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How Can We STOP School Shootings - and, Maddeningly, Why Democrats Keep Blocking Real School Safety Legislation · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben
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Speaker 1: Ferguson with you as always, and if you're a regular,
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Speaker 1: you know we put out our podcasts Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.
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Speaker 1: This is Thursday. And why are we going to day
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Speaker 1: early Because there's some legislation that's going to be introduced
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Speaker 1: by the Senator that's extremely important and it deals with
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Speaker 1: school safety and the shooting issue that just happened in Nashville. Senator,
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Speaker 1: this is something that is heartbreaking for me and I
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Speaker 1: know for you because what you're working on in the
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Speaker 1: legislation is exactly the same thing that could have been
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Speaker 1: done in September of twenty twenty two. Here we are
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Speaker 1: again after another school shooting where there are not guards
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Speaker 1: there to protect these kids. It was a gun free
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Speaker 1: zone without a resource officer, and we had the same outcome, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: And now you're going to continue to fight to protect
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Speaker 1: our kids in their schools with resource officers and with
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Speaker 1: everything that you could possibly need to do everything you
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Speaker 1: can to keep kids safe. Well, let me say first
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Speaker 1: of all, what happened at Covenant School in Nashville. It's
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Speaker 1: just terrific. It is every parent's nightmare. A deranged lunatic
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Speaker 1: murdered three nine year old children, murdered three adults. I
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Speaker 1: gotta say, I cannot imagine the quantity of evil that
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Speaker 1: leads someone to murder children. It is I think it
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Speaker 1: is the worst crime there is. There is a level
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Speaker 1: of lunacy. And by the way, when I say someone
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Speaker 1: one thing, to be clear, I will not say the
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Speaker 1: someone's name. And this is actually a policy that I
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Speaker 1: strictly enforce on myself. I don't repeat the names of
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Speaker 1: these mass murderers. They want to be remembered, they want
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Speaker 1: to be go down in history and infamy. I think
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Speaker 1: they deserve to be forgotten as the deranged lunatics they are.
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Speaker 1: And I wish everyone in politics, I wish everyone in
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Speaker 1: the media would follow the same rule. And I'll refer
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Speaker 1: to the shooter. I'm happy to repeat a victim's name,
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Speaker 1: but these monsters do not deserve to have their names repeated.
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Speaker 1: What happened at that school is grotesquely evil. I think
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Speaker 1: of the pastor of that Christian school whose little girl
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Speaker 1: was murdered that day, the agony of the parents, the
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Speaker 1: agony of the children. It is horrific. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we've seen with this terrible crime, We've seen all the
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Speaker 1: pathologies of our political system. We've seen the instant the
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Speaker 1: news broke, the Democrats leaping immediately to their political objective
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Speaker 1: of gun control. They seem never as filled with joy
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Speaker 1: as in the wake of a horrific mass murder because
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Speaker 1: it lets them advance their political position. We saw the
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Speaker 1: media eagerly participating at that at the outset, and then
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Speaker 1: we saw a remarkable about face because when the news
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Speaker 1: came that the shooter was an individual who's transgender, who
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Speaker 1: appears to have been targeting the school because it's a
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Speaker 1: Christian school, Suddenly the media didn't know what to do
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Speaker 1: because that was not their preferred narrative, and so the
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Speaker 1: media has been in a bit of crisis. They haven't
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Speaker 1: been sure whether to just ignore it all together or
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Speaker 1: try to spin it. Some of the most absurd spins
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Speaker 1: that the media has tried is, this mass murder is
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Speaker 1: your fault. If you believe that five year old shouldn't
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Speaker 1: go to explicit drag shows, if you believe that children
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Speaker 1: and shouldn't be mutilated to try to change their biological
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Speaker 1: gender because they lacked the maturity to make that decision,
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Speaker 1: then it's your fault. This lunatic murdered those children. All
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Speaker 1: of that. It is infuriating, But I got to tell you, Ben,
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Speaker 1: there's something more infuriating than that, which is I believe
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Speaker 1: this could have been prevented. Look. I've been the US
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Speaker 1: Senator from Texas for eleven years now. One of the
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Speaker 1: worst and hardest aspects of this job is that I've
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Speaker 1: been on the ground at mass shooting after mass shooting,
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Speaker 1: after mass shooting. I was there at Santa Fe High School.
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Speaker 1: Santa Fe High School, It's about forty five minutes from
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Speaker 1: my house. I was home that morning when the shooting happened.
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Speaker 1: I got the call within minutes of the shooting, jumped
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Speaker 1: in a truck and headed down there. I was there
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Speaker 1: a little more than an hour after the shooting occurred.
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Speaker 1: I was there with the students, with the families. I
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Speaker 1: saw the horrors of that lunatic that murdered those children.
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Speaker 1: I was there in Sutherland Springs the sight of the
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Speaker 1: worst church shooting in the history of our country. A
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Speaker 1: deranged lunatic who came in and murdered innocent people, including
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Speaker 1: shooting point blank an eighteen month old infant. I stood
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Speaker 1: in that sanctuary the day after the shooting. When I
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Speaker 1: was there, there was still blood everywhere across the sanctuary.
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Speaker 1: There was shattered glass, there were pews that had been
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Speaker 1: strewn about as people terrified tried to flee for their lives.
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Speaker 1: I remember seeing a shattered cell phone covered with blood.
