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April 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Last week the first amendment was under assault.
This week the second amendment is under assault.
Media templates have been set in stone.
They started last night, yesterday afternoon, even, in regards to the uh the the the this this massacre at Virginia Tech.
And before anything was known, before any of the facts were known, is one of the reasons I didn't talk much about this yesterday is because it was all breaking at the time.
And had I echoed what I was seeing in the drive-by media yesterday, I would have been wrong in part.
So, as I mentioned yesterday, sitting around uh and just waiting to gather all the information here.
And it's it was it has been it has been utterly predictable, and it has been utterly fascinating at the same time to watch the drive-by media coverage of this of this massacre, this this uh some people are calling it a tragedy.
I I'm even having a problem with calling it a tragedy.
A tragedy was a tornado or a hurricane run you down.
This is an act of pure evil.
Uh this is an act of pure evil on the part of one person that has nothing to do with American society, it has nothing to do with anybody else who was not involved, and yet the media template is etched in stone here.
We have found out that the killer had chains and a lock to keep his victims from escaping.
He had two pistols, one of which he bought back in March or April.
He had a vest filled with ammunition, and somehow some kind of gun control law was going to stop him from killing these people.
That frankly is absurd, and I urge all of you to resist the group think on this.
That has been uh part, I don't care what network you watch, that has been the template.
The second amendment uh and gun control here.
This is that we we need more gun control if we would have had gun control.
Why uh this wouldn't have happened.
Virginia's the headquarters of the NRA, and this is this is uh this is gonna bring this all back.
The bottom line here is that every event, regardless how bad, how large or how small, is covered through the politics prism now.
Everything's being looked at here through the prism of politics rather than looking at this for what it is.
The shooter bought his first gun, a nine millimeter handgun on March 13th, his second weapon, a 22 caliber handgun within the last week.
Uh, this is according to ABC News, and their source here is law enforcement officials.
Uh none of this argues at all for the concept that gun control would have prevented any of this.
This was not a spur-of-the-moment crime.
It was not something done in a flash instant.
There was preparation here.
This guy was gonna get a gun.
He was able to buy it, but he was gonna get a gun regardless.
He had it in his mind to do this.
So last week the first amendment's under attack.
This week it's now the second amendment, and it is terrible how uh an event like this can be so contorted to meet a political end.
But that is the primary reason for all of the coverage is to meet a political end.
There are several news uh templates in newsrooms.
The Duke Lacrosse case is a representative of a great template, the IMA situation is another template, and so is this.
They've just released uh details or some details of the of the note that the gunman left behind, and in the note uh isn't this classic.
Uh he rails against rich kids and the debauchery of American society.
Now, who cares what this guy thinks other than a bunch of psychologists and psychiatrists who might want to examine this for the textbooks.
But this is the kind of thing that does not happen in this country every day.
This is extraordinary, which is why the reaction that we're all having to it is as it is.
This doesn't happen every day in this country.
This is not what America is.
This event does not provide a microcosm of the evils and horrors of American society.
So you've got this kid that went nuts here, uh for whatever reason, in a suicide note, railing against rich kids and the debauchery of society, and wait till the drive by's pick up on that and start extrapolating that into the other templates that exist in their newsrooms as to what's wrong with American society.
I don't know what his grievance was against rich kids.
I have no clue, and we won't know and until the details of this noter are uh are spelled out.
Uh everybody that the drive-by is now talking about the healing uh that we all must go through now, and that the this is a tragedy.
As I say this ri I mean, you can say it's a tragedy, but I may be splitting hairs here, but as I say a tragedy is when a tornado runs through town and flattens a building, 30 people die.
This is pure evil on parade, or insanity, and it's self-contained within the mind and the body of the shooter.
It was a sick, evil act, very much like that of a suicide bomber.
It was an evil driven nut who had a couple of guns.
And we have to face that head on and deal with that, not hide under our covers in fear and blame and guilt and start asking what's wrong with America.
It's just like after 9-11, and I've got a media soundbite here of people, oh, it feels just like after 9-11.
Whoa, it's horrible at the end.
What happened after 9 11?
