The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Mar 06, 2021
Aired: 2021-03-06
Duration: 07:43


=== Why Assault Weapons Matter (07:27) ===

[00:00:00]  Dan Bongino.
[00:00:02]  Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
[00:00:03]  I'm Dan Bongino.
[00:00:05]  Here's an article by the Washington Examiner being the show notes today.
[00:00:09]  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.
[00:00:19]  So what do they mean by assault weapons?
[00:00:21]  Yeah.
[00:00:21]  Nobody on the left knows what assault weapons means, but that's intentional.
[00:00:25]  Why?
[00:00:25]  Why, why, why, why?
[00:00:27]  The reason is the term sounds scary.
[00:00:29]  Oh my gosh, we don't want assault weapons in our community.
[00:00:31]  Who wants that?
[00:00:32]  That sounds terrible.
[00:00:34]  But then when you ask him very simple questions like, well, golly, what does that actually mean an assault weapon?
[00:00:42]  Because you want to ban it.
[00:00:43]  I'd kind of like to know what it means, right?
[00:00:46]  It's weird that they never really have a perimeter around what that means.
[00:00:50]  Why?
[00:00:51]  Why would that be?
[00:00:52]  Because they want it to mean everything.
[00:00:54]  An assault weapon will mean your slingshot.
[00:00:56]  Remember wrist rockets when you were a kid?
[00:00:58]  Remember that?
[00:00:58]  I had one of those.
[00:00:59]  Loved them.
[00:01:00]  Those were great, I know.
[00:01:01]  Caused a lot of trouble.
[00:01:02]  That'll be next.
[00:01:04]  That'll be an assault weapon.
[00:01:05]  That's why they never put a fence around what it means.
[00:01:07]  Now, I found this video.
[00:01:09]  Don't ask me how.
[00:01:10]  I have been talking about this on the show for five years and I've never been able to locate it.
[00:01:15]  When I was a Maryland political activist and candidate in the liberal, soon-to-be communist state of Maryland, Sadly.
[00:01:24]  I used to go on local shows and just debate the snot out of people and it was so much fun.
[00:01:31]  So this is a show I did with a guy Joe Armacost knows, a liberal activist named Billy Murphy.
[00:01:36]  Oh yeah.
[00:01:37]  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.
[00:01:46]  This was a classic.
[00:01:47]  I got two clips here.
[00:01:48]  I hate putting up clips of myself.
[00:01:50]  I know self-praised things.
[00:01:52]  But here's an example how to debate leftists because they're going to start coming for your assault weapon soon.
[00:01:58]  Just ask them what it is.
[00:01:59]  They have a really hard time.
[00:02:00]  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?
[00:02:07]  He has no idea.
[00:02:08]  Check this out.
[00:02:08]  Look, the assault weapon ban, when it was national, saved lives.
[00:02:14]  Maryland's assault weapon ban will save lives.
[00:02:16]  There's no need for these military style weapons for civilian use.
[00:02:21]  Well, Senator Farage is a lawyer.
[00:02:22]  I'm assuming he's looked at the data.
[00:02:23]  The DOJ's own study says the exact opposite.
[00:02:26]  I suggest you take a look at that.
[00:02:28]  Mr. Murphy said something completely inaccurate.
[00:02:31]  Automatic weapons are not legal to purchase.
[00:02:34]  You need a class 3 federal firearms license, so that's not an accurate statement.
[00:02:38]  Semi-automatic weapons are legal, so that's just not accurate.
[00:02:40]  And as for assault weapons, can you define what that is?
[00:02:43]  Is there a non-assault weapon?
[00:02:45]  I'm unsure as to what exactly you're talking about.
[00:02:47]  Come on, man.
[00:02:47]  Let's be real.
[00:02:48]  you go in a gun store and you ask for an assault weapon, the man's not gonna have
[00:02:51]  any problem understanding what you're saying. Really? It's only, it's only
[00:02:55]  right-wing gun nuts that are taking this debate to an extreme level.
[00:03:02]  Let's don't argue about things that are obvious.
[00:03:07]  Listen, I hate, you should never, there's a, would you agree Paul?
[00:03:15]  Let's take it, sir.
[00:03:15]  Joe, isn't the golden rule of you never play your own clips?
[00:03:18]  You just don't.
[00:03:19]  It looks like a, hey, look at me.
[00:03:21]  Pat yourself on the back.
[00:03:22]  I'm sorry.
[00:03:22]  I have to break that rule this time.
[00:03:24]  That was one of my favorite.
[00:03:26]  When I got off that set, that guy was so pissed.
[00:03:28]  Joe knows him, by the way.
[00:03:29]  Not a bad guy.
[00:03:30]  These aren't bad guys.
[00:03:30]  They're just totalitarians.
[00:03:32]  They want to take, but you know, they just, you know, maybe they are bigger.
[00:03:35]  Who knows?
[00:03:35]  But Joe knew him, whatever.
[00:03:38]  It's fascinating.
[00:03:39]  He wants government power to use it to take away an item he can't even define.
