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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush twenty-four seven podcast.
	Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in, living in the shadows and loving it.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Happy Boxing Day, as we say in Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth, Boxing Day, or as I believe it's officially known here in the United States Wednesday.
	Wednesday.
	I like that.
	It's catchy.
	It's it's easy to remember, it has a kind of ring to it.
	Uh tis the season of guest hosts at EIB.
	Mark Belling will be here tomorrow and Friday, and Rush returns uh next week.
	But uh uh Boxing Day, Mr. Snerdley uh usually asks me this every time I'm in on boxing.
	He goes, What is what's the thing with Boxing Day?
	Where does that come from?
	And I always explain it's a medieval thing originating from the days when uh people used to give uh Boxing Day gifts to their servants.
	They give the or humble tradesmen.
	That's still that still goes on.
	It's the day you give a gift to your milkman or your postman or whatever.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	It's the day for the for the uh for the for the upper two per cent.
	It was once the one per cent, then it became the two per cent.
	Uh and it'll be it'll be a much bigger you'd be surprised what a big percent the one per cent is by the time Obama's through with you.
	But it's the day you give boxes uh a little a little something uh to humble tradesmen.
	So Rush has uh has given me a l as his little little gift to me a humble uh undocumented immigrant.
	He has given me a guest hosting stint here at EAIB.
	But it's all it was in a nice little box, all wrapped up ness nicely with a um with a an exquisitely handmade Belgian chocolate uh nestling in tissue inside it.
	So I I really appreciated it.
	Well, live at uh Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, mere minutes from the Canadian border, so uh do swing by if you're fleeing the country.
	We're always glad to see you on your way out.
	Uh from here it goes uh through the magic of telecommunications to Mr. Snerdley, who's down at Southern Command in Florida, and thence to Mike in New York and up to the big satellite.
	Oh, oh Mr. Snodley's in New York.
	That's that's right, because he's um uh 'cause he's uh Mr. Snerdley's in New York 'cause I think Mark Belling's going to be in New York.
	So uh so it's less complicated than usual.
	It goes from uh from Ice Station EIB in New Hampshire down to New York, and then out uh to the satellite and to the world.
	1 800 282 2882, wherever you are on the planet, uh do call us and have your say uh on what's on your mind.
	I hope you had a blessed Christmas.
	Uh President Obama and the first family uh spent Christmas in Hawaii.
	I love that song, by the way.
	Uh Barrack Hussein Obama is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day.
	I love the cheery townsfolk greeting him with greeting their leader with that when he l when he arrives.
	But he's cutting short his vacation to return to Washington tonight to tackle the looming fiscal cliff, which is looming even larger than the last time it was looming, when Rush was here on Friday.
	You know, um Republicans uh say the uh president uh refuses to offer any spending cuts.
	But just by cutting his vacation short, he saved taxpayers twelve million dollars or whatever it is.
	I at least I I assume he has.
	Maybe when you book the full Hawaiian vacation package with Secret Service weaponized cottage and secure shoreline, your twenty-six million dollar deposit is non-refundable.
	Anyway, whatever it is, he's flying in tonight, because there's only five days until America goes over the fiscal cliff.
	Bam padam bum bum.
	So who knows?
	Who knows what additional concessions he can get from the Republicans between now and then.
	With the with the time difference.
	If he stays in Hawaii, it's much more difficult for the Republicans to precapitulate to him, because you you know, you're like you're willing.
	You you're a bipartisan moderate to reach across the aisle type, and you're willing to surrender on increased federal spending by another couple of trillion dollars or whatever, but you can't get him on the phone.
	So it's great news that he's he's come back uh to Washington uh for another five days of concern.
	It's like the twelve days of Christmas, you know, on the first day of Fiscal Cliff negotiations, John Boehner gave to me a tax increase in a pear tree.
	Uh the good news is that on January the first, we will be over the fiscal cliff, and uh aside from your taxes going up, you won't notice a thing.
	And the taxes will go up anyway, by the way, because uh there's all kinds of uh Obamacare goodies and things in there.
	But other than that, you won't notice the thing.
	It's like the Mayan Apocalypse.
	You remember that?
	We had the it's like it was it uh what Friday?
	Friday we had the Mayan Apocalypse, and then Saturday morning you wake up and everything's exactly the same.
	And it's the same, it'll be the same the day after the fiscal cliff.
