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Oct. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 5, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, had a little battery problem here on my cochlear implant, but it's back up and running.
Sorry for the delay.
Happy to be with you.
Telephone number here, 800-282-2882.
And the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Happy to have you with us.
Now this next on this gun control, this is what uh the left uses to suggest that we're not doing enough.
They love to point out that all of these perps, such as the uh this kid Mercer, this young man Mercer blew up the school in Oregon, yeah, he got it the guns legally met their limbo, he got his guns legally so he feed the fifth and is it working.
LA Times reports that after searching, the community college, Oregon, and Chris Harper, Mercer's residents, law enforcement officials recovered a total of 13 firearms belonging to Mercer, all of which were purchased legally.
They have legally there in quotes.
According to the Times, law enforcement officials found six guns were at UCC, the community college, and seven more were at his apartment.
As we have seen numerous times, I'm still reading from the Limes, it's not bad peace.
As we have seen numerous times before, a report that the guns are purchased legally means the purchases including included passing a background check.
This makes Mercer just one more public attacker who cooperated fully with all gun control and then went on to commit heinous crimes against innocent life.
Now the left will use this and say that we don't have strict enough control.
What they are denying here, we have all these background checks.
He went through the process, that kid had 13 guns.
What does it tell you about his intent here?
The the problem that we're having with this is that we're refusing to profile people.
I'll tell you, that is getting us into more trouble as a culture and society than you would believe.
We're refusing to identify people for and who they really are, because it's discriminatory or it's unfair or it violates human rights or whatever, but all of this is right out in front of us.
Everything we need to know to be able to deduce someone's intent is right in front of us.
And people want to sit here in utter denial and continue to blame.
I mean, there are more gun control laws in this country than people want to admit, and they always tell us that we're nothing.
We don't do anything compared to the gun control laws they have in Europe and so forth.
We've gone out of the way here to make the purchase of a gun in a lot of cases of, you know, it's it's not just something you can just walk off the street and get in most cases.
13 different guns here.
And one of we what are we finding?
There's the the common sense conclusion here, all of these gun laws do not stop crazed murderers from murdering.
So would somebody tell me, what evidence do you have that more gun control is going to achieve the purpose?
If this kid, this guy just had 13 different guns, I guarantee you, he would have found a way to get one if it was impossible to get these thirteen.
When we have stringent gun control laws already on the books, and they're not stopping crazed murderers, maybe the gun laws are not the problem.
But I find this to be very contradictory for people on the left.
Because on the one hand, they want all of these laws.
They want as many laws as they can get when it comes to guns.
They want punitive laws.
They want discriminatory laws, they want laws of of mass denial.
But when the subject turns to immigration and illegal immigrants, they don't want any law at all.
And if there is any law, it it deserves to be ignored and swept aside and pretended that it's not there.
Or the law is criticized as discriminatory and unfair.
And all of these other insults to people.
They're very selective in how they use the law.
When the Constitution is involved and Obama doesn't want to pay attention to it, that's fine.
He has a higher calling.
He has a higher purpose.
But when it comes to gun laws, they have succeeded in achieving all kinds of control over guns with these background checks, you name it, and yet the bottom line is that in Chicago,
in Detroit, in Baltimore, in Washington, D.C., at every school where there's been a shooting, there hasn't been a single problem whatsoever for the PERP to be able to commit the crime.
Despite laws that you can't even contemplate that are on the books.
They just there isn't a law out there that did that that stops behavior.
People still rob banks, they still commit murder, they still run red lights, they still steal.
The law is a societal marker for right and wrong and good and bad, good and evil, and it's uh you know, establishes a standard for punishment and so forth.
And in some cases, it can deter marginal people, and if it has deterrent capabilities, all the better.
But it's not the primary reason why you have laws deterring the behavior.
The law is an acknowledgement the behavior's going to happen.
The law deals with what happens when somebody breaks it.
The law exists because society as a whole has deemed this or that to be right or wrong, moral or immoral, good or bad, harmful or not.
