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March 6, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Bongino Brief - Mar 06, 2021

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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
Here's an article by the Washington Examiner being the show notes today.
Biden's quote, common sense gun law reforms make no sense by Tristan Hood, where they address the fact that Biden again wants to get rid of, here we go, Joe, assault weapons.
So what do they mean by assault weapons?
Yeah.
Nobody on the left knows what assault weapons means, but that's intentional.
Why?
Why, why, why, why?
The reason is the term sounds scary.
Oh my gosh, we don't want assault weapons in our community.
Who wants that?
That sounds terrible.
But then when you ask him very simple questions like, well, golly, what does that actually mean an assault weapon?
Because you want to ban it.
I'd kind of like to know what it means, right?
It's weird that they never really have a perimeter around what that means.
Why?
Why would that be?
Because they want it to mean everything.
An assault weapon will mean your slingshot.
Remember wrist rockets when you were a kid?
Remember that?
I had one of those.
Loved them.
Those were great, I know.
Caused a lot of trouble.
That'll be next.
That'll be an assault weapon.
That's why they never put a fence around what it means.
Now, I found this video.
Don't ask me how.
I have been talking about this on the show for five years and I've never been able to locate it.
When I was a Maryland political activist and candidate in the liberal, soon-to-be communist state of Maryland, Sadly.
I used to go on local shows and just debate the snot out of people and it was so much fun.
So this is a show I did with a guy Joe Armacost knows, a liberal activist named Billy Murphy.
Oh yeah.
And another guy who was a state senator at the time and later went on to be the attorney general of Maryland, a far left radical leftist, Brian Frosch.
This was a classic.
I got two clips here.
I hate putting up clips of myself.
I know self-praised things.
But here's an example how to debate leftists because they're going to start coming for your assault weapon soon.
Just ask them what it is.
They have a really hard time.
Check out clip one from this debate and watch this guy get really pissed as I ask him, hey, can you define an assault weapon?
He has no idea.
Check this out.
Look, the assault weapon ban, when it was national, saved lives.
Maryland's assault weapon ban will save lives.
There's no need for these military style weapons for civilian use.
Well, Senator Farage is a lawyer.
I'm assuming he's looked at the data.
The DOJ's own study says the exact opposite.
I suggest you take a look at that.
Mr. Murphy said something completely inaccurate.
Automatic weapons are not legal to purchase.
You need a class 3 federal firearms license, so that's not an accurate statement.
Semi-automatic weapons are legal, so that's just not accurate.
And as for assault weapons, can you define what that is?
Is there a non-assault weapon?
I'm unsure as to what exactly you're talking about.
Come on, man.
Let's be real.
you go in a gun store and you ask for an assault weapon, the man's not gonna have
any problem understanding what you're saying. Really? It's only, it's only
right-wing gun nuts that are taking this debate to an extreme level.
Let's don't argue about things that are obvious.
Listen, I hate, you should never, there's a, would you agree Paul?
Let's take it, sir.
Joe, isn't the golden rule of you never play your own clips?
You just don't.
It looks like a, hey, look at me.
Pat yourself on the back.
I'm sorry.
I have to break that rule this time.
That was one of my favorite.
When I got off that set, that guy was so pissed.
Joe knows him, by the way.
Not a bad guy.
These aren't bad guys.
They're just totalitarians.
They want to take, but you know, they just, you know, maybe they are bigger.
Who knows?
But Joe knew him, whatever.
It's fascinating.
He wants government power to use it to take away an item he can't even define.
And then he's mad at me because I ask him.
He's like, you're the right wing gun nuts.
You know exactly what it means.
It doesn't matter if I know what it means.
You want to take it away.
What do you want to take?
I don't know.
Go to a gun store and ask them.
Huh?
What?
I have been looking for that clip forever.
You have no idea.
The guys, the Attorney General of Maryland, or the other guy, not Billy Murphy, they want to ban something they don't even know what it is.
Then they cite studies that cite the opposite.
The Department of Justice study on assault weapons conducted in the Clinton administration said the opposite of what Frosch was saying.
That it had no effect on crime, the assault weapons ban.
Just look it up!
It was Clinton's Justice Department.
It's not hard to find.
Use the interweb.
I mean, that's why it started with, I'm like, this is hilarious.
You're running for attorney general.
You didn't even read the study you're citing.
This is why as a conservative, you only need like an IQ of 101 to beat a liberal in a debate because their IQs are 56.
They just don't know anything.
Here's part two to this.
By the way, this was like an hour show.
It got more hostile.
I'm telling you, after it was over, they hated my guts.
They couldn't get out of there quick enough because they were embarrassed.
I want to ban an assault weapon.
What is an assault weapon?
Hell if I know.
Go ask a gun shop guy.
But you want to ban it.
Here's part two of this, check this out.
Do you notice what I said at the beginning of the show, you were going to use emotion,
not reason?
Do you notice how the emotion kicked in?
Never defined what an assault weapon is.
No, this is important.
And then resorted to the right wing nut job.
But never answered the question.
They can't define what an assault weapon is because it's based strictly on cosmetics.
You're the only person in the United States who takes the view that you can't define what
The federal law defines it!
The federal law defines it!
You still haven't defined it!
It's defined in the state law.
It's defined in state law as well.
What's the difference between an assault weapon and a non-assault weapon?
Who cares?
There is a difference.
The people who use their right to carry arms care.
Oh, give me a break.
You're taking their rights.
Look, all you have to do, all you have to do is read the statute.
All you have to do is read the statute.
Yeah, I definitely have.
Well, tell us what it is.
Why do I have to tell you if you don't know?
We're going to go look for that statue.
We'll be back in a minute.
I'm laughing at myself like it's not me.
Like I wasn't there.
I can't believe it.
He wants to ban something at the federal level citing a state statute he doesn't even know.
He doesn't even know what it is.
And then he says to me, Why am I laughing at myself?
I need to retract this segment of the show with my own.
I'm giving myself, thank you, the retraction alpaca.
You should never laugh at your own jokes.
Retract this with me.
I can't help it.
He says to me at one point, Joe, Reverse tautology.
He goes, you must be the only person in America who doesn't know what an assault weapon is.
After not knowing what an assault weapon is, did he miss that?
Maybe there are two people in America, me and him, because he doesn't know either.
Someone.
Should ask the cognitively compromised Joe Biden to lay out the perimeter of what exactly an assault weapon is.
Just a suggestion, if Joe Biden ever answers a question, ever, during his entire presidency, if he ever does a press conference again.
Someone should probably, yeah, I'm just gonna throw that out there to the media.
You know, the sane media, not the totalitarian C2PA cousin to C3PO media.
I mean like the real media, journalists, Like Peter Doocy.
Maybe you want to ask him that.
Like, what exactly is an assault?
Can you define that exactly?
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