Ep. 960 - Our Kids Need Fathers, Not 'Gun Control'
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is a common thread linking the mass shooting in Texas to so many other mass shootings and much of the crime and violence in our society: fatherlessness. This is the aspect of the problem that the media doesn’t want to talk about, but we will. Also, reports now suggest that cops on the scene at the shooting took upwards of 90 minutes to neutralize the shooter. How could that have happened? And does this disprove the “good guy with a gun” concept, as the Left is claiming? Of course not. I’ll explain. Plus, Barack Obama puts out what may be the worst tweet of the decade. Beto makes an ass of himself once again. Another teacher records herself grooming her students. And in our Daily Cancellation, is it true that we’re the only country where these kinds of mass shootings happen?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a common thread linking the mass shooting in Texas to so many other mass shootings and much of the crime and violence in our society, that is fatherlessness.
This is the aspect of the problem that the media doesn't want to talk about, but we will today.
Also, reports now suggest that the cops on the scene at the shooting took upwards of 90 minutes to neutralize the shooter.
How could that have happened?
And does this disprove the good guy with a gun concept, as the left is claiming?
Of course not.
I'll explain.
Plus, Barack Obama puts out what may be the worst tweet of the decade.
Beto makes an ass of himself once again.
Evergreen headline there.
Another teacher records herself grooming her students.
And in our daily cancellation, is it true that we're the only country where these kinds of mass shootings happen?
We'll deal with that false narrative today and much more on The Matt Wall Show.
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Details are emerging, as the media likes to put it, about the mass shooter who slaughtered 21 people, including 19 children, at an elementary school in Texas.
You don't need to read these details because they're entirely predictable.
In fact, I did predict them.
I accurately predicted his whole life story, basically, yesterday on this show before having read these reports.
Not because I'm Nostradamus.
These are, you know, there are certain things we all Always assume about these shooters and we're almost always right, all of us.
The patterns are so clear that even the least perceptive among us can't help but notice them.
Even if some of those in the least perceptive group, including much of the news media, which certainly falls into that group, would prefer that we don't notice them.
According to his family and those who knew him, we're told that the shooter was a loner, didn't have many friends, spent, it would seem, most of his time alone, online, staring at various screens, had a history of bizarre, disturbing behavior, he once came to school with self-inflicted cuts all over his face, and of course, the most inevitable detail of all, he did not have a father in the home.
His home life was not stable.
He lived, apparently, with his mom.
In fact, some of the information about his personal life is coming from the mother's boyfriend, not the shooter's father.
Not much is known about the father, except that he lives somewhere else in the neighborhood and he has a criminal record.
So does the mother.
Another revelation that surprises nobody.
Shortly before the shooting, he moved out of his mom's house.
Cops were called.
There's all kinds of domestic things going on.
Moves in with his grandmother, and his grandmother was the first person he shot on the day of his bloody rampage.
Unstable home life.
No father in the home.
Mass shooter.
This is not a unique combination.
A huge and disproportionate number of mass shooters come from fatherless homes.
Now, it's not an airtight rule, of course.
Sometimes boys raised in homes with both a mom and a dad will still lash out in the most violent ways imaginable, as was the case, I believe, with the shooter in Buffalo.
I think he had both a mother and father in the home.
But those are really the exceptions, and even in those cases, the father may have been present physically.
That doesn't mean he was present in any of the ways that really matter.
Now, there's no way to really know how many mass shooters come from homes with fathers who are present physically and actively invested in their children's lives, because that's not the same thing.
Necessarily.
And you can't quantify that.
It doesn't lend itself to bar graphs.
But there's every reason to assume that the number is very small, if not zero.
I mean, the number of mass shooters that come from homes where the father is there and actively engaged and invested in his children's lives.
What's the number?
How many homes like that have produced a mass shooter?
I think we have every reason to assume that it's very, very small.
And the problem runs much deeper.
Mass shooting statistics are just the tip of the iceberg, of course.
Over 60% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
Over 80% of youths in prison are from fatherless homes.
70% of high school dropouts are from fatherless homes.
70% of kids in drug abuse treatment centers are from fatherless homes.
Almost all of the gun violence in our cities, almost all of it, is committed by young males who are raised without fathers.
And we know that because the fatherless home rate in those communities often runs upwards of 80% or higher.
The fatherless home epidemic is a verified, legitimate national emergency and should be treated as such.
Now, the fatherless factor is just one part of the equation.
The other part is that nearly all of the kids who fall into these statistics are boys.
You know, pretty much every mass shooter in American history, with rare exception, has been a male.
93% of the inmates in federal prison are men.
90% of murders are committed by men.
The majority of rapists and child molesters are male.
Again, not all, but the majority.
Men are three times more likely to kill themselves.
Much more likely to drop out of school.
Much more likely to end up homeless.
Much more likely to end up abusing drugs.
Now, our culture looks at the picture as I painted it, and, well, they conclude that masculinity is toxic, right?
A blight on the earth.
And the culture then proceeds to try to fix the boy problem the way you fix, like, a dog.
It sees that boys are inclined to be aggressive, so the culture wants to force them to be mild.
It sees that boys are likely to take dangerous risks, so it encourages boys to take no risks at all.
It sees that boys are wild, you know, so it tames them.
It sees that boys are boys, and so it tries to turn them into girls, literally.
And that strategy has been a disaster.
