology, I think we ignore

00:13:14.400 the family's role in all this because it hits literally too close to home for a lot of us.

00:13:19.460 Some single mothers bizarrely see a discussion about fatherhood as an attack on them, for example. 0.85

00:13:26.160 Anytime this conversation comes up, you'll often hear from single mothers say,

00:13:28.640 what are you saying? That my son's automatically become a mass shooter? No, that's not what we're

00:13:33.480 saying. What we're saying is that the situation you're in, and it might not be your fault if you're a

00:13:43.580 single mother. I mean, it might also be your fault or might partially be your fault. A lot of times it's

00:13:48.140 a 50-50 kind of situation, but every situation is different. There's plenty of single mothers. It's 1.00

00:13:54.740 not their fault. The father walked out on them. Not their fault. Father died. Father's in prison. Not

00:14:01.160 your fault. Yet the point is, it's not an ideal situation. Like you would, I hope, admit that it'd be

00:14:07.620 better if there was an active, involved, good father in the home. You'd think we could all admit

00:14:16.620 that, but apparently we can't. People don't like talking about the problems with the way modern

00:14:22.540 families are often structured because often it means that they're looking critically at their own

00:14:27.420 family structure. And nobody wants to do that. But no matter how much we ignore it, the recipe remains

00:14:36.040 the same. Okay? You start with a boy, take away his father, or his father takes himself out of the

00:14:44.500 equation. This is often the case. You sit him in front of a screen all day. You feed him an endless

00:14:51.320 stream of content. You feed him porn. Give him no moral formation. No guidance. No companionship. 0.99

00:15:02.540 No role models. No mentorship. And then when he starts acting weird, you give him drugs.

00:15:10.660 Keep him isolated. Add a few years into it, and that's how you make a school shooter.

00:15:16.240 That's how you make so many terrible things. We have to understand this recipe.

00:15:23.900 Because if we understand it and acknowledge it and confront it,

00:15:26.780 then we will know the solution. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:15:38.940 Well, you know, I don't do birthday shoutouts on this show, but I'll make an exception for my

00:15:43.960 own kids, the twins, who turn nine today. Not that they listen to this show. I would never allow that,

00:15:48.800 of course. I'm not crazy. But they turn nine. And so we have nine-year-olds somehow. And it's

00:15:53.700 always a weird thing as a parent, you know, as your kids kind of grow older. And all parents talk

00:16:00.140 about how it goes so fast. You know, it's this interesting dynamic where the years fly by, but

00:16:07.080 sometimes, you know, the days can kind of drag on. A day feels like a million years, but the year

00:16:12.120 feels like a day. That's kind of what it feels like to be a parent. And I think one of the reasons

00:16:16.640 for that is that you always sort of feel like a new parent. You know, you always have in the back

00:16:25.000 of your mind this realization that you have no idea what you're doing. You're just kind of making it up

00:16:30.120 as you go. And that's every parent. And I didn't realize that until I became a parent. It's very,

00:16:34.940 it's like, because when you're a kid, you look at your parents and you think, well, they got it all

00:16:38.040 figured out. They know what they're doing. Then you become a parent and you realize, oh,

00:16:40.800 they were just, they didn't, they had no idea. And that's because as kids age, it always introduces

00:16:47.420 new phases of parenting. And those new phases have their own challenges. So you're always kind

00:16:53.060 of a rookie because you're going into the new phase. You've never been here before. And so you're,

00:16:57.040 it's almost like you're starting from scratch. And even after you feel like you've mastered a

00:17:00.720 particular phase or stage of parenting or age of child, right? Then if you have more kids,

00:17:06.120 the next kid will introduce some new wrinkle. Like you feel like you'll have, you've had a few kids,

00:17:12.000 you've had, so you've had a few three-year-olds and you think, well, I got the three-year-old

00:17:14.420 thing down. I got that. Then you have another kid and then she starts doing stuff that the other 1.00

00:17:18.740 three-year-old didn't do. And you're like, well, hang on a second. This isn't how this is supposed

00:17:22.140 to work. So that's the way it goes. Anyway, so it's their birthday today. Happy birthday. It's kind of a

00:17:28.320 landmark occasion actually, because this is the first birthday where the twins have wanted their

00:17:33.600 own parties. And my response to that was, well, too bad. Just like you have the same birthday,

00:17:40.640 it's going to be the same party you'll share. But then I keep hearing how they have to have their

00:17:45.880 own identities and everything. So we give them their own parties. And which means that, you know,

00:17:52.420 my son has a party, my daughter has a party, and then, but none of the parties are actually on the

00:17:57.560 actual birthday. So then it's like really three birthdays we're doing for all the kids. My wife's

00:18:02.700 in heaven because birthdays, parties, presents, that's her love language. She loves it. All right.

00:18:10.680 Well, I want to go to this. And there's still a lot. I'm almost hesitant to read it because there's

00:18:18.080 still so much we don't know. And there's a whole lot of questions, but, you know, it's important.

00:18:24.920 The questions have to be asked, which is why I think it's worth looking at this story. So this

00:18:29.300 is what we're being told. Going back to the tragic situation down in Texas. This is from the Daily

00:18:34.240 Mail. It says, frantic parents of the children murdered in their Texas school screamed at law

00:18:38.860 enforcement officers to enter the school and discuss storming the building to rescue their kids.