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Speaker 1: That mass shooting was stopped only because a heroic neighbor,
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Speaker 1: a plumber named Stephen Williford, heard the shooting, went and
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Speaker 1: grabbed his R fifteen, ran down and engaged with a shooter,
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Speaker 1: shot the shooter and took him out. I was there
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Speaker 1: on the ground in El Paso after that mass shooting.
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Speaker 1: I was in Midland Odessa after that mass shooting. I
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Speaker 1: was in Dallas, Texas, after a crazed Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 1: radical murdered five police officers. I've been to two damn
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Speaker 1: many of these, And let me start by Sam Ben.
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Speaker 1: When you and I were kids, this wasn't a thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it didn't happen. Like look, when you went to school,
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Speaker 1: Maybe you worried about getting in a fight in the playground,
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Speaker 1: maybe you might get a bloody nose, But I don't
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Speaker 1: remember once in school worrying that some psychopath was going
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Speaker 1: to come shoot us. Yeah. I asked my dad. I said, Dad,
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Speaker 1: did you ever worry about us in school and even
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Speaker 1: in church? And he said he was in law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: He said no, never, never, once did I ever think
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Speaker 1: I need to teach you how to hide under a desk,
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Speaker 1: or hide from a shooter, or what to do if
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Speaker 1: you hear gunshots in the hallway of a school. This
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Speaker 1: is a new thing. Look, you're a parent, Ben, it
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Speaker 1: scares the hell out of you. Yeah. Well, my wife
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Speaker 1: and I had the conversation what do we say to
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Speaker 1: our kids now? And how do we talk to them?
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Speaker 1: My oldest is six about if this happens, what is
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Speaker 1: he to do? Do we have that conversation? How do
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Speaker 1: you have that conversation? This is something that no parent
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Speaker 1: wants to even have to talk about with their kids,
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Speaker 1: But the reality is now we are forced to. We
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Speaker 1: are forced to. Every parent is scared for their kids,
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Speaker 1: and every rational person wants to prevent this. And listen,
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Speaker 1: I've spent eleven years in the Senate number one fighting
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Speaker 1: to stop the Democrats' efforts at gun control, which are
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Speaker 1: unconstitutional and they don't work. They don't stop mass murders,
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Speaker 1: and the Democrats that's not their priority. But I've also
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Speaker 1: been fighting to stop these crimes. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: see another parent who's lost their kids. I've seen too
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Speaker 1: many of them. And if you want to stop violent crimes,
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Speaker 1: there's a way to do it, which is you target
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Speaker 1: the bad guys. You target target the felons, the fugitives,
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Speaker 1: those with serious mental illness. You go after them, You
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Speaker 1: prosecute them, you put them in jail. When they try
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Speaker 1: to illegally buy guns, you lock them up. You protect people.
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Speaker 1: You also secure our schools. If you look at ever
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Speaker 1: since Columbine, these deranged people think, okay, I can be famous,
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Speaker 1: and they go target children. And so if you want
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Speaker 1: to protect our kids, the steps that are most important
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Speaker 1: are making our schools safer, enhancing physical security, and the
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Speaker 1: single biggest step that matters is having armed police officers
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Speaker 1: on campus at the front door so they can stop
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Speaker 1: a lunatic before he or she gets into the campus
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Speaker 1: and is able to kill kids. That's how you stop
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Speaker 1: a bad guy. And so look in the wake of Uvaldi,
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Speaker 1: and I was there at Yuvaldi right after the tragedy.
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Speaker 1: It was horrific. It happened in Texas. The evil is indescribable.
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Speaker 1: After Uvaldi. I filed legislation that would provide very substantial
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Speaker 1: funds to enhance the physical security of schools. That would
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Speaker 1: double the number of police officers in schools and by
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Speaker 1: the way, public schools, private schools, parochial schools. It would
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Speaker 1: give the funds fifteen billion dollars to put armed police
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Speaker 1: officers on campus, so if any lunatic comes after your kids,
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Speaker 1: there'd be an officer there or multiple officers there to
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Speaker 1: stop them before they got in. And it also provided
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Speaker 1: ten billion dollars in funding for mental health counselors. So
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Speaker 1: many of these crimes are committed by deeply disturbed young people,
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Speaker 1: and having the counseling there to stop these troubled teenagers
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Speaker 1: before they commit a horrific crime of violence is incredibly important.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing that's so frustrating. I tried to
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Speaker 1: pass this legislation and the Democrats blocked it. I forced
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Speaker 1: to vote on it. The bill was called Cruiz Barosso,
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Speaker 1: so I wrote it along with John Barrasso from Wyoming.