As we work to try to sort of neuter and feminize boys, all of the problems listed above have only gotten worse.
So what can we do about it?
The solution brings us back to the beginning—fathers.
Boys need to be taught how to be boys, and they need fathers to teach them that.
A mother can't really teach her son how to be a man any more than I can teach my daughter how to be a woman.
I can teach her how a woman ought to be treated, and that's a very important lesson that fathers can provide to their daughters, but I can't shape her in her femininity the way that my wife can.
Likewise, my wife cannot form and harness our son's masculinity the way that I can.
And neither can we, of course, rely on TV or pop culture or the schools, media, the government, any of those institutions to do the job.
They're not going to mold my son.
They're just going to simply obliterate him.
Or at best, they're going to give him this kind of confused cartoon version of what a man is, which is why when you look around, At society, you see a bunch of cartoon men walking around.
Not so much masculine as, like, imitating what they think masculinity is supposed to be.
So everywhere a boy turns, if he can't turn to his father, he will find powerful forces trying to drag him into self-loathing, despair, confusion.
Now, you know, you hear from feminists all the time, they say that masculinity is fragile.
And they're sort of right, actually, because a boy's identity is, in a way, a fragile thing.
The same is true of girls.
Children are, in a lot of ways, fragile.
We often hear how kids are very resilient, and in certain respects they are.
Like, a kid can take a tumble from six feet high and just get up and hop up and be perfectly fine, whereas, you know, if it were me, I would be laying in bed for the next five and a half weeks.
But emotionally and psychologically, they're not resilient, actually.
It's just that a lot of times the harm that's done to them, you can't see it manifest right away, so you assume that they're fine, but they're not.
Children need to be formed in their identity.
They need to be protected.
Or they'll be consumed by all these evil forces out there.
So a boy needs someone, his father namely, to show him what to do, how to maneuver in the world, how to harness his masculine energy, how to be a boy, how to be a man.
Or else he'll figure it out on his own, finding no help anywhere else, and the result may literally kill him.
And dozens more, perhaps.
Now, it should be clear to anybody listening, if they're listening honestly.
So it's not going to count like media matters.
But if you're listening honestly, it should be clear that the point here is not to make excuses for young men who do horrible things.
Okay?
The point is to figure out how to produce fewer young men who do horrible things.
That should be our objective.
And if we all agree that more young men these days seem to be doing horrible things, then that would mean that this is not inevitable.
It doesn't need to be this way.
Something can be done to reverse the trend.
And it's got to go way beyond changing, you know, it goes way beyond anything that like a simple policy can fix.
And it's got nothing to do with gun control.
Because even if we were to pretend that you could make a change to gun control laws, that would actually prevent every potentially bad person from getting their hands on a gun, which you can't, but I'm just saying for the sake of argument, hypothetically, if you could.
Make a change that all these horrible young men can't get their hands on guns.
Okay, well we still have all these horrible people though, don't we?
That's still a big problem.
And there's still a danger to society.
Even if you were able to remove one of the potential tools they could use to inflict damage, one of the potential weapons, you can't remove them all.
And we're still stuck in a society with these kinds of people.
So the real question is how to produce fewer of them.
Not how to produce fewer men or fewer boys generally, But fewer of these types of people.
And this is what we can do.
Have fathers in the home, raising their sons.
We can and should do other things too, but it should start with getting fathers back in the home and keeping them there.
Fathers and mothers both play an integral role in the spiritual and emotional formation of a child.
You take one or both away, and there's a chance that the child becomes emotionally and spiritually deformed.
Not just a chance, a very good chance.
This is a very simple formula.
There's no disputing it.
Just ignoring it.
And oftentimes in our society we do choose to ignore it, and I think for a few reasons.
For one thing, the left-wing cultural narrative requires us to deny the distinction between men and women, which means denying the distinction between mothers and fathers.
According to progressivism, the nuclear biological family is but one type of arrangement, one variant, which is equal in every way to families with one mom or two moms or three dads or whatever.
And none can be judged more ideal than the others.
Even though progressives obsess over organic milk and free-range chickens, they pretend that the natural organic family, the family as it was meant to be, as it naturally is, is in no way superior to the modified versions.
But to connect violence to broken homes is to admit that kids benefit from having mom and dad in the same house, which is why they don't want to admit that.
Progressives can make no such omission.
So they continue blaming bad things on inanimate objects rather than fatherlessness and divorce.
But for another thing, beyond ideology, I think we ignore the family's role in all this because it hits literally too close to home for a lot of us.
Some single mothers bizarrely see a discussion about fatherhood as an attack on them, for example.
Anytime this conversation comes up, you'll often hear from single mothers say, what are you saying, that my son's automatically become a mass shooter?
No, that's not what we're saying.
What we're saying is that the situation you're in, and it might not be your fault, If you're a single mother.
I mean, it might also be your fault.
It might partially be your fault.
A lot of times it's a, you know, 50-50 kind of situation.
But every situation is different.
There's plenty of single mothers.
It's not their fault.
The father walked out on them.
Not their fault.
Father died.
Father's in prison.
Not your fault.
Yet the point is, it's not an ideal situation.
Like, you would, I hope, admit that it'd be better if there was an active, involved, good father in the home.
You'd think we could all admit that, but apparently we can't.
People don't like talking about the problems with the way modern families are often structured, because often it means that they're looking critically at their own family structure.