00:18:45.540 Harrowing footage shows, and there's some of the footage that's circulating online. I'm not going to

00:18:50.240 play it because it's not even, it's not, it's really not clear, especially if you're just listening

00:18:53.060 to audio what exactly is happening in the footage. But the claim anyway, is that this was footage

00:18:58.800 taken while the shooting was happening. And you can see in the footage, a whole bunch of police

00:19:06.260 officers, heavily armed, just kind of like standing there. And what they're doing is just stopping the

00:19:10.780 parents from going into school. They don't appear to be doing much of anything else.

00:19:16.820 It says, it emerged that the gunman was only stopped when authorities obtained a key to open

00:19:21.000 the classroom door. They couldn't break the door now. New footage shows the chaotic crowd outside

00:19:28.240 the school as heavily armed sheriffs and law enforcement stand guard and hold them back. In

00:19:32.380 one case, seemingly wrestling a panic-stricken woman to the ground and pinning her down.

00:19:37.760 What are you doing? Get inside the building, one person could be heard screaming.

00:19:41.760 Another woman could be heard saying, they're trapped inside as howls of pained anguish rang out in the

00:19:46.160 background. It was unclear at what time the footage was shot. It also emerged Wednesday that

00:19:50.840 Customs and Border Patrol agents who rushed the scene had to grab a key from school staff to open

00:19:54.900 the door of the classroom where the bloodbath took place. So here's the timeline, according to this

00:19:59.460 Daily Mail article, according to the reports. The first 911 call was received at 11.32 a.m. on Tuesday.

00:20:05.720 This is the 911 call saying when they saw the guy crash his car, get out with a rifle and make his way

00:20:15.140 into the door. They got a 911 call. Okay. The gunman was not killed until 1 p.m., an hour and a half

00:20:23.920 later after a Border Patrol agent was given a key to the door. I've seen other reports that it was like

00:20:30.540 40 minutes to an hour. But whether we're talking about an hour, an hour and a half, it's just, it's

00:20:37.980 unthinkable. And again, a lot of questions already, the picture that we're getting here is quite

00:20:48.160 different from the picture that first emerged. And that's often the case. As kind of the fog

00:20:55.260 parts a little bit, things become a little bit clearer and you start, and there's certain details

00:20:59.720 that come out that you didn't know initially. And that might happen here that clarifies some of this.

00:21:03.840 But right now, as the story stands, we're looking at potentially 90 minutes between 911 call,

00:21:10.660 there's somebody with a rifle going into an elementary school, and then he's not shot dead

00:21:14.000 for an hour and a half later. And it's not because the elementary school is out in the middle of

00:21:18.080 nowhere and it took him an hour and a half to get there somehow. I don't know where an elementary

00:21:21.240 school would have to be located for that to be the case. But they were there on the scene,

00:21:25.700 according to these reports though, including from parents who were there and are speaking out,

00:21:29.780 they didn't go in the building. They had to wait for a key? You don't have a way to break the door

00:21:37.540 down? How, what could this scumbag have done to barricade that door that you had no way of opening 0.98

00:21:46.720 it? And did the classroom have windows? I guess we don't know that, but if it had windows, 0.99

00:21:53.280 then why don't you break in the windows? One thing that we're hearing from some people,

00:22:00.980 especially on social media that are trying to make excuses, it seems to me, they're saying,

00:22:06.740 well, protocol, they had to wait for backup. But it's actually not protocol. See, this was a

00:22:12.060 situation in Columbine where you had cops waiting for backup. And ever since then, the protocol has

00:22:17.000 been, you don't wait for backup, you go in because there are kids being killed right now.

00:22:22.020 Now, it's one thing if it's a hostage situation, okay? If no shot has been fired and there's a guy

00:22:29.980 taking kids hostage in a classroom, well, now it's a more delicate situation. And you might not just

00:22:35.600 rush in there because then you might get the kids killed. And that's when you get into the hostage

00:22:39.300 negotiation. But if he's just executing everybody in the room, then you rush in. There's nothing to

00:22:46.380 think about. And that does not appear to be what happened here. And this excuse of they had to wait

00:22:52.980 for a key, it's just mind boggling. Now, I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on law enforcement

00:22:59.760 tactics or the sort of resources they have at their disposal, but I'm pretty sure that cops have ways

00:23:05.780 of breaking doors down. Pretty sure they do. So that doesn't make any sense to me at all.

00:23:14.720 And by the way, I understand it's easy for me to say, right? I'm sitting here very comfortably

00:23:21.460 and I'm not the one who has to charge in there into gunfire. And there's a not insignificant chance

00:23:30.760 of getting shot and killed. So it's easy for me to say, true, but it's still correct that this is

00:23:35.960 your job. And if you're a police officer and you're too afraid to charge potentially into gunfire

00:23:46.080 in a situation like this, then get off of the force and get a different job because this is your job.

00:23:51.680 Okay. It's just like if there's a, you know, a plane crash where things go wrong on the plane

00:24:02.840 and the pilot just panics and freezes up and then the plane crashes and kills everybody.

00:24:10.680 Yeah. It's easy for me to say, well, that pilot, this is on the pilot. He should have,

00:24:14.720 he should have done his job. It's easy, but I'm not a pilot. That's not the job that I'm taking on.

00:24:19.300 You take on this responsibility when you decide that you want to become a pilot.

00:24:27.060 Well, if you're a police officer, this is the, this is the responsibility you assume

00:24:30.480 is to handle situations like this.

