Dec. 28, 2015 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| All right, so we want to do something a little different here. | ||
| You know, I'm always interviewing people, so a lot of times their opinions get heard more than mine, which I actually like because I like listening to people and I like just being part of the conversation. | ||
| But a lot of times, especially on Twitter, you guys are asking me what I think about this or that or whatever the hot-button issue is of the day, and I do try to get as much of that stuff out there. | ||
| But we thought we'd take a bunch of those stuff, just the meat that everybody's talking about all the time | ||
| and make kind of short videos letting you know what I think about these things. | ||
| And what I think about these things in many cases has evolved | ||
| will continue to evolve. | ||
| I don't profess to be an expert in any specific one of these, | ||
| but I can tell you what I think about them as we do this right now in December of 2015. | ||
| So gun control, I thought would be a good one to start with 'cause I don't know that there's anything | ||
| that makes people crazier than gun control. | ||
| So look, basically, I believe in the Second Amendment. | ||
| I believe that people should have the right to bear arms. | ||
| That doesn't mean necessarily that you should have the capacity to kill and shoot hundreds of people within seconds and some of these crazy weapons. | ||
| Now look, when the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights put this stuff in, it was because they had a healthy distrust of government after They left England and they didn't want to live under a king, right? | ||
| I have a lot of that healthy distrust of government. | ||
| I think government is epically dysfunctional, does not operate properly. | ||
| I don't trust our politicians at all. | ||
| I think that's clear. | ||
| But the idea that we're gonna have these militias that are one day gonna overtake the government | ||
| is kind of crazy. | ||
| So we have to figure out some sensible gun control. | ||
| Now, of course, this is impossible because the NRA basically makes it impossible | ||
| and they are an incredibly powerful lobby, but it also has to come from us. | ||
| And we do have to realize that not, a lot of times people on the right will frame this | ||
| as this is a slippery slope. | ||
| If you let them take our machine gun, next thing you know, they're gonna take the shotgun. | ||
| It's not, I don't think it's as slippery as that. | ||
| But again, I do believe that people should be allowed to have guns. | ||
| I also think that, you know, as I say often on the show, that two things can be true at the same time. | ||
| We do have a gun problem, right? | ||
| It is too easy to get these things. | ||
| But also at the same time, we really have a mental health problem, right? | ||
| Because if you go out, if you get a gun, whether you get it illegally, legally, however you take it from your parents, whatever you do, you don't go out and shoot people at a mall or at a college or at a holiday party unless you're mentally unhealthy, | ||
| right, unless you're mentally unstable. | ||
| So two things can be true at the same time, access is too much and the mental health issue | ||
| that we have, look, and if you don't think there's a mental health issue, and I know unfortunately | ||
| we don't talk about it on TV because why? | ||
| Yeah, because they're putting out the commercials for everything. | ||
| Every other commercial on cable news is for, you know, to get off cigarettes. | ||
| But if you take that, it's gonna make you poop. | ||
| And if you have restless leg syndrome, it might make you suicidal. | ||
| And, you know, you have a depression cloud following you, so take another antidepressant. | ||
| And all these things make us crazy. | ||
| So we're a crazy society, then we medicate ourselves too. | ||
| And in many, many, many of these shooting cases, we find out that these people are on these medications. | ||
| So yeah, I'm not, look, I am trying not to be an absolutist here, but that being said, all of that being said, yeah, I do fear a zombie invasion, so would I like to have a gun? |
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