And nobody wants to do that.
But no matter how much we ignore it, the recipe remains the same.
Okay?
You start with a boy, take away his father, Or his father takes himself out of the equation.
This is often the case.
You sit him in front of a screen all day.
You feed him an endless stream of content.
You feed him porn.
Give him no moral formation.
No guidance.
No companionship.
No role models.
No mentorship.
And then when he starts acting weird, you give him drugs.
Keep him isolated.
Add a few years into it, and that's how you make a school shooter.
That's how you make so many terrible things.
We have to understand this recipe.
Because if we understand it, and acknowledge it, and confront it, then we will know the solution.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
Not that they listen to this show.
I would never allow that, of course.
I'm not crazy.
But they turn nine, and so we have nine-year-olds somehow.
And it's always a weird thing as a parent, you know, as your kids kind of grow older, and all parents talk about how it goes so fast.
You know, it's this interesting dynamic where the years fly by, but sometimes, you know, the days can kind of drag on.
A day feels like a million years, but the year feels like a day.
That's kind of how it feels like to be a parent.
And I think one of the reasons for that is that you always sort of feel like a new parent.
You know, you always have in the back of your mind this realization that you have no idea what you're doing.
You're just kind of making it up as you go, and that's every parent.
And I didn't realize that until I became a parent.
Because when you're a kid, you look at your parents, and you think, well, they got it all figured out.
They know what they're doing.
Then you become a parent, and you realize, oh, they had no idea.
And that's because as kids age, it always introduces new phases of parenting, and those new phases have their own challenges.
So you're always kind of a rookie, because you're going into the new phase.
You've never been here before, and so it's almost like you're starting from scratch.
And even after you feel like you've mastered a particular phase or stage of parenting or age of child, right, then if you have more kids, the next kid will introduce some new wrinkle.
Like, you feel like you'll have, you've had a few kids, you've had, so you've had a few three-year-olds, and you think, well, I got the three-year-old thing down, I got that.
Then you have another kid, and then she starts doing stuff that the other three-year-old didn't do, and you're like, well, hang on a second, this isn't how this is supposed to work.
So that's the way it goes.
Anyway, so it's their birthday today.
Happy birthday to them.
It's kind of a landmark occasion, actually, because this is the first birthday where the twins have wanted their own parties.
And my response to that was, well, too bad.
It's like you have the same birthday.
It's going to be the same party.
You'll share.
But then I keep hearing how, well, they have to have their own identities and everything.
So we give them their own parties, which means that, you know, My son has a party, my daughter has a party, but none of the parties are actually on the actual birthday, so then it's like really three birthdays we're doing for all the kids.
My wife's in heaven, because birthdays, parties, presents, that's her love language.
She loves it.
All right.
Well, I want to go to this, and there's still a lot.
I'm almost hesitant to read it, because there's still so much we don't know, and there's a whole lot of questions.
You know, it's important.
The questions have to be asked, which is why I think it's worth looking at this story.
So this is what we're being told.
Going back to the tragic situation down in Texas.
This is from the Daily Mail.
It says, Frantic parents of the children murdered in their Texas school screamed at law enforcement officers to enter the school and discuss storming the building to rescue their kids.
Harrowing footage shows, and there's some of the footage that's circulating online, I'm not going to play it because it's really not clear, especially if you're just listening to audio, what exactly is happening in the footage.
But the claim anyway is that this was footage taken while the shooting was happening.
And you can see in the footage a whole bunch of police officers, heavily armed, just kind of like standing there.
And what they're doing is just stopping the parents from going in the school.
They don't appear to be doing much of anything else.
It says, it emerged that the gunman was only stopped when authorities obtained a key to open the classroom door.
They couldn't break the door down.
New footage shows the chaotic crowd outside the school as heavily armed sheriffs and law enforcement stand guard and hold them back.
In one case, seemingly wrestling a panic-stricken woman to the ground and pinning her down.
What are you doing?
Get inside the building, one person could be heard screaming.
Another woman could be heard saying, they're trapped inside as howls of pained anguish rang out in the background.
It was unclear what time the footage was shot.
It also emerged Wednesday that Customs and Border Patrol agents who rushed the scene had to grab a key from school staff to open the door of the classroom where the bloodbath took place.
So here's the timeline, according to this Daily Mail article, according to the reports.
The first 911 call was received at 11.32 a.m.
on Tuesday.
This was the 911 call saying, When they saw the guy crash his car, get out with a rifle, and make his way into the door, they got a 9-1-1 call, okay?
The gunman was not killed until 1 p.m.
An hour and a half later, after a Border Patrol agent was given a key to the door.
I've seen other reports that it was like 40 minutes to an hour.
But whether we're talking about an hour, an hour and a half, it's just, it's unthinkable.
And again, a lot of questions already, the picture that we're getting here is quite different from the picture that first emerged, and that's often the case.
As this as you know as kind of the fog parts a little bit things become a little bit clearer
And you start and there's certain details that come out that you didn't know
Initially and that might happen here that clarifies some of this but right now as the story stands
We're looking at potentially 90 minutes between 911 call there's somebody with a rifle going into an
elementary school and then he's not shot dead for an hour and a half half
later and And it's not because the elementary school is out in the middle of nowhere and it took him an hour and a half to get there somehow.
I don't know where an elementary school would have to be located for that to be the case.