00:24:35.740 And I think this is pretty fair. If you don't want to do it, then don't have the job.

00:24:39.520 Let someone who is willing to take that risk, take that job.

00:24:42.700 And I just can't like, wouldn't every, you don't even need to be a hero. It would seem to me. It's

00:24:51.600 just your, your, it's almost like a biological impulse.

00:24:57.640 Okay. It's one thing if there's some kind of shooting going on back and forth at a, at a drug

00:25:02.420 house or on a street corner between drug dealers.

00:25:04.980 And you're a little bit more hesitant to get involved there.

00:25:09.720 But when, when little kids are being executed, wouldn't every fiber of your being just compel

00:25:17.580 you to go in there?

00:25:23.320 There are a lot of questions being raised here that need to be answered.

00:25:26.640 And, um, you know, immediately after this, we heard about one of the, one of the first things

00:25:33.640 we heard from, uh, the local officials and from the governor is that the first responders were

00:25:39.300 heroic and we should, you know, be thankful to the heroic first responders. Well, somebody did

00:25:44.840 eventually go in there and kill this guy. And, and, uh, that person, I don't know, you know, if

00:25:50.160 one of the reports that we're hearing is that somebody showed up, I think it was what they're

00:25:54.260 saying as a border patrol agent and he just went in and, and he took care of it. And if that's what

00:25:59.020 happened, then yeah, that guy's a hero, but you're not necessarily a hero just because you're on the

00:26:04.820 scene. There's nothing heroic about having the job and showing up. If you're there sitting outside

00:26:12.740 because you're too afraid to go in, then that is not heroic. So maybe we should hold off on just

00:26:20.200 declaring everybody that was there a hero. Okay. Because it, it, there's a chance here that, um,

00:26:28.960 some of the people were, were quite the opposite of heroic and need to be fired for it at a minimum.

00:26:37.880 And I just can't, as I keep saying, there could be other details that come out, but 90 minutes,

00:26:42.780 it's impossible for me to understand how that could happen. But here's the other point that I,

00:26:50.040 that I think is really important to make here. This does not disprove. Let's just say if these

00:26:56.480 reports are accurate and there were law enforcement officers on the scene for upwards of 90 minutes,

00:27:05.540 waiting outside and not going in, does that disprove the good guy with a gun? As the left

00:27:12.680 calls it, the good guy with a gun theory. Does it disprove that, well, good guys with guns,

00:27:17.240 they're, they're not the solution here. No, it doesn't. It proves it. Okay. Because if there are

00:27:23.060 officers, if there are officers with guns outside, not going in, and we're all very upset about that,

00:27:29.340 as we should be. Why are we upset about that? Because we know that they could go in with their guns

00:27:34.040 and stop this. Now, if you don't think that good guys with guns can even do anything anyway,

00:27:42.020 that's going to, if you think that's not going to solve the problem, then you have no right to be

00:27:45.140 upset at the, at the people that were standing outside the school with their guns, not going in,

00:27:49.580 because according to you, they can't solve the problem anyway. Only if you think and know,

00:27:55.140 obviously, that good guys with guns can solve these kinds of problems,

00:27:58.860 situations. Um, or at least at a, at a minimum, greatly mitigate the damage that is done in these

00:28:06.160 situations. If you believe that, then of course, you're going to be upset because you know what

00:28:09.840 they could have done. This is, this is the common theme here, right? It's, it's whether it's a good

00:28:17.100 guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun, it comes down to the guy and the choices that he makes.

00:28:24.000 So, right, no one is saying that just putting a gun into the hand of a good guy is going to,

00:28:33.440 that's all you have to do. He has to use it. And he also, very importantly here,

00:28:38.200 has to know how to use it and has to have the proper training.

00:28:45.620 But we're going the opposite direction in our, in our country, right? When you, when you defund the

00:28:50.400 police, you take resources away, that means you're gonna have less training. And, um, and the more

00:28:57.860 that police are villainized and the, the, the, the fewer people who want to become police officers,

00:29:02.440 standards get lowered for, standards are getting lowered for a lot of reasons, that being one of

00:29:06.580 them. So you have people that are less fit for the job. They have less training.

00:29:13.600 So no, the gun in and of itself isn't going to solve the problem any more than the gun in and

00:29:17.320 of itself creates the problem. What you need are good guys with guns that have proper training and

00:29:22.060 are willing to act. That's what you need. And guess what? If you have those things, then yes,

00:29:27.320 you can prevent a lot of these things from happening in the first place. And when God forbid they do

00:29:31.720 happen, you can greatly mitigate the, the carnage, but you need training, you need funding,

00:29:39.920 and you need people that are willing to do what they're supposed to do.

00:29:46.620 And as I said yesterday, we sent a $40 billion to, uh, to, uh, uh, Ukraine. And we send billions

00:29:55.720 more to foreign countries every single year with that kind of money. You know what I think maybe you

00:30:03.240 could, there's a lot of training and a lot of, uh, equipping that could be done with that kind of

00:30:09.360 money. All right. Beto O'Rourke showed up at a press conference yesterday. The press conference

00:30:14.320 was supposed to be the governor updating people about the shooting. Um, but Beto decided to use

00:30:21.220 this press conference about dead children to grandstand and pull a political stunt to help

00:30:25.780 his campaign. We have a little bit of that footage. Let's watch that. Excuse me. Excuse me.