	Everything will be exactly the same, we'll still be the brokest nation in history, the entitlements will still be unsustainable, your taxes will still be going up.
	Every American family will still be saddled with three quarters of a million dollars as their share of the debt.
	Everything will be exactly the same, but at least Republicans won't be negotiating themselves into ridiculousness round the clock.
	Uh so we will attend to that.
	The the countdown to the fiscal cliff uh and uh the fiscal Mayan apocalypse, the Mayan fiscal apocalypse, uh on January the first.
	We will attend to that in the course of these three hours.
	1800 282-2882.
	Uh breaking from the from the police blotter from the police blotter in the Washington Post.
	DC police, the DC police confirmed reports Wednesday that they are looking into an incident in which David Gregory, the host of the television show Meet the Press, displayed what he described as a high capacity ammunition magazine.
	Asked about media reports saying that authorities were looking into the incident, Gwendolyn Crump, the police spokeswoman, responded early Wednesday, yes, we are investigating this matter.
	You may have seen this on the TV a week a uh ago, he uh uh a couple of days ago.
	He asked uh Wayne Lapierre about the uh the the shooting in Newtown in Connecticut and he had an object in his hand, and uh he suggested that high capacity ammunition magazines should be banned and held up a magazine that he said could hold thirty bullets.
	Now, in the firearms regulations, the DC code stipulates that, quote, no person in the district shall possess, sell or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device, unquote, whether or not it is attached to a firearm.
	So David Gregory is now looking at underneath the uh uh as an example of the crackdown on uh guns that uh liberals have been advocating for years, David Gregory is now looking at five to fifteen years in jail or whatever it is uh for for uh illegal uh possession of a high capacity ammunition magazine or whatever DC crime he has uh committed.
	And it's it's this this is the perfect example, by the way.
	Uh I would bet it never occurred to David Gregory that when he is on TV holding a uh uh something that he thinks three hundred million of his fellow Americans should not be allowed anywhere near uh that that law should apply to him too.
	Almost every issue in the United States uh boils down to a class issue, and it comes to really whether you think of yourselves as among the ruling class or among the subjects.
	And David Gregory is a grand panchandrum uh on Meet the Press, thinks he belongs to the ruling class.
	So obviously, obviously, whatever laws there might be about magazine clips, it shouldn't apply to a media grandee uh producing one on TV for the purpose of chastising uh the head of the NRA about it.
	So uh David Gregory is now being investigated for uh producing this illegal gun clip on Meet the Press.
	As I said, I may be wrong, it might not be five to fifteen years in jail, it might be twenty to thirty.
	I don't know.
	They've they're tough guys in the District of Columbia, but you should have thought about that before you produce this thing in uh uh on TV.
	And actually it is quite if it is illegal, they should prosecute him, by the way.
	Because this is this is uh I had this business all the way uh uh when I when I got into trouble for breaking the so-called hate speech laws in Canada.
	That if I say something uh I quoted a Norwegian imam and was dragged in front of all these uh tribunals up there.
	Uh the the the reporters who wrote about me quoting the Norwegian imam were not uh subject to the same jeopardy.
	Uh basically they're uh the the the argument is that if a liberal says something, that's fine.
	If a guy who's not a liberal says something, he should be hauled into court.
	This is basically David Gregory's argument.
	Nobody thinks David Gregory is going to go to to shoot up a schoolhouse, so why shouldn't he go around with the big magazine uh big scary magazine clip that you and everybody else can't be entrusted with.
	It's different for him.
	It's different for him.
	It's different when liberals do it.
	It's different when the ruling class do it, but for you, the subjects, that's who these laws are made for.
	By the way, uh David Gregory sends his children to the same school as Barack Obama.
	That's this fancy school, Sidwell Friends School in Washington.
	Is that the one uh is that the one Al Gore went to?
	Was it that one Yeah, the one the Clinton said I don't think it actually no Al Gore was uh one of those other fancy ones.
	So you you remember when Al Gore used to talk about how his father taught him to plough a steep rocky hard scrabble hillside in the in the broiling sun he was talking I don't know I don't know what he was he grew up in Washington, went to this fancy private school.
	You can't clear a steep hill say you can clear the uh the roof terrace at the Mayflower hotel, you know, get the potted palms uh take a take an axe to them.