It's how we lay down our markers.
And they just want to keep piling law on law on law, except when it comes to immigration or anything else that's beneficiary to the Democrat Party.
But clearly, folks, it's it it just has no impact.
Here's another stat, and this is uh this is from the same writer, A.W. R. Hawkins.
Ninety-two percent of mass shootings since 2009 have occurred in gun-free zones.
Ninety two percent.
These these uh the schools are not to be chosen randomly.
They're not chosen just because there's a collection of kids that make good targets or students there.
They're chosen because there's not going to be any resistance.
And what is it that shuts down every one of these sprees when they start?
It's the arrival on the scene of somebody else with a gun.
Not somebody waving a law in a piece of paper.
Not somebody on a megaphone, you are breaking gun law.
You are violating gun law.
We command you to stop.
What you hear next is bang bang a couple more times.
There aren't any shooters on site because it's a gun-free zone.
The law-abiding, of course, obey the law, and they don't have any guns, not even the security people.
92% of mass shootings since 2009 occurred in gun-free zones.
Now, let's go to the father, Ian Mercer, this late Saturday afternoon on CNN.
And this is this is also what happens.
They bring out the parents, either of victims or the parents of the shooter, and they join the chorus of the guns are the problem.
And it's hard not to feel bad for these people.
It's difficult not to have compassion for the parents of this shooter or the parents of people that he killed.
And it is thought that they are much closer to the situation since they have personal involvement.
And for that reason alone, we're supposed to listen to them.
Simply because they have something personal attached personally to the shooter or one of the victims, that makes them much more qualified than anybody else to render an opinion on this that must be followed.
Because they themselves are victims, and we feel sorry for victims, and therefore we're going to go out of our way to make the victims feel good.
So, whatever the victims want is what we claim that we are going to be for, whether it makes sense or not.
And this is the technique, CNN and all the other networks employed starting Saturday afternoon.
It was interviewed by National Correspondent, CNN National Correspondent Ryan Young.
Ian Mercer, father of the Oregon Community College shooter.
Remember, the shooter is half black and half white, and yet he's being called a white supremacist.
He identified as black.
So the CNN reporter says, now you uh you told me before that you didn't want to talk too much about your son, obviously, because you're going through so much pain, but you also realize people are going to remember him differently now forever.
How on earth could he compile 13 guns?
How can that happen?
You know, they talk about gun laws, they talk about uh gun control.
Every time something like this happens, they talk about it and nothing is done.
I'm not trying to say that not to blame for what happened, but if Chris had not been able to get a hold of 13 guns, it wouldn't have happened.
Uh all he would have needed is one.
But see, this is the point.
There isn't a law on the books that's gonna deny this guy the right to get a gun.
Not wrong way to put there's not a law, there's not a series of laws that you could write or that are on the books now that would stop him from getting a gun.
And they know that that's why they say we gotta get rid of the guns.
We have to get rid of the guns.
This is a trick every time.
Yeah, we'll almost admit that the law is gonna we have to get rid of the guns.
He would have still gotten one because of his intent.
There isn't a single thing that's outlawed in this country that you can't get.
So it's it's it's silly, it is absurd.
His question how on earth could he compile 13 guns?
Why did he want to?
Is the question.
And why didn't anybody notice?
Why did he want 13 guns?
Doesn't that kind of give you a tip that something's awry here?
Next question to Mr. Mercer.
It's a very powerful statement coming.
See, this is a very powerful statement coming from you, Mr. Mercer.
He's the father of the shooter, therefore he's a victim.
We have sympathy, we feel our hearts go out to the guy, so he offers his opinion.
Wow, that's very powerful.
He's considered to have knowledge that we don't.
He's considered to have wisdom that we don't because he's the father.
And since it is assumed he's got wisdom we don't, we must listen.
So the question, it's a very powerful statement coming from you.
So now I have to ask you, how did he get the 13 guns?
That's what everyone's gonna want to know.