00:30:32.780 Sit down. You're out of, you're out of line and an embarrassment. 0.98

00:30:37.740 You're out of line. Sir, you're out of line. Sir, you're out of line. Sir, you're out of line.

00:30:53.740 Please leave this auditorium. I can't believe you're a six. It would come to a deal like this 0.93

00:31:04.020 to make a political issue.

00:31:05.180 It's all like you. Why don't you get out of here?

00:31:18.460 So that's Beto just using, uh, 19 dead children as a stage for a political stunt. And that of

00:31:43.400 course is all that is. There's no, obviously no excusing that whatsoever. Uh, you want to get

00:31:48.880 up and make your point about governor Abbott, whatever dumb point you have to make. Well, 0.96

00:31:54.360 you can bet Beto O'Rourke is very good at finding cameras. He's not very good at much of anything

00:31:58.340 else, but he can find cameras, get himself in front of cameras. And so you could have your own

00:32:01.720 little press conference, do whatever you want. But this was a press conference. This was not a

00:32:08.040 political rally or something like that. This was a press conference updating people about this

00:32:14.820 situation. And Beto O'Rourke shows up and the reporting is that no surprise here. This was all,

00:32:20.920 this was all planned and staged ahead of time. Apparently this is even, this is even mainstream

00:32:25.320 media reporting, surprisingly, uh, saying that he, that he sent in people Beto did ahead of time to

00:32:31.620 save a seat for him in the front row. And he didn't want to go in first. He didn't want to be there.

00:32:36.320 You know, there's like 15 minutes where everybody's milling around and getting set up and he didn't

00:32:39.400 want to be there because it would maybe tip people off. So he had, he sent people in to save him the

00:32:44.200 seat and then he snuck in there and then he did his little routine. Uh, Governor Abbott, after the

00:32:50.380 fact, responded to this outburst. And here's what he said. There are, there are family members.

00:32:57.700 There are family members who are crying as we speak. There are family members whose hearts are

00:33:06.700 broken. There's no words that anybody shouting can come up here and do anything to heal those broken

00:33:14.820 hearts. We all, every Texan, every American has a responsibility where we need to focus not on

00:33:27.200 ourselves and our agendas. We need to focus on the healing and hope that we can provide to those who

00:33:35.400 have suffered unconscionable damage to their lives and loss of life. We need all Texans to, in this one

00:33:46.200 moment in time, put aside personal agendas. Think of somebody other than ourselves. Think about the people who are

00:33:54.520 hurt and help those who have been hurt. Uh, those are the nice thoughts, but the problem

00:34:03.280 is that Beto O'Rourke is incapable of thinking of anyone but himself. He's just totally incapable of

00:34:08.600 that. And this is, uh, we're being led by people like this. Now we're not being led by Beto O'Rourke

00:34:14.900 because he keeps running for office and losing, but we're being led by people like Beto O'Rourke

00:34:20.180 that even when kids are killed in a mass shooting, he still cannot, it's this, it's an instinctive

00:34:29.140 reaction. How can I use this? Oh, this is a, this is what he's thinking. This is an opportunity for

00:34:35.920 publicity stunt. They probably sit around, sat around in a room with people talking about this.

00:34:43.920 Well, how can we use this? What's, how can we use this for, for PR? What are, what are our PR

00:34:49.200 opportunities here? And look, I know that it's, it's cliche at this point to complain about the

00:34:57.320 politicization and the exploitation of, uh, of tragedy, but just, just because it's a cliche

00:35:05.300 doesn't mean it's not true. In fact, uh, one of the, this is, it is because it is true that this

00:35:09.580 has become a cliche. And yes, as long as politicians have existed, you've had politicians

00:35:19.700 exploiting tragedy. But when this is like everybody leading the country and the government, when they're

00:35:26.260 all like this, when they don't even seem to have anywhere within them, the human instincts

00:35:35.440 to actually be upset and, and sad and mourn over lost life, when they don't even have that in them.

00:35:46.280 And when your whole government is run by people like this, that's when it becomes a major problem.

00:35:49.460 And speaking of which, Barack Obama, speaking of people who are totally empty inside, here's what

00:35:53.140 he tweeted. And this, honest to God, I saw this and I just stared at it for a minute because I

00:35:59.220 thought this has got to be, this is so on the nose. There's just, did he really tweet this? This has

00:36:05.880 got to be some kind of Photoshop, some kind of joke, but it's not. So Barack Obama tweeted,

00:36:11.260 as we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have

00:36:16.300 passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us

00:36:22.720 all to this day, especially those who loved him. And he continues, in the aftermath of his murder,

00:36:29.360 a new generation of activists rose up to challenge their anguish into organized action, launching a

00:36:33.440 movement to raise awareness of blah, blah, blah. Okay, I don't give a damn. He's tying it into George

00:36:39.040 Floyd because Barack Obama was upset. I guess yesterday was what, the second anniversary of

00:36:44.020 George Floyd's death and people weren't talking about that. So we wanted to, we wanted to find a way

00:36:48.180 to loop it all back around. Hey, I know you guys are mourning today over the fact that 20 children

00:36:54.600 were, were killed, but remember George Floyd? That's what we really should be talking about.

00:37:01.000 Okay. George Floyd was a violent criminal lowlife hopped up on fentanyl who died while resisting

00:37:09.960 arrest because he was trying to pass counterfeit bills. And you're drawing any, you're putting

00:37:16.780 him in the same sentence as innocent children who were slaughtered in mass at school?

00:37:25.180 Like these are comparable in any way whatsoever?