	I don't know what it but anyway they goes to this fancy school uh David Gregory's kids and they have eleven armed guards.
	That's not for the president's kids or anything that's the um amount of armed guards they have at that school regardless of whether there's a presidential kid in attendance there.
	That's just business as usual for them.
	So th this is this is what it's coming down.
	It's we need protection.
	We the ruling elite we need uh we need to have our armed security details we can be trusted with the guns.
	Mayor Bloomberg who doesn't think you should have any guns is spending this boxing day I should imagine as he spends most of his weekends at his home in Bermuda where he is in a secured compound that suits him just fine.
	He thinks he's he should be fine to be in his secured compound out on the streets of Hamilton, uh the capital of Bermuda they have Saturday night gunfire from the gun gangs but uh but if you're if you're Bloomberg you should have the right to wall yourself off from that but if you're one of the mere peasants, you don't have the right and that's actually why it's important to prosecute David Gregory if he did break the laws of the District of Columbia.
	Because the laws of the District of Columbia are stupid and I don't support them on half these things.
	But if you're gonna have laws then equality before the law is what it means to be in a free society and if that means that David Gregory is breaking rocks in the hot sun that's that's just the breaks.
	We'll talk about that.
	We'll talk about the looming efforts for gun control and all the other insanity on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	1-800-282-2882.
	President Obama is returning to Hawaii as the fiscal cliff looms.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Do you know this fellow, Piers Morgan?
	Piers Morgan.
	He's one of these, you know, these snotty-voiced foreigners who came to America and wound up with some big-time media gig.
	Okay, not a big-time media gig.
	It's not like he's on the...
	the uh rush guest host roster or anything but he has this show on uh CNN and uh he's been ever since the Newtown Massacre he's been uh anti-gun he's been pro-gun control he he's actually not in favor of uh gun control he just doesn't think anyone should have guns he just uh he's basically uh anti gun anti-gun and he uh when he has a pro-gun guest on he just hectors them and says you're a stupid and contemptible man.
	And somebody started a uh a uh the thing at the White House, the petition at the White House uh where if you get so many signatures they're supposed to apparently uh generate an official response twenty five thousand signatures.
	Somebody started a petition to deport him from the United States and it's now up around I believe seventy three thousand uh signatures.
	So the White House will have to have an official response.
	Now Piers Morgan is not taking this he thought it was a joke at first when it was just uh you know 127 people on there and he's now but he's now to find it's less funny the novelist, the acclaimed novelist Joyce Carroll Oates has said that attempting to launch a petition to get Piers Morgan deported from CNN seventy one thousand people by the way I think that's more than watch his show.
	The novelist uh Joyce Carroll Oates likens Piers Morgan to quote crucified Negroes over deportation petition rage she says the blood bonding of lynching uh Piers Morgan deportation rage.
	Check out those photos of Southern lynch mobs and crucified Negroes.
	This is fantastic, by the way, because for the first Piers Morgan has done something nobody thought was possible.
	And that he uh for joy liberals like Joyce Carroll notes, he's made them a bona fide the English a bona fide ethnic minority victim group now.
	They're the last people on the planet who weren't the victim group, snotty, toffee nosed Englishmen.
	That's why they play all the bad guys in the movies, if you notice, because you can't have like a Muslim playing the bad the bad guy being the bad killer terrorist.
	It's always got to be an English guy.
	It's like you know, you hire like Jeremy Irons in diehard, that kind of thing.
	And now thanks Joyce Carroll's likens the Piers Morgan deportation petition to crucifying Negroes, strange fruit hanging from a southern tree.
	That is that is the Piers Morgan deportation order hanging from the hanging from the tree.
	Look, here it's not very difficult this how long how much longer are Americans going to have to put up with some snooty hoity toity foreigner coming on the airwaves and telling them everything that's wrong with their country.
	Why should Americans have to put up with that?
	It's completely ridiculous.
	If Piers Morgan well you know the President Bush used to talk about the jobs that Americans can't do why do we need to bring in why do we need to bring in some snooty foreigner with some annoying accent to uh to to just go on and tell Americans everything.
	Is can't Americans point out what's wrong with their country on their own has it come to this that we've got to import a special worker class to tell you Americans everything that sucks about America?
	That's now a job for foreigners This is this is ridiculous.
	So seventy one thousand people have signed this petition to have Piers Morgan deported from the United States.