Look all over the world.
You don't see these kind of mass shootings all over the world on a consistent basis like you do in the United States.
So somebody has to ask the question how is it so easy to get only guns?
I've never held a gun in my life.
Did you know he had 13 guns?
I had no idea he had any guns.
I had no idea that he had any guns whatsoever.
And I'm a great believer.
Don't buy guns.
Don't buy guns.
You don't buy guns.
This is another old saw that is also not true.
Look all over the world, you don't see these kinds of mass shootings all over.
You most certainly do.
You see them all over the place.
You see them in France.
You see them in Great Britain, you see them everywhere.
There are mass shootings, there's masked murder, there's mass crime all over the world.
There always has this is another straw dog that gets thrown up there.
That somehow it's worse here.
Everywhere else is much more enlightened than we are.
There is an all-out war that's been declared on Christians all over the world, and nobody wants to talk about it.
And it's not just ISIS.
It's happening all over the world, and nobody wants to mention that.
Nobody does mention that.
Obama does not take the occasion.
Every opportunity he has to forego it, he does.
So he didn't know that his own son had 13 guns, but because he did, it must mean it's really easy to get them.
But still nobody knows why he wanted them.
Well, we do now.
But that's the real question.
Why'd a guy want 13 guns?
What is it that's inspiring this guy?
Anyway, let's take a brief time out.
That's this for that or that for this, but it's it's an ongoing circumstance.
And the left isn't going to get rid of it.
I just want to reiterate one thing, and Obama went out there on whenever he talked about this Friday night.
And he started joking about the fact, yeah, there's all these crackbots out there think I want to take guns away from everybody so that I can basically stay in power without any opposition.
He doesn't know how close he is to being right in terms of why number two exists.
There are many reasons for the second amendment, but one of the reasons is to make sure that people cannot take control of our country and government outside our electoral system.
Make no mistake about that.
That's not a paranoid thing to say.
It's not a tinfoil hat thing to say.
You go back to when the Constitution was written and the Bill of Rights was written and take a look at the human condition at that time.
Nobody had any freedom.
Nobody had any liberty of the kind they were creating for people that were going to live and did live at the time in America.
Military coups and assassinations and armed takeovers of regimes were common all over the world.
And they still are for crying out loud.
The founders wrote the second amendment to ensure that something like that could not easily happen here.
Pure and simple.
They very much believed in what they were creating.
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the United States of America.
They had they had sworn their lives.
Their fortunes, their sacred honor to this.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
They knew what the human condition was at the time they were writing the founding documents and assembling this country.
They knew how fragile, in other words, governments can be.
And they knew that it was not very difficult to imagine that people would want to overthrow this new country and overthrow this new government because it was considered to be so radical, which it was at the time.
It wasn't odd at all to imagine that somebody, some group, could try to take over this country outside the electoral process, which they had labored and labored over, creating and inventing.
And so the second amendment was created for a host of reasons, among them to make sure that somebody, some group could not take control of this country outside our election process.
And parents, it's not hard to understand this at all.
That's a couple of more things.
A shooter's father, Ian Mercer, has not seen his son since he moved to Oregon.
And his mother, who is a nurse, said that her son was mentally ill.
Okay.
Have you heard the term nut control?
As opposed to gun control.
Have you heard that?
You haven't heard that term nut c nut control.
You have now, right?
I wonder what anybody might want to think of perhaps uh a program uh rooted in that premise, nut control.
To the phones we go, folks.
This is Nathan of Columbus, Ohio.
Hey, Nathan, it's Grad.
Uh I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you with us, and hello, sir.
Hey, Ross, how are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Hey, thanks for having me.
I just want to say, first of all, I'm a registered independent.
I don't agree with everything you say.
But I really respect you because I think you always listen to the other side and respect them.
So thank you for that.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Um I wanted to bring up Saturday Night Live.
Did you watch it?
No, I didn't.
I haven't seen Saturday Night Live in um probably ten years, but I heard about it.