00:37:30.480 And after he tweeted this, of course, the left is defending him. And I started seeing these other

00:37:36.480 articles that have been written recently. There was one, I think it was in the Atlantic, I don't

00:37:40.040 remember, saying that, lamenting the fact that, well, George Floyd's memory is fading. We're all

00:37:46.020 forgetting about George Floyd already. Well, first of all, I wish, but second, why shouldn't it fade?

00:37:55.340 Why should, why should we remember his death exactly? No one's ever really explained that.

00:37:59.080 Like lots of people die in this country every single day. And there are certain people who

00:38:06.040 are worthy of being remembered and mourned by the entire nation. And many of them are, are, are not

00:38:14.140 though, but there are certain people who are worthy of that. All the children who were killed in a mass

00:38:19.740 shooting. Yes. Remember and mourn them, the entire nation, the entire world. That's, that's, that is a

00:38:25.300 tragedy worthy of, of, and, and, and which calls to be remembered and mourned. But George Floyd,

00:38:35.340 just some criminal scumbag who forced his way into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint. 0.99

00:38:44.380 And despite what we're told, no, he never cleaned his life up. Well, he cleaned his life up, but he 1.00

00:38:48.800 died, hopped up on fentanyl, trying to pass counterfeit bills. Like that's how he cleaned his life up. No,

00:38:51.860 he's just a, he's just a criminal. A man who was a, who was a predator, preyed on his own community. 0.92

00:39:00.320 Never contributed anything worthwhile to his community. Only contributed fear and, and crime

00:39:04.820 and violence to it. Oh, we're forgetting George Floyd. So? That would actually be a sign of progress.

00:39:13.500 It, it is a sick society that remembers, that's specially remembers and mourns somebody like George

00:39:20.600 Floyd. And it's an even sicker society that puts him on the same level and puts his death at the

00:39:29.740 same level of tragedy as 20 kids who were killed. But this is all kind of, it's like, it's like wishful

00:39:39.200 thinking because in actuality, uh, George Floyd is not being forgotten. And he's the one, he still

00:39:44.820 has his monuments and, uh, and streets named after him. And he's going to have schools named after him

00:39:50.740 soon enough. And he's got the murals. No, it's these kids who were killed. Um, they're the ones

00:39:57.580 outrageously, tragically, like who, who end up getting forgotten almost immediately.

00:40:04.380 All right. Um, what else we got here? So there's a clip I wanted to play for you. Uh,

00:40:13.580 I think we have time. Okay. I'm just going to play this. This is a, a leftist teacher who I guess is

00:40:17.640 a coach to young kids, some kind of coach. And, uh, she recorded herself teaching the kids about her

00:40:26.820 insane pronoun nonsense. And I just want you to listen to a little bit. It's actually quite

00:40:32.420 instructive to hear this. And she decided to record it herself and put it on tick tock. And let's

00:40:38.460 listen. No matter what your gender identity is, you are okay. Exactly the way you are. And you are

00:40:47.280 loved. It feels good to be yourself. Doesn't it? The end. How did your girls like this book?

00:40:56.200 Really good. What about you? I am like JJ. So I'm not a boy or a girl. So I have a question. Do you

00:41:06.440 know what you call, how do you refer to a girl? You say she, right? You say she is funny. And when

00:41:13.980 you're talking to a boy, what do you say? He. He. And what should you say if you're talking to someone

00:41:19.380 who is not a boy or a girl? Do you know? You say they. So if you're saying she is funny for a girl

00:41:27.620 and you say he is funny for a boy, for somebody who's neither, you can say they are funny. Can

00:41:35.640 you practice saying that? They are funny. So when you're talking about Coach Corolli, who is not a boy

00:41:42.060 or a girl, what should you say? Where are you? Exactly. I'm not a boy or a girl. So what should

00:41:47.300 you say instead of he or she? They are funny. Good job. Or they are my coach. Who are you? I'm

00:41:54.300 neither. I am what the book calls non-binary. Can you say non-binary? Non-binary. You're a girl

00:42:00.060 or I'm not a boy? I'm a boy and a girl. I'm neither. You're a boy and a girl. And that's okay,

00:42:04.740 right? You're both? Huh? Yeah, you can be both or you can be neither. So once again,

00:42:11.520 yet another example. And they keep recording themselves doing this and they're so proud of

00:42:15.720 it and they put it online. And they, of course, have no self-awareness at all, which is the

00:42:21.720 enduring irony with these people because they're totally obsessed with themselves and all they

00:42:25.660 think about is themselves, but they also have no awareness of themselves, which is very interesting.

00:42:30.500 And there's something to be said about that. Like the more that you obsess over yourself and think

00:42:34.600 about yourself, the less aware of yourself you actually are. But anyway, and they put this online and so

00:42:39.140 they don't realize that this just complete, on top of they are telling on themselves and revealing 0.96

00:42:44.700 themselves to be groomers and they're showing off how creepy and disgusting they are. It also 0.97

00:42:50.880 undermines their entire premise because you can hear the kids. They audibly have no idea what's

00:42:59.900 being said to them. They're just repeating it. And then you hear one of these, one of these old

00:43:04.360 kids in the background says, I'm a boy and a girl. And she latches onto that and affirms it. Oh,

00:43:10.700 you're a boy and a girl. Yes. The kid has no idea. He's just saying words like all little kids do.

