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John Lott - October 11th, Hour 3
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That is Kamala and Tim Walz in their own words, their own radicalism, so you can be as informed a voter as possible.
Now, Kamala has talked an awful lot recently about being a gun owner.
And, you know, she's been, well, what kind of gun do you have?
I have a Glock.
Have you fired it?
Of course I fired it.
Listen.
You recently surprised people when you said that you are a gun owner.
And then if someone came into your house, I would have talked about it.
That's not the first time I've talked about it.
So what kind of gun do you own?
And when and why did you get it?
I have a Glock, and I've had it for quite some time.
And I mean, look, Bill, my background is in law enforcement.
And so there you go.
Have you ever fired it?
Yes.
Of course I have.
At a shooting range?
Yes, of course I have.
And then she warns intruders, if somebody breaks into her house, they're getting shot.
I thought liberals are against standard ground rules and laws.
Listen.
I'm a gun owner, Tim Walz.
I know that.
If I break into my house, they're getting shot.
Yes, yes.
I hear that.
I hear that.
Probably should not have said that.
But my staff will deal with that later.
Okay.
If you want to believe that, this is the person that also, and I have a cut of this, you know, she in her own words, as part of our Kamala Files series, if you will, had talked about a mandatory gun buyback program.
Now, I'm not making it up because she said it, and she said it in her own words.
Listen.
What would you do about the millions of specifically assault weapons that are already in circulation?
What do you do about those?
Well, there are approximately 5 million to your point, Craig.
We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program.
It's got to be smart.
We've got to do it the right way.
And she has vigorously championed gun control for years.
As the San Francisco DA, she stated, quote, just because you legally possess a gun, and we have this tape, I'll play it.
Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check and see if you are being responsible.
I thought we had something called the Constitution.
I thought that Constitution talked at length about unreasonable search and seizure.
That would seem unconstitutional to me.
Here's what she said.
So this is about just basically saying that we're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community.
And just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.
Joining us now, John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who wrote this article.
Mr. Lott, Dr. Lott, welcome back to the program, sir.
How are you?
Doing great.
Thanks for having me on, Sean.
Like all of her radical positions, I don't believe in this conversion that she's trying to portray.
You know, this election year conversion, as we call it.
I think the real Kamala Harris has been the one that supports the mandatory gun buyback program, the one that doesn't believe that you need a search warrant and feels she has the right to go in and check on your guns, which would also imply some type of registry of guns.
And the Kamala Harris has been so anti-gun her entire adult life.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of misnomer to even use the term buyback because it's not like the government owned those guns to begin with.
She just wants to be able to confiscate them, as you said.
But look, the bottom line is that for decades, she has enthusiastically supported the strictest gun bans.
You go back to 2008, for example.
She put it in a MICUS brief before the Supreme Court when they were considering the Heller case, arguing that there was no individual right to self-defense, that the government could completely ban all handguns or an entire category of guns or all guns if the government wanted to go and do that.
So, I mean, she's consistently said it.
And again, you can get clips from her at that time enthusiastically saying that the government had the power to go and ban guns.
So it's not just the statements during the 2020 presidential campaign.
But beyond that, she's been the point person for gun control efforts in the Biden administration.
Biden set up something called the Office of Gun Violence Protection, which he put her in charge of.
And it's pushed all sorts of gun control laws.
During the Biden administration, which has been the most anti-self-defense president that we've ever had, they've done things like shut down literally thousands of gun dealers for minor trivial paperwork mistakes.
They'll go back and look 17, 18 years ago to see whether you have one typo by transposing two letters in a word.
They've renewed Obama's Operation Chokepoint, which cuts out financial resources for gun makers and gun dealers, raising costs and putting others out of business.
The Biden administration's also established a national gun registry.
As of a couple years ago, they had computerized data on almost 1 billion transactions over many decades of people's purchases, legal purchases of guns.
And so now when they talk about things like confiscating guns, now that they've put together this national registry, it'll be a lot easier for them to go and know whose guns they want to go and take, who owns the guns that they want to take away.