The State Department convened a little seminar on why do they hate us.
Now, with this guy's note in which he rails against rich kids and the debauchery of our society, the question is going to become what's wrong with America?
Not what was wrong with this guy.
This guy is going to end up before it's all said and done in certain places in the drive-by media having a if if not a legitimate and understandable grievance.
That the way America is, and guess who runs America right now, George W. Bush.
This guy had a grievance.
I mean, he was understandable.
There's so much partisanship, there's so much angst, there's so much hate, there's so much anger, racism, bigotry, homo, all of this stuff is going to be thrown into the mix now.
Because the purpose of this event, as far as the media is concerned, and it makes me sick, there are genuine families grieving here over an event, and the last thing they're doing is looking at this politically.
But that's the total focus of the drive-by media, and as more information comes out, they'll be able to fold it in and make it match whatever templates exist.
Uh seems to me that as a society we have embraced the emotion-numbing, denying, guilt-ridden uh uh morally neutral therapist babble.
Uh and and so there's there's this guy is is going to end up being uh judged in a in a morally neutral way.
Why did he do what he did?
Did he have reasons that we can understand that they're explainable?
Not to excuse what he did, of course, they'll say, but uh and then they'll use this to say, are there more such people as this guy, like this guy, waiting out there to explode and go nuts because of rich white kids on campus and the debauchery of American society.
And I'll tell you you'd be doing the wrong thing out there, folks.
If you start hiding in fear that the drive-bys are so intent in piling on you.
Uh this is this is uh it's a self-contained incident.
Now these things have happened before.
The biggest uh I think crime spree on a college campus was what, in 1966, somewhere in Texas.
But this is an odd week.
This is the week of Waco, this is the week of uh what else happened during this week.
Oklahoma City bombing happened during this week.
That was to 419 of 95, Waco 419 of 93, Columbine 420 of uh of 99, and of course, yesterday's incident on the 16th of April.
Uh this is something about something about this week.
But I mean, starting last night, even before we knew much of anything, uh drive-bys were casting blame on guns and worse, and of course the people in charge at Virginia Tech, everybody who wasn't there was an expert.
Everybody who wasn't there would have made all of the correct decisions under pressure in life and death decisions better than anybody actually on the campus.
So now we got to get rid of the president of the university, we gotta get rid of the police chief, we've got to read all these people of botched.
There was no way to stop this.
There was no way to pre- Well, I take that back.
There might have been a way to stop it if this school hadn't been a gun-free zone, and some of the students had been allowed to have a gun, somebody might have had a way of responding to this guy a little sooner than uh anybody was able to.
But in the situ it's a it's a perfect illustration for what happens when you've got gun control.
A bad guys end up with the guns, and everybody else is unarmed and is uh is in the line of fire.
But this is also great illustration of how the drive-bys work.
They were they've driven into town.
They have there's so many people in there that they're clogging the cell phone circuits, and parents have been unable to get through to talk to their kids to find out what's going on, because the drive-by's have taken over the town, and they've driven in there, and if they've they've flown in there to the same thing they did at Duke, charge in, start blasting us with their damn words, their political prism, how America's rotten, this sucks, this is horrible.
Uh I'm telling you, you'd be better off if you turned off the television for the next couple of days.
I'm talking about your own uh mental attitude.
And this is this is not the fault of Virginia Tech or the president there, local law enforcement that some nut came into their zip code to act this way.
Uh everybody there is as much uh the victims of the shooter as the uh as the student uh students who were who were shot.
Uh it is a just a it's a devastating thing, and it within its within its own boundaries and context, it's bad enough.
Uh with the grief of so many families who have no understanding can't possibly understand why this happened.
What in the world would possibly explain it?
People who suffer heartbreak do not do this routinely.
People who have their thesis papers or their final exams rejected do not go on shooting sprees on a regular basis.
It has happened, but it's not quintessentially America.
This does not happen every day, does not happen every week, does not happen every month, does not happen every year.
It is rare.
Uh and it is extraordinary, precisely because it is so rare.
Brief time out, only getting warmed up here, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Folks, I know this goes against the grain of all discussion today, but sometimes you know what?