00:43:18.020 And if you were to have a follow-up question and say, what do you mean by that? How are you a boy

00:43:22.020 and a girl? It doesn't. He wouldn't be able to explain it. Of course, because he's just a little

00:43:26.960 kid. So even though we only heard the audio, we didn't see the visual there. You could just imagine

00:43:33.860 these kids just kind of sitting there wide-eyed, you know, sitting Indian style, if I can still say

00:43:39.520 that, on the carpet, looking up at the teacher, wide-eyed, just kind of nodding their heads. Okay,

00:43:44.440 okay, okay. No clue what's being said to them. And that's how the indoctrination always works.

00:43:50.800 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:44:00.640 Mark says, Matt, what are pixie sticks? You got to be kidding me, Mark. Don't? How old are you?

00:44:09.520 Do pixie sticks not exist anymore? I think they still exist, right?

00:44:16.380 This is kids these days. When I was a kid, this is the kind of thing that we subsisted on,

00:44:22.880 pixie sticks. And what I would, in fact, do is I would get an allowance. And my allowance was like,

00:44:30.060 I think it was like $5. It's like $5 a quarter. Every several months, I get $5. But I would save it

00:44:36.200 up. And then I would go to, you know, like the drugstore and I'd get candy. And oftentimes they

00:44:41.020 had these pixie sticks that were, there was the more normal pixie sticks, which were the size of

00:44:45.460 about a pencil. And all it was was just sugar. Then we also had these, and I don't see these

00:44:49.060 anymore. Okay. So kids don't know about these, but it's like these pixie sticks that were the size of

00:44:52.900 a rope, like a jump rope. And it was just a tube full of sugar. And you would just chug those things.

00:44:59.320 And that was, that was allowed back in the nineties, back in the good old days.

00:45:05.440 Modern Pappist says, what, or Papist, however you pronounce, whatever your preferred pronunciation

00:45:11.940 is, what the shooter did was terrible, but we aren't to hope someone burns in hell, even if they

00:45:16.360 are our enemy. We're called to pray for our enemies. We should pray for these souls that died,

00:45:19.920 including the shooter. We should pray for the families of those that lost someone.

00:45:23.220 We should pray for the kids that were traumatized. God will judge accordingly.

00:45:25.940 Yes, you're correct. I recognize that you're correct on an intellectual level, but

00:45:33.120 when you're dealing with, I guess maybe unlike you, I just don't have the capacity

00:45:41.540 when I'm confronting evil at that level. I'll fully admit, I don't have the capacity for mercy

00:45:52.760 or forgiveness with that kind of evil.

00:46:00.440 David says, when they say this is a hill worth dying on, they forget one key element. You're

00:46:04.460 dying on that hill, not for it. Hills are defensible positions from which you protect the entire land.

00:46:10.640 By refusing to die on a hill, you're putting at risk everything which lies behind it.

00:46:15.540 That's a very good point. I wish I had thought of it, but thank you for that, David.

00:46:19.400 Spencer says, what would be more of a nightmare for you? Finding out that aliens do exist,

00:46:26.360 but never meeting one in your lifetime or not being able to grow a beard for the rest of your life?

00:46:30.500 Well, finding out that aliens exist, but we can't meet them is not a nightmare at all.

00:46:34.240 I actually, the only thing that would make, you know, I've often thought about how that would affect

00:46:38.640 people. Because when you think about the, you know, watch all the sci-fi movies and everything,

00:46:43.400 it's usually aliens come here and they land and how is that going to work? But if we ever do become

00:46:50.000 really aware of the existence of an alien civilization, more than likely it'll come

00:46:55.060 in a way where it's, we're not able to actually make contact. Maybe some kind of radio signal or

00:47:00.920 something like that. And I've often thought about, well, how would that affect the world?

00:47:05.980 Not if aliens land here, but just if, let's just say hypothetically, we were to get 100% confirmation,

00:47:12.940 undeniable confirmation that there is an intelligent alien civilization out there somewhere in another

00:47:17.700 solar system, but we can't make, but we can't, we'll never encounter them. But we know that they're

00:47:22.100 there. How would that affect us? And the nightmare, the depressing thing is that, of course, as I've

00:47:29.560 realized, especially over the last few weeks, it would not affect us at all. Nobody would care at all.

00:47:33.600 We would just go about our lives like it doesn't matter. And Mike says, Matt's reaction to the

00:47:41.800 shooting is painfully predictable. It's simple. USA both has more guns than any other country and

00:47:46.840 more mass shootings. As well, the USA doesn't seem to take care of its lost souls as well as other

00:47:51.760 countries do. Well, Mike, I'm glad you brought that up because that, everything you just said there is

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00:48:45.840 It always feels like cheating to use a clip from The View for the daily cancellation, but sometimes

00:48:49.820 it's unavoidable, such as the case here, where a one-minute exchange between the squawking hens on The

00:48:53.980 View serves as a convenient rundown of all of the major misnomers and false narratives that we've been

00:48:58.780 hearing over the past 24 hours. And this is the great and sacred purpose of this show, I think,

00:49:04.440 the public service it provides. It gives you a condensed, even more simplified summary of every

00:49:08.860 dumb thing the left is saying about any given subject. And that is certainly the case here,

00:49:13.380 and I'll let Whoopi take it away. Listen.