But they were there on the scene, according to these reports though, including from parents who were there and are speaking out, they didn't go in the building.
They had to wait for a key?
You don't have a way to break the door down?
What could this scumbag have done to barricade that door that you had no way of opening it?
And did the classroom have windows?
I guess we don't know that, but if it had windows, then why don't you break in the windows?
One thing that we're hearing from some people, especially on social media, that are trying to Make excuses.
It seems to me they're saying, well, protocol, they had to wait for backup.
Well, no, that's actually not protocol.
See, this was a situation in Columbine where you had cops waiting for backup, and ever since then, the protocol has been, you don't wait for backup, you go in, because there are kids being killed right now.
Now, it's one thing if it's a hostage situation, okay?
If no shot has been fired, and there's a guy taking kids hostage in a classroom, Well, now it's a more delicate situation and you might not just rush in there because then you might get the kids killed.
And that's when you get into the hostage negotiation.
But if he's just executing everybody in the room, then you rush in.
There's nothing to think about.
And that does not appear to be what happened here.
And this excuse of they had to wait for a key, it's just mind-boggling.
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on law enforcement tactics or the sort of resources they have at their disposal, but I'm pretty sure that cops have ways of breaking doors down.
Pretty sure they do.
So that doesn't make any sense to me at all.
And by the way, I understand it's easy for me to say, right?
I'm sitting here very comfortably and I'm not the one who has to charge in there into gunfire and, you know, there's a not insignificant chance of getting shot and killed.
So it's easy for me to say, true, but it's still correct that this is your job.
And if you're a police officer and you're too afraid To charge it potentially into gunfire in a situation like this, then get off of the force and get a different job, because this is your job.
Okay, it's just like if there's a plane crash, where things go wrong on the plane, and the pilot just panics and freezes up, and then the plane crashes and kills everybody.
Yeah, it's easy for me to say, well, this is on the pilot.
He should have done his job.
But I'm not a pilot.
That's not the job that I'm taking on.
You take on this responsibility when you decide that you want to become a pilot.
Well, if you're a police officer, this is the responsibility you assume.
It's to handle situations like this.
And I think this is pretty fair.
If you don't want to do it, then don't have the job.
Let someone who is willing to take that risk, take that job.
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 just your... It's almost like a biological impulse.
Okay?
It's one thing if there's some kind of shooting going on back and forth at a drug house or on a street corner between drug dealers.
And you're a little bit more hesitant to get involved there.
But when little kids are being executed, wouldn't every fiber of your being just compel you to go in there?
There's a lot of questions being raised here that need to be answered.
And, um, [BLANK_AUDIO]
You know, immediately after this we heard about one of the one of the first things we heard from the local officials and from the governor is that the first responders were heroic and we should, you know, be thankful to the heroic first responders.
Well, somebody did eventually go in there and kill this guy.
And that person, I don't know, you know, if... One of the reports that we're hearing is that somebody showed up, I think it was what they're saying is a border patrol agent, and he just went in and he took care of it.
And if that's what happened, then yeah, that guy's a hero.
But you're not necessarily a hero just because you're on the scene.
There's nothing heroic about having the job and showing up.
If you're there, sitting outside, because you're too afraid to go in, then that's not heroic.
So maybe we should hold off on just declaring everybody that was there a hero.
Okay?
Because there's a chance here that some of the people were quite the opposite of heroic.
And need to be fired for it, at a minimum.
And I just can't... As I keep saying, there could be other details that come out, but 90 minutes?
It's impossible for me to understand how that could happen.
But here's the other point that I think is really important to make here.
This does not disprove, let's just say if these reports are accurate and there were law enforcement officers on the scene for upwards of 90 minutes waiting outside and not going in.
Does that disprove the good guy with a gun, as the left calls it, the good guy with a gun theory?
Does it disprove that, well, good guys with guns, they're not the solution here?
No, it doesn't.
It proves it, okay?
Because if there are officers, if there are officers with guns outside not going in, and we're all very upset about that, as we should be, why are we upset about that?
Because we know that they could go in with their guns and stop this.
Now, if you don't think that good guys with guns can even do anything anyway, if you think that's not going to solve the problem, then you have no right to be upset at the people that were standing outside the school with their guns not going in, because according to you, they can't solve the problem anyway.
Only if you think and know, obviously, that good guys with guns can solve these kinds of problems, Or at least, at a minimum, greatly mitigate the damage that is done in these situations.
If you believe that, then, of course, you're going to be upset because you know what they could have done.
This is the common theme here, right?
Whether it's a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun, it comes down to the guy and the choices that he makes.
So, right, no one is saying that Just putting a gun into the hand of a good guy is gonna, that's all you have to do.
He has to use it.
And he also, very importantly here, has to know how to use it and has to have the proper training.
But we're going the opposite direction in our country, right?
When you defund the police, you take resources away, that means you're gonna have less training.
And the more that police are villainized and the fewer people who want to become police officers, standards get lowered.
Standards are getting lowered for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.
So you have people that are less fit for the job, they have less training.
So no, the gun in and of itself isn't going to solve the problem any more than the gun in and of itself creates the problem.
What you need are good guys with guns that have proper training and are willing to act.
That's what you need.
And guess what?
If you have those things, then yes, you can prevent a lot of these things from happening in the first place.
And when, God forbid, they do happen, you can greatly mitigate the carnage.
But you need training, you need funding, and you need people that are willing to do what they're supposed to do.