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Speaker 1: Every single Democrat voted no. They wanted to pass a
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Speaker 1: gun control bill instead, so protecting the schools was not
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Speaker 1: their priority. They wanted to take away the firearms of
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Speaker 1: law abiding citizens. After that, after every Democrat had voted no,
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Speaker 1: I went to the Senate floor and I tried to
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Speaker 1: pass the bill by unanimous consent. Now, the way unanimous
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Speaker 1: consent works is you stand up, asked to pass it
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Speaker 1: by unanimous consent, and if one senator stands up and objects,
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Speaker 1: it gets killed. In this instance, the person who objected
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Speaker 1: was Chris Murphy, who was the Democrat from Connecticut. He's
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Speaker 1: the leading advocate of gun control in the Senate, and
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Speaker 1: he stood up and with no justification whatsoever, objected and
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Speaker 1: killed the legislation that could have prevented this murder at
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Speaker 1: the Covenant School, that could have funded having a police
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Speaker 1: officer at the front door to shoot this lunatic before
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Speaker 1: the shooter killed even a single child. I cannot tell
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Speaker 1: you how angry i'm about that that we could have
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Speaker 1: stopped this, but the Senate Democrats weren't willing to do
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Speaker 1: what it takes to stop this. And you mentioned it,
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Speaker 1: it was because they didn't want to arm and protect
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Speaker 1: the kids. They wanted the solution to the problem to
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Speaker 1: only be one option, which was to takeaway our Second
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Speaker 1: Amendment rights. You could even see this after the shooting
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Speaker 1: that happened in Nashville. Immediately they said that it was
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Speaker 1: the gun's fault. It was an AR fifteen. We found
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Speaker 1: out it was an AR fifteen that she was using
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Speaker 1: in the videos. It was a car beam that uses
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Speaker 1: the same ammunition that handguns use. It was not an
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Speaker 1: AR fifteen. And then in fact, if you really want
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Speaker 1: to get into it, the only AR fifteen that was
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Speaker 1: used in that confrontation between the shooter and the police
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Speaker 1: was the police officer who used an AR fifteen to
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Speaker 1: take her down. And the media lied about all of it. Yep.
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Speaker 1: And I will say, Ben, I know you've watched as
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Speaker 1: I have the bodycam footage of those officers. Let me
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Speaker 1: commend those officers, those Nashville police officers who went in
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Speaker 1: right after the shooting it began, and the bodycam footage. Look,
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Speaker 1: they're coming onto the campus. They don't know where the
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Speaker 1: shooter is, they don't know what's happening. They're scared. Anyone
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Speaker 1: would be scared in that instance. But they're searching, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to save the kids. They're running up the stairs.
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Speaker 1: They hear the gunshots, and they don't run away, they
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Speaker 1: don't hide, they run towards the gun shots. They run
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Speaker 1: towards the gun shots, they engage with the shooter, and
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Speaker 1: they take the shooter down. And I gotta say, watching
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Speaker 1: that bodycam footage, those officers are heroes. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that they engage and took that shooter out saved many
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Speaker 1: lives that day. That shooter would have kept killing children,
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Speaker 1: would have kept killing adults, and the only thing that
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Speaker 1: stopped the shooter was the officer's heroism. Now imagine the
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Speaker 1: same thing with one detail changed. Instead of the officers
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Speaker 1: coming in fifteen minutes after the shooting began, because that's
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Speaker 1: when they got to the school, imagine the officers are
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Speaker 1: there at the front door to begin with. The shooter
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Speaker 1: came in and shot through the front door, shot through
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Speaker 1: the glass, and entered through the glass. If the shooter
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Speaker 1: had tried that and there'd been an officer or multiple
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Speaker 1: officers there, they would have shot the shooter dead on
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Speaker 1: the steps, and those precious children would be alive. That's
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Speaker 1: why it matters to have police officers there to protect
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Speaker 1: our kids. It's why it's so infuriating that Democrats are
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Speaker 1: adamantly opposed to doing what would actually work to stop
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Speaker 1: these kind of horrific crimes. Yeah, every time we see
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Speaker 1: one of these school shootings are like you mentioned the
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Speaker 1: church shooting. It always takes a good guy with a
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Speaker 1: gun to come and stop a bad guy with a gun.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to what you said in
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Speaker 1: September September fourteenth of twenty twenty two, when you originally
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Speaker 1: talked about this legislation, because it's important that we look
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Speaker 1: at what we could have done and learn from these mistakes.
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Speaker 1: And it seems, unfortunately like Democrats are still dug in
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Speaker 1: now saying Okay, even though this has happened, even though
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Speaker 1: we could have had security, even though this bill was
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Speaker 1: put out there, we're still going to refuse. We're still
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Speaker 1: going to go after the guns. And I want to
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Speaker 1: it's an important clip. It's a clip from September twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty two where you were advocating then for exactly what
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Speaker 1: you're saying we need now and after Nashville. There's just
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Speaker 1: more proof. This is what needs to happen been legislative session.
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Speaker 1: I ask unanimous consent, that the Senate proceed to the
16:42
Speaker 1: immediate consideration of S. Four eight four five, which is
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Speaker 1: at the desk. Further, that the bill be considered read
16:50
Speaker 1: a third time in past, and that the motion to
16:53
Speaker 1: reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. Is
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Speaker 1: there objection and President sent from a Connecticut and a
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Speaker 1: President I object, objection is heard, Madame President. What we
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Speaker 1: just saw on this floor was stunning. I am genuinely
17:13
Speaker 1: at a loss for words. This bill is common sense.
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Speaker 1: There is not a constituent in Texas, or Nevada or Connecticut.
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Speaker 1: If you asked, would it be a good thing to
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Speaker 1: have more police officers keeping our kids safe? Wouldn't say,
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Speaker 1: of course it would. There's not a constituents of ours
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Speaker 1: who if you asked, would it be a good thing
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Speaker 1: to have more mental health counselors on campus to stop
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Speaker 1: people from committing crimes, would say, of course it would.
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Speaker 1: I was informed a few days ago that when I
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Speaker 1: was going to seek unanimous consent, the Senator from Connecticut
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Speaker 1: was going to object. Now, the Senator from Connecticut styles
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Speaker 1: himself the leading advocate of gun control in the US Senate.