00:49:15.560 That's the question. What are we doing? Because we're, we're, why are we always at square one with

00:49:23.840 this? And I swear to God, if I see another Republican senator talk about their heart being

00:49:27.620 broken, I'm gonna go punch somebody. And thoughts and prayers. I can't take it in their thoughts and 0.99

00:49:32.160 prayers. Yeah. If your thoughts and prayers were really with everybody, you'd have done something

00:49:36.180 by now. It's not like anybody's not trying to make this happen. What the hell is going on?

00:49:42.100 I want them to stop gaslighting me also. Stop saying it's not, it's not guns that kill people.

00:49:49.000 It's people that kill people. It's guns that kill people. Okay. Stop saying the opposite. Stop

00:49:54.260 saying that mental illness is behind this. There's mental illness in every country in the world and

00:49:59.940 they don't have this problem. So stop gaslighting me on that one. And stop saying that you can have

00:50:05.000 a good guy stop a bad guy with a gun. We have seen in both of these shootings in the past three weeks

00:50:10.940 that a good guy tried and could not do it. So stop gaslighting us.

00:50:16.520 That about sums it up. Again, everything you heard there is standard leftist boilerplate.

00:50:20.900 We hear all this after every mass shooting and we've heard it all incessantly since the shooting

00:50:24.980 in Texas. So let's go through it. First, we get the complaints about thoughts and prayers.

00:50:28.980 Forget about your thoughts and prayers. They say we need to do something. But if you're religious, 1.00

00:50:33.640 as at least a few of those women on The View claim to be, and as many of the people who complain

00:50:37.560 about thoughts and prayers claim to be, then you should know that praying is doing something.

00:50:42.680 It shouldn't be the only thing you do. You should do other things along with praying,

00:50:46.140 but praying is something. And the good thing is that nobody's ever argued that all we should

00:50:51.620 do is pray. But in the immediate moments after a travesty like this, unless you're physically

00:50:56.720 on the scene and actively involved in that way, there may be nothing else you can do in that

00:51:00.820 moment, at that exact time, but pray. Okay? Like in the five minutes after you hear about something

00:51:07.840 like this, then it happened a thousand miles away. It's, I want to do something. Well, in that exact

00:51:13.780 moment, for most people, there's probably like almost nothing you could do in those five minutes,

00:51:18.540 but you can pray. And why shouldn't you? It's a good thing. This is not an either or choice. It's

00:51:24.800 not mutually exclusive. Praying doesn't prevent you from taking physical action. So what exactly is

00:51:29.700 a complaint here? Do we really think that the problem in our society is that we're praying

00:51:32.880 too much? Is that the source of our troubles? Really? As for doing something, what do you want

00:51:38.620 to do? The just do something mentality is a scourge on our nation and on our body politic. No, we do

00:51:45.780 not want our lawmakers simply doing things. They already do a lot of things. Contrary to popular

00:51:52.300 beliefs, they're not doing nothing. They're doing a lot of things. It's just that most of what they do

00:51:56.060 is ineffectual, wasteful, and often actively harmful and counterproductive. There's nothing wrong

00:52:00.200 with offering your prayers after a mass shooting. There is something wrong with shouting into the

00:52:04.640 void, somebody do something. That's a phrase that I would really like to stop hearing. No problem is

00:52:11.040 solved by doing something. Problems are solved by doing particular things. Okay? It's like if you have a

00:52:19.660 flat tire, you're not going to solve it just by doing something. There's a, that's a particular

00:52:24.760 problem, very small problem, and it'll be solved in a certain particular way. And that's true of every

00:52:32.040 little small problem you encounter in your life. You don't solve it just by, just by randomly taking

00:52:37.320 action. You solve it by in targeted, with targeted action. And that's also true of the very big problems

00:52:44.140 in our society. And the reality is that the particular things the gun control proponents

00:52:49.800 want to do, if you can even get them to propose any particular things, will not actually prevent

00:52:54.360 mass shootings, and have not prevented them, as we discussed yesterday. A lot of these somethings have

00:52:59.060 already been put in place in many states and cities across America, and yet shootings still occur,

00:53:03.440 and occur quite often. Next, we hear that it's not people who kill people, but guns. And this is false,

00:53:08.740 of course. The inverse cliche doesn't really work either. In truth, it's people with guns who kill

00:53:13.240 people, but it's also people without guns who kill people. People without guns kill people. People

00:53:16.820 with guns kill people. The common denominator here is what? People. Human choices, human behavior

00:53:23.200 kills people. And so, as we've been harping on, we have to get to the bottom of the human behavior

00:53:29.520 if we really want to make a dent in this problem. And finally, and here's the talking point I want to

00:53:34.140 spend some time with. We hear that this doesn't happen in other countries. And I've heard this over

00:53:40.080 and over and over again since Tuesday. This doesn't happen in other countries, they say.

00:53:43.140 We're the only country this sort of thing happens. What sort of thing? And I suppose they mean mass

00:53:47.740 casualty attacks. In fact, The Onion on Wednesday changed their homepage so that every headline on

00:53:52.600 the whole site says, no way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.

00:53:57.940 This is a very common claim. The United States is unique across the entire world in this respect,

00:54:02.480 the left says. Are they right? No, of course they aren't. I mean, not even a little bit.

