Dennis Prager Show - Another Senseless Mass Shooting
Aired: 2024-02-16
Duration: 07:00


=== Never Explain Gun Control (03:52) ===

[00:00:01]  Do they have anybody yet?
[00:00:03]  Any suspects that they've named in Kansas City?
[00:00:08]  People go to celebrate a Super Bowl win and somebody...
[00:00:14]  Is it more than one person who was shooting?
[00:00:17]  Even that's not clear?
[00:00:19]  Whoever did it, apparently it was just a desire to kill people.
[00:00:30]  There was no other aim.
[00:00:35]  So the usual, of course, you don't care about these people if you don't want to do something about guns.
[00:00:44]  They never explained to me, never, I'm really going out here, I'm taking a risk saying this because The answer may be so obvious that it will reflect poorly on me.
[00:01:00]  But I'm willing to do it because I have been discussing this for almost half a century.
[00:01:06]  Whenever I hear common sense gun control, that'll do it.
[00:01:11]  Okay?
[00:01:12]  I'm really into common sense.
[00:01:15]  So I would like to know what law could have been passed that would have...
[00:01:25]  Rendered any given murder impossible.
[00:01:29]  If a person is an adult, has not stolen the gun, or if they did steal the gun, that certainly, obviously, the laws did nothing about that.
[00:01:39]  There's nothing they can do.
[00:01:41]  They stole a gun.
[00:01:41]  But let's say they bought the gun.
[00:01:45]  What would have prevented them from getting a gun?
[00:01:49]  What law?
[00:01:52]  That's why, since I never get an answer to that, there are background checks.
[00:01:58]  I have a gun, and there was an extensive background check done on me before the gun was delivered to the gun store to be given to me.
[00:02:09]  There are background checks.
[00:02:13]  So I read all the time that at gun shows, you can get a gun immediately.
[00:02:18]  I have no idea if that's true.
[00:02:20]  But let's say it's true.
[00:02:21]  Okay, maybe there should be a background check at a gun show.
[00:02:25]  How many murders have been committed by people who got a gun at a gun show?
[00:02:32]  The only thing that you could argue is full confiscation.
[00:02:36]  Make it illegal, as it is essentially, except for a handful of people who are what are called sportsmen, to have guns.
[00:02:49]  But it's not possible.
[00:02:51]  The barn door has been opened too long.
[00:02:54]  You can't do that.
[00:02:55]  And by the way, there is truth to the Second Amendment protects the First Amendment.
[00:03:03]  People don't want to believe that either.
[00:03:05]  They want to believe that the state will always be a benevolent force.
[00:03:10]  That's what the left believes, because they believe in power.
[00:03:14]  And if you have a gun, they don't have as much power as they want.
[00:03:18]  The state should have all the power.
[00:03:21]  All possibility of armament should be in the state's possession.
[00:03:29]  They're the only ones who should be armed.
[00:03:33]  What you're saying is there's no chance that despicable human beings will ever take over the government.

=== Naive About Human Nature (03:22) ===

[00:03:39]  Only good people will run the government.
[00:03:44]  That is why you have to be naive to be a leftist.
[00:03:48]  You have to be a lot of things that are troubling, but that is a criterion.
[00:03:53]  You have to be naive about human nature.
[00:03:55]  You have to live in la-la land, in diversity, equity, inclusion land.
[00:04:01]  I want to know who did this horrific thing. - Thank you.
[00:04:13]  The ability of one or two people to ruin things is so an unfair part of the human condition.
[00:04:26]  How few people can destroy everything for so many?
[00:04:33]  What type of human being does it take to see people celebrating a football game win?
[00:04:42]  And then shoot at children.
[00:04:45]  By the way, the same question would apply to shooting at adults.
[00:04:52]  I'm really, really curious.
[00:04:56]  I hope they catch these people because these questions need to be asked.
[00:05:01]  I should say they need to be asked and they need to be answered.
[00:05:07]  Wasn't there some heroic person here who jumped on top of the...
[00:05:12]  On top of one of the shooters or the shooter?
[00:05:14]  It's very sad.
[00:05:23]  It's very sad on every level.
[00:05:25]  There was a reporter for a local station who was murdered, this woman, a mother...
[00:05:30]  She was a reporter.
[00:05:31]  A reporter?
[00:05:32]  She wasn't a reporter?
[00:05:33]  She was a DJ. Oh, DJ, yeah.
[00:05:36]  That's right, a DJ. On a philosophical note, I believe it was her bad luck that she was killed.
[00:05:51]  I don't believe it was God's will.
[00:05:54]  And I'm a very religious person.
[00:05:57]  Deep believer in God.
[00:06:00]  God made a world in which bad things can happen to good people.
[00:06:03]  otherwise he would have made us robots.
[00:06:07]  It's interesting how many religious people want to deny that there's an element of luck in life.
[00:06:19]  Thank you.
[00:06:20]  Thank you.
[00:06:23]  You're hit by a drunk driver and it was God's will, so it was God's will that the person get drunk and drive as well.
[00:06:30]  It's God's will that this person shoot.
[00:06:36]  God governs the universe.
[00:06:38]  but God doesn't control everything that human beings do.
[00:06:42]  The other thing I think always when this happens is I wish a person is caught.
[00:06:54]  So...
[00:06:56]  If it's the right person, convicted quickly and then executed.