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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up next our final News Roundup and Information Overload Hour.
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is Kamala and Tim Walls 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
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about being a gun owner, and you know she's been
brought 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.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Came into your house, not the first time I shot it.
That's not the first time I've talked about it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So what kind of gun do you own?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And when? And why did you get it?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I have a clock and I've had it for quite
some time, and I mean, look belt, my background is
in law enforcement, and so there you go.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Have you ever fired it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, of course I have at a shooting range. Yes
of course I have.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And then she warns intruders. If somebody breaks into her house,
they're getting shot. I thought liberals are against stand your
ground rules and laws.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Does God know that.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
House a getting shot?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, I hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I hear that.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Probably should not have said that, but my will deal
with that later.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Uh 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, it's 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
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her own words. Listen, what would you do about the
millions of specifically assault weapons that are already in circulation.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What do you do about those?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Well, there are approximately five million.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
To your point, Craig, we have to have a buyback program.
And I support a mandatory buyback program. That's got to
be smart. We got to do it the right way.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
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 life locked home, does it mean
that we're not going to walk into that home and
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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.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
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 and the way you conduct
your affair.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Joining us now, John Lote, president of the Crime Prevention
Research Center, who wrote this article, mister Lot, doctor Lott,
welcome back to the program, sir.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
How are you doing great? Thanks for having me on Sean,
Like all of.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Her radical positions. I don't believe in this 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
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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.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Right, Yeah, I mean it kind of miss nowhere 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 dance. You go back to two
thousand and eight, for example, she put it in a
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Meekus 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
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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 twenty twenty presidential campaign,
but beyond that, she's been the point person for gun
control efforts in the Buying administration. Bien set up something
called the Office of Gun Violence Protection, which he put
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her in charge of, and it's pushed all sorts of
gun control laws. During the Buying 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
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look seventeen eighteen years ago to see whether you have
one typo by transposing two letters in a word. They've
renewed Obama's Operation Choke Point, which cuts out financial resources
for gun makers and a gun dealers, raising costs and
putting others out of business. The buy An administrations also
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established the National Gun Registry. As of a couple of
years ago, they had computerized data on almost one billion
transactions over many decades of people's purchases, legal purchases of guns.
And so now when they talk about things like confiscating guns,
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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.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
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 antisecond Amendment, and then you give them
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these facts, and then they tend to react emotionally to them.
What are the facts when you say more guns result
in less crime?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Explain that, Well, there are 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, DC, we've seen bams
on guns. If the claim on the other side is correct,
you should see drops and murder rates and drops and
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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 think got randomness,
at least once or twice it would go down, and
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yet every time it's gone up. And there's a simple
reason for them. That is, when you go in to
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
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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 in committing crimes. And yet six
months or a year after these laws get into effect
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in a state, there's no discussion about it anymore. And
the reason is simple is 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 constitutional carry law,
had even had a vote on rescinding those laws. Even
when you have Democrats take over the state legislatures after
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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
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they were making just didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We continue now with doctor 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 a 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,
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there is new technology that I have to be very
fond of, but it is it's a non lethal option
called burner. I'm 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,
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and I have a license to carry in Florida. I've
carried a weapon my entire adult life. And I got
trained in this 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 fingerprints safes like they
do today, and they wanted to make sure that I
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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, hen, any, 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.
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I said, but whatever weapon you are considering, get trained
in the proper use, safe and safety of it before
you ever go near it. And I take safety. It
was a top 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
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lot of these groups out there, like the usccaight, 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.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Right.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Look, I mean, we've had this huge increase in violent
crime during the Biden administration. The Bureau of Justice Statistics
shows that with total violent crime has increased fifty five
percent during the buy An administration. We've had a forty
two percent increase in rapes, a sixty three percent increase
in armed robbery, We've had a fifty five percent increase
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in aggravated assaults. There's never been in the fifty 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 two thousand and six, where it was
twenty seven percent. So this is this increase under Biding
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is more than twice as large as the largest previous
percentage increase that we've ever had. And even the FBI
people going point to the FBI data on reported violent crime.
Even the FBI has gone back and revised its earlier data,
so rather than a drop in violent crime that they
initially claimed for twenty twenty two, actually shows an increase
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in reported violent crime now saying that they missed about
eighty thousand violent crimes that they had and included in
their initial calculations that were 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 are the most likely victims of
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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 cutting
police budgets and by having prosecutors who don't prosecute violent criminals.
The other group of people who benefit the most are
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people who are relatively weaker physically, women and the elderly.