00:54:07.960 It's not even a little right. In fact, just south of the border this week, a guy in Mexico shot up a

00:54:15.140 hotel, killing 11 people. That was this week. Okay? This week. And yet we're told this only

00:54:22.000 happens in America? That's not even true this week. In fact, mass casualty attacks happen all the time

00:54:29.340 in Mexico and all across Central and South America. They happen quite famously in the Middle East and all

00:54:34.020 over Africa, many parts of Asia. Indeed, to make the claim that we're the only country where this

00:54:38.400 kind of thing happens, you must disregard from the outset the vast majority of the globe and the vast

00:54:43.100 majority of the people living on it. That seems like a rather important qualifier that the person

00:54:47.700 claiming we're the only place where this happens should mention. They should stipulate that when they

00:54:52.420 say only place, when they say, they mean the only place if you don't count almost the entire world.

00:55:00.980 Of course, the mass shootings in a place like Mexico are often different than they are here

00:55:05.760 in the sense that they're, well, they're the same in that the victims, but there still are victims who

00:55:11.540 are being killed. But the attacks in Mexico are almost always cartel related. If you go to somewhere

00:55:17.800 like East Africa, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab is usually responsible. In other parts of the world,

00:55:22.200 it's a different terror cell or a different crime network. And that's because young, violent,

00:55:26.040 hopeless, nihilistic men in Mexico are likely to end up working for cartels. In East Africa,

00:55:30.580 they're going to find Al-Shabaab as their elder. In America, they either end up joining street gangs 0.60

00:55:36.900 or they stay isolated in their mom's basement until one day they explode. Different manifestations,

00:55:41.600 but a similar phenomenon. This is the reason, by the way, why rankings of school shootings are

00:55:48.060 irrelevant. You've perhaps seen that Wikipedia list floating around showing that America has

00:55:52.860 hundreds of school shootings while Afghanistan has had only three. What they neglect to mention is

00:55:58.980 Afghanistan also only has like three people in school. There are lots of murders, lots of mass 1.00

00:56:05.580 slaughter happening in that country and in many of these other countries that have very few school

00:56:09.340 shootings. It just doesn't happen at school very often because school isn't a big part of their

00:56:14.480 culture. As we said, different manifestations, but still the same sort of thing, the same sort of

00:56:19.940 terrible thing. Now, I made this point on Twitter yesterday and I was immediately informed that my

00:56:24.460 argument isn't valid because when people say that we're the only place in the world where this happens,

00:56:29.840 they really, of course, just mean among Western countries. Well, that's a bit awkward, isn't it?

00:56:35.240 So what you're saying is that only the predominantly white countries count?

00:56:40.340 Is that? So when you say the entire world, you're actually just talking about the white world. 0.87

00:56:46.400 Now, I don't agree with you that only the white countries count, only the predominantly white 0.93

00:56:50.320 countries count. But let's just pretend that I do. Is it true that we're the only country in the

00:56:55.780 Western world where this happens? No. In fact, a ranking of annual death rate per million from mass

00:57:01.740 shootings in North America and Europe, according to World Population Review, puts us at number 11

00:57:06.260 behind Czech Republic, Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Albania, Macedonia, France, Serbia, and

00:57:12.660 Norway. Now, you could point out that Norway makes the list. In fact, it tops the list largely because of

00:57:18.840 one major attack back in 2011. That's true. But that's what happens when you measure this on a per capita

00:57:25.700 basis, which you have to because Norway has 5 million people and we have 330 million people.

00:57:32.180 So if you're going to compare us in the number of people that are killed in mass shootings,

00:57:36.240 the only fair way to do it is per capita. If you're measuring like the number of people who do

00:57:43.640 anything, we're going to beat Norway on every measure for everything because we have so many

00:57:48.480 more people than them. So when you measure it by per capita basis, the United States does not really

00:57:55.140 stand out. In fact, John Lott with the Crime Prevention Research Center published a report

00:58:00.020 about two years ago on this subject. And here's what it says in the abstract. It says,

00:58:03.860 the U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings and the global

00:58:08.700 increase over time has become, has been much bigger than for the United States. Over the 20 years from

00:58:14.080 1998 to 2017, our list contains 2,772 attacks and at least 5,764 shooters outside the United States

00:58:21.200 and 62 attacks and 66 shooters within our country. By our count, the U.S. makes up less than 1.13%

00:58:28.080 of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders and 2.19% of their attacks. All these are

00:58:33.580 much less than the U.S.'s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the U.S. are not only less

00:58:39.200 frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average. Out of the 101 countries

00:58:43.480 where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 66th in the

00:58:49.640 per capita frequency of these attacks and 56th in murder rate. Not only have these attacks been much

00:58:55.480 more common outside the U.S., the U.S.'s share of these attacks has declined over time.

00:59:00.620 And this is all the case, even though the U.S. is unique at having such a large and demographically

00:59:05.800 mixed population. So what does this prove? That we don't have a problem? That we should do nothing 1.00

00:59:11.200 to protect our kids in school? Obviously not. All it proves is that the narrative from the left is

00:59:16.980 false. And the fact that it's false is important because the truth is important. So when they say,

00:59:23.900 we're the only country where this happens, that is not true on any level, by any measure,

00:59:30.060 no matter how you're looking at it. And you cannot solve a problem by misrepresenting.

00:59:39.240 But of course, they're not trying to solve the problem. They're trying to exploit it.

00:59:43.040 And that's an entirely different thing from solving it. And that is why all of the people pushing these

00:59:48.860 false narratives, not just the women on The View, though perhaps especially them for this and many

00:59:52.640 other reasons, are canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks

00:59:57.380 for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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Ep. 960 - Our Kids Need Fathers, Not 'Gun Control'

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