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Dec. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 26, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman, 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 easy to remember.
It has a kind of ring to it.
Tis the season of guest hosts at EIB.
Mark Belling will be here tomorrow and Friday, and Rush returns next week.
But Boxing Day, Mr. Snerdley usually asks me this every time I'm in on Boxing.
He goes, 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 people used to give Boxing Day gifts to their servants.
Or humble tradesmen.
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 upper 2%.
It was once the 1%, then it became the 2%, and it'll be a much bigger – you'd be surprised what a big percent the 1% is by the time Obama's through with you.
But it's the day you give boxes a little something to humble tradesmen.
So Rush has given me as his little gift to me, a humble, undocumented immigrant, he has given me a guest hosting stint here at EAIB.
But it was in a nice little box all wrapped up nicely with an exquisitely handmade Belgian chocolate nestling in tissue inside it.
So I really appreciated it.
We're live at Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, mere minutes from the Canadian border.
So do swing by if you're fleeing the country.
We're always glad to see you on your way out.
From here, it goes 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. Snerdley's in New York.
That's right, because he's Mr. Snerdley's in New York, because I think Mark Belling's going to be in New York.
So it's less complicated than usual.
It goes from Ice Station EIB in New Hampshire down to New York and then out to the satellite and to the world.
1-800-282-2882, wherever you are on the planet, do call us and have your say on what's on your mind.
I hope you had a blessed Christmas.
President Obama and the first family spent Christmas in Hawaii.
I love that song, by the way.
Barrack Hussain Obama is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day.
I love the cheery townsfolk greeting their leader with that 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, Republicans say the president refuses to offer any spending cuts.
But just by cutting his vacation short, he saved taxpayers $12 million or whatever it is.
At least I assume he has.
Maybe when you book the full Hawaiian vacation package with Secret Service weaponized cottage and secure shoreline, your $26 million 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.
So who knows?
Who knows what additional concessions he can get from the Republicans between now and then?
With the time difference, if he stays in Hawaii, it's much more difficult for the Republicans to pre-capitulate to him because you're willing.
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 come back to Washington for another five days of concern.
It's like the 12 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.
The good news is that on January the 1st, we will be over the fiscal cliff, and aside from your taxes going up, you won't notice a thing.
And the taxes will go up anyway, by the way, because there's all kinds of Obamacare goodies and things in there.
But other than that, you won't notice a thing.
It's like the Mayan apocalypse.
You remember that?
We had the, it's like it was.
It's 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.
So we will attend to that, the, the countdown to the fiscal cliff and the fiscal Mayan Apocalypse.
The Mayan Fiscal apocalypse on January the 1st.
We will attend to that in the course of these three hours.
1-800-282-2882 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 ago, he a couple of days ago, he asked Wayne Lapierre about the the the, the shooting in Newtown in Connecticut, and he had an object in his hand and he suggested that high capacity ammunition magazines should be banned and held up, a magazine that he said could hold 30 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 as an example of the crackdown on guns that liberals have been advocating for years.
David Gregory is now looking at five to fifteen years in jail, or whatever it is for, for illegal possession of a high-capacity ammunition magazine or whatever DC crime he has committed.
And this is the perfect example, by the way.
I would bet it never occurred to David Gregory that when he is on TV holding something that he thinks 300 million of his fellow Americans should not be allowed anywhere near, that that law should apply to him too.
Almost every issue in the United States 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 panjandrum 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 producing one on TV for the purpose of chastising the head of the NRA about it.
So David Gregory is now being investigated for producing this illegal gun clip on Meet the Press.
As I said, I may be wrong.
It might not be five to 15 years in jail.
It might be 20 to 30.
I don't know.
They're tough guys in the District of Columbia, but you should have thought about that before you produce this thing on TV.
And actually, it is quite, if it is illegal, they should prosecute him, by the way.
Because this is, I had this business all the way when I got into trouble for breaking the so-called hate speech laws in Canada.
That if I say something, I quoted a Norwegian imam and was dragged in front of all these tribunals up there.