And as I said yesterday, we sent the $40 billion to Ukraine.
And we send billions more to foreign countries every single year.
With that kind of money, you know, what I think maybe you could, there's a lot of training and a lot of equipping that could be done with that kind of money.
All right, Beto O'Rourke showed up at a press conference yesterday.
The press conference was supposed to be the governor updating people about the shooting, but Beto decided to use this press conference about dead children to grandstand and pull a political stunt to help his campaign.
We have a little bit of that footage.
Let's watch that.
Excuse me.
Sit down.
You're out of line and an embarrassment.
Sit down and don't play this stuff.
Sir, you're out of line.
Please get this out of here. This isn't a place to talk this over.
This is totally predictable.
Sir, you're out of line. Sir, you're out of line.
Sir, you're out of line. Please leave this auditorium.
Sir, you can exit.
I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch that would come to a deal like this to make a political issue.
It's only because you're a sick son of a bitch like you.
Why don't you get out of here?
[indistinct chatter]
[BLANK_AUDIO]
So that's Beto just using 19 dead children as a stage for a political stunt.
And that, of course, is all that is.
There's no, obviously, no excusing that whatsoever.
You want to get up and make your point about Governor Abbott, whatever dumb point you have to make.
Well, Beto O'Rourke is very good at finding cameras.
He's not very good at much of anything else, but he can find cameras, get himself in front of cameras, and so you could have your own little press conference, do whatever you want.
But this was a press conference.
This was not a political rally or something like that.
This was a press conference updating people about this situation.
And Beto O'Rourke shows up, and the reporting is that, no surprise here, this was all planned and staged ahead of time.
Apparently, this is even mainstream media reporting, surprisingly, saying that he sent in people, Beto did, ahead of time to 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.
You know, there's like 15 minutes where everybody's milling around and getting set up, and he didn't want to be there because it would maybe tip people off.
So he sent people in to save him the seat, and then he snuck in there, and then he did his little Routine.
Governor Abbott, after the fact, responded to this outburst, and here's what he said.
There are family members.
There are family members who are crying as we speak.
There are family members whose hearts are broken.
There's no words that anybody shouting can come up here and do anything to heal those broken hearts.
We all, every Texan, every American has a responsibility where we need to focus not on ourselves and our agendas.
We need to focus on the healing and hope that we can provide to those who have suffered unconscionable damage to their lives and loss of life.
We need all Texans.
To, in this one moment in time, put aside personal agendas, think of somebody other than ourselves, think about the people who were hurt, and help those who have been hurt.
Those are nice thoughts, but the problem is that Beto O'Rourke is incapable of thinking of anyone but himself.
He's just totally incapable of that.
And this is, we're being led by people like this.
Now, we're not being led by Beto O'Rourke because he keeps running for office and losing, but we're being led by people like Beto O'Rourke that even when kids are killed in a mass shooting, he still cannot... It's an instinctive reaction.
How can I use this?
Oh, this is what he's thinking.
This is an opportunity for a publicity stunt.
We probably sit around in a room with people talking about this.
How can we use this?
How can we use this for PR?
What are our PR opportunities here?
And look, I know that it's cliche at this point to complain about the politicization and the exploitation of tragedy, but Just because it's a cliché doesn't mean it's not true.
In fact, it is because it is true that this has become a cliché.
And yes, as long as politicians have existed, you've had politicians exploiting tragedy.
But when this is like everybody leading the country in the government, when they're all like this, when they don't even seem to have anywhere within them The human instinct to actually be upset and sad and mourn over lost life, when they don't even have that in them.
And when your whole government is run by people like this, that's when it becomes a major problem.
And speaking of which, Barack Obama, speaking of people who are totally empty inside, here's what he tweeted.
And this, honest to God, I saw this and I just stared at it for a minute because I thought this has got to be This is so on the nose.
There's just, did he really tweet this?
This has got to be some kind of Photoshop, some kind of joke, but it's not.
So Barack Obama tweeted, as we grieve the children of Yuvaldi today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer.
His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.
Anyway, he continues.
In the aftermath of his murder, a new generation of activists rose up to challenge their anguish into organized action, launching a movement to raise awareness of blah blah blah.
Okay, I don't give a damn.
He's tying it into George Floyd.
Because Barack Obama was upset.
I guess yesterday was, what, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death, and people weren't talking about that, so he wanted to find a way to loop it all back around.
Hey, I know you guys are mourning today over the fact that 20 children were killed, but remember George Floyd?
That's what we really should be talking about.
Okay, George Floyd was a violent criminal lowlife, hopped up on fentanyl, Who died while resisting arrest because he was trying to pass counterfeit bills.
And you're putting him in the same sentence as innocent children who were slaughtered in mass at school?
Like these are comparable in any way whatsoever?
After he tweeted this, of course the left is defending him, and I started seeing these other articles that have been written recently.
There was one, I think it was in the Atlantic, I don't remember, lamenting the fact that, well, George Floyd's memory is fading.
We're all forgetting about George Floyd already.
Well, first of all, I wish.
But second, why shouldn't it fade?
Why should we remember his death exactly?
No one's ever really explained that.
Like, lots of people die in this country every single day.
And there are certain people who are worthy of being remembered and mourned by the entire nation.
And many of them are not, though.
But there are certain people who are worthy of that.
All the children who were killed in the mass shooting.