[00:03:46]  And then he's mad at me because I ask him.
[00:03:49]  He's like, you're the right wing gun nuts.
[00:03:51]  You know exactly what it means.
[00:03:54]  It doesn't matter if I know what it means.
[00:03:55]  You want to take it away.
[00:03:57]  What do you want to take?
[00:03:58]  I don't know.
[00:03:59]  Go to a gun store and ask them.
[00:04:01]  Huh?
[00:04:01]  What?
[00:04:02]  I have been looking for that clip forever.
[00:04:10]  You have no idea.
[00:04:12]  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.
[00:04:19]  Then they cite studies that cite the opposite.
[00:04:23]  The Department of Justice study on assault weapons conducted in the Clinton administration said the opposite of what Frosch was saying.
[00:04:31]  That it had no effect on crime, the assault weapons ban.
[00:04:34]  Just look it up!
[00:04:35]  It was Clinton's Justice Department.
[00:04:36]  It's not hard to find.
[00:04:38]  Use the interweb.
[00:04:40]  I mean, that's why it started with, I'm like, this is hilarious.
[00:04:43]  You're running for attorney general.
[00:04:44]  You didn't even read the study you're citing.
[00:04:49]  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.
[00:04:57]  They just don't know anything.
[00:04:59]  Here's part two to this.
[00:05:02]  By the way, this was like an hour show.
[00:05:05]  It got more hostile.
[00:05:07]  I'm telling you, after it was over, they hated my guts.
[00:05:09]  They couldn't get out of there quick enough because they were embarrassed.
[00:05:12]  I want to ban an assault weapon.
[00:05:13]  What is an assault weapon?
[00:05:14]  Hell if I know.
[00:05:15]  Go ask a gun shop guy.
[00:05:17]  But you want to ban it.
[00:05:19]  Here's part two of this, check this out.
[00:05:21]  Do you notice what I said at the beginning of the show, you were going to use emotion,
[00:05:23]  not reason?
[00:05:24]  Do you notice how the emotion kicked in?
[00:05:26]  Never defined what an assault weapon is.
[00:05:27]  No, this is important.
[00:05:28]  And then resorted to the right wing nut job.
[00:05:30]  But never answered the question.
[00:05:32]  They can't define what an assault weapon is because it's based strictly on cosmetics.
[00:05:35]  You're the only person in the United States who takes the view that you can't define what
[00:05:41]  The federal law defines it!
[00:05:42]  The federal law defines it!
[00:05:43]  You still haven't defined it!
[00:05:44]  It's defined in the state law.
[00:05:46]  It's defined in state law as well.
[00:05:47]  What's the difference between an assault weapon and a non-assault weapon?
[00:05:50]  Who cares?
[00:05:51]  There is a difference.
[00:05:52]  The people who use their right to carry arms care.
[00:05:54]  Oh, give me a break.
[00:05:55]  You're taking their rights.
[00:05:56]  Look, all you have to do, all you have to do is read the statute.
[00:05:59]  All you have to do is read the statute.
[00:06:01]  Yeah, I definitely have.
[00:06:02]  Well, tell us what it is.
[00:06:04]  Why do I have to tell you if you don't know?
[00:06:05]  We're going to go look for that statue.
[00:06:07]  We'll be back in a minute.
[00:06:13]  I'm laughing at myself like it's not me.
[00:06:15]  Like I wasn't there.
[00:06:17]  I can't believe it.
[00:06:18]  He wants to ban something at the federal level citing a state statute he doesn't even know.
[00:06:23]  He doesn't even know what it is.
[00:06:25]  And then he says to me, Why am I laughing at myself?
[00:06:33]  I need to retract this segment of the show with my own.
[00:06:38]  I'm giving myself, thank you, the retraction alpaca.
[00:06:41]  You should never laugh at your own jokes.
[00:06:42]  Retract this with me.
[00:06:43]  I can't help it.
[00:06:45]  He says to me at one point, Joe, Reverse tautology.
[00:06:50]  He goes, you must be the only person in America who doesn't know what an assault weapon is.
[00:06:55]  After not knowing what an assault weapon is, did he miss that?
[00:07:01]  Maybe there are two people in America, me and him, because he doesn't know either.
[00:07:06]  Someone.
[00:07:07]  Should ask the cognitively compromised Joe Biden to lay out the perimeter of what exactly an assault weapon is.

=== Ask Biden About Assault (00:30) ===

[00:07:15]  Just a suggestion, if Joe Biden ever answers a question, ever, during his entire presidency, if he ever does a press conference again.
[00:07:24]  Someone should probably, yeah, I'm just gonna throw that out there to the media.
[00:07:27]  You know, the sane media, not the totalitarian C2PA cousin to C3PO media.
[00:07:33]  I mean like the real media, journalists, Like Peter Doocy.
[00:07:37]  Maybe you want to ask him that.
[00:07:38]  Like, what exactly is an assault?
[00:07:39]  Can you define that exactly?
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