	Meanwhile in the United Kingdom a petition has been started saying they don't want Piers Morgan back this is terrible.
	He's a man he's like a man he's like they're gonna be like he's not like the crucified Negro now he's gonna be like the wandering Jew.
	He'll have nowhere to go, nowhere to go, man without a country Piers Morgan.
	We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer again?
	The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him You've just got to take it, America Piers Morgan.
	You know this what's interesting about this is he's been accused of going against the United States Constitution because he doesn't believe in the Second Amendment.
	And I'm not an expert in US immigration law and I certainly wouldn't presume to know being an undocumented immigrant and having just snuck across the border I wouldn't presume to know the details of his immigration status in the United States.
	But it is generally a condition when you sign that paperwork that you have to say you support the United States Constitution.
	And so in that sense it's not just like a guy mouthing off about how he doesn't like Snooky or whatever.
	The Second Amendment is there in the United States Constitution and as a condition of his immigration status in the United States he did agree to say but anyway now Piers Morgan he's he's come out against guns and and seventy one thousand people seventy one thousand people, I believe seventy three thousand something like that.
	We'll try and keep an update let's try and get it up over let's try and uh get it up a bit in the course of the show because uh I I I think things have come to a pretty pass when uh when uh you have to put up, as I said, with these snooty voiced foreigners just bad mouthing America telling America everything that's wrong with it, uh pointing out all the problems in America.
	I mean it is just ridiculous.
	Quite apart from the fact that the accent alone ought to disqualify them because nothing ticks me off more than when you're trying to get some political com commentary and it's some freaky, weirdy, creepy accent that's uh you gotta take it in.
	So yeah, we've had enough of that.
	It's time to get it's time to it's time to say, you know, this is it, Piers Morgan.
	We don't want we don't need you snooty foreigners telling us what's wrong with our country.
	Okay?
	Okay, I'm just I'm just making that point.
	We will also uh address in the course of the show uh Wayne Le Pierre's theory uh about uh the uh need for armed guards in every school he's Taken a lot of heat for that.
	Uh Cornell West, by the way, he's also weighed in on this, uh, the uh eminent African American author, he said on Saturday that he's dismayed that we're only having a discussion on gun control because white children were shot.
	We can't just shed tears for those on the vanilla side of town, said Cornell West.
	They are no precious, but they are no they're precious, but they are no less or more precious than our poor brothers and sisters, be they black or brown or what have you.
	He's actually making the point that uh Rush made a couple of days ago.
	Uh on the day of the Sandy Hook massacre, ten people were shot in Chicago.
	And it didn't make the papers, it didn't make the national papers, because it's business as usual in Chicago.
	And Cornell West and Rush are on the same page this.
	Why are we only having discussion uh this discussion when kids on the vanilla side of town get shut uh get shot?
	So we will uh address that and other issues on the Rush Limbaugh Show live on Boxing Day.
	Yes, Rush uh returns next week, but this is your undocumented Anchorman here.
	Don't forget if you go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and you're a rush twenty-four-seven member, you need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts, because it's like he's uh never never gone away.
	I just realized I missed all the uh the Manheim steamroller's been mothballed for another eleven months.
	Is that right, Mike?
	It's uh it's all gone, yeah, it's uh it's after Christmas now, so we're about I think it's Boxing Day.
	We should have boxing music.
	We should have, I don't know, the theme from Rocky, uh uh what's the uh uh the Rocky theme and what's the other Bob Dylan, here comes a story of Harry Kane.
	That one.
	I think that's the only boxing songs I'd know, so maybe maybe maybe the boxing boxing day bumper music isn't gonna ek out of the show.
	Breaking news from New York magazine, headline, Mitt Romney's son says he never actually wanted to be president.
	Great.
	Thanks for sharing.
	Mitt Romney's son says he never actually wanted to be president.
	And if you don't want to be president, being the Republican nominee is a surefire way to do it.
	Thanks a lot.
	Thanks a lot.
	Let us go to our first call of the day, David in Los Angeles, California.
	David, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Uh, thank you very much, Mr. Stein.
	You are absolutely far and away my most favorite fill-in host for Rush.
	Thank you, David.
	That's the best Boxing Day present.
	That's all wrapped up with a bow.
	I'll take that, David.