They are 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
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and protect themselves. The thing is the vast majority of
time that people use guns defensively, but ninety five percent
of the time, simply brandishing a gun it's sufficient to
cause a criminal to go and break off of it's tack.
And it's one reason why the media often doesn't cover this.
It's not newsworthy to go and say, well, woman's brandished
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a gun. 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's simply brandished a gun.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I've got a run, but I've urged 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
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the oh I have a block and I'll shoot you
if you're breaking of my house. Barking every day to
remember the forgotten man.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
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Speaker 2 (15:13):
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I don't know if you saw Alejandro Majorcis, the Department
of Homeland Security secretary, he wouldn't even answer Jackie Heinrich's
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question on a possible terrorist plot. Now we do know
this among the twelve and a half 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 used of raping
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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, Bartel
members in this country. You know, see what's happening in Chicago,
New York, but also small towns. It's all it's spread
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out around the country. We see you know what has
happened as a result of these open border policies. You
have people from over one hundred and eighty countries. They
have allowed in unvetted and from countries like Iran and
Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and Venezuela, and tens and
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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, we'll come home to roost sadly,
probably sooner rather than later. I pray to God I'm wrong,
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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 may Orcus 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.
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Was like all the administration lied, you know, And now
we won't even answer a question about a possible terrorist
plot that was discovered this week. Listen to this exchange.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yeah, that was your secretary, But we're getting conflicting answers
from your agency. And from the State Department about a
man who was arrested for an.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Elation and day terror plot. How do you not have
those answers prepared?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
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.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Mister 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 US government brought here, come here, or afterward,
and people.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Should be concerned walking at Jackie, Jackie, your persistence in
questioning can be matched by my persistence and answers.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
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
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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,
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not only their top goals. Top goal number one is
diversity equity inclusion. 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 Helleen. And now we have
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Milton down in Florida, and that they gave that money
to Harris Biden on vetted I legal immigrants. You can't
even make this up. Robin is in South Carolina. Hey, Robin,
how are you glad you called?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Thank you, Sean. My question is it's getting really cold
in the mountains right. Everybody's asked 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
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helicopter with spreader bars and dropped anywhere up there. They
have propane stoves, propane heat. These people would have proper housing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Earlier this week, I don't know if you heard the
interview we had with Operationhelo dot Org for 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. Operationhelo
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dot Org ended up paying for their own gas to
run the helicopters, and they were providing necessary you know, food,
water supplies, and also bringing people the safety because the
government was nowhere to be found. Now, up till the
end of last week, I haven't got an update on it.
They'd only spend four million dollars in relief and they
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were missing in action and remained frankly missing in action
helping the people in North Carolina and Georgia and South
Carolina where you are in Tennessee and Florida, and it's
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
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this is the worst hurricane response in the history of
the country.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
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 the little
RVs in there for current out loud. Have sympathy to
these people.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I do understand that there are people in shelters. I
do understand that, you know, groups like samaritanspers dot 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
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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. Yep,
that's what's at stake in twenty five days. Appreciate the call.
Thank you, Robin. You have a great weekend. Let's go
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to David in Pennsylvania. What's up, David.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
How are you? Hey, mister Andy.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I know your time's valuable, so 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
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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 depinion on funding of
education from Democrats to these really radical positions. I mean,
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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 but 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
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need me to expatiate on them. In fact, you pontificate
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
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a hatred of the American way of life. They're rooting
for the terrorists, they hate our meritocracies. These are beliefs
that are these wolk ideologies that believe that people should
not be judged by the content of their character, but
instead by this hierarchy of privilege that 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
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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 it this 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.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
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
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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
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live in a country where you know, we can have
these different views and different beliefs. And you know what,
I respect your choice. You have the ability to choose,
you know, 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
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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.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You're absolutely correct, mister Handy. 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
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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 up until
the point until they get shot, and then are coming
on social media and indicating now, I wish that he
had better aim, I wish somebody shot to the president.
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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 again,
I remember part of the reason I called you is
because I remember about eleven years ago you had David
Silverman on your show, who was the president of American Atheist.
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
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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's appointment 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
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don't want the foundational principles that make America a great
country to live in.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And again, what I 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 peoples
as strongly as I know that in my heart that
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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 I have to be laser focused for
the next twenty five days. But if you'd like, I'd
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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,
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is so I'm so passionate it. I would you would
give me your passion of you, 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. Sean, It's
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got more behind the scenes information, more contacts than anybody,
more friends behind the curtains. Sean Hannity is aw
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