The Matt Walsh Show - May 06, 2023


Matt Walsh Reacts To Anti-Gun TikTok's

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Since gun control is once again, well, shouldn t even be the topic of conversation, we re going to take a look at some gun control TikToks to see if maybe they make some good arguments. Listen, we ve tried to hear them out over on TikTok on many different issues, but we ve never really checked to see what they have to say about guns. Maybe it s really intelligent and insightful? You never know.

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00:00:00.000 So we're going to take a look at some viral TikTok videos.
00:00:04.000 And since gun control is once again, well, shouldn't even be the topic of conversation.
00:00:09.740 So we're going to take a look at some gun control TikToks to see if maybe they make some good arguments.
00:00:15.080 Listen, we've tried to hear them out over on TikTok on many different issues,
00:00:19.000 but we've never really checked to see what they have to say about guns.
00:00:23.820 Maybe it's really intelligent and insightful.
00:00:26.940 You never know.
00:00:27.580 So we'll just start at the top.
00:00:30.000 My opinions are just as important as those who were born before me.
00:00:33.780 I know I am young, but I know what I'm saying.
00:00:35.780 I'm sick of your thoughts and I'm sick of your praying.
00:00:37.920 Children are being slaughtered in numbers.
00:00:39.780 Mothers and fathers losing sons and daughters. 0.99
00:00:41.620 We blame the Muslims and the Jewish instead of the ones who actually do it. 1.00
00:00:45.380 This song is an attack. 0.93
00:00:46.580 It's a eulogy in the memory of those not living.
00:00:49.620 A proclamation to the older generation that doesn't understand that the Second Amendment isn't protection.
00:00:54.680 It's a death sentence.
00:00:55.600 The defendant's a gun and the convicted is innocent.
00:00:57.640 It's ironic, isn't it?
00:01:01.020 A country more loyal to a law made in 1790.
00:01:04.320 So we're going to take a look at some gun control TikToks to see if maybe they make some good arguments.
00:01:09.560 This is a war where weapons will get the job done unless we do something.
00:01:14.420 Kids, it's time to learn to run.
00:01:17.080 It could have been worse.
00:01:19.340 You know, if I had known going in, if you had told me that this is a TikTok anti-gun rap with a ukulele,
00:01:27.800 I would have imagined something a little bit worse than that.
00:01:35.700 So I'll give you that.
00:01:36.840 Like, it's...
00:01:37.980 Actually, it manages to get over the bar where I would have said it.
00:01:42.040 Not saying much, but at least it rhymes, you know?
00:01:45.380 At least it rhymes.
00:01:46.620 So...
00:01:47.080 I'll give her that.
00:01:48.280 And the other thing, too, is when it comes to the gun control topic, for me, it's a little bit different from some of these other subjects.
00:01:54.660 When I see someone like this, it's a young girl who, in her mind, the way to stop shootings is to take away everyone's guns.
00:02:02.280 She has a line in there about the country is led by a hand with a gun. 0.62
00:02:07.460 Extremely naive and childish.
00:02:09.120 And so I can understand, if you're naive and childish, why you would think that the way to solve all these problems is to just take away everyone's guns and that's it.
00:02:21.060 If you're a young, naive person, it's hard for me to even get mad at you for believing that because it's just a young, childish kind of view of things.
00:02:30.340 When you don't understand how the world works.
00:02:32.560 I am much angrier at adults who absolutely know better or should know better.
00:02:39.840 There's no excuse for you to be that naive or to pretend to be that naive.
00:02:45.280 When I hear some, I don't know how old the kid is, but when I hear some, like, 17-year-old say, well...
00:02:49.840 If we want to stop people from being murdered, can't we just take guns away?
00:02:53.320 That's a terrible idea.
00:02:54.760 We don't want to be a country led by a hand with a gun.
00:02:57.280 Well, that's how every country is led.
00:02:59.200 That's every country, okay?
00:03:01.220 Violence, evil, okay?
00:03:03.860 These things exist in the world.
00:03:06.560 They always have.
00:03:08.680 Even before guns existed, that certainly existed.
00:03:12.720 Violence and evil.
00:03:13.720 It's always there.
00:03:14.880 It's not ever going to go away.
00:03:16.380 So if you come up with a solution that hinges on sort of the assumption that we'll be able to extinguish evil and violence entirely, then it's not a good solution.
00:03:27.980 Because any kind of gun confiscation, abolishing the Second Amendment, getting rid of the guns, that solution only works if it's accompanied by curing all evil and violence in the world as well.