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Speaker 1: I was asked by reporters, why are the Democrats objecting
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Speaker 1: to this? And I'll tell you what I told reporters.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. They haven't said, they haven't told
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Speaker 1: me why they object to it, and so I was
18:12
Speaker 1: genuinely looking forward to seeing the Senator from Connecticut's remarks.
18:16
Speaker 1: I was sitting here waiting to see, why do you
18:19
Speaker 1: oppose more police officers to keep our kids safe? Why
18:22
Speaker 1: do you oppose mental health counselors in schools. I've been
18:29
Speaker 1: in the Senate ten years. The Senator from Connecticut and
18:31
Speaker 1: I were elected at the same time. I've engaged in
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Speaker 1: many debates on this floor, including with the Senator from Connecticut.
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Speaker 1: The fact that he chose not to say a word
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Speaker 1: about why he objects is stunning. I find myself genuinely flabbergasted.
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Speaker 1: I will say one of the reasons I think the
18:57
Speaker 1: Senator from Connecticut feels content not only not to argue,
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Speaker 1: but now to walk off the floor and not even
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Speaker 1: listen to the debate he's ostensibly participating in. One of
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Speaker 1: the reasons he feels free to do so is if
19:10
Speaker 1: you look up to the Senate gallery, I can count them.
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Speaker 1: There are precisely zero reporters in this gallery. Not a
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Speaker 1: single one of the corporate media will report on this.
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Speaker 1: And I think the Center from Connecticut feels absolutely certain
19:26
Speaker 1: when he walks out, he will have reporters that will say,
19:29
Speaker 1: tell me how terrible Donald Trump is, and he'll lean
19:32
Speaker 1: in and say, oh, Donald Trump is really terrible. But
19:36
Speaker 1: not a one of the reporters will ask, hey, wait
19:38
Speaker 1: a second, why don't you want police officers keeping our
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Speaker 1: kids safe? None of them will. The Democrats are protected
19:46
Speaker 1: by a dishonest army of propagandists in the corporate media.
19:52
Speaker 1: See Ann will not have a paddle sitting around discussing
19:56
Speaker 1: why is it that the Democrats sent police do not
20:01
Speaker 1: care to defend their positions. Let me tell you. When
20:05
Speaker 1: there's a mass murdering and the Democrats stand up and
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Speaker 1: give speeches and they point at Republicans and say blood
20:13
Speaker 1: is on your hands, it's great political rhetoric. It's dishonest,
20:19
Speaker 1: but boy, it gins up their donors. It gets people
20:23
Speaker 1: to go and write checks to Democrats and fund their
20:26
Speaker 1: campaigns well. We just saw reveals the Democrats have one
20:32
Speaker 1: objective when a mass murder happens, and that is to
20:35
Speaker 1: take away the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens.
20:38
Speaker 1: That is always, always, always their solution. Never Mind that
20:43
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, never mind that it doesn't stop violent crime.
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Speaker 1: Never mind that if you look at the jurisdictions across
20:49
Speaker 1: the country with the strictest gun control laws, almost every
20:54
Speaker 1: single one of them consistently has among the highest crime
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Speaker 1: rates and murder rates. Earlier this year, the Senator from
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Speaker 1: Connecticut authored his big gun control package, rammed it through
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Speaker 1: this body, a package which will do nothing, zero to
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Speaker 1: stop mass murders. We will see another mass murder. I
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Speaker 1: pray that we don't, but evil exists in the world.
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Speaker 1: And if another lunatic attacks the school and there's not
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Speaker 1: a police officer at the front door to stop him,
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Speaker 1: remember right now, remember this moment when the Democrats said, no,
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Speaker 1: we will not protect our kids. There are lots of
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Speaker 1: arguments Senator from Connecticut could have made. He chose to
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Speaker 1: make none of them. Senator, it's amazing he chose to
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Speaker 1: make none of them. And what you're talking about there
21:57
Speaker 1: clearly shows the agenda of the Democratic party, which is
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Speaker 1: not to protect kids, even when there are queer vulnerabilities
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Speaker 1: that we keep witnessing every time there's one of these
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Speaker 1: mass shootings and there's no one there to be a
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Speaker 1: first responder, and we have to wait on police, and
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Speaker 1: even when it's done perfectly like it was done in Nashville,
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Speaker 1: it was still what fourteen minutes in. Yeah. Look, I
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Speaker 1: will say listening to that again, it infuriates me once
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Speaker 1: again because we could do much much more to keep
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Speaker 1: our kids safe, and the Democrats who claim to care
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Speaker 1: so desperately much, they're the ones who block it. Now.
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Speaker 1: I will say one of the standard Democrat talking points
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Speaker 1: now is following Uvaldi. Anytime you say, if you want
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Speaker 1: to protect our kids, we need more police officers, they
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Speaker 1: point out the police officers didn't do what they needed
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Speaker 1: to do in Uvaldi, And I got to say, that's right.