	Well, sir, uh thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	The top or the thought that I had as you were talking today, it was kind of an epiphal thought, is the reason that Mr. Obama would like us to go over the fiscal cliff is to hide the impact of his upcoming Obamacare taxes that are going to be implemented in 2013 and 2014.
	The thought being that, okay, we get taxed at a much higher rate.
	That becomes John Boehner's fault.
	And then when the rates get lifted, well, gee, the taxes are still there, but that's okay because uh, you know, we're used to paying the higher taxes now.
	And it kind of hides the full impact of Obamacare and so on.
	I'm I'm kind of worried about the uh two thousand fourteen um uh tax on um uh Cadillac health care plants because that'll cost me to lose my house.
	Yeah, no, you're you're right about this, that these Obamacare taxes are actually separate from the fiscal cliff thing.
	They're not just the the Cadillac uh uh health plan tax, but things like the tax on uh medical equipment uh by the way, which is just a tax on revenues, not even on profits or anything.
	It's uh it's uh just on on revenue.
	So regardless of whether a company makes a profit or a loss, it's got to pay the uh w the the the medical devices tax.
	And i i he the politics of this is separate from any of the other issues, and the politics of this so far has played out brilliantly for Obama because this spending is his.
	He he's spending this money uh in the in the sense that he took the decision when he became president to raise federal spending to twenty-five percent of GDP as a permanent factor life.
	That's like six uh seven points away uh above where it would be in a uh in in the United States previously.
	Uh so he did that.
	He wants to establish that at twenty-four, twenty-five percent as a permanent factor of okay, it's your spending.
	Uh so you gotta find the money to pay for it.
	What is this to do with anybody else?
	You want this, you and your party want this, you and your party want to spend the money, so you and your party have to figure out a way where the money uh figure out where the money is going to come from.
	And yet he's done a brilliant job of making the most peripheral and irrelevant figures in Washington, which is to say the other party, I can't even remember their name now, the other party uh sticking them with the blame for this thing, David.
	And that's and and he'll and that's why uh blurring the distinction between the Obamacare taxes and the fiscal cliff is actually quite ingenious on his part.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I really do appreciate that, sir.
	Thanks a lot, David.
	You won't when you get your uh when you you won't get your when you get your tax bill.
	But that's right.
	Uh there's all these Obamacare taxes, and regardless of any fiscal cliff type stuff, uh they'll be uh kicking in on January the first uh anyway.
	By the way, we were talking that David Gregory story just had an update here, breaking news.
	NBC was specifically told by the police in uh the District of Columbia that it was quote not permissible to show a high capacity gun magazine on air.
	They were told before the show aired that it was illegal in the District of Columbia to show a high capacity gun magazine on air.
	I don't know whether uh this is the District of Columbia is basically like those zero tolerance uh school districts you read about from time to time where a kid c shows up at school with a plastic uh water pistol and they suspend him for three months and ruin his life.
	Uh he never gets into the AP programs, he never gets to go to college, he never and he winds up and you meet him, run into him fifteen years later, and he's some broken down drug addict sleeping on the streets because he was sent home by his school district for bringing a plastic water pistols to school.
	So maybe there was a plastic water high capacity magazine uh that uh that it would have been permissible in the District of Columbia for David Gregory to show on Meet the Press.
	But he was told by the DC police before the show that he would be committing a crime if he was to show this thing on the air.
	So he is He flouted the law intentionally.
	This is gonna be the sec Yeah, he did.
	He did.
	He basically flipped Mr. Snowley is right here.
	He basically flipped hit the finger at authority at law.
	He said, I am above the law.
	He said, I don't care about no stinking law.
	I d uh I don't need no stinking law that tells me I can I can produce some high clip uh uh magazine on uh uh on uh on uh meet the press.
	He said, I don't need this.
	I don't need to be told.
	I don't know, yeah.
	He's he's gonna they're gonna have to pry his television show prop from his cold dead fingers.
	That's that's what David Gregory said.
	Yes, he's bitterly clinging, he's bitterly clinging.
	Mr. Snadley has got it right here.
	This guy is the archetypal bitter clinger.
	The the uh the NBC the the Washing NBC was told by the District of Columbia Police that it is not legal to show a high capacity gun magazine on air.
	And uh and and David Gregory scoffed.
	He said, You'll never take me alive, copper.
