Nov. 1, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
09:40
| 
| Time | Text |
|---|---|
| A man who's, is he still on the loose? | |
| Is that the latest? | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| They know who he is. | |
| And murdered 18 people injured. | |
| I don't like wounded. | |
| Wounded is, you know, sounds too mild. | |
| 22. Excuse me, 18. | |
| It was originally I read 22. | |
| Human being murdered 18 people randomly. | |
| Are there any gun laws that would have stopped him now? | |
| I always ask that when people immediately go to guns. | |
| They say he's mentally ill. | |
| He was in a mental institution until recently. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know what to tell you. | |
| I hate that because I really like to tell you. | |
| I like to explain life. | |
| I like to give you theories that are plausible. | |
| Is there some uptick in mental illness in this country? | |
| If so, why? | |
| Is it the processed food they're eating? | |
| I doubt it. | |
| Within mental illness, how many mentally ill people yearn to murder as many people as possible? | |
| Do they know it's wrong? | |
| Does mental illness preclude you from knowing that it is wrong? | |
| If this guy, whom I would personally execute if the call came out, For volunteers to execute a person, I would volunteer. | |
| I passionately, rationally, morally believe in capital punishment for murder. | |
| A society that treats murderers gently is a society that has lost its ability to be shocked by the worst crime, murder. | |
| I just finished literally last night. | |
| I finished the fourth of the five-book commentary on the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, my rational Bible. | |
| Now it goes to editor after editor after editor so that there is not even a hope, not often there's no hope, not even a chance, although that still is not perfect, of any errors. | |
| And there is a law that if you kill somebody, now, obviously, if you kill somebody premeditatedly, you're put to death. | |
| It's the only law in all five books of the Bible. | |
| But what does the Bible know, huh? | |
| We're much wiser. | |
| We keep all murderers alive and think we're moral giants for doing so. | |
| I don't. | |
| Anyway, if you killed somebody and it was any at all negligent, you went to a city of refuge. | |
| So that would be a good example of the drunk driver. | |
| Negligence. | |
| It wasn't deliberate. | |
| It wasn't premeditated. | |
| Didn't even know his victims or her victims. | |
| But still, something terrible happened. | |
| Innocent human beings were killed. | |
| Stalin is supposedly the person who said, "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." Everybody... | |
| one thing that I think unites left and right, and almost nothing unites left and right, Is horror at this mass shooting. | |
| But we have different reactions. | |
| Guns is the primary reaction on the left. | |
| I don't know why he did it. | |
| It is obvious if he were mentally ill to the point of where we could relate to understanding the term, he wouldn't be fleeing. | |
| It's an odd thing. | |
| You're mentally ill enough to murder men, women, and children in a bowling alley. | |
| But you're not that mentally ill that you figure out how to, at least for days, evade the police. | |
| So there's some degree of our choosing. | |
| What mental illness is? | |
| See, I don't know that murdering people is wrong, but I do know that I don't want to get caught. | |
| Okay, then look, it's possible. | |
| And again, I asked, why is there an uptick in mental illness? | |
| I'll tell you what there is an uptick in. | |
| And I think it is related to... | |
| The number of mass shootings. | |
| But it may not be. | |
| I just offer this for conjecture. | |
| This is a society that is embracing chaos. | |
| So the mentally fragile in a chaotic society will act chaotically. | |
| Did this man have any social bond? | |
| Was he married? | |
| Do you know? | |
| Do we know? | |
| There's no mention of a wife, right? | |
| Right. | |
| George Gilder, in a book that I've been actually advertising recently. | |
| What is the new title? | |
| Men in Marriage? | |
| Yeah. | |
| So I read it in high school, the original edition. | |
| Sexual Suicide and Naked Nomads. | |
| Two different books. | |
| And he pointed out, he said, the one thing that... | |
| The largest percentage of men and women at age 40 who have never been married are living in America today. | |
| The largest percentage ever recorded of never married. | |
| Think that's a factor? | |
| Never church is a factor? | |
| Or is it all mental illness? | |
| People were not mentally ill in the 1930s and 40s? | |
| You know that people were happier? | |
| I read this to you. | |
| The data, there was less suicide and less depression during the depression than today. | |
| Because people had bonds. | |
| There was no chaos reigning around them in their lives. | |
| This chaos. | |
| The left creates chaos. | |
| It loves it. | |
| Because their inner life and conscience are chaotic. | |
| So, chaos breeds chaos. | |
| That's my take. | |
| Mental illness alone just doesn't do it for me. | |
| Maybe it is. | |
| I'd like to know if the man was on any medicines. | |
| I'm not against psychiatric drugs. | |
| I'm also less inclined to think that they have no ill effects than I once was. | |
| Well, it's certainly not the ubiquity of guns. | |
| Guns were available to Americans. | |
| In the early part of the 20th century, and there was so little of this, my heart breaks for these people. | |
| I know that many of you differ with me. | |
| I believe God made a world in which randomness, or luck if you will, does play a role. | |
| I don't think God chose every one of those 18 to die. | |
| If you don't believe there's any luck in life, that's your belief. | |
| I respect you. | |
| I find the belief untenable. | |
| I believe there's an afterlife where things are worked out and some divine justice. |
Export Selection