When you talk about more guns, less crime, anytime any liberal hears that, their heads explode.
But the reality is you base it on statistics and science, and you make your case.
I know you've gone around the country and you've had debate, debate after debate after debate with liberal activists that are anti-Second Amendment.
And then you give them these facts, and then they tend to react emotionally to it.
What are the facts?
When you say more guns result in less crime, explain that.
Well, there's lots of different types of information.
I'll just give you one very simple fact, and that is around the world, not just in the United States and places like Chicago and Washington, D.C., we've seen bans on guns.
If the claim on the other side is correct, you should see drops in murder rates and drops in violent crimes when you have, let's say, a complete ban on handguns.
And yet every single time there's been either a ban on all guns or all handguns, any place in the world, murder rates have gone up, often by very large amounts.
And, you know, you'd think out of randomness, at least once or twice it would go down.
And yet every time it's gone up.
And there's a simple reason for that, and that is when you go and you ban guns.
It's the most law-abiding good citizens who obey the ban, not the criminals.
And even if you take a few guns away from the criminals, if you're primarily disarming law-abiding good citizens, you make it easier for criminals to go and commit crimes.
But we've seen this in many cases.
You know, we have all the states now that are supposed to be issuing concealed carry permits.
When those laws got passed, time after time, gun control advocates were claiming that crime would increase, that the permit holders would be going and committing crimes.
And yet, six months or a year after these laws get into effect in a state, there's no discussion about it anymore.
And the reason is simple.
It's because they know that the predictions that they were making didn't come true.
No state that's adopted a right to carry law or a constitutional carry law has even had a vote on rescinding those laws.
Even when you have Democrats take over the state legislatures after those laws have gotten passed, you would think if there was actual evidence in those states that it had accomplished the opposite of what the proponents were claiming, you would have seen at least votes on it, even if they couldn't muster enough support to get it passed.
But they knew that there was no support because the claims that they were making just didn't happen.
All right, we continue now with Dr. President John Lott of the Crime Prevention Center.
Kamala Harris now all of a sudden has found a love for the Second Amendment, which he has never showed throughout her career.
Is it real?
I have more than my doubts.
Let's talk about, you know, what are the options of people if they don't have that?
Now, there is new technology that I happen to be very fond of, but it's a non-lethal option called Burner.
I don't know if you're familiar with the technology, but I happen to be very fond of it, and it's part of my overall personal safety and security plan that I have.
But I've had a license to carry in New York, Rhode Island, California, Alabama, Georgia, and I have a license to carry in Florida.
I've carried a weapon my entire adult life.
And I got trained in the safe use of a firearm when I was young.
My mom was a prison guard, and she had a revolver in the house.
They didn't have lock boxes like they do today and fingerprint safes like they do today.
And they wanted to make sure that I was familiar with it and familiar with the safety procedures.
And it also created a passion at a very young age for me.
And I tell anybody that calls me, you know, they'll say, Hannity, what kind of weapon do you recommend for self-defense?
I said, well, I said, probably a shotgun is going to be the most effective if, God forbid, somebody breaks into your home or business.
I said, but whatever weapon you are considering, get trained in the proper use and safety of it before you ever go near it.
And I take safety, you know, it was a priority of my life from day one, and it should be for everybody else.
And, you know, one of the things I know about gun owners is they're willing to help people learn gun safety.
And a lot of these groups out there, like the USCCA, they teach gun safety and situational self-defense.
And one of the most important things that teach people is how to talk your way out of it and get out of the situation without an incident.
Right.
Look, I mean, we've had this huge increase in violent crime during the Biden administration.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that total violent crime has increased 55% during the Biden administration.
We've had a 42% increase in rapes, a 63% increase in armed robbery.
We've had a 55% increase in aggravated assaults.
There's never been, in the 50 years that the Bureau of Justice Statistics has been putting the data together on total violent crimes, there's never been such a large percentage increase over three years.
The largest previous increase was in 2006, where it was 27%.
So this increase under Biden is more than twice as large as the largest previous percentage increase that we've ever had.