You just can't prevent things like this.
And that's why we're stunned and upset when things like this happen, because it is extraordinary.
And everybody's out there talking about gun control.
Exactly what kind of gun control are they talking about now as they attempt to politicize this?
And I'm when I say they today, I'm talking about the media.
I am talking about the drive-by and the Democrat Party.
William Jim Moran, uh Congressman from Virginia blaming this on George W. Bush.
And there will be a lot of others that will join that chorus as the uh afternoon proceeds and the and the days proceed.
I mean, at the time last night, when they're calling for all this here, plea audio soundbite number one.
This is PMSNBC last night, and this is before we even knew half the details of last night.
This is MSNBC promoing, promoting something coming up.
Tonight, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Should today's massacre in Virginia take Poncole for traitor gun control, Scarborough country, MSNBC tonight at nine.
I'm not targeting Joe Scarborough.
They got producers there and they do they do things like this.
But this is exploitation.
I know it's done for ratings, and I understand that too, but I'm talking about the political prism that you find in drive-by newsrooms and how the templates in there govern everything they do.
Rather than the facts of each case, rather than the facts of each event, templates got John Leo has written a brilliant piece today in the New York Sun, which we'll also get to as the as the program unfolds.
These were not assault weapons.
These were not military-style weapons, as the left likes to call uh other weapons.
There were two pistols.
Now the liberals tell us to rely on law enforcement.
Do they not?
They love law enforcement.
Law enforcement's never wrong.
Law enforcement great sources for them.
Now all of a sudden they're attacking law enforcement.
All right, well, if law enforcement can't be counted on, then what about defending ourselves?
If we can't, if we got to fire the police chief, we've got to fire the cops, we've got to get rid of the university president, and they got gun control laws on campus, a gun-free zone on the campus.
Now, why in the world, if we're going to get rid of law enforcement, get rid of the pro who the hell's going to protect us if we can't protect ourselves.
No, no, they tell us we can't do that uh either, because guns, even in the hands of trained law-abiding people, that's bad.
That's just a that's a recipe waiting to happen.
How come it doesn't happen?
This was not a uh uh standard trained law abiding citizen here, obviously by definition.
So what we have here, what I want you to be on the lookout for is throughout the afternoon and night and into the fur into the days ahead, what we're gonna get is an agenda being pushed.
And that agenda will be pushed whether in the middle of a war or in the middle of a terrible, terrible, personal tragedy that most of us can never imagine like this.
Uh you get an agenda with the IMA situation you had in a political agenda with the with the Duke Lacrosse situation.
No time for reflection, no time for actually thinking through the possible consequences of their agenda because and that's why I call them a drive-by media.
Drive in, take over, load the community up with a bunch of fear, panic, and paranoia, and then move on to the next story whenever the template exists, whenever it fits, and continue pushing an agenda, blindly pushing an agenda without concern for the consequences of what it is they do.
In fact, can I tell you what I I thought that by the end of my program yesterday I would have a decent number of facts that had been learned.
The first shooting, what was the first shooting yesterday?
It was before 10 o'clock, right?
So 7 a.m. was the first shooting.
And I I was stunned, frankly, that it took so long to get basic facts about what happened.
And whose job is that?
Reporters, I thought.
If they weren't out pushing their own agendas, what do you have here?
You have a shooter unidentified, uh killing people on campus, the number, the death toll keeps rising, and I guarantee you that the focal point was why'd the guy do it?
Who is he?
Uh is there some legitimate grievance he's got that we can understand?
Is there some sympathetic reason and gun control?
And and that has to be one of the reasons why it took so long to put together the simple facts of what had happened here.
Because folks, I'm gonna tell you, getting facts is no longer the job of the drive-by media.
In fact, sometime fact will get in the way of the agenda, and that's why facts are not pursued.
Facts is not their job.
Advancing a liberal agenda is their job.
And because they were advancing that agenda all day and all night is one reason why we were getting so few facts.
They've already got the story written, even before they have the information.
People walk in this morning.
This is disgusting, the exploitation of this massacre by the media and other liberals to promote gun control.
We are told that the liberals are the most compassionate and the most tolerant and understanding.
