Rubin Report - Dave Rubin - Dave Rubin on Gun Control | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report
Aired: 2015-12-28
Duration: 03:19


=== What I Think About Gun Control (02:55) ===

[00:00:02]  All right, so we want to do something a little different here.
[00:00:04]  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.
[00:00:13]  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.
[00:00:22]  But we thought we'd take a bunch of those stuff, just the meat that everybody's talking about all the time
[00:00:29]  and make kind of short videos letting you know what I think about these things.
[00:00:32]  And what I think about these things in many cases has evolved
[00:00:35]  will continue to evolve.
[00:00:36]  I don't profess to be an expert in any specific one of these,
[00:00:39]  but I can tell you what I think about them as we do this right now in December of 2015.
[00:00:45]  So gun control, I thought would be a good one to start with 'cause I don't know that there's anything
[00:00:51]  that makes people crazier than gun control.
[00:00:53]  So look, basically, I believe in the Second Amendment.
[00:00:55]  I believe that people should have the right to bear arms.
[00:00:59]  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.
[00:01:09]  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?
[00:01:20]  I have a lot of that healthy distrust of government.
[00:01:22]  I think government is epically dysfunctional, does not operate properly.
[00:01:26]  I don't trust our politicians at all.
[00:01:28]  I think that's clear.
[00:01:30]  But the idea that we're gonna have these militias that are one day gonna overtake the government
[00:01:34]  is kind of crazy.
[00:01:36]  So we have to figure out some sensible gun control.
[00:01:39]  Now, of course, this is impossible because the NRA basically makes it impossible
[00:01:44]  and they are an incredibly powerful lobby, but it also has to come from us.
[00:01:48]  And we do have to realize that not, a lot of times people on the right will frame this
[00:01:52]  as this is a slippery slope.
[00:01:53]  If you let them take our machine gun, next thing you know, they're gonna take the shotgun.
[00:01:56]  It's not, I don't think it's as slippery as that.
[00:01:59]  But again, I do believe that people should be allowed to have guns.
[00:02:02]  I also think that, you know, as I say often on the show, that two things can be true at the same time.
[00:02:07]  We do have a gun problem, right?
[00:02:09]  It is too easy to get these things.
[00:02:11]  But also at the same time, we really have a mental health problem, right?
[00:02:14]  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,
[00:02:27]  right, unless you're mentally unstable.
[00:02:29]  So two things can be true at the same time, access is too much and the mental health issue
[00:02:35]  that we have, look, and if you don't think there's a mental health issue, and I know unfortunately
[00:02:38]  we don't talk about it on TV because why?
[00:02:41]  Yeah, because they're putting out the commercials for everything.

=== A Crazy Society Medicates (00:37) ===

[00:02:43]  Every other commercial on cable news is for, you know, to get off cigarettes.
[00:02:48]  But if you take that, it's gonna make you poop.
[00:02:50]  And if you have restless leg syndrome, it might make you suicidal.
[00:02:54]  And, you know, you have a depression cloud following you, so take another antidepressant.
[00:02:57]  And all these things make us crazy.
[00:02:59]  So we're a crazy society, then we medicate ourselves too.
[00:03:02]  And in many, many, many of these shooting cases, we find out that these people are on these medications.
[00:03:09]  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?