And even the FBI, you know, people go and point to the FBI data on reported violent crime.
Even the FBI has gone back and revised its earlier data.
So rather than the drop in violent crime that they initially claimed for 2022, actually shows an increase in reported violent crime now, saying that they missed about 80,000 violent crimes that they hadn't included in their initial calculations that were there.
But look, if my research convinces me of anything, there's basically two groups of people who benefit the most from being able to go and own guns.
The people who are the most likely victims of violent crime, and that overwhelming tends to be poor blacks who live in high-crime urban areas.
Democrats claim that they care about minorities, that they care about the poor.
And yet, who do they think get hurt by cuts in police budgets and by having prosecutors who don't prosecute violent criminals?
The other group of people who benefit the most are people who are relatively weaker physically, women and the elderly.
They're almost always talking about a young male criminal doing the attack.
And when a man is attacking a woman or an elderly person, there's a lot larger strength difference that exists there than when a man is attacking another man.
And the presence of a gun represents by far the biggest change in those people's ability to go and protect themselves.
The thing is, the vast majority of time that people use guns defensively, about 95% of the time, simply brandishing a gun is sufficient to cause a criminal to go and break off an attack.
And it's one reason why the media often doesn't cover this.
It's not newsworthy to go and say, well, a woman's brandished a gun.
The would-be criminals run away.
No shots are fired.
You're not even sure what crime would have been committed.
You know, they're much more likely to cover a dead body on the ground than somebody who simply brandished a gun.
I've got to run, but I urge people, if you haven't read More Guns, Less Crime, which was the original book of John Lott, it is well worth reading.
You're going to learn a lot.
And actually, statistics and science matter.
Oh, follow the science.
Didn't we hear that over and over again at one point?
John Lott, thank you.
Appreciate you being with us.
I believe the old Kamala, not the, oh, I have a Glock, and I'll shoot you if you're breaking into my house.
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I don't know if you saw Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
He wouldn't even answer Jackie Heinrich's question on a possible terrorist plot.
Now, we do know this among the 12, 12.5 million, whatever the number is now, unvetted Harris Biden illegals.
Well, we know that there are people that have murdered dozens of Americans.
We know that there have been people accused of raping dozens of Americans, including children.
We know that other Americans have been victims of very violent crime, including police officers in Times Square, New York.
And we know that there are gang members that have gotten into this country, cartel members in this country.
You know, see what's happening in Chicago, New York, but also small towns.
It's spread out around the country.
We see, you know, what has happened as a result of these open border policies.
You have people from over 180 countries.
They have allowed in unvetted and from countries like Iran and Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and Venezuela and tens and tens of thousands from China and Russia.
And you have to ask yourself, well, are all these people coming here because they want a better life?
I tend to think not.
And we have created a national security disaster.
And to quote Reverend Wright, America's chickens will come home to roost.
Sadly, probably sooner rather than later.
I pray to God I'm wrong, but I know I'm not wrong.
It is inevitable.
We now know that there are Iranian assassination squads in this country as we speak.
And their goal is to assassinate Donald Trump.
Alejandro Mayorkas, who went out there and repeatedly lied and said the border was closed and the border secure, just like Kamala lied, just like Joe lied, just like all the administration lied.
And now we won't even answer a question about a possible terrorist plot that was discovered this week.
Listen to this exchange.
Mr. Secretary, but we're getting conflicting answers from your agency and from the State Department about a man who was arrested for an Election Day terror plot.
How do you not have those answers prepared?
Oh, Jackie, that's not what I said.
What I said is I'd be pleased to discuss this issue at a different time, but I am here to speak about disasters that have impacted people's lives in real time.
And that is a subject that I'm addressing.
Mr. Secretary, can you assure people that appropriate steps have been taken to secure the country against these kinds of threats?
Because the outstanding question is whether this man was radicalized before the U.S. government brought him here or afterward.
And people should be concerned about that.
Jackie, Jackie, your persistence in questioning can be matched by my persistence in answers.
You know, it's really unbelievable to me.