They have the biggest hearts.
You couldn't tell it by this.
The emotional, the personal element of this tragedy, not that interesting.
No, no, no.
There's gun control out there.
We can finally get rid of the NRA, get rid of Wayne Lampierre, we'll finally get rid of the NRA headquarters, we can finally get gun control.
And they can't even tell you why they support it.
It's just it's just their agenda.
It's just it's just something that they have been longing for for years, decades, and this has fallen into their life.
I'm sorry if you think this is callous, but I'm telling you what I think based on what I have watched about this and the agenda and the political prism through which this is being seen and reported is far more interesting to them, far more important to them than the personal characteristics of this of this tragedy.
Let's uh let this morning on MSNBC, David Gregory talking to Howard Feynman, who during the Edwards press conference looked first at the political results, the political impact of that.
Uh Gregory said the politics of this, the issue of gun control undoubtedly comes up, the availability of concealed weapons licenses permits in Virginia.
Every time something like this happens, people predict a big change in terms of the politics of gun control.
This may be different, in part because it's in Virginia.
This happened in the home of the right to bear arms.
Right.
Literally.
We're talking about the headquarters of the NRA in Northern Virginia.
There's going to be a huge debate here because of handguns.
And if you look at the press around the world.
Stop the table.
Who's going to start the debate, How?
What do you mean there's going to be a huge debate?
You guys are supposed to sit by, watch what happens, and tell people who aren't there what happened.
You guys are going to start the debate.
You guys are going to make it look like the American.
Can anybody remember for me the 2004 presidential debates, and how about the 2000 presidential debates?
In both cases, Al Gore in 2000 And John Kerry in 2004 made it abundantly clear they they were not part of the liberal gun control movement that John Kerry out there can I get me a hunting license here?
And Gore stunned everybody in a debate with Bush, talking about how they're not they're not interested in taking guns away from uh from private citizens who obey the law and so forth and so on.
Uh remember how stunned everybody was.
My point in bringing this up is there's not this national mad-dash control on the part of the American people.
There's no big debate about this to grab guns out of people's hands, but the drive-by is going to make that debate.
They're gonna make it look like you are having it and everybody else is having it, when in fact it's just them pushing an agenda driven by one of their many templates.
But the deeper point to me here is as with FEMA during Katrina, the liberals are out there blaming the institutions of America for these tragedies.
And then they insist the institutions are the only thing that can prevent them.
The institution is the only thing that can stop.
Government institutions somehow fell apart here, the school institutions, and yet it never occurs to them to think individuals can deal with these problems themselves.
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So the shooter, they found a note from the shooter in which he rails against rich kids in the debauchery of the United States.
Well, I have a simple question and retort.
He was here for 14 years.
If he thought this country was so bad, why the hell didn't he pack up and go home then?
The question ought to be, and I I'm just, I'm warning you people because what's going to happen here is that once the drive-bys get hold of the full contents of that note that he left, it's going to fit right into the template.
America is to blame.
We're too rich.
It'll even be folded into global warming.
Rich kids, we're do where we're destroying the planet, where we're uh living in excess of our responsibilities, blah, blah, blah, blah.
All of this stuff.
And it will be used in part to not justify, and I want to make this clear.
They won't justify, but it will explain.
His temporary insanity.
A lot of Europeans are angry at us for the same things, are they not?
A lot of ill Islamo fascists say that the same thing.
We got too many rich people, and we're we're doing our culture's debauched.
And now this guy's saying it, believe me, it's all going to fit into the template.
This guy thought the country's so bad to take his little ass back home.
He stayed here for 14 years.
So I reject the whole contents, the whole thrust of the contents of his note.
Here we've got a piece of slime, a piece of human debris bent on killing as many people as he can.
Now, unless law enforcement's tipped off to this in advance, it's difficult to see how he can be stopped from doing at least some of these killings.
It is this guy who is personally responsible for this.
Now, maybe things could have been done to lessen the chances of the tragedy.
I don't know, maybe reduce its severity, but the bottom line is this guy did it, and that will be rejected by the left and the drive-by media because they are looking to advance an agenda.