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Speaker 1: The officers in Uivaldi screwed up badly. They sat there
23:07
Speaker 1: forever while the shooting was ongoing. The timeline now shows
23:11
Speaker 1: that it was an hour and fourteen minutes from when
23:14
Speaker 1: the first police officer arrived on campus to when the
23:18
Speaker 1: officers stormed into the classroom and killed the shooter. During
23:22
Speaker 1: that hour and fourteen minutes, gunshots were going off, one
23:26
Speaker 1: after the other after the other during that hour. In
23:28
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes, children were calling into nine one one in
23:32
Speaker 1: panicked terror. And tragically, because the officers didn't go in earlier,
23:40
Speaker 1: we ended up having nineteen fourth graders and two teachers
23:44
Speaker 1: murdered that day. And that makes me angry too. I
23:48
Speaker 1: was there right after that shooting. I met with the
23:52
Speaker 1: leadership of the police officers, who lied to us, who
23:56
Speaker 1: lied to me, who lied to John Cordon, the other senator,
23:59
Speaker 1: who lied to Greg Gabbath, the governor, and almost everything
24:02
Speaker 1: they described to about what had happened in Uvaldi was wrong,
24:06
Speaker 1: as we found out the several days that followed. But
24:10
Speaker 1: the lesson that Democrat and lefty activists have taken from
24:15
Speaker 1: that is because the police officers there did not act
24:20
Speaker 1: swiftly to take out the shooter. Therefore they've concluded police
24:26
Speaker 1: officers can never stop a shooter, and that is wrong. Look,
24:30
Speaker 1: I wish those officers had gone in and Uvaldi within
24:34
Speaker 1: minutes of getting there and had taken out that shooter,
24:37
Speaker 1: and there would be a lot more children alive today
24:40
Speaker 1: if they'd done that. They didn't, and that that is
24:45
Speaker 1: a absolute tragedy. But I got to say one of
24:50
Speaker 1: the things that Nashville shows is there talking points that
24:55
Speaker 1: cops don't stop mass shootings is a total lie. In Nashville,
25:00
Speaker 1: the officers did what should have been done in Vivaldi,
25:04
Speaker 1: which is the instant they found out about it. They
25:06
Speaker 1: went in, they had bulletproof vest, they went in and
25:08
Speaker 1: they shot the shooter and they took them out. That's
25:11
Speaker 1: what they should have done. But I gotta say it's
25:14
Speaker 1: also what is so frustrating. The only thing Democrats want
25:20
Speaker 1: to do if they say, you know, if we take
25:22
Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson's guns, that'll be great. You know, Ben, You're
25:26
Speaker 1: not going to be a mass murderer. I have zero
25:28
Speaker 1: concerns about that the Democrats. To be honest, the Democrats
25:33
Speaker 1: don't have concerns either. They don't think law abiding citizens
25:36
Speaker 1: are going to become commit crimes. But ideologically they have
25:43
Speaker 1: set their priorities. We want the guns. We want the
25:46
Speaker 1: guns from law abiding citizens. We want to take away
25:49
Speaker 1: your right to protect your home and your family. And look,
25:53
Speaker 1: I have led the fight against their unconstitutional gun control
25:59
Speaker 1: proposals from day one in the Senate. But what I
26:03
Speaker 1: genuinely don't understand is why they pair it with an
26:07
Speaker 1: absolute refusal to go after gun criminals. What is weird
26:14
Speaker 1: is if you're a law abiding citizen who poses no threat,
26:17
Speaker 1: they want to disarm you. If you're a gang banger
26:20
Speaker 1: who's shooting people, they want to elect you free from jail.
26:24
Speaker 1: They don't want to lock up the criminals who commit
26:26
Speaker 1: crimes with guns. They just want the people who don't
26:29
Speaker 1: commit crimes to lose their guns. I was having in
26:33
Speaker 1: this debate earlier today. You and I were talking about
26:35
Speaker 1: this before, where I was debating the issue of guns
26:38
Speaker 1: with HARALDA riverin Piers Morgan and I went back and
26:42
Speaker 1: I try to simplify it. I'm all right, that's when
26:46
Speaker 1: you're yeah. But I look at them and they're they're
26:50
Speaker 1: the mouthpiece of being anti gun. They're the mouthpiece of
26:52
Speaker 1: obsession of taking away guns. And I asked them the
26:55
Speaker 1: question because I try to bring it down to a
26:57
Speaker 1: basic level when I'm trying to change someone's mind, I'm like,
27:00
Speaker 1: this is what I don't understand. Why is it that
27:03
Speaker 1: we protect our money in our banks with more security
27:06
Speaker 1: than we protect our children in our schools. Why is
27:09
Speaker 1: it that we defend and protect our present with guns,
27:12
Speaker 1: but we won't protect our kids in our schools with guns.
27:15
Speaker 1: Why is it that we defend and protect our celebrities
27:18
Speaker 1: with guns, but we don't do it with our children.
27:20
Speaker 1: We do it at our courts, We do it with
27:23
Speaker 1: our valuables. We do it at places like jewelry stores.
27:26
Speaker 1: We do it even at sporting events. We want to
27:29
Speaker 1: protect people at sporting events, but we don't want to
27:31
Speaker 1: protect our kids in our schools. We do this at
27:34
Speaker 1: any major event, music, festival. The list goes on and on,
27:38
Speaker 1: and the only thing that we seem to keep having
27:41
Speaker 1: to quote protect our kids is this is a gun
27:43
Speaker 1: free zone, and this is a place where you're not
27:47
Speaker 1: allowed to bring a gun. Well, every single time someone
27:49
Speaker 1: tests that right and says, okay, I'm not going to
27:51
Speaker 1: buy by that rule, what happens. We usually have massive
27:54
Speaker 1: loss and carnage. And I think it's very clear now
27:58
Speaker 1: that we should protect our children with more ferocious passion
28:07
Speaker 1: and defense than we do money in our banks. We
28:11
Speaker 1: shouldn't value our dollars more than our children, but we do.
28:14
Speaker 1: Every bank I've ever been to has an armed guard,
28:16
Speaker 1: and they have really good doors to protect the valuables.