I've I may as well have seen it because I've seen a couple of the clips and so I know about what happened there, yeah.
You know what?
I don't really I haven't cared for it for probably three years or so, but um Oh, by the way, I'm a rush baby.
I've been listening to you since I can even remember.
Well, that that would that would explain why, even though you're libertarian, you agree with most everything you hear, be a rush baby.
That's that's even that's even better.
Anyways, um so yeah, the Saturday Night Live, I just happened to be at uh at a friend's house and uh Hillary Clinton came on.
So um she the first thing she was on, she didn't they didn't really sorry, someone else is calling me.
I apologize.
So they didn't really uh dig into her.
They were very nice to her.
And uh the things they did attack her on, you know, is really petty.
It was like, oh, you know, you you did that, but you could have did it sooner.
Ha ha ha, and it wasn't funny, but look, Hillary is on her rehab tour.
Hillary is really in bad shape here in terms of image and PR.
And she's on a rehab tour and uh an image repair tour.
I don't know how many people, in order to repair their image we go to Saturday Night Live, but she did.
And I think it tells you a lot about somebody who wants to repair their image and do it Saturday Night Live.
But NBC's in a tank for her, Nathan.
And you saw it.
Now look, Nathan, take your call here because I've got and hold on, come back.
I've got a break here.
We'll be back here in a couple minutes.
Just stay with us.
Half my brain tied behind my back, folks.
As always, just to make things fair here behind the golden EIB microphone.
We go back now to Nathan in uh Columbus.
Were you able to answer that call you had coming in while we were chatting?
I was able to send it to voicemail, I'm sorry about that.
That's no problem.
Understand that we are very flexible here, Nathan.
If you have a call coming, you can't control that.
Okay, so you have some uninterrupted time.
You're watching Saturday Night Live, you saw Hillary and you saw her basically be treated differently than anybody else they treat, right?
Let me tell you, Rush, what I saw later, and I will try to see from the this generation's perspective, not speaking for others, but what I just see with my friends and uh co-workers and everyone my age.
So they later went on to say that they made a little bit making fun of the other Democratic candidates, saying that no one even knows who they are.
Hillary already won.
And that's it.
You know, they kind of left it at that.
And it's really funny to me because some of these people who really latch on to Hillary just refuse to acknowledge Bernie Sanders, which I will get out of the way right now.
I do not support Bernie Sanders.
I don't support socialism.
But I will tell you what the people my age really like, which you would think, because this does tie into Donald Trump too.
They like that take down corporate America idea.
Bernie Sanders has it.
Donald has it.
But Donald Trump is just so abrasive, and d that's what people don't like.
But I when they when they gave it when they gave the candidacy to Hillary on Saturday Night Live, I thought it was just that was the funniest part of the whole thing to me.
They're just refusing to believe that she's not gonna get it.
Well, I'll tell you why that is.
Uh the the uh fact remains that NBC corporately and politically is in the tank for Hillary.
So that's that that's that's all you really need to know.
I mean, they they want Hillary to win.
They're invested in Hillary winning in more ways, not just that they like her.
I mean, there are there are political and business reasons that they're invested.
They've g they've given uh NBC and its related business partners have donated a lot to the Clinton crime family foundation, so they've they've already paid for policy considerations after Hillary is elected.
What I what I find you you you say that they s they're laughing and pretending Bernie Sanders doesn't exist, and the reason for that, Nathan, is that nobody thinks that Bernie Sanders is going to get close to the Democrat nomination, no matter what happens in these primaries, no matter how big his crowds, no matter how much enthusiasm, it just isn't gonna happen.
They're not gonna let it happen.
The Democrat Party's not gonna let this guy anywhere near the nomination because he means his anti corporate rants.
Hillary doesn't.
Hillary just doing her little populist rants to try to make people think she is on their side on these issues, but she's really not.
They are some of her biggest donors.
She travels and parties and vacations with these people.
They're buddies.
They're they're their fellow travelers.
