{"id":213808,"date":"2016-06-21T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/21\/what_we_re_up_against_on_guns\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:25:17","slug":"what_we_re_up_against_on_guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/21\/what_we_re_up_against_on_guns\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Up Against on Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: A columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>.  This is so good.  This guy is a columnist, and he was assigned the task of showing “how easy it is to get a gun.”  We had the Morning Update<\/a> today about this CBS reporterette who wanted to do the same thing.  They\u2019re all going into gun shops and trying to show how easy it is. “They\u2019ll sell a gun to anybody! You don\u2019t need to get a background check.” It\u2019s all a bunch of BS. “You walk in, you fork over the money, and they\u2019ll give you a machine gun if you want it,” is the image that they\u2019re trying to portray.  Wait \u2019til you hear the details on this clown from the Chicago Sun-Times. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just cut to the chase.  The guy, his application was not approved.  They found out he\u2019s an alcoholic and he\u2019s got a couple charges of wife abuse or spousal abuse or something, and they would not give him the gun.  He wanted to leave that out of the column, and his editor said, “No, you gotta put it in there.” So he put it in there. But he said (paraphrased), “That wasn\u2019t the real reason they didn\u2019t let me have the gun! They didn\u2019t let me have a gun \u2019cause they knew I was a reporter and they knew I was gonna try to shaft \u2019em.”  The background system worked.  The guy didn\u2019t deserve getting a gun. <\/line><\/p>\n

He couldn\u2019t pass the background check, is alcoholic (or has had alcoholic issues, I don\u2019t know), and spousal abuse issues, charges.  It\u2019s just classic.  To show you what we\u2019re up against, we have some Kim Kardashian tweets on this that the problem is… Kim Kardashian is what you have as an oracle to low-information people, and she\u2019s got a series of tweets on how easy it is to get a gun, and how background checks don\u2019t exist.  It\u2019s all wrong.  It\u2019s… (interruption) No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.  I have spies.  I\u2019m not reading Kim Kardashian tweets.  I don\u2019t follow anybody on Twitter.  I\u2019m not…<\/p>\n

(interruption) No, no, no, no.  It\u2019s from the guy who reports… I read this report yesterday on his daughter is a Millennial, and he tracks her and her friends and reports to me. He\u2019s the guy that told me that “sustainability” is a big deal to them. He\u2019s the one sent me this.  He\u2019s the one out there following this stuff, trying to keep me up speed so I don\u2019t have to do it.  I wouldn\u2019t go following Kim Kardashian.  Anyway, it\u2019s gonna fit right with the Chicago Sun-Times piece.  It\u2019s gonna go perfectly with it.  So don\u2019t worry how I got it.  What does it matter how I got it?  Are you prepared to sit in there and say that your opinion of me might change if you found out that I was following Kim Kardashian? <\/line><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t even go there. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Chicago Sun-Times columnist tried to show how worthless the background check aspect of getting a gun is and how it totally backfired on the guy. It\u2019s just one of the most juicy stories you\u2019ll ever, ever come across. And there\u2019s some other things out there, too.  I mentioned that this is related to it: The Kim Kardashian series of tweets on background checks; how it\u2019s all pointless.  The reason… I\u2019m not a Kim Kardashian whatever, “follower.”<\/p>\n

But I know a guy whose daughter is, and he keeps me up to speed by sending me this stuff. And it\u2019s relevant because whether you like it or not, Kim Kardashian apparently is an opinion maker with a certain segment of the population.  They\u2019re young, easily impressionable, and they hero worship and celebrity worship, and they end up buying into this, and they grow up thinking it. And nobody ever corrects them, and they end up as adults being totally ill-informed and misinformed and helping to skew this country in bad directions.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This silly notion that if there had just been gun control, that Mateen wouldn\u2019t have been able to do what he did.  This boggles my mind! There were four gun control measures that were being debated on the floor of the US Senate. This always happens.<\/p>\n

Every time there\u2019s a shooting disaster, a mass massacre like this, the Democrats get into gear and use the opportunity — take the opportunity — of the event to try to get more gonna control, and every, every sponsor… There were four different bills. Every sponsor admitted that his bill would not have stopped Mateen from getting the gun that he used.  But it didn\u2019t matter, because the purpose of gun control is not to stop Mateen.  You know why?  Gun control can\u2019t stop criminals.  The law does not stop criminals.  The law does not deter all potential criminals. <\/line><\/p>\n