28:20
Speaker 1: We're gonna learn a lot from Nashville, Senator, and you
28:23
Speaker 1: and I both know that we're gonna We saw the
28:25
Speaker 1: video or shooting through those glass doors. There are gonna
28:28
Speaker 1: have to be things that change. They're already. It was
28:30
Speaker 1: a first question I asked my kids school, Hey, we've
28:33
Speaker 1: got some of those glass doors now, knowing that even
28:35
Speaker 1: when they're locked, it's how easy you can get through them.
28:37
Speaker 1: And they already said, we're on it. That's why I
28:39
Speaker 1: was told immediately, we're on that. We're looking at this,
28:41
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn from this. But when I went in
28:43
Speaker 1: and rolled my kid, my wife and I had very
28:45
Speaker 1: different conversations. We were looking at schools for my youngest
28:48
Speaker 1: and she was talking about academics. She was talking about faith.
28:54
Speaker 1: She was talking about, you know, religious teaching at the school.
28:57
Speaker 1: These things matter. The number one thing I asked about
28:59
Speaker 1: was I want to know about safety here. I want
29:02
Speaker 1: to know that there are men and women are I
29:04
Speaker 1: don't care who they are, that are able to protect
29:06
Speaker 1: my child if there is some sort of circumstance. That
29:09
Speaker 1: was my number one priority, And I'm granted I have
29:11
Speaker 1: a different perspective. I used a gun to protect my life.
29:15
Speaker 1: To save my life, I didn't have a gun with me,
29:16
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here doing the show with you today.
29:19
Speaker 1: So I call it PTSD from that moment in my
29:21
Speaker 1: life where I had to pull the trigger to save
29:23
Speaker 1: my life. But I realize that if you don't have
29:26
Speaker 1: a good guy there with a gun, you are waiting
29:28
Speaker 1: on the good guy to get there, whether it's three minutes,
29:30
Speaker 1: five minutes, eight minutes, or ten minutes or fourteen minutes,
29:33
Speaker 1: even if you get it perfect like they did in Nashville.
29:36
Speaker 1: This is very personal because I know that that moment
29:39
Speaker 1: when I needed a gun, If I didn't have it
29:41
Speaker 1: at that moment to respond at that moment, I was
29:44
Speaker 1: a dead person. I was a dead man. And if
29:49
Speaker 1: we care about all these other things so much, center
29:51
Speaker 1: that doesn't worry you that the Democrats are this obsessed
29:56
Speaker 1: with gun control. They can't understand that we are valuing
29:59
Speaker 1: all these other things above the lives of children. That's
30:01
Speaker 1: what I just can't understand. Well, look, it is very
30:06
Speaker 1: much like yesterday's podcast we talked about Alejandro may Orcus,
30:11
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Homeland Security, and his testimony before the
30:15
Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary Committee and the cross examination that I gave
30:20
Speaker 1: to him. You know, in respect to our southern border,
30:26
Speaker 1: the Democrats have a political objective maximize the number of
30:29
Speaker 1: illegal aliens because they think they will vote Democrat and
30:32
Speaker 1: keep them in power. And they're willing to ignore suffering.
30:37
Speaker 1: They're willing to ignore children being physically abused, sexually abused.
30:41
Speaker 1: They're willing to ignore dead bodies piling up, the Biden
30:44
Speaker 1: bodybags piling up. They're willing to ignore one hundred thousand
30:48
Speaker 1: overdoses last year, the highest in history, because all they
30:51
Speaker 1: care about is their political objective. The exact same thing
30:56
Speaker 1: is true when it comes to guns. They have a
30:58
Speaker 1: political objective arm law abiding citizens and it excites all
31:03
Speaker 1: of their activists who give moneies and fund their campaigns.
31:07
Speaker 1: They're willing to oppose the common sense steps that would
31:12
Speaker 1: actually stop these crimes because the only thing that matters
31:16
Speaker 1: to them is their political objective. And let me be clear.
31:18
Speaker 1: You were talking about the importance of the right to
31:21
Speaker 1: keep and bear arms, which as you know, I believe
31:23
Speaker 1: in passionately, and the right to protect yourself and your family.
31:27
Speaker 1: And look, in schools there are vigorous debates about, for example,
31:32
Speaker 1: should teachers allowed to be armed. I think the answer
31:34
Speaker 1: should be yes, absolutely. I pointed out in schools there
31:38
Speaker 1: are a lot of teachers, you know, sometimes Jim teachers
31:41
Speaker 1: or others who are former law enforcement, who are former military,
31:44
Speaker 1: who are trained to know how to handle a firearm.
31:47
Speaker 1: I think a school would be safer if teachers were
31:49
Speaker 1: allowed to be armed. Now the Left comes back with
31:52
Speaker 1: these sort of crazy hypotheticals of imagining this ninety year
31:56
Speaker 1: old librarian that you're suddenly thrusting a forty four magnum
31:59
Speaker 1: in her hands as she's teetering on her walker, and
32:03
Speaker 1: nobody is talking about forcing teachers to be armed. To
32:06
Speaker 1: be clear, it is about allowing teachers who have the
32:10
Speaker 1: training and experience and know how to use a firearm
32:13
Speaker 1: to be in a position to use it. But here's
32:15
Speaker 1: my point on this. You and I both agree that
32:18
Speaker 1: makes sense. But let's say someone doesn't. I think that's
32:21
Speaker 1: actually an issue on which reasonable minds can disagree. Here's
32:26
Speaker 1: my point. What I was proposing wasn't allowing teachers to
32:29
Speaker 1: be armed. It was having police officers present on campus.