Yes, remember and mourn them, the entire nation, the entire world.
That is a tragedy worthy Of, and which calls to be remembered and mourned.
But George Floyd, just some criminal scumbag?
Who forced his way into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint?
And despite what we're told, no, he never cleaned his life up.
Well, he cleaned his life up, but he died, hopped up on fentanyl trying to pass counterfeit bills.
Like that's how he cleaned his life up?
No, it's just a criminal.
A man who was a predator.
Preyed on his own community.
Never contributed anything worthwhile to his community.
Only contributed fear and crime and violence to it.
Oh, we're forgetting George Floyd.
So?
That would actually be a sign of progress.
It is a sick society that remembers, that specially remembers and mourns somebody like George Floyd.
And it's an even sicker society that puts him on the same level and puts his death at the same level of tragedy as 20 kids who were killed.
But this is all kind of, it's like wishful thinking because in actuality George Floyd is not being forgotten and he's the one, he still has his monuments and streets named after him and he's going to have schools named after him soon enough and he's got the murals No, it's these kids who were killed.
They're the ones.
Outrageously, tragically, like, who end up getting forgotten almost immediately.
All right.
What else we got here?
So there's a clip I wanted to play for you.
I think we have time.
Okay, I'm just gonna play this.
This is a leftist teacher who I guess is a coach to young kids, some kind of coach.
And she recorded herself Teaching the kids about her insane pronoun nonsense.
I just want you to listen to a little bit.
It's actually quite instructive to hear this.
And she decided to record it herself and put it on TikTok.
And let's listen.
No matter what your gender identity is, you are okay exactly the way you are.
And you are loved.
It feels good to be yourself, doesn't it?
The end.
How did your girls like this book?
Really good.
What are you?
I am like JJ.
So I'm not a boy or a girl.
So I have a question.
Do you know what you call... How do you refer to a girl?
You say she, right?
You say she is funny.
And when you're talking to a boy, what do you say?
He.
And what should you say if you're talking to someone who is not a boy or a girl?
Do you know?
They are funny.
Where are you?
If you're saying she is funny for a girl and you say he is funny for a boy,
for somebody who's neither you can say they are funny. Can you practice saying that?
So when you're talking about coach Corolli who is not a boy or a girl what should you say?
Exactly, I'm not a boy or a girl so what should you say instead of he or she?
Good job!
Or they are my coach.
I'm neither.
I am what the book calls non-binary.
Can you say non-binary?
I'm neither.
You're a boy and a girl and that's okay, right?
Yeah, you can be both or you can be neither.
So, once again, yet another example.
They keep recording themselves doing this, and they're so proud of it, and they put it online, and they, of course, have no self-awareness at all, which is the enduring irony with these people, because they're totally obsessed with themselves, and all they think about is themselves, but they also have no awareness of themselves, which is very interesting.
There's something to be said about that, like the more that you obsess over yourself and think about yourself, the less aware of yourself you actually are.
But anyway, And they put this online, and so they don't realize that this just completely... On top of they are telling on themselves and revealing themselves to be groomers, and they're showing off how creepy and disgusting they are, it also undermines their entire premise, because you can hear the kids.
They audibly have no idea what's being said to them.
They're just repeating it.
And then you hear one of these little kids in the background says, I'm a boy and a girl.
And she latches onto that and affirms it.
Oh, you're a boy and a girl, yes.
The kid has no idea, he's just saying words like all little kids do.
And if you were to have a follow-up question and say, what do you mean by that?
How are you a boy and a girl?
He wouldn't be able to explain it.
Of course, because he's just a little kid.
So even though we only heard the audio, we didn't see the visual there, you could just imagine these kids just kind of sitting there wide-eyed, you know, sitting Indian style, if I can still say that, on the carpet, looking up at the teacher, wide-eyed, just kind of nodding their heads, uh, okay, okay.
No clue what's being said to them.
And that's how the indoctrination always works.
Let's get now to the comment section.
Mark says, "Matt, what are pixie sticks?"
You gotta be kidding me, Mark.
Don't?
How old are you?
Do Pixie Sticks not exist anymore?
I think they still exist, right?
This is kids these days.
When I was a kid, this is the kind of thing that we subsisted on, Pixie Sticks.
And what I would in fact do...
Is I would, you know, I'd get an allowance and my allowance was like, I think it was like $5.
It's like $5 a quarter, you know, every several months I get five bucks, but I would save it up and then I would go to, you know, like the drugstore and I'd get candy.
And oftentimes they had these pixie sticks that were, there was the more normal pixie sticks, which were the size of about a pencil and all it was was just sugar.
Then we also had these, and I don't see these anymore, okay, so kids don't know about these, but it's like these pixie sticks that were the size of a rope, like a jump rope.
And it was just a tube full of sugar, and you would just chug those things.
And that was allowed back in the 90s, back in the good old days.
Modern Papist says, what, or Papist, however you pronounce, whatever your preferred pronunciation is, what the shooter did was terrible, but we aren't to hope someone burns in hell, even if they are our enemy.
We're called to pray for our enemies.
We should pray for these souls that died, including the shooter.
We should pray for the families of those that lost someone.
We should pray for the kids that were traumatized.
God will judge accordingly.
Yes, you're correct.
I recognize that you're correct on an intellectual level, When you're dealing with, I guess, maybe unlike you, I just don't have the capacity when I'm confronting evil at that level.
