Deal With The Culture Of Murder

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The latest mass killing in the United States and the
reaction to it. That would be in downtown Sacramento, California,
the state capital and indeed where the Armstrong and Getty
Show was launched many many, many moons ago. We hours
of the morning clubs letting out fighter ups, A bunch
of people start shooting each other, including if the audio
I heard wasn't something else, It sounded like a machine

(00:21):
pistol and automatic weapon was used. Six people dead, Uh,
double that number hurt. Don't you take a machine pistol
when you go out dancing? I don't. I don't. Generally
a couple of thoughts. First of all, Sacramento b which
is the paper of record. It's a liberal paper in
that fine city. The headline is California has the toughest

(00:43):
US gun laws. After Sacramento shooting, What else can lawmakers do?
They go into the list of things that are banned,
the crackdowns, the the permits you have to have to
buy Ammo that the most guns bottle. I don't have
much Ammo because I have never were gotten my birth
certificate and all the stuff I need to get together

(01:03):
to go to Big five and register to buy Ammo.
But the guy downtown who wanted to murder a bunch
of people, though found a way around that. So you've
affected me, but not him. Uh. That him is them?
By the way, multiple shooters, Yeah, multiple people with guns
and a will to to use them. Uh. Quick note
from a fellow who was downtown before the shooting, but

(01:24):
well after the sun went down. He was at an
event at a hotel in the area, and he says,
during the short walk back to the parking garage, the
people and their behaviors that we encountered would make most
people not wanted to have anything to do with downtown
at night. The displays of threatening behavior were unnerving. Uh.
Then he addresses the mayor, you need to take a
hard look at city blah blah blah. But to get

(01:45):
back to the Sacramento beef thing, because around here we
are not about whipping up the base or pandering to
our listeners or or that sort of thing. We're about,
you know, talking about salute that we think are realistic.
And the question of California has the strictest gun laws

(02:07):
in America. What else can be done? A couple of
very simple bits of reasoning that anybody can grasp, and
I don't think anybody can refute Number one, the obvious one.
The greatest prohibition in humankind, and it's it's ancient is

(02:28):
against the unlawful taking of another life. Murder is the
great great prohibition from ancient times to today, with the
harshest of penalties and universal acceptance. There is perhaps no
principle held more universally on earth than you don't get

(02:50):
to murder people. And these people are more than willing
to violate that prohibition. They do so willingly, some of
them enthusiast, pastically. Okay, So what in the name of
heaven makes you think that they would observe some Class
three felony possession of a firearm law, or some misdemeanor

(03:11):
or something like that. What in the name of heaven
makes you think the murderers would give a damn? I
hear you, I hear you. You think you're ahead of me.
Who's ahead of who? Let's find out you're saying, Well,
we gotta get all the guns off the street. There
are too many guns on the streets. There are too
many guns in America. Okay, I can solve that one

(03:32):
for you too. Number one, a massive buyback program, which
would be just monumentally expensive, and that would take care
of about, I don't know, maybe fift of the problem.
Here's the rest of your solution, and this is undeniable,
stop and frisk everybody on the streets, draconian penalties for
unlawful possession of a firearm, felon in possession of a

(03:54):
firearm forty years, thirty years, something like that. Oh, wait
a minute, Wait a minute. I hear you, my lefty friends,
I hear you. Await in a minute. Mass incarceration is
a problem, not a solution. Stop and frisk is unconstitutional,
it's intrusive, it targets minorities. That's okay. So you tell
me how you're going to get the thousands and thousands

(04:15):
and thousands of guns off the street. You have no solution.
All you do is shout about passing new gun law,
which if if the felons knew they existed, they would
go faw at them. That's your solution. Cut it out. Yeah,
it's interesting when the gun laws don't stop these mass

(04:37):
shootings that there's always a call for more of them,
as opposed to recognizing that they're they're not they're clearly
not the answer, right, right, You want to you want
to affect mass shootings. And interestingly enough, Lorie Lightfoot, the
mayor of Chicago, was talking about this. She was talking
about how the giant explosion in carjackings, which often turned

(05:00):
island or they begin with the violence of a gun
in your face, are about unloved youths. That's a quote.
It's mostly teenagers who do this. And so she said, yeah,
these kids are adrift. They don't they have no priorities
in life. They're not loved, they're not cared after. Okay,
so let's talk about keeping the family intact. Let's talk
about raising children. Let's let's deal with the utter failure

(05:22):
of the American welfare state. I have a different study
over here we can talk about later. How uh the
intact black family has crumbled since the institution of the
welfare state. Black educational achievement, Uh in a lot of ways, Uh, incomes, uh,
you know, marriage, drug use, There's just so many statistics.

(05:45):
It's because the government as Daddy doesn't work. It's a
miserable failure. And we have a culture and nobody wants
to talk about this. We have a culture where it's
seen as acceptable to use deadly violence to settle minor disputes.
That is the problem. You know, Mr mayor, Mr governor,

(06:05):
all you legislators, all you activists, you have a culture
of murder. Deal with it openly, honestly and aggressively. Or again,
stop wasting my time talking about adding a twelve law
to the eleventh that the murderers have already violated. Yeah,
there's always talk every time there's a shooting about the

(06:26):
gun culture, but not the other part of the culture, right,
because guns have been available for a very, very long time,
and it's a fairly recent invention, the idea that I'm
gonna go shoot up my school or shoot up the
nightclub or whatever. Right, Yeah, I had plenty of guns.
I have no murderous intent. Why is that? Is that
worth at least considering? And I like this note from

(06:46):
Matt going back to a little email. In the hours
following that late night slaughter, every local headline speech from
officials decried gun violence. Are we all sick of this misdirection?
Was nine eleven airplane violence. When a madman rams a
car and crowd, it's not called suv violence. This rampage
were done with a punk with a machete. No brave
leaders would be decrying blade violence. Gun violence is a

(07:08):
misdirection from people with some alternate agenda. How about you
a city officials, news stations shut up until you want
to talk about the real problems. Clearly I agree, Thanks Matt,
Start Strong.