32:35
Speaker 1: And to be clear, every damned Democrat politician who voted
32:39
Speaker 1: against it, which would be every single Democrat senator in
32:42
Speaker 1: the Senate. All of them are protected by the Capitol
32:46
Speaker 1: police every single day. I don't understand it's why, by
32:52
Speaker 1: the way, the reason I said in that floor speech,
32:56
Speaker 1: I said, you couldn't find a constituent in Texas or
32:59
Speaker 1: Connecticut or the presiding officer that day was Jackie Rosen
33:03
Speaker 1: from Nevada, and the Democrat a Democrat, and the Democrat
33:09
Speaker 1: who objected was from Connecticut. I could go to Connecticut
33:12
Speaker 1: and I don't think you could find a parent who
33:15
Speaker 1: would say, gosh, I wouldn't like to have a police
33:18
Speaker 1: officer president at my school. And yet all of the
33:22
Speaker 1: Democrats voted against it, and they objected and blocked it.
33:28
Speaker 1: And it's worth underscoring what I said that day. I said, look, tragically,
33:34
Speaker 1: there's going to be another lunatic who comes to a
33:37
Speaker 1: school to murder kids. I wish there wasn't, but there
33:40
Speaker 1: is evil in this world. And if there is not
33:44
Speaker 1: a police officer at the front door, remember this day, well,
33:48
Speaker 1: you know what that happened in Nashville, Tennessee, at the
33:51
Speaker 1: Covenant School. Another lunatic came to a school and there
33:54
Speaker 1: wasn't a police officer there. And if the Democrats hadn't
33:58
Speaker 1: shut this down, the legislation I proposed could have put
34:03
Speaker 1: a police officer there and could have saved the lives
34:06
Speaker 1: of everyone murdered that day. I want to talk about
34:09
Speaker 1: funding because one of the things that Democrats say is
34:11
Speaker 1: we can't afford this, and they're gonna say back in September,
34:15
Speaker 1: when you did this in twenty twenty two, well, this
34:17
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34:20
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34:22
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35:46
Speaker 1: be so many different people that say, well, we just
35:48
Speaker 1: can't afford this, all right, The question is can we?
35:53
Speaker 1: And you had a plan for that last year there
35:56
Speaker 1: was money sitting there that could have been used for this.
35:59
Speaker 1: I want to play that from your four speech. Then
36:02
Speaker 1: I'm now going to propound a second unanimous consent bill.
36:06
Speaker 1: There right now one hundred and thirty five billion dollars
36:11
Speaker 1: in unspent COVID relief funds to schools. Under the rules
36:17
Speaker 1: the Democrats have put in place, those funds cannot be
36:20
Speaker 1: spent on school security. The second bill that I'm going
36:25
Speaker 1: to ask this body to pass is a bill that
36:28
Speaker 1: is very simple. It's one page. It says schools can
36:34
Speaker 1: spend some of that one hundred and thirty five billion
36:37
Speaker 1: on school security. They can decide what to spend it on.
36:42
Speaker 1: But if they decide they want to hire an additional
36:44
Speaker 1: police officer, they can spend the money on that. If
36:47
Speaker 1: they decide they want to enhance the physical security of
36:50
Speaker 1: their campus to make their students safer, they can spend
36:52
Speaker 1: it on that. They can invest in school security. Right
36:57
Speaker 1: now the Democrats have blocked them from doing this. These
37:00
Speaker 1: are funds Congress has already appropriated that haven't been spent.
37:05
Speaker 1: And this bill is unbelievably simple. It says the schools
37:08
Speaker 1: can choose to invest in school security their Formatam President,
37:15
Speaker 1: as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that
37:19
Speaker 1: the Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions be discharged
37:23
Speaker 1: from further consideration of S. Four five eight six, and
37:27
Speaker 1: that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. Further, that
37:31
Speaker 1: the bill be considered read a third time in past,
37:35
Speaker 1: and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and
37:38
Speaker 1: laid upon the table. Pretty straightforward, right, You would think
37:42
Speaker 1: that they would say, oh, we have funds, let's do this,
37:45
Speaker 1: let's give it a shot, and yet they still said no.
37:49
Speaker 1: Chris Murphy had a very eloquent speech in response. He said, quote,
37:54
Speaker 1: I object the Democrats. They literally don't give a damn now,
38:02
Speaker 1: mind you, you know you said a moment ago, said, well,
38:06
Speaker 1: some people will say how can we afford this? To
38:08
Speaker 1: be honest, no Democrat would say this. They don't care
38:10
Speaker 1: how you can afford something. They will spend trillions that
38:14
Speaker 1: we don't have. They spend like drunken sailors. And that's
38:18
Speaker 1: not fair to the sailors, because the sailors are spending
38:20
Speaker 1: their own money. So no Democrat in fact asked the
38:24
Speaker 1: question how do we pay for this? Because that could
38:27
Speaker 1: not conceivably matter to them. They simply objected. And I
38:31
Speaker 1: want you to look what I said on the Senate
38:34
Speaker 1: floor there was one hundred and thirty five billion dollars
38:37
Speaker 1: Congress had already appropriated for schools that had not been spent.
38:43
Speaker 1: And all I was saying is, look, if a school
38:45
Speaker 1: wants to it's got all this cash raining down from Washington.