	And now he's looking at ten to twenty years in jail, and that's that's the we need to make an example of this guy, this Second Amendment kooky gun nut liberal TV host.
	David Gregory, he's now being investigated by District of Columbia Police.
	They specifically told him if you do this you'll be breaking the law, and he did it anyway.
	That's the kind of world we live in.
	By the way, I just want to talk about this Wayne Lapierre business.
	Um he wants a cop in every school.
	Um the second amendment is not just about firearms, it's about a view of the state that the founding fathers understood very well.
	If you propose having a cop in every school, that has to be a federal program, because otherwise you'll have a situation where for Hoiti Toity schools that are the the the kind in the upscale suburbs, they'll they'll be like the Sidwell Friends thing where uh the Obama kids and the David Gregory kids go.
	They'll have they'll be able to afford the money for eleven armed cops at the school.
	Uh but if you're just in some broken down town where the mill closed and uh they c they can't raise the money for uh the the budget and everything every year as it is, there's gonna be no money for a cop at that school.
	So it's gonna be a federal program, because it's gonna have to be redistributed.
	You're gonna have to take the money from the fancy suburbs uh and uh and give it to the broken down uh school districts.
	And so what that means is it will be the Transport Security Administration.
	You will have a TSA for school houses.
	Uh and that will mean that uh you'll have a big federal bureaucratic uh uh overgrope and furas uh putting their hands all over you as you attempt to enter the schoolhouse.
	It'll just be another federal unionized boondoggle.
	And it will be a deeply unattractive comment on the United States, too, that you can't that uh that that a uh that that a p uh a school uh which uh uh our forefathers built at the center of town uh commons for a reason because it's the heart of the town,
	it's the heart of the community, uh and it will now be looking like this armed secure zone at the airport where if uh on school concert nights there'll be a big line to get in to uh to to see a ski kid screeches uh way through uh it's beginning to look a lot oh no, you can't sing that one.
	Well well, whatever they can sing.
	The the the point is it's i it will be a sad and bleak comment on America.
	But the other point is is that it's at odds with the spirit of the Second Amendment, and Wayne Le Pierre should know that.
	A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
	A well regulated militia is not federal uh is not a federal security force.
	A well regulated mil militia uh are the words of the time to say that you, the citizen, ha ha bear ultimate responsibility for the security of a free state.
	Uh and that is why almost any solution I I do not support the federalization of schoolhouse uh security.
	There there are heroes uh and we don't we don't honor them enough.
	Uh we had one the other day in uh in Connecticut, Vicki Soto, who tried to hide her uh the the children in her class in in a closet and the cupboards, and as this nut entered the classroom, she told the children w was they were somewhere else.
	Uh the ch some of the children panicked uh and they tried to come out of where she'd hidden them and they were shot dead.
	But she put herself between the students and the shooter uh who who eventually killed her.
	A guy called Livyu Librescu at Virginia Tech.
	The only good news to come out of Virginia Tech, he was a Romanian Jew, a Holocaust survivor.
	And uh when the uh the the nut was coming for him, uh he shoved his body up against the door uh and uh g held him there for enough time to enable all but one of his students to escape uh through the windows.
	He was shot and killed during the attack and and they gave him the uh the order of the star of Romania.
	I don't believe he was given any award by the United States, uh which is a pity, because he uh and uh Vicki Soto in Connecticut understood that uh at severe moments, at uh unprecedented moments, at moments of great crisis, you are called upon to act.
	Uh Librescu understood this because he was a Holocaust survivor.
	He knew about the midnight knock on the door uh in the night.
	He knew that you can be in a civilized society and that's the civilization is a veneer and very vulnerable and fragile and can crumble away.
	And he knew about that, so he knew to act.
	And Vicky Soto, who is much younger than uh Professor Librescu didn't know that, but she understood something that her six-year-old charges shouldn't have to know that this is a crisis moment and you have to be the grown-up.
	And I would like to see I would much prefer a situation where someone, which I believe is the situation foreseen by the Second Amendment, uh where civilians are in effect uh teachers, a Professor Librescu, a Vicky Soto in Connecticut, they are the ones, someone in that school bears ultimate responsibility for for for being armed uh at school and being the one to take action when when when the nut comes a calling.
	The cops took twenty minutes to arrive in h in in in suburban Connecticut.
	The cops took twenty minutes to arrive.
	So the the big the big government force, big government won't be there for you.