I'll fully admit, I don't have the capacity for mercy or forgiveness with that kind of evil.
David says, when they say this is a hill worth dying on, they forget one key element.
You're dying on that hill, not for it.
Hills are defensible positions from which you protect the entire land.
By refusing to die on a hill, you're putting at risk everything which lies behind it.
That's a very good point.
I wish I had thought of it.
But thank you for that, David.
Spencer says, What would be more of a nightmare for you?
Finding out that aliens do exist but never meeting one in your lifetime or not being able to grow a beard for the rest of your life?
Well, finding out that aliens exist but we can't meet them is not a nightmare at all.
I actually, the only thing I would make, you know, I've often thought about how that would affect people.
It's got, because when you think about the, you know, watch all the sci-fi movies and everything, it's usually aliens come here and they land and how is that going to work?
But if we ever do become really aware of the existence of an alien civilization, more than likely it'll come in a way where we're not able to actually make contact.
Maybe some kind of radio signal or something like that.
And I've often thought about, well, how would that affect the world?
Not if aliens land here, but just if, let's just say hypothetically, We were to get 100% confirmation, undeniable confirmation, that there is an intelligent alien civilization out there somewhere in another solar system, but we'll never encounter them.
But we know that they're there.
How would that affect us?
And the nightmare, the depressing thing, is that, of course, as I've realized, especially over the last few weeks, it would not affect us at all.
Nobody would care at all.
We would just go about our lives like it doesn't matter.
And Mike says, Matt's reaction to the shooting is painfully predictable.
It's simple.
USA both has more guns than any other country and more mass shootings.
As well, the USA doesn't seem to take care of its lost souls as well as other countries do.
Well, Mike, I'm glad you brought that up because that, everything you just said there is completely false.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellations.
It always feels like cheating to use a clip from The View for the daily cancellation, but sometimes it's unavoidable, such as the case here, where a one-minute exchange between the squawking hens on The View serves as a convenient rundown of all of the major misnomers and false narratives that we've been hearing over the past 24 hours.
And this is the great and sacred purpose of this show, I think, the public service it provides.
It gives you a condensed, even more simplified summary of every dumb thing the left is saying about any given subject.
And that is certainly the case here.
And I'll let Whoopi take it away.
Listen.
That's the question.
What are we doing?
Cuz why are we always at square one with this?
And I swear to God, if I see another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken, I'm gonna go punch somebody.
I can't take it in their thoughts and prayers.
If your thoughts and prayers were really with everybody, you'd have done something by now.
It's not like anybody's not trying to make this happen.
What the hell is going on?
I want them to stop gaslighting me, also.
Stop saying it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people.
It's guns that kill people, okay?
Stop saying the opposite.
Stop saying that mental illness is behind this.
There's mental illness in every country in the world and they don't have this problem.
So stop gaslighting me on that one.
And stop saying that you can have a good guy stop a bad guy with a gun.
We have seen in both of these shootings in the past three weeks that a good guy tried and could not do it.
And he was murdered for it.
So stop gaslighting us.
Well, that about sums it up.
Again, everything you heard there is standard leftist boilerplate.
We hear all this after every mass shooting, and we've heard it all incessantly since the shooting in Texas, so let's go through it.
First, we get the complaints about thoughts and prayers.
You know, forget about your thoughts and prayers.
They say we need to do something.
But if you're religious, as at least a few of those women on The View claim to be, and as many of the people who complain about thoughts and prayers claim to be, then you should know that praying is doing something.
It shouldn't be the only thing you do.
You should do other things along with praying.
But praying is something.
And the good thing is that nobody's ever argued that all we should do is pray.
But in the immediate moments after a travesty like this, unless you're physically on the scene and actively involved in that way, there may be nothing else you can do in that moment, at that exact time, but pray.
Okay?
Like, in the five minutes after you hear about something like this, that happened a thousand miles away.
It's, I want to do something.
Well, in that exact moment, For most people, there's probably almost nothing you could do in those five minutes.
But you can pray.
And why shouldn't you?
It's a good thing.
This is not an either-or choice.
It's not mutually exclusive.
Praying doesn't prevent you from taking physical action.
So what exactly is the complaint here?
Do we really think that the problem in our society is that we're praying too much?
Is that the source of our troubles, really?
As for doing something, what do you want to do?
The just-do-something mentality is a scourge on our nation and on our body politic.
No, we do not want our lawmakers simply doing things.
They already do a lot of things.
Contrary to popular belief, they're not doing nothing.
They're doing a lot of things.
It's just that most of what they do is ineffectual, wasteful, and often actively harmful and counterproductive.
There's nothing wrong with offering your prayers after a mass shooting.
There is something wrong with shouting into the void, somebody do something!
That's a phrase that I would really like to stop hearing.
No problem is solved by doing something.
Problems are solved by doing particular things.
Okay?
It's like if you have a flat tire, you're not going to solve it just by doing something.
That's a particular problem, very small problem, and it'll be solved in a certain particular way.
And that's true of every little small problem you encounter in your life.
You don't solve it just by randomly taking action.
You solve it with targeted action.
And that's also true of the very big problems in our society.
And the reality is that the particular things the gun control proponents want to do, if you can even get them to propose any particular things, will not actually prevent mass shootings.
And have not prevented them, as we discussed yesterday.