And as always with the left, personal responsibility is secondary.
Most people are not capable of personal responsibility when liberals look at them.
They look at them with uh contempt and arrogant condescension.
So the whole concept of personal responsibility throw it out the window.
It's secondary because the big thing here is now to find scapegoats and to make broader arguments.
The British press, some UK newspaper blaming Charlton Heston, who is sitting in his home with Alzheimer's disease.
You've got Democrats blaming George W. Bush today.
So personal responsibility.
That's secondary.
We got to find some scapegoats.
We've got to make broader arguments.
We got to advance our political agenda.
But interesting, isn't liberals in the media don't always take this approach, do they?
When it comes to George Bush, why he is personally responsible for whatever tragedy occurs in our country or in Iraq.
George Bush personally responsible for poverty, personally responsible for gasoline prices.
Personally, Bush is personally responsible for everything but real criminals, real perps, terrorists, on down to this guy.
No, no, no, no, no.
We can't, we can't rush to judgment on this, Mr. Limbaugh.
No, no, no, no.
We we mustn't underfine under we must understand and define the uh underlying socioeconomic reasons uh for this.
And I'm gonna tell you something, this is very destructive to our society.
It's very destructive to the victims of the drive-by media who are you.
You are the average news consumers.
You tune into this and you get barraged with politics and guilt, and you told that you're responsible because you're Americans and you haven't done enough to get guns out of the hands of people and so forth and so on.
But the bottom line is that we all know that individuals are responsible for what they do or don't do.
Let me let me give you an illustration of just how ridiculous the media are here.
Why talk about gun control?
Why talk about that?
You could just as illogically blame the massacre on, say, the student visa process.
This guy was a legal alien in the country on a student visa.
You could blame immigration.
You could blame any you could blame the student visa process, and you could further say, if I want to draw an analogy, they're trying to say we got to get rid of all guns, let's keep all foreign students out of the country.
How would you react to that?
You have one guy from South Korea over here for 14 years, goes nuts for whatever reason, kills 33 people, 32 people at VTech.
And now we got to get rid of every gun in America.
We got to get rid of every gun owned by law abiding citizens.
Why don't they look at it?
Hey, maybe let's stop all foreign students from coming into the country.
They obviously don't assimilate.
They don't understand the society.
They end up getting uh angry and enraged and they start killing people.
It'd be the same argument.
If I were to sit here and say ban every foreign student and get them out of the country, be no different than what the drive-bys are saying about trying to get rid of every gun.
We could go into the laxed immigration laws.
We could say, you know, we gotta close the borders.
We can't let anybody who's not an American into this country look what those people do.
We could if we wanted to echo the drive-bys but took it a take it in a different direction, we could we could say this is it, legal immigration, illegal immigration, it's over because the people coming into this country, they get drunk and drive around, kill people, or they get guns and they go to college campus and kill people.
That the drive-bys are doing the same thing, only they are targeting guns for only one reason.
They have a political agenda to take away your gun.
It is part of liberalism.
All of these examples I have cited would be just as absurd in this case as the gun control argument is because this guy was a nut, pure and simple, 100% nut.
And look how much of this story they got wrong.
It'd be nice to be able to mourn the students and the professors and families without being fed all this garbage.
You know, just as the Democrats in Congress are thinking politics when it comes to equipping our troops in the war, the drive-bys are thinking ratings and not news reporting in the middle of a slaughter.
Can't we mourn the students and the professors and families without being fed this garbage?
Can't we get some facts from so-called reporters whose job it is to get facts before they start advancing a predictable agenda?
And that's what that's what reporting has become today, and this story is a classic illustration.
Endless propaganda is what reporting is today.
Endless liberal propaganda from the war to talk radio to this mass murder.
It is always the same.
It is liberal propaganda driven by an agenda.
And they got this story wrong for hours.
They said he was Asian of Chinese background.
They also said he wasn't a student.
Well, it turns out he was a student and he was Korean.
Gun control liberals.
They also support activist judges and the ACLU.
They oppose building more prisons.
They oppose stringent sentencing guidelines for violent criminals, but in this case, none of this matters.