The reporters who wrote about me quoting the Norwegian imam were not subject to the same jeopardy.
Basically, 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 shoot up a schoolhouse.
So why shouldn't he go around with the big magazine, 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, 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 Al Gore went to?
Was it that one?
Yeah, the one the Clinton said.
I don't think it was.
Actually, no, Al Gore was one of those other fancy ones.
You remember when Al Gore used to talk about how his father taught him to plow a steep, rocky, hard-scrabble hillside in the broiling sun?
He was talking, I don't know what he was.
He grew up in Washington, went to this fancy private school.
You can't clear a steep hillside.
You can clear the roof terrace at the Mayflower Hotel.
You know, get the potted palms.
Take an axe to them.
But anyway, he goes to this fancy school, David Gregory's kids, and they have 11 armed guards.
That's not for the president's kids or anything.
That's the 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 this is what it's coming down.
It's we need protection.
We, the ruling elite, 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 should be fine to be in his secured compound.
Out on the streets of Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, they have Saturday night gunfire from the gun gangs.
But 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 going to 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 just the brakes.
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 fella, Piers Morgan?
Piers Morgan.
He's one of 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 Rush guest host roster or anything.
But he has this show on CNN.
And he's been, ever since the Newtown massacre, he's been anti-gun.
He's been pro-gun control.
He's actually not in favor of gun control.
He just doesn't think anyone should have guns.
He just is basically anti-gun, anti-gun.
And when he has a pro-gun guest on, he just hectors them and says, you're a stupid and contemptible man.
And somebody started the thing at the White House, the petition at the White House, where if you get so many signatures, they're supposed to apparently generate an official response, 25,000 signatures.
Somebody started a petition to deport him from the United States.
And it's now up around, I believe, 73,000 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, you know, 127 people on there.
But he's now finds it's less funny.
The novelist, the acclaimed novelist, Joyce Carroll Oates has said that attempting to launching a petition to get Piers Morgan deported from CNN, 71,000 people, by the way, I think that's more than watch his show.
The novelist Joyce Carroll Oates likens Piers Morgan to, quote, crucified Negroes over deportation petition rage.
She says the blood bonding of lynching, 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, for liberals like Joyce Carroll Oates, 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, toffy-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 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 Oates, likens the Piers Morgan deportation petition to crucifying Negroes, strange fruit hanging from a southern tree.
That is the Piers Morgan deportation order hanging from the tree.
Look, it's not very difficult, this.
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, 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 just go on and tell Americans everything.
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 ridiculous.
So 71,000 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 going to be like, he's not like the crucified Negro now.
He's going to 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, 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 U.S. 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 come out against guns and 71,000 people, 71,000 people, I believe, 73,000, something like that.
We'll try and keep an update.
Let's try and get it up over.
Let's try and get it up a bit in the course of the show because I think things have come to a pretty pass when 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, 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 commentary and it's some freaky, weirdy, creepy accent that you've got to take it in.
So, yeah, we've had enough of that.
It's time to say, you know, this is it, Piers Morgan.
We don't need you snooty foreigners telling us what's wrong with our country.
Okay?
Okay, I'm just making that point.
We will also address in the course of the show Wayne LaPierre's theory about the need for armed guards in every school.
He's taken a lot of heat for that.
Cornell West, by the way, he's also weighed in on this.
The 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 Rush made a couple of days ago.
On the day of the Sandy Hook massacre, 10 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 Russia on the same page this.
Why are we only having discussion, this discussion, when kids on the vanilla side of town get shot get shot?
So we will address that and other issues on the Rush Limbaugh Show live on Boxing Day.
Yes, Rush returns next week, but this is your undocumented anchor man here.
Don't forget, if you go to RushLimbaugh.com and you're a Rush 24-7 member, you need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts because it's like he's never, never gone away.
I just realized I missed all the Mannheim steamrollers been mothballed for another 11 months.
Is that right, Mike?
It's all gone.
Yeah, it's after Christmas now.