We're dealing with disasters in real time.
Let's deal with that part of that answer.
In real time, you got to be kidding me.
Because in real time, that would have been two weeks ago on Friday.
And that would have been in North Carolina.
And that would have been in South Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia and Florida.
And that didn't happen.
And then he was the guy six days later saying, oh, yeah, we're running out of hurricane relief money at FEMA.
And then if you dared to report that, you're lying about relief funds.
Well, it's your Secretary of Homeland Security that said it.
And then we discovered on FEMA's own website, not only their top goals, top goal number one is diversity, equity, inclusion.
Top goal number two deals with climate alarmism.
And then a billion dollars that were depleted from FEMA funds, emergency funds that are put aside for Americans that are victims of hurricanes like Helene.
And now we have Milton down in Florida, and that they gave that money to Harris Biden unvetted illegal immigrants.
You can't even make this up.
Robin is in South Carolina.
Hey, Robin, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
My question is: it's getting really cold in the mountains, right?
Everybody's asking for heaters and warm clothes for people.
FEMA, most of the time, will bring in trailers.
They used to bring in mobile homes.
Now they bring in little RVs.
These things, and I know this for a fact, can be rigged up under a helicopter with spreader bars and dropped anywhere up there.
They have propane stoves, propane heat.
These people would have proper housing.
Earlier this week, I don't know if you heard the interview we had with OperationHilo.org.
The government didn't send in the helicopters.
The helicopters that were reaching people in the remote areas of North Carolina, they were donated by helicopter owners.
They were flown by volunteers.
OperationHilo.org ended up paying for their own gas to run the helicopters, and they were providing necessary food, water, supplies, and also bringing people to safety because the government was nowhere to be found.
Now, up to the end of last week, I haven't got an update on it.
They had only spent $4 million in relief, and they were missing in action and remain, frankly, missing in action, helping the people of North Carolina and Georgia and South Carolina, where you are, in Tennessee and Florida.
And it's beyond pathetic.
And now they're saying that if you dare criticize them, that you're being mean and dangerous.
I'm like, no, we're just telling the truth about the fact that you, this is the worst hurricane response in the history of the country.
And that's why I'm wondering why in the world they're not getting housing to the, I mean, people have lost their entire homes.
So they're, what, in a tent?
Maybe in a shelter?
You know, drop some of these little RVs in there for crying out loud.
Have sympathy for these people.
I do understand that there are people in shelters.
I do understand that, you know, groups like SamaritansPurse.org have done a great job making sure that people have the clothes that you're talking about, the food, the water that is needed and necessary.
But this is a massive undertaking.
You know, every government resource, and I've gone through all the money we spend on all these foreign countries and all these globalist organizations.
And I'm just telling you, you know, it's like we put Americans last and Americans should be first.
Half years.
Yep.
That's what's at stake in 25 days.
Appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Robin, you have a great weekend.
Let's go to David in Pennsylvania.
What's up, David?
How are you?
Hey, Mr. Hannity.
I know your time is valuable, so I'll keep this concise.
Really appreciate you taking my call.
I'm actually not sure how you or your audience will react to this, but I kind of wanted to phone in and let you know that there's a lot of folks just like me that aren't typically represented in traditional right-wing demographics.
I'm not only a registered independent who's voted for left-wing folks in the past, I'm an atheist.
And there's a growing number of us that have just are no longer voting Democrat.
We're not only voting Republican, but we're pretty enthusiastic about it.
And now we're listening to your show.
I bring this to you simply because we've all seen this really radical departure from maybe a difference in opinion on like funding of education from Democrats to these really radical positions.
I mean, I could expatiate on them.
I know that you don't need me to, but if you think about these absent on economic policies that anybody with maybe a middle school exposure to history or basic mathematics would understand just can't work.
Soviet-era price controls that even major groups like the World Bank have indicated are obviously going to be a disaster, releasing violent criminals and actively encouraging social disorder.
You don't need me to expatiate on them.
In fact, you participate on them very, very, very well.