This guy was hell-bent on slaughtering unarmed students and professors who he knew would be unarmed and unable to defend themselves, and that is key.
He knew he would own the possession of the only gun on campus before law enforcement got there, and he blew himself away before they showed up.
There is no gun control law that could have stopped him, and anybody with an IQ of a pencil eraser or higher understands this.
I felt a bubbling effervescent resentment Here, the constant insertion of this liberal political agenda into these tragedies and practically every other story that they cover.
No time for the families to mourn, no time for the nation to mourn.
We've already got stories from the drive-bys about how great Bill Clinton was at being mourner-in-chief, citing his brilliant speech after the Oklahoma City bombing and saying and implying that when Bush goes down there today, he just not gonna pull it off as well as Clinton.
And now what the hell is that about if not pushing a political agenda and propaganda?
Two audio sound bites here, and this is to remind you of a point I made before the half-hour break, and that is that the all this talk of the drive-by's are all for gun control, and Howard Feynman out there saying, eh, it's gonna ignite a massive debate.
It's Democrats who have to run as opposed to gun control in order to win elections these days.
Gore tried it in 2000, Carrie tried it in 2004.
Last night CNBC on Larry Cudlow's show, he was talking with the Congress Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy from New York, and he said to her, Ms. Ms. McCarthy, you're an advocate of gun control.
Do you see that as an issue in this shootout?
He got an awful lot of rounds off, so I'm curious to know what kind of gun he used.
I know it was a nine millimeter, but I'm wondering if it had been changed at all.
And I'm also wondering if there were large capacity clips being used.
Uh we had tried to ban the large capacity clips, and that's any amount over ten bullets in a clip.
Uh we find that, you know, our police offices, our military, they should have the large capacity clips.
But there's no reason, except, you know, if you're, you know, for sportsmen, and there certainly was an exception for that.
But there's no reason for uh the average citizen to have large capacity clips.
See, that's they gotta make an exception for the sportsmen.
They know where they stand on all this, but the point is it was nine millimeter.
Okay, you limit the size of the clip, this guy just takes in more clips.
Who are these people?
How how how ignorant do they have to be?
This guy was hellbent on doing this, and it was not spur of the moment.
He had planned it.
He went in with all kinds of ammo.
He had two guns.
What is this about?
You know, I'm not a gun expert.
What is this converting?
A nine millimeter to they can't they just can't wait to use the word semi-automatic.
I think this was a glock, wasn't it?
One of us a glock.
Okay, if it's a glock, then go but where's the glock made?
Austria, if we're gonna blame Charlton Hefston and Bush, let's blame let's blame everybody in Austria because they allow Glock to exist to uh to manufacture the weapons.
Now here's here's the next one.
Cudlow said, Well, has that federal assault ban expired and there have been no renewal?
Why why hasn't that gotten through both houses?
Well, as you know, this is uh a pro-NRA House and Senate.
So it's been very difficult.
I go up on the House floor every single week and talk about the gun violence that's going on across the country.
Our gangs are getting uh more sophisticated guns.
They're outgunning our police officers again.
What people have to understand is that it's cost it's also a health care crisis.
Oh, yeah, let's bring that up.
On those victims that do survive.
And not even counting the 30,000 people that are killed each year from gun violence, whether it's suicide, whether it's accidental, or whether it's homicide.
Yes, it's gun control leads to increased health care costs.
So we anybody say buzzword.
Anybody pick another item from the liberal agenda that they were trying to ram down everybody's throats?
So uh, she says that Congress is very pro-NRA, and that's a dirty little secret of how the Democrats got the majority.
He had a lot of pro-gun moderates out there, or candidates, pro-gun conning his moderates.
Pro-gun Congress is out there saying anyway.
Um gangs are getting more sophisticated guns outgunning the police.
Well, you take Does anybody think that the Crips and the Bloods or any other gang out there is is is not gonna have guns if there's gun control, if there's if we just if we abandon the second, if we just wrote it out of the Constitution, does anybody think that gangs like this are not gonna end up with guns?
Well, they think they're a little bit of a law.