00:03:37.600 So if you can get rid of all the bad guys, okay?
00:03:40.500 No more evil, no more bad guys, nobody who would wish us harm.
00:03:43.400 If all of them are gone forever, that's the only way that we could even talk about getting rid of guns.
00:03:49.300 But that's never going to happen.
00:03:50.940 In the not-too-distant past, private citizens used to be largely that, if you can imagine.
00:03:54.580 Private.
00:03:55.160 What's changed?
00:03:55.920 Well, the internet changed.
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00:04:50.180 Hello, I am Thomas.
00:04:51.920 Oh, Tommy J, back from the dead.
00:04:54.040 What's up, dude?
00:04:54.760 I'm just visiting Posterity to see how the United States are doing.
00:04:57.640 Well, dude, you can't get much better than Greatest Country on Earth.
00:05:01.120 Wonderful.
00:05:01.580 So what new and improved constitutions have you composed with the progresses of the human mind in the past two centuries?
00:05:07.340 What are you talking about?
00:05:08.040 We still got the Constitution.
00:05:09.440 Yes, but which one?
00:05:10.940 What do you mean, which one?
00:05:12.780 The Constitution.
00:05:14.300 You ought to know.
00:05:14.740 You wrote it, dude.
00:05:15.560 Well, no, it was largely in Madison.
00:05:16.860 I was actually in France.
00:05:17.980 Wait, you're still using the Constitution from 235 years ago?
00:05:21.980 Well, obviously, Tom.
00:05:23.640 It's the best document ever.
00:05:25.080 Well, wait, only number two behind the Bible.
00:05:26.520 Well, only after one takes out all that mythical nonsense with the miracles and the resurrection.
00:05:30.540 But hold on a minute.
00:05:31.760 Did you not read that I suggested redrafting a constitution about every 19 years?
00:05:36.340 What?
00:05:37.300 Institutions must advance to keep pace with the times.
00:05:40.120 Surely you must have penned new documents with which to govern.
00:05:43.320 Nah, dude.
00:05:43.760 The Second Amendment is perfect just as it is.
00:05:45.980 So you have a well-regulated militia providing security for the free state.
00:05:50.160 Do what now?
00:05:51.000 A militia that is well-regulated.
00:05:52.960 What are you talking about?
00:05:54.340 No, guns, Tom.
00:05:55.500 We get to have guns.
00:05:56.640 Well, no, let's not.
00:05:58.320 It's to provide a well-regulated militia that shall...
00:06:01.600 No, no, no, no, no, dude.
00:06:02.460 It's about if someone breaks into my house, I'm going to win the...
00:06:04.700 Oh, please, make it stop.
00:06:07.160 What is an AR-15?
00:06:08.900 Oh, Tom, you don't know.
00:06:09.880 It is a sexy weapon. 1.00
00:06:11.280 With one of those, I can mow down your entire well-segregated militia with those sh**t muskets you guys had. 1.00
00:06:17.180 Dude, check it out. 0.99
00:06:17.820 It appears that my hope, speaking of being naive, my hope that maybe on the gun issue, TikTok would be more thoughtful.
00:06:28.780 That hope may have been in vain, perhaps.
00:06:31.540 So here, this is just, it's just a, it is a longer, you know, maybe a little more creatively presented version of the same argument we've heard a million...
00:06:41.400 It's honestly really the weakest argument, the weakest gun control argument.
00:06:46.740 They're all weak.
00:06:47.260 This idea that, well, people, our founding fathers, the people who drafted the Constitution, they had no idea that these kinds of guns would exist.
00:06:58.280 And they didn't know about modern weaponry.
00:07:01.340 And if they had, it would have changed everything.
00:07:03.060 I mean, that argument, it doesn't even get off the ground.
00:07:06.440 The people who make the argument are constantly claiming constitutional rights that our founding fathers certainly never would have ever conceived of.
00:07:20.180 Inconceivable!
00:07:21.060 Our founding fathers did enshrine and codify into law our right to own firearms.
00:07:26.420 Now, it's true, they didn't have a crystal ball.
00:07:28.460 They couldn't see into the future to see what exactly a firearm would look like in the year 2023.
00:07:33.300 Although, these were intelligent men, and so they knew that technology progresses.
00:07:37.460 I don't think they'd be shocked by that.
00:07:39.160 I don't think they'd be shocked by the concept, right?
00:07:41.060 And yet they enshrined that right anyway.
00:07:43.040 So that probably tells us everything we need to know.