And Bernie Sanders really means it when he says he wants to do them great harm and cut them down to size.
What what happened to Ron Paul in 2012 then?
Because I see a mere situation right now with parties with what happened to each of these candidates.
There just aren't enough people that favor the legalization of marijuana to elect a libertarian president.
Well now, see, we're in a state where it's a sensitive issue because we're voting on that in November.
Well, yeah, you're going to vote on it, and and but you can't win the presidency alone in Colorado and Ohio.
You just you just can't do it.
Ron Paul was never going to get the nomination.
He was never going to be elected.
They're just look at the numbers.
Libertarian candidates poll at one to two percent in in real presidential campaigns.
It was it was never never going to happen.
Um I understand the libertarian attachment to uh to Ron Paul.
Believe me, I do.
What interests me more, Nathan, you're 24 years old, he said.
And I if you can tell me here, I know just the fact I'm asking the question might taint your answer.
I hope it doesn't.
There's no wrong answer here.
But but you're 24.
You weren't old enough to really be paying enough attention during the Clinton 90s to have an opinion of them based on that.
So what I want to know, what do you really think of Hillary Clinton when you see her on TV, when you hear her talk about whatever it is she talks about?
What is your impression of Hillary Clinton?
Not just as a candidate, just period.
I have and uh now I'm gonna sound like a politician because I'm generalizing, but I have the same opinion on her that I have Marco Rubio, which sounds really out there.
But when you get up there in front of me and you start saying words very robotically, very you know someone made those words for her, someone made those words for all these politicians, and when you just get up there and recite them, that is not what I want to see, and that's not what I will vote on.
And if no one like Donald Trump or Carly Fiorina existed in the Republican side, the most appealing candidate right now for me would be Bernie Sanders, because he's like you said, he's speaking the truth of what he believes.
Right.
Despite how wrong.
What is it okay, but okay, speaking the truth of what he believes, does it matter that he's wrong?
Does it matter that he doesn't know what he's talking about even though he believes it?
It does.
It does, but why are you still drawn to it?
I I told I'm not drawn to Bernie Sanders.
I'm drawn to that honesty.
That's what I would I mean, I don't I don't see Hillary Clinton as a big thing.
So you but you you you don't see well net well, she's not, so that's good eyes on your part.
She's not.
What about Trump?
Trump Trump's telling you exactly what he thinks, man.
He no, he is very honest, but I do truly believe, I mean, when it comes to and I know this is a big criticism of him, but I I'm totally on board with it, you know, foreign policy stuff.
He can't there's a level of maturity missing from Donald Trump that he needs to grasp in order to appeal to everyone, and he just doesn't have it.
He doesn't have a sense of maturity overall or just on foreign policy.
Well, no, over I mean, his general persona is just the way he acts.
I mean, that's why I'll tell you, I haven't even got this out there yet.
I right now like the arena.
Because to me, I don't care about gender, I don't care about any of that stuff.
She is very honest, and she is very articulate and elegant and intelligent.
Like she has the whole package to me.
Donald Trump is missing that like a let me tell you what I'm hearing.
And and again, uh I don't want you to take this personally, because it's not an attack.
I'm just sharing with you my observation.
Your assessments of these candidates are based on one, nothing wrong with this, your feelings, and number two, your assessment of How they come across, when it comes to what they actually are saying, it may not even matter to you, is what I'm hearing.
It's just how they say it, how they appear saying it.
Do they seem honest?
Are they honest?
Do they seem competent?
Um mature or what have you.
And that seems to be the uh the things about these people you notice the most.
That's my criticisms of them.
That's not what I would act on, though.
I mean, that's what I observe about them.
When I get behind, you know, when it comes down to it and I go to vote, it's going to be more than just do it.
It's not American Idol.
Like it's not like did I like them?
All right.
Well, and in that case, then then well we'll see.
Um, depending on on you know who you have a chance to vote for when the uh when the time comes.
Uh but you're 24.