Well, go to Washington, D.C. Wasn't there a recent uh D.C. Court of Appeals decision saying the whole local gun control law there was unconstitutional because it violated a federal second amendment.
Yeah, now they're asking for the whole court to rehear this, I think.
It's called in Bonk, but uh you got some of the stringent, most stringent gun control laws in both New York and Washington.
Murder rates there are very, very high.
But look at what We're doing here.
See, I'm even falling prey to it.
We have.
We have a a once every 30 years tragedy.
We we have got we've got family members beside themselves who will never understand this.
I don't care what they're told.
We've got 32 kids and professors who are dead, and all they did was show up.
We we have a a genuine human debacle.
This is this is just it's it's it's impossible to relate to this to try to understand this.
And yet, the gun control argument, here it is, it's come up.
That's what?
That's the point of this whole story to these people.
And I even found myself being sucked into it here just mere moments ago.
As though gun control would have prevented this.
See, that's the the trick here is that they are supposed to be able to convince you that if we just had gun control laws, why this guy couldn't have gotten a gun.
And that's what is just insane.
Uh so you see how easy it is to get sucked into something about which this story is not at all.
This is not a gun control story.
This is a pure unadulterated.
This is human misery on the uh on a scope that that most of us will never be able to relate to or understand.
And these families won't either.
And it's a disgrace, and it's disrespectful to them to take advantage of this and take it off into the world of liberal propaganda, templates, and agenda-driven items such as gun control.
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You remember I'm gonna go back to October 3rd of last year, 2006.
There was a press conference for Amish schoolgirls who were murdered.
Remember that circumstance.
And the governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell conducted a press conference on an unidentified reporter said, Governor Rendell, do you see any need for any changes in state public schools in terms of security?
You can make all the changes you want, but you can never stop a random act of violence by a person who is intent on killing themselves.
It's the same thing as protected President of the United States.
You can have 50 Secret Service agents there, but if someone is willing to swap their life for the presidents, they're gonna get a point-blank shot at the president.
Well, Governor Rendell saying exactly what I'm saying to you today.
Interestingly, he's a liberal Democrat, and this Amish massacre happened in his state.
And so everybody, well, what are we gonna do?
We've got to make old school safer.
Oh my god, gun cutter.
He's there's only so much you can do.
You make all the change in the world you want, but you can't stop a random act of violence.
I wonder if the drive-by-and I love Eddie Rendell, Chris Matthews loves Fast Eddie, Feynman.
I wonder if they'll go talk to him about this.
I wonder if you will hear what Governor Rendell said if you'd be reminded of what he said last October in the drive-by media.
I'm telling you, folks, no gun control law would have stopped this uh shooter.
Everybody with an IQ of twelve knows it.
Uh it is it is just I can't, I cannot I cannot express um it in uh what would the passion I'd like because it would require profanity.
The the the human aspects of this, grieving the loss, the questions, the total bewilderment, lack of understanding, the nonsensicalness of this is totally being overlooked in uh in the in the effort by the people covering this event to uh advance their own political agenda, the propaganda of of gun control.
And uh Jim Moran, he was on some radio station this morning, and he's blaming the GOP, blaming the Republicans, and blaming George W. Bush for this.
And so what you have here is a contemptible political demagogue with a history of this kind of inane comment.
Of course, nobody is gonna talk about Jim Moran.
Like I said yesterday, you get Flora Congress, a member Congress, go anywhere, say anything, and nobody's gonna say a word.
Uh television can do hit pieces, newspapers can do hit pieces, but somehow if it's if you say something uh radio critical or somebody hell, watchdogs are gonna come after you.
And why is that's because radio's dominated by conservatives.
So here you have a genuine lunatic uh trying to blame this on George W. Bush.
I imagine Pelosi, somebody's gonna call up and say, wait a minute, Jim, shh, shh sh we got a good thing going here.
Now, you're gonna you're gonna blow this.
Nobody's gonna buy that.
Bush is responsible for this.
By the way, two biggest acts of terrorism in this country occurred with box cutters, pocket knives, gasoline, and fertilizer.
9-11 and Oklahoma, not guns.
Anyway, quick timeout.
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And don't repeat what I said.
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