What I wanted to say is that me and my friends, again, wouldn't traditionally be understood to be Republican, quote unquote.
Again, I am an atheist, but we all are identifying that there's a common thread in these belief systems or a common thread that exists in these policies.
And they just stem from a hatred of the American way of life.
They're rooting for the terrorists.
They hate our meritocracies.
These are beliefs that are these woke ideologies that believe that people should not be judged by the content of their character, but instead by this hierarchy of privilege that's dictated by immutable properties like your race or your gender.
It's insane.
Again, I'm not traditionally represented in somebody that you would think might call the show or listen to this show, but there's a lot of us now.
I think the left wing has tried to claim atheists for a long time.
And I don't really think that that's true, especially now.
We're voting Republican.
And like I said, we're pretty enthusiastic about it.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
I mean, obviously, I don't agree with everything that you're saying.
You obviously are very, you've done a lot of homework, a lot of research.
You're very articulate.
You have a lot to say.
You're very passionate.
And that comes through.
I would love to have the conversation with you about being an atheist one day after the election because it would be, I think, I think, intellectually stimulating for our audience to hear it.
Because I would argue that if you're an atheist, that you have to believe that something can come from nothing.
And as a person of faith, I just have different views than you, but I respect the fact that you live in a country where we can have these different views and different beliefs.
And you know what?
I respect your choice.
You have the ability to choose whether you want to be a person of faith or not.
You obviously have thought through it in a big way.
I'm not surprised at all because what you're telling me without saying it this way is that you're voting for your own best interests.
What you're saying is you are voting for policies that you know are better than what else is being offered.
That's what you're really telling me.
And I think you're also telling me that things were a lot better off four years ago than they are today.
That's what I'm hearing from you.
You're absolutely correct, Mr. Hannity.
You know, I would go so far as to say, I would ask this question.
What is the purpose of the Democratic Party?
Is the purpose of the party to reflect views that maybe capture those that exist outside of their opposition so that we could have a greater political discourse?
Or do they exist to simply expand the power of the Democratic Party at the cost of undermining American democracy?
Because there's one side that's engaging in lawfare.
There's one side that is talking about removing Secret Service protections from presidential candidates, often to the point until they get shot, and then are coming on social media and indicating, well, I wish that he had better aim.
I wish somebody shot the president.
You know, there's one side that's consistently doing things like this, and it's not you, Sean.
It's not Republicans.
And I just, again, I remember part of the reason I called you is because I remember about 11 years ago, you had David Silverman on your show, who was the president of American Atheists.
I agree more with you than I did with him.
I also remember that you used to do a show with Alan Combs.
And I consistently see, even amongst somebody like Sean Hannity, who is renowned for being a right-wing person, this is an individual who's not only willing to discuss differences of opinion, but was willing to do so respectfully with somebody like Alan Combs to a point where he even hosts a show with him.
I don't see that from left-wing folks.
I don't see that.
Again, I see this pretty much radical departure from people who just, they simply don't want the foundational principles that make America a great country to live in.
And again, listen, I love robust debate.
I love debating smart people.
And if you make a good point, I'll acknowledge that you make a good point.
I have no problem.
I don't have the answers to everything.
And I try to stay humble in my life and believe, you know, and not force my beliefs on other people's as strongly as I know that in my heart that these policies that if they were ever implemented would hurt our country.
I really believe that with all my heart, mind, body, and soul.
Now, with that said, my invitation for you, and if you want, we'll hang on to your number.
We'll call you back, is if you want after the election, because I just have to be laser focused for the next 25 days.
But if you'd like, I'd love to have you on after the election, and we can discuss your atheism and why I believe in what I believe.
I've had debates with agnostics, with atheists like yourself.
And, you know, I find them fascinating because my belief in something, you know, a God that created the universe is so, I'm so passionate about it.
You would give me your passionate view.
I'll give mine.
And then I don't think I'll convince you, but I think I'll give you something to think about.
But I do have to run.
I'm glad you're out there.
I'm glad you're listening, my friend.
God bless you.
Have a great weekend, and we appreciate you being with us.
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