38:49
Speaker 1: It ought to be able to use some of it
38:51
Speaker 1: to make the school safer. I genuinely, look, I think
38:57
Speaker 1: I'm a fairly bright guy. I don't know how to
39:01
Speaker 1: articulate the argument against it. Like if you tasked me,
39:04
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the CHAT, GPS, the AI program
39:08
Speaker 1: is better than I did. If you task that, you
39:11
Speaker 1: could come up with give a speech against allowing schools
39:14
Speaker 1: to spend some of the COVID relief money on school security.
39:18
Speaker 1: Maybe it could come up with a speech. I don't
39:19
Speaker 1: know what I would say. I was a college debater.
39:22
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at debating a lot of propositions. I genuinely, ben,
39:28
Speaker 1: do not know what arguments you would give, And you
39:30
Speaker 1: know what, neither do the Democrats, because they know the
39:34
Speaker 1: media is utterly corrupt. Look this week, as I've had
39:37
Speaker 1: reporters stop me and ask about the shooting, and all
39:40
Speaker 1: they say is, well, is it time to pass gun control?
39:43
Speaker 1: And I say no, it's time to pass the bill
39:45
Speaker 1: I introduced over a year ago that could have stopped
39:50
Speaker 1: this mass murder by putting police officers on the ground,
39:52
Speaker 1: by allowing schools to invest in school safety, that the
39:55
Speaker 1: Democrats block. And I've asked probably a dozen reporters this week.
40:00
Speaker 1: I've said, has any one of you asked even a
40:03
Speaker 1: single Democrat? Why did you vote against increasing the number
40:09
Speaker 1: of cops in schools? Why did you vote against allowing
40:14
Speaker 1: schools to invest in school safety? To the best of
40:18
Speaker 1: my knowledge, no reporter has asked any of those Democrats.
40:21
Speaker 1: Certainly no reporter has asked Joe Biden. He doesn't get
40:24
Speaker 1: questions like that now. He rarely answers questions harder than
40:28
Speaker 1: what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? But the two
40:33
Speaker 1: exchanges you played in this podcast, I will wager a
40:37
Speaker 1: thousand dollars that nobody listening to this podcast has heard
40:41
Speaker 1: those exchanges before unless you sit there watching c SPAN.
40:47
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like twelve little old ladies that
40:50
Speaker 1: watch c SPAN all day long and the rest of
40:52
Speaker 1: America is busy living their lives. You haven't heard that.
40:58
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned in the first floor speech, the
41:01
Speaker 1: Senate gallery was empty. The reporters refused to cover it,
41:05
Speaker 1: and then they come back and say, well, the Republicans
41:09
Speaker 1: have no answer. So one of the classic back and forth.
41:13
Speaker 1: When this horrific crime happened, I sent out a tweet
41:17
Speaker 1: and I said, Heidi and I are praying for the
41:19
Speaker 1: families who lost their loved ones. Were praying for the
41:22
Speaker 1: community at Covenant School. You know, may God's peace and
41:26
Speaker 1: grace be upon them. And listen. I'm a Christian as
41:30
Speaker 1: a believer. When people are hurting, when people are suffering,
41:33
Speaker 1: I will lift them up in prayer. I believe in
41:35
Speaker 1: the power of prayer. I don't know that there's anything
41:38
Speaker 1: that triggers the left more than that. And they start
41:41
Speaker 1: screaming thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, and they hate
41:44
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers. And one of the things that I've
41:48
Speaker 1: said this week is so their standard talking point is
41:51
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers aren't enough. Now here's the amazing thing.
41:55
Speaker 1: I think prayer is incredible and powerful and important. But
41:58
Speaker 1: I actually agree with the statement thought and prayers aren't enough.
42:02
Speaker 1: We ought to have thoughts and prayers. We also ought
42:04
Speaker 1: to have armed police officers on campus to stop the
42:08
Speaker 1: next lunatic because I don't want another little kid killed,
42:12
Speaker 1: and yet the Democrat and media lie is well, the
42:18
Speaker 1: only solution to this is gun control. Republicans have no
42:22
Speaker 1: answer to these crimes other than thoughts and prayers. Well,
42:26
Speaker 1: I have a very detailed answer, and it is the
42:28
Speaker 1: Democrats who are blocking it from happening. How will this
42:32
Speaker 1: go down? I know you're going to look at this legislation.
42:34
Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this show a day early. Instead
42:36
Speaker 1: of putting it out on Friday, we're doing on Thursday.
42:39
Speaker 1: What can people be watching for and how will this work?
42:41
Speaker 1: And who do they need to be calling? Because I
42:44
Speaker 1: think a lot of people say tell me what to do,
42:46
Speaker 1: give me guidance. Is it Call your senators tomorrow and say, hey,
42:50
Speaker 1: support this. Well, the plan is this afternoon, I'm going
42:54
Speaker 1: to go back to the Senate floor and I'm going
42:55
Speaker 1: to try to pass these again by unanimous consent. So
42:58
Speaker 1: it's going to be the same proceeding you just play.
43:00
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again this afternoon. As I
43:03
Speaker 1: sit here right now, I don't know for a fact
43:06
Speaker 1: that the Democrats will object, but I'll be astonished if
43:09
Speaker 1: they don't. I don't know if it'll be Chris Murphy
43:11
Speaker 1: or objects, or if they send someone else to do it.
43:14
Speaker 1: But my plan is to go to try to pass
43:16
Speaker 1: this tomorrow. And my assumption, and we'll talk about this
43:20
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