	When the world blows up, big government won't be there for you.
	And if you're lucky, a Vicky Soto uh or a livu librescu will be there for you.
	And they're the ones uh it would be much better instead of having these Nambi Pambi gun free zones to have a situation where a school district designates designate somebody, a member of the community, a teacher, uh uh a custodian to be the person who uh is uh is armed at the they would have made a huge difference and a federal uh schoolhouse security force so what is it, schoolhouse security, SS?
	Well, it's catchy.
	Uh federal schoolhouse security force will be a big bureaucratized nightmare uh that will ultimately do nothing for the situation.
	Mark Stein in for us, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Frank in Clarksville, Tennessee.
	Frank, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hey, sir, this is Frank Peterson.
	How are you doing today?
	I'm doing good.
	Happy boxing day to you.
	Happy Wednesday.
	Enjoying the comments about a smartly made move to put security at schools to prevent criminals like this gunman from coming in.
	But I'm still kind of concerned with our talk about thirty round magazines and people pretending like an AR fifteen was used at the school when it was two nine millimeter pistols and uh one with a six hour and with the clock and kind of Oh well now Frank, you're sounding like one of these scary people who knows the difference between one scary freaky looking gun and another scary freaky looking gun.
	If you're on the right side of these issues, like Piers Morgan and uh the liberal guys, you you use the words assault rifle, assault weapon, semi-automatic, automatic, completely interchangeably.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's just the it's just the uh semi assault automatic weapon rifle is just uh we want to ban all of them.
	Anything that looks kind of scary and metal, let's just get rid of the whole lot.
	That's the only expertise you need, Frank.
	I guess that that didn't stop that man in China with a knife killing twenty-two kids or Timothy McBay from blowing up and killing more children with bombs.
	I mean, we're gonna outlaw rocks too, 'cause you know they can hurt people.
	Well, I'll tell you I'll tell you one thing.
	What it does mean is that people putting aside uh the question of murder, it means that the preferred weapon of choice becomes actually rather more for for n for for ne'er do wells becomes rather more brutal.
	In uh in uh Piers Morgan's Britain, for example, they have this phenomenon glassing where where uh where people get stabbed, they have their eyes stabbed out with uh glass from broken bottles and things now.
	Uh they have people who are are killed by what they call bollards, which are these sort of lumpy things they have along the sidewalk uh uh uh and uh uh and they uh and and they're beaten and then thrown through bus shelters, they're clubbed with uh bats, they're uh knife attacks outnumber gun attacks uh as the preferred means.
	Uh so it's number ten out of depth in America anyway.
	I mean we uh we're it's not that it's not important and not that we don't want murders to happen and tools being used wrongly and then hurting everybody else.
	That those are still important things.
	But out of the ten killers in America, it's ten.
	We had to go to top ten to include guns.
	Yeah, I know, I know.
	I mean that's the thing, but you what you don't what you don't uh figure in is how much worse those other nine means of death would be if there weren't uh if there weren't guys with guns uh uh all around.
	A Westchester County paper, just this very day, Frank, has published the names and addresses of all uh gun owners in the Westchester County, Putnam County and Dutchess County areas of New York.
	And at one uh one level, of course, this is an outrageous breach of privacy.
	Uh they've listed their names and people may be mad at them.
	But what's interesting is that when they tell you that the guy at uh twenty-seven Elm Street has a gun and you're thinking of burgling that house, you know, uh thanks to this newspaper in Westchester County that you don't uh you don't want to go to twenty-seven Elm Street, but they don't listen to anybody with a gun at twenty-five Elm Street or twenty-nine Elm Street, so maybe they're the guys you should break into.
	If you don't have a gun, uh g it's fine.
	You can have we can have this argument about whether people shouldn't have guns.
	But one consequence of getting rid of guns is uh you have a lot more property crime.
	Uh people live in uh in living in expensive neighborhoods in uh in Britain for example uh lie awake at night listening to guys prowling round uh testing their doors uh and uh you have a lot more hot burglaries where basic basically people are beaten up while they're in the house and the house is bugged.
	We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead gun nut David Gregory gunnut David Gregory is uh is being investigated by the District of Columbia police for a prop on his television uh in his television show.
	Uh David Gregory doesn't kill people you people kill people.
	That's uh that's what that's that's that's the message here.
	Uh Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.

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