00:07:45.140 This weapon is your life.
00:07:46.720 What the left is claiming is that the development of those arms now somehow overrides the basic principle, which is absurd.
00:07:55.740 Meanwhile, they're trying to invent basic principles and put them into the minds of the founding fathers,
00:08:02.020 even though they certainly never imagined that.
00:08:04.880 We hear the claim that the left believes the right to an abortion is constitutional.
00:08:09.500 So it's a basic human right.
00:08:11.640 Constitutional right.
00:08:13.220 Really?
00:08:13.900 So you think that's what, is that what Thomas Jefferson had in mind?
00:08:16.880 No.
00:08:17.580 Let's do the same skit with Thomas Jefferson.
00:08:19.720 Finding out in the future, they would determine that somehow buried in there, in the Bill of Rights, is a mother's right to kill her child.
00:08:29.180 So can we play out that exact same scenario where we're explaining to Thomas Jefferson,
00:08:33.000 oh yeah, you know that right that you gave mothers to kill their children? 0.98
00:08:35.600 You know that right? 0.99
00:08:36.380 No, you meant to put that.
00:08:37.500 That's in there, isn't it?
00:08:38.680 Trans rights.
00:08:39.760 Okay, let's explain trans rights to Thomas Jefferson.
00:08:44.700 Let's see how he feels about that.
00:08:45.820 Oh, you know the right, no, it's the right of men to pretend to be women and to have their fantasies affirmed by society. 0.57
00:08:56.140 You know that right?
00:08:56.640 You know, it's the fundamental human right that you enshrined constitutionally for men to disrobe in women's locker rooms. 1.00
00:09:04.120 Didn't you mean that you put that in there, didn't you?
00:09:05.800 Absolutely not.
00:09:06.780 Now, in all those cases, they damn well know that our founding fathers would have cried out in horror at the notion that these would ever be considered rights, much less constitutional rights.
00:09:18.380 But there, they're willing to say, well, it doesn't matter.
00:09:21.160 Who cares what they thought anyway?
00:09:22.620 They're a bunch of old, they don't know what they're talking about. 1.00
00:09:24.400 But on this, when it comes to gun rights, they said, well, they never intended that to begin with.
00:09:28.080 We must get back to the original intentions.
00:09:29.740 It was really supposed to just be malicious and nothing else.
00:09:32.320 They're carrying muskets. 0.71
00:09:33.240 That's all they meant.
00:09:33.780 That's all they meant.
00:09:34.980 Let me get this straight.
00:09:36.080 You're not going to wear a mask in a pandemic because God will protect you.
00:09:39.800 Okay.
00:09:41.080 Then why do you need a gun?
00:09:42.520 Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
00:09:46.360 Get that off the screen.
00:09:47.460 I can't deal with the smug look. 1.00
00:09:51.460 I can't deal with the smug look after they say the dumbest sh** that you've ever heard. 1.00
00:09:55.980 It's one thing to hear the dumb sh**, but then the smug, like they're so impressed with themselves that they just made this point that's incredibly stupid. 1.00
00:10:05.240 Well, you say a mask that God will protect you. 1.00
00:10:07.400 Nobody said that.
00:10:08.160 And by the way, so this was a video from a couple of years ago.
00:10:12.920 That woman, it's almost certain that if we check in with her now, she's not wearing a mask.
00:10:17.600 So, of course, the anti-mask people, they were right about everything. 0.62
00:10:21.520 We were right about everything.
00:10:22.940 But back in the time when this is something we had to argue about, nobody was saying, oh, I don't wear a mask because God will protect me from the viruses.
00:10:29.120 That's not what anyone said.
00:10:30.420 That's not what anyone said.
00:10:31.480 We were all aware that sicknesses exist and we can still get them.
00:10:35.860 And that's part of this fallen world.
00:10:38.420 Like, we all knew that.
00:10:39.680 Our point about the mask was always that they're useless, that they're pointless, that you have no right to require us to wear them.
00:10:47.380 That, you know, the risks involved in going out in public and potentially picking up a sickness, we always knew about that.
00:10:55.600 That's always existed.
00:10:57.100 It's worth the risk to just live as normal human beings, being able to see people's faces and show our faces in public and live as normal people.
00:11:05.140 It's worth the risk of, like, catching a cold.
00:11:06.880 Those were our arguments.
00:11:08.340 Not what she said.
00:11:09.640 That's as much as I can tolerate.
00:11:11.320 Made it through almost 15 minutes.
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