So I think it's Boxing Day.
We should have boxing music.
We should have, I don't know, the theme from Rocky.
What's the other?
The Rocky theme and what's the other Bob Dylan?
Here comes the story of Harry King, that one?
I think that's the only boxing songs I know.
So maybe the Boxing Day bumper music isn't going to EK 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 caller of the day, David in Los Angeles, California.
David, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
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, thank you.
I appreciate that.
The thought or the thought that I had as you were talking today, it was kind of an epiphanal 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, 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 kind of worried about the 2014 tax on Cadillac healthcare plants because that'll cost me to lose my house.
Yeah, no, you're right about this.
These Obamacare taxes are actually separate from the fiscal cliff thing.
Not just the Cadillac health plan tax, but things like the tax on medical equipment, by the way, which is just a tax on revenues, not even on profits or anything.
It's just on revenue.
So regardless of whether a company makes a profit or a loss, it's got to pay the medical devices tax.
And 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's spending this money in the sense that he took the decision when he became president to raise federal spending to 25% of GDP as a permanent factor life.
That's like six, seven points away above where it would be in the United States previously.
So he did that.
He wants to establish that at 24, 25% is permanent factor.
Okay, it's your spending, so you've got to 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, 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, sticking them with the blame for this thing, David.
And that's why 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 get when you get your tax bill.
But that's right.
There's all these Obamacare taxes.
And regardless of any fiscal cliff type stuff, they'll be kicking in on January the 1st 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 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 this is the District of Columbia is basically like those zero-tolerance school districts you read about from time to time where a kid shows up at school with a plastic water pistol and they suspend him for three months and ruin his life.
He never gets into the AP programs.
He never gets to go to college.
He never winds up and you meet him, run into him 15 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 plastic water pistols to school.
So maybe there was a plastic water high capacity magazine 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 flouted the law intentionally.
This is going to be the second.
Yeah, he did.
He did.
He basically flipped.
Mr. Snowdly is right here.
He basically flipped the finger at authority, at law.
He said, I am above the law.
He said, I don't care about no stinking law.
I don't need no stinking law that tells me I can produce some high-clip magazine on Meet the Press.
He said, I don't need this.
I don't need to be told.
I don't.
No, yeah, they're going to have to pry his television show prop from his cold, dead fingers.
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 NBC, the NBC was told by the District of Columbia Police that it is not legal to show a high-capacity gun magazine on air.
And David Gregory scoffed.
He said, you'll never take me alive, copper.
And now he's looking at 10 to 20 years in jail.
And 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.
He wants a cop in every school.
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 hoity-toity schools that are the kind of in the upscale suburbs, they'll be like the Sidwell Friends thing where the Obama kids and the David Gregory kids go.
They'll be able to afford the money for 11 armed cops at the school.
But if you're just in some broken-down town where the mill closed and they can't raise the money for the budget and everything every year as it is, there's going to be no money for a cop at that school.
So it's going to be a federal program because it's going to have to be redistributive.
You're going to have to take the money from the fancy suburbs and give it to the broken down school districts.
And so what that means is it will be the Transport Security Administration.
You will have a TSA for schoolhouses.
And that will mean that you'll have a big federal bureaucratic Obergrop and Fuhrers 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 a school which our forefathers built at the center of town commons for a reason, because it's the heart of the town, it's the heart of the community, and it will now be looking like this armed secure zone at the airport where if on school concert nights there'll be a big line to get in to see a kid screech his way through,
it's beginning to look a lot, oh no, you can't sing that one.
Whatever they can sing.
The point is, 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 Lepierre 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, is not a federal security force.
A well-regulated militia are the words of the time to say that you, the citizen, bear ultimate responsibility for the security of a free state.
And that is why almost any solution—I do not support the federalization of schoolhouse security.
There are heroes, and we don't honor them enough.
We had one the other day in Connecticut, Vicki Soto, who tried to hide the children in her class in a closet and the cupboards.
And as this nut entered the classroom, she told the children they were somewhere else.
