Dec. 1, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
06:27
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| The fact that Newsom would even agree to a debate representing a deteriorating state versus the most free and energetic state in the Union. | |
| The very fact that he would show up shows you that he believes That the truth doesn't matter. | |
| That's the only way to explain his appearance. | |
| So listen to the crime debate part. | |
| Let's look at the issue of crime. | |
| FBI numbers violent crime nationally for each of your states. | |
| Keep in mind this statistic shows what is the combined rate of homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault the year 2022. On the national level. | |
| The rate was 380.7 offenses per 100,000 people. | |
| In California, meanwhile, the rate was much higher, 499.5 offenses per 100,000. | |
| In Florida, lower, 258.9 offenses per 100,000. | |
| Governor Newsom, let me start with you. | |
| Your numbers are way higher than the national average. | |
| How do you explain that when safety and security, I would argue, is a prerequisite for the pursuit of happiness? | |
| Well, I couldn't agree with you more. | |
| We're near 50-year lows, down 55% violent crimes in the state of California from the 1990s. | |
| And I want to compare and contrast that with the issue in Florida that you didn't mention, and that's the murder rate. | |
| And let's broaden it more broadly. | |
| The issue is seven out of the top ten... | |
| Those numbers were part of the murder rate. | |
| Seven of the top ten murder rates in the United States of America are red states. | |
| He has a 66%... | |
| There's a higher gun death rate than the state of California. | |
| There's a higher murder rate. | |
| Go to places like Jacksonville. | |
| Go to places like Orlando. | |
| Go to places like Tampa. | |
| The murder rate's off the charts compared to cities like San Francisco. | |
| And you know what? | |
| Even more egregiously, Sean, and I think this is important, the American people deserve an answer from you, Ron. | |
| You had one of the worst mass shootings in American history, Parkland. | |
| Seventeen kids were gunned down. | |
| Lives lost. | |
| Seventeen others, lives torn asunder. | |
| You had a young girl by the name of Jamie Gutenberg, whose father pleaded with you to do something about it. | |
| And you know what you did? | |
| You did the exact opposite. | |
| You made it easier for felons to get guns without background checks, without any training. | |
| These people pleaded with you, parents and the families, to get tough on gun safety. | |
| And again, you made it easier for felons. | |
| He said of you, Ron, and I agree with him. | |
| After... | |
| After you sign that concealed carry bill, which increases the likelihood, Fred Gutenberg said, of more Jamies losing their lives and more Parklands, he called you weak, pathetic, and small. | |
| So with respect, I appreciate your talking to police officers in the state of California. | |
| You may want to spend a little bit more time, not... | |
| On the Ohio Trail and other places across this country, you may have spent a little more time back in your home state and addressed the murder and gun violence. | |
| Okay, so before he answers, this is awesome. | |
| Newsom was awesome. | |
| He has doubled the violent crime rate of Florida, and he gets out of it. | |
| You allowed a concealed weapons thing. | |
| To differ with a parent who lost a child is very difficult. | |
| There is no pain like that on earth. | |
| But the fact that you suffer doesn't make you right, obviously. | |
| There's an old Holocaust survivor who's pro-Hamas. | |
| The woman is sick. | |
| Maybe the Holocaust... | |
| Caused her to be psychologically disturbed. | |
| But you're not right and you're not wrong if you have suffered. | |
| Suffering does not give you correctness of a position. | |
| People who've suffered have opposite positions. | |
| So how do you judge on who suffered more? | |
| So it's somewhat demagogic to cite... | |
| A left-wing parent who tragically and beyond belief, sadly, his daughter was murdered. | |
| So there are people who believe that if more people, more responsible people get concealed weapon permits, you might have a better chance of killing a mass shooter. | |
| Right? | |
| I mean, is that not an argument? | |
| now loosening its gun laws or tightening its gun laws? | |
| Is a killer more likely to attack a school that says a gun-free zone or one, we allow concealed weapons on this campus? we allow concealed weapons on this campus? | |
| Which do you think a murderer is more likely to go to, Mr. Gutenberg? | |
| Anyway, he didn't answer. | |
| He picks Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. | |
| We're talking about the state. | |
| On this line that the left gives, there's more of this crime in red states. | |
| The issue is not red states. | |
| The issue is red cities or blue cities. | |
| It's demagogic to speak of the state. | |
| Rural New York is not dangerous. | |
| New York City is. | |
| Rural Oregon is not dangerous. | |
| Portland is. | |
| Businesses aren't being smashed and stolen SUVs driven through windows in small cities, which are overwhelmingly conservative. | |
| Oh, God, to listen to this stuff. | |
| I should get paid more. | |
| Never said that in 40 years. |
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