A lot of these somethings have already been put in place in many states and cities across America, and yet shootings still occur.
And occur quite often.
Next, we hear that it's not people who kill people, but guns.
And this is false, of course.
The inverse cliche doesn't really work either.
In truth, it's people with guns who kill people.
But it's also people without guns who kill people.
People without guns kill people.
People with guns kill people.
The common denominator here is what?
People.
Human choices, human behavior kills people.
And so, as we've been harping on, we have to get to the bottom of the human behavior if we really want to make a dent in this problem.
And finally, and here's the talking point I want to spend some time with.
We hear that this doesn't happen in other countries.
And I've heard this over and over and over again since Tuesday.
This doesn't happen in other countries, they say.
We're the only country where this sort of thing happens.
What sort of thing?
I suppose they mean mass casualty attacks.
In fact, The Onion on Wednesday changed their homepage so that every headline on the whole site says, no way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.
This is a very common claim.
The United States is unique across the entire world in this respect, the left says.
Are they right?
Of course they aren't.
I mean, not even a little bit.
Okay?
It's not even a little right.
In fact, just south of the border this week, a guy in Mexico shot up a hotel, killing 11 people.
That was this week.
Okay?
This week.
And yet we're told this only happens in America?
That's not even true this week!
In fact, mass casualty attacks happen all the time in Mexico and all across Central and South America.
They happen quite famously in the Middle East and all over Africa, many parts of Asia.
Indeed, to make the claim that we're the only country where this kind of thing happens, you must disregard from the outset the vast majority of the globe and the vast majority of the people living on it.
That seems like a rather important qualifier that the person claiming we're the only place where this happens should mention.
They should stipulate that by, when they say only place, They mean the only place if you don't count almost the entire world.
Of course, the mass shootings in a place like Mexico are often different than they are here, in the sense that they're, well, they're the same in that the victims, there still are victims who are being killed, but the attacks in Mexico are almost always cartel-related.
If you go to somewhere like East Africa, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab is usually responsible.
In other parts of the world, it's a different terror cell or a different crime network.
And that's because young, violent, hopeless, nihilistic men in Mexico are likely to end up working for cartels.
In East Africa, they're going to find Al-Shabaab as their outlet.
In America, they either end up joining street gangs or they stay isolated in their mom's basement until one day they explode.
Different manifestations, but a similar phenomenon.
This is the reason By the way, why rankings of school shootings are irrelevant.
You've perhaps seen that Wikipedia list floating around showing that America has hundreds of school shootings while Afghanistan has had only three.
What they neglect to mention is Afghanistan also only has like three people in school.
There are lots of murders, lots of mass slaughter happening in that country and in many of these other countries that have very few school shootings.
It just doesn't happen at school very often.
Because school isn't a big part of their culture.
As we said, different manifestations, but still the same sort of thing.
The same sort of terrible thing.
Now, I made this point on Twitter yesterday, and I was immediately informed that my argument isn't valid, because when people say that we're the only place in the world where this happens, they really, of course, just mean among Western countries.
That's a bit awkward, isn't it?
So, what you're saying is that only the predominantly white countries count?
Is that... So, when you say the entire world, you're actually just talking about the white world.
Now, I don't agree with you that only the white countries count, only the predominantly white countries count, but let's just pretend that I do.
Is it true that we're the only country in the Western world where this happens?
No.
In fact, a ranking of annual death rate per million from mass shootings in North America and Europe, according to World Population Review, puts us at number 11 behind Czech Republic, Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Albania, Macedonia, France, Serbia, and Norway.
Now you could point out that Norway makes the list, in fact it tops the list, largely because of one major attack back in 2011.
That's true.
But that's what happens when you measure this on a per capita basis, which you have to, because Norway has 5 million people and we have 330 million people.
So if you're going to compare us in the number of people that are killed in mass shootings, the only fair way to do it is per capita.
If you're measuring, like, the number of people who do anything, we're going to beat Norway on every measure for everything because we have so many more people than them.
So when you measure it by per capita basis, the United States does not really stand out.
In fact, John Lott with the Crime Prevention Research Center published a report about two years ago on this subject, and here's what it says in the abstract.
It says the US is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings and the global increase
over Time has become has been much bigger than for the United
States over the 20 years from 1998 to 2017 our list contains
2772 attacks and at least By our count, the U.S.
makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders, and 2.19% of their attacks.
All these are much less than the U.S.' within our country.
By our count, the US makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders,
and 2.19% of their attacks.
All of these are much less than the US's 4.6% share of the world population.
Attacks in the U.S.
are not only less frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average.
Out of the 101 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 66th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 56th in murder rate.
Not only have these attacks been much more common outside the U.S., the U.S.' 's share of these attacks has declined over time.
And this is all the case Even though the U.S.
is unique at having such a large and demographically mixed population.
So what does this prove?
That we don't have a problem?
That we should do nothing to protect our kids in school?
Obviously not.
All it proves is that the narrative from the left is false.
And the fact that it's false is important.
Because the truth is important.
So when they say we're the only country where this happens, that is not true on any level, by any measure, no matter how you're looking at it.
And you cannot solve a problem by misrepresenting it.
But of course, they're not trying to solve the problem.
They're trying to exploit it.
And that's an entirely different thing from solving it.
And that is why all of the people pushing these false narratives, not just the women on The View, though perhaps especially them, for this and many other reasons, are cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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