Does Hillary's age bother you at all?
Do you I mean uh you know, young people tend to look at uh uh people Hillary's age and think they're not hip or cool anymore, they don't understand young people anymore, and they're just you know, kinda out of it.
Does any of them I don't mean to be asked you leading questions, I'm just trying to get more understanding here how you how you uh interpret her.
No, I mean I don't think I don't think she's first of all, I don't think she's hip or cool.
I think she may try to be.
But um age is a concern to a degree, but when it comes, you know, when it comes to something I truly believe in, if age was a really big concern, I would have never been a supporter of Ron Paul.
Right.
Okay, well that makes sense.
That's true, because he is ancient.
You're right about that.
All right, Nathan, I sorry, I couldn't I couldn't help it.
That's just who I am.
I appreciate the call.
I really do thank you for spending so much time here today.
Quick timeout, we'll be back with Oh, wait, Nathan, hang on just a second.
Nathan, are you still there?
Yeah, I am.
Do you do you have a do you have uh how can I ask this?
Well, I'd like to give you an iPhone, but I don't know what kind of phone you have now.
I don't even know if you have a phone, if you have a a phone account.
I have an iPhone.
You have it what kind of iPhone do you have?
Uh the six.
Six?
Six or six plus?
Just the six.
Just the six.
Do you like it?
Uh it's all right.
It's not my favorite.
What I'll tell you what then.
Let me I'm gonna send you an iPhone 6S.
What color are you what you're ATT or Verizon?
Need to know that first.
I'm Verizon.
Your Verizon, okay.
I'm gonna send you, you hang on here, Mr. Snurdy'll get your address.
And uh we'll get it out to you.
You have a color preference.
I don't know if I can match it, but I'll check.
Do you have a color preference on your iPhone 6s?
The black one, if possible.
The black one, space gray.
Fine, I'm sure we'll find one in there.
Could I do something that mean even more to me than that?
Can I say happy birthday to my dad?
It's his birthday today.
Well, sure.
You want your dad to have it?
No, you want you want to say happy birthday to your dad.
Okay, sure.
I want to say happy birthday to my dad, but I want the phone.
All right.
Well, you just did.
What's his what's his first name?
His name's Dave.
Name is Dave.
Dave Goldsmith.
Dave Goldsmith.
Okay.
Now hang on here, and uh because this the six, the six S, it looks just like your six, but it is the most significant upgrade Apple has ever released.
There isn't a phone in the world in its league.
Well, I appreciate it.
Any way you cut it.
In any way you cut it.
So you hang on, Nathan.
Do not go away, so Mr. Snurdly get your address.
We'll be back after this one.
Hey, look, it may have happened, but I don't aware of it happening.
Can somebody tell me, has Obama at all declared South Carolina a disaster area?
Is there any federal assistance headed to South Carolina?
Is that that?
Okay, so he and the governor, Nikki Haley talked.
She has to make the request.
She has to ask for she has to declare it.
Okay.
You know, because normally when something like this happens, even before it happens, the president and somebody says, don't worry about it, we're gonna declare it a disaster area, get all this rain coming, don't sweat it.
That didn't happen, I know.
And I hadn't heard it happening since all of the rain.
And I know how Obama plays politics.
South Carolina is a Republican state.
It's just the way Democrats run things.
I mean, if you're a blue state and red president, or it's always the other way around.
How did we end up getting red is our color anyway?
How did that happen?
Anyway.
That's how the the left they they they parcel out aid in that regard.
That's one of the things that's always concerned me about Obamacare.
Anyway, here's uh here's Jack Santa Maria, California.
Hey Jack, how are you, sir?
Greetings, Rush.
Uh lifetime listener, I started listening to you back in 1988 when you first went national, and my wife and I were privileged enough to go on the Rushdie Excellence tour.
Um You were there.
That was the very first one in Santa Maria, California, was the very first one.
Yeah, a friend of mine's sponsor was one of the sponsors, so uh I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with you for a couple minutes, and uh then went on the uh the cruise you had to the Caribbean.