Some of the children panicked, 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 who eventually killed her.
A guy called Liviu Librescu at Virginia Tech, the only good news to come out of Virginia Tech.
He was a Romanian Jew, a Holocaust survivor.
And when the nut was coming for him, he shoved his body up against the door and held him there for enough time to enable all but one of his students to escape through the windows.
He was shot and killed during the attack, and they gave him the Order of the Star of Romania.
I don't believe he was given any award by the United States, which is a pity, because he and Vicky Soto in Connecticut understood that at severe moments, at unprecedented moments, at moments of great crisis, you are called upon to act.
Librescu understood this because he was a Holocaust survivor.
He knew about the midnight knock on the door in the night.
Knew that you can be in a civilized society and that 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 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, where civilians are, in effect, teachers, a Professor Librescu, a Vicky Soto in Connecticut, they are the ones, someone in that school bears ultimate responsibility for being armed at school and being the one to take action when the nut comes a calling.
The cops took 20 minutes to arrive in suburban Connecticut.
The cops took 20 minutes to arrive.
So 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 or Olivier Librescu will be there for you.
And they're the ones, it would be much better instead of having these Nambi-Pambi gun-free zones to have a situation where a school district designates somebody, a member of the community, a teacher, a custodian, to be the person who is armed.
They would have made a huge difference.
And a federal schoolhouse security force, what is it, schoolhouse security, SS?
Well, it's catchy.
Federal schoolhouse security force will be a big bureaucratized nightmare that will ultimately do nothing for the situation.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infor 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.
I'm doing well.
I mean, 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 30-round magazines and people pretending like an AR-15 was used at the school when it was two 9-millimeter pistols and one with a SIG tower, one with a Glock.
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 the Liberal guys, you use the words assault rifle, assault weapon, semi-automatic, automatic, completely interchangeably.
It doesn't matter.
It's just the semi-assault automatic weapon rifle is just, 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 didn't stop that man in China with the knife killing 22 kids or Timothy McVay from blowing up and killing more children with bombs.
I mean, are we going to outlaw rocks too?
Because, you know, it can hurt people.
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
What it does mean is that people, putting aside the question of murder, it means that the preferred weapon of choice becomes actually rather more, for ne'er-do-wells, becomes rather more brutal.
In Piers Morgan's Britain, for example, they have this phenomenon, glassing, where people get stabbed, they have their eyes stabbed out with glass from broken bottles and things now.
They have people who are killed by what they call bollards, which are these sort of lumpy things they have along the sidewalk and they're beaten and then thrown through bus shelters.
They're clubbed with bats.
Knife attacks outnumber gun attacks as the preferred means.
It's number 10 out of depth in America anyway.
I mean, 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.
Those are still important things.
But out of the top 10 killers in America, it's 10.
We had to go to top 10 to include guns.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I mean, that's the thing.
But what you don't figure in is how much worse those other nine means of death would be if there weren't guys with guns all around.
A Westchester County paper just this very day, Frank, has published the names and addresses of all gun owners in the Westchester County, Putnam County, and Dutchess County areas of New York.
And at one level, of course, this is an outrageous breach of privacy.
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 27 Elm Street has a gun and you're thinking of burgling that house, you know, thanks to this newspaper in Westchester County, that you don't want to go to 27 Elm Street, but they don't listing anybody with a gun at 25 Elm Street or 29 Elm Street.
So maybe they're the guys you should break into.
If you don't have a gun, it's fine.
We can have this argument about whether people shouldn't have guns.
But one consequence of getting rid of guns is you have a lot more property crime.
People living in expensive neighborhoods in Britain, for example, lie awake at night listening to guys prowling around, testing their doors.
And you have a lot more hot burglaries where basically people are beaten up while they're in the house and the house is burglar.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
Gunnut David Gregory.
Gunnut David Gregory is being investigated by the District of Columbia Police for a prop on his television, in his television show.
David Gregory doesn't kill people.
You people kill people.
That's the message here.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network.
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