That was uh exciting it was my first cruise, so uh my wife got away.
She wanted she's always wanted to go on a cruise, and I said, Well, Russia's having a cruise, and see this is this is folks.
If you ever hear me talk about how much I appreciate the the audience in this bond here, this man has been since day one.
It's we're in the twenty-eighth year, and he's been every day for the most part.
Oh no, no, I don't do the cruises anymore.
That was that was that was the early days I could do it.
I can't do those kinds of things anymore.
But yeah, there were rushed to excellence cruises all over Panama Canal or all over the place.
So anyway, Jack, I well, I I I really uh appreciate that.
That's terrific.
Well, it it's really cool.
I go walking every day for exercise, and uh I've lost thirty pounds in a year, and I hope you've lost some weight too, because I've been walking and you've been walking with me every day.
Well, thank you.
There we go.
There you go.
Um and that's why I called today.
I was out walking and I heard you talking about uh you know the shooter up in Oregon.
I won't use his name because uh, you know, he doesn't deserve that uh that recognition.
But uh and you had mentioned something about um in the conversation you were talking about the fact that he passed all the background checks and that he owned thirteen guns, and maybe should somebody should have noticed that uh you know he was screwed up or he was mentally nuts or whatever.
And uh you had mentioned you said something to the effect of that you know they should have profiled him because he owned thirteen guns.
And that scared the heck out of me.
I I almost ran home to get to the phone because uh you know I've been I've been I've owned guns my whole life.
I've got way more than thirteen guns, uh law abiding citizen, and I would really hope that uh that I misheard you or that that you wouldn't be advocating that because somebody owns a lot of guns that they should be profiled.
No, no, I w uh I know how it that came out though.
Uh this is one of those instances where I'm not vo verbalizing or voicing every thought in my head at the time.
But it was based on the fact you you we can profile nuts uh and we don't.
Uh we we can profile the mentally ill, but but we don't.
Um but I did not mean that possession of multiple guns is an automatic red flag.
I did not mean that at all.
I was just with everything we now know about this guy, my point is a lot of it could have been known before he pulled the trigger.
I I don't disagree at all.
I think you know that there are people out there that uh you know that shouldn't have guns, and maybe we ought to be training the gun salespeople to recognize people that are kind of strange or you know that are not all there.
Well, I don't know if you want to put the onus on them.
I mean, how do they know?
They're not trained to spot this kind of thing.
You can't do it on looks alone.
It's a tough thing.
I mean, it's it's a it's a really challenging thing, but one thing we know we're not gonna be able to get rid of all guns, and we have gotten rid of all guns at schools and movie theaters, and that's where the crimes happen.
So we know getting rid of guns does not work, it's not the answer.
It has to be focused on the people that are doing this.
And my only point is that they're experts somewhere.
We we could have identified this guy.
I'm confident.
I'm also maybe not for this particular crime, but as I I know it they're you we're on the on the edge of the uh abyss here talking about this kind of profiling.
But if you're s if we're seriously talking about this is these are the things that we haven't tried that that we thought that we I think we should.
Yeah.
Now look, Jack, Jack, look, I'm running out of time here, and if there's anybody in this audience deserves an iPhone, it's you.
And I'd like to offer you twenty-eight years.
You've been there every day.
If you'd like an iPhone, I'd be I'd be honored to send you one if something like that would please you.
Okay.
I'm uh I'm an Android guy myself.
I've never had an iPhone, but uh I'm sure I can find somebody that's well how about an iPad?
Okay.
All right.
Snerdley get his address and so forth, and I'll find an iPad Air 2.
I've got one in there.
I'll fire that out to you.
Android.
Oh.
Okay, I'm told that Nikki Haley did declare disaster and make the request before the floods hit.
All right, so I have I'm happy that I had not heard it, and I thought that was kind of odd, but now I've heard it.
Everything's cool.
And we've got much more as always.
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