If it did, we wouldn\u2019t have any.  If the law deterred crime, we wouldn\u2019t have any crime.  The purpose of law is not solely to deter people from committing crime.  It\u2019s how society defines itself in areas of right and wrong and morality.  It\u2019s how society agrees to punish people that violate various laws.  But the law is not there to prevent criminal behavior, because nobody would be stupid enough to think that alone would do it.  That\u2019s why gun control laws are silly, folks.  They\u2019re not gonna stop anybody who intends to criminally use a gun.  There\u2019s gonna be a black market. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t ban all guns from a country this big! You couldn\u2019t get rid of all of them no matter you do. If you confiscated every gun, if you were able to — and you couldn\u2019t even do this. If you went door-to-door and demanded that everybody in every house, every apartment, every condo, every business, turn over their gun to you, and if they did it (which wouldn\u2019t happen), you still wouldn\u2019t get rid of every gun in this country.  That\u2019s what\u2019s silly. <\/p>\n

Therefore, the purpose of gun control is not to take guns or keep guns out of the hands of criminals, folks.  The purpose of gun control is to take guns away from the law-abiding.  That\u2019s all it is.  It\u2019s never admitted to.  It\u2019s disguised as stopping crime, protecting your children, keeping our schools safe.  That\u2019s bogus caca.  There isn\u2019t a single law on the books that would have stopped Mateen from getting his gun.  There\u2019s not a single law that would have prevented him from doing what he did when he got a gun.  Not a single law. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean that journalists are not stupid fools.  Journalists are out there now doing story after story, how easy it is to get a gun, how easy it is for criminals and the law abiding to go get a gun. And we\u2019re supposed to infer that it\u2019s so easy, no wonder people are getting involved with mass shootings.  Well, a guy named Neil Steinberg at the Chicago Sun-Times decided to write a column about how easy it is to get a gun and about how worthless the background check aspect of gun control is.  And wait \u2019til you hear what happened to him.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  I\u2019m not gonna have time to read much of this guy\u2019s column.  His name is Neil Steinberg.  Neil Steinberg writing for the Chicago Sun-Times: “Would-Be Terrorists Can Buy Guns, But a Reporter?  No.” <\/a> See, he didn\u2019t pass the background check, and it\u2019s just classic.  The column is nonsensical because the guy ends up totally exposed as a fraud and ends up blaming “the system” for it.  He\u2019s one of these reporters who goes to a gun store on the premise that anybody can get a gun and the background check is a mere formality and they can get any gun they want.<\/p>\n

\"original\"The background check doesn\u2019t really count. Everybody gets passed. Everybody gets their money, and the guy walks out with a gun, and murder as many people he wants.  Whatever kind of gun he wants to buy!  So this guy goes in to a gun store in Des Plaines, Illinois, Maxon Shooters Supply. He went in there on Wednesday of last week to purchase his first assault rifle, and the first thing he learned is that there\u2019s no such thing.  They told him there was no such thing, but he didn\u2019t believe \u2019em.  He said he never owned a gun before.  “[W]ith the horror of Sunday\u2019s Orlando massacre still echoing, even the pleasant summer day … took on a grim aspect, the sweetness of fragile life flashing by as I headed into the Valley of Death.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Earlier, in my editor\u2019s office, I had ticked off the reasons for me not to buy a gun: this was a journalistic stunt; done repeatedly; supporting an industry I despise. But as I tell people[:] I just work here[;] I don\u2019t own the place. And my qualms melted as I dug into the issue. I had trouble even figuring out whether bringing an assault rifle into Chicago is legal. The Internet was contradictory. The Chicago corporation counsel\u2019s office punted me on to that black hole of silence, Bill McCaffrey. I found that Illinois has a 24-hour waiting period between buying and taking possession of a gun. Unearthing that fact alone made the exercise seem worthwhile. I was learning something,” and he goes on to talk about the process. <\/p>\n

Any, here\u2019s what happened.  He went in to buy his assault rifle, and he goes through the process, disguising as how he\u2019s learning things, and  the gun store called him within 24 hours and said (summarized), “I\u2019m sorry, but we can\u2019t sell you the gun.  You didn\u2019t pass the background check.”  And he wants to know why.  And the gun store says, “We don\u2019t have to tell you.  We\u2019re not required by law to tell you.”  But they knew he was a reporter.  He didn\u2019t pass the background check.  You want to know why?  It was discovered that he has issues with alcohol and spousal abuse or something of the sort.  It was discovered that he was a risk. <\/p>\n

So they wouldn\u2019t sell him the gun.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t pass the background check.  He wasn\u2019t allowed to come back and get the gun, and he ended up portraying this as (summarized), “See?  I\u2019m an innocent guy! I\u2019m a totally innocent reporter…” He didn\u2019t want to put it in the column but his editors made him. He didn\u2019t want to include the abuse. He thought that was not relevant.  His editors made him put that piece of information in his column, and he goes off blaming the system. (paraphrased) “A terrorist can go in, a known-terrorist go in and get a gun, and I\u2019m a decent, law-abiding guy, and I couldn\u2019t pass the background check.” <\/p>\n

Of course, he doesn\u2019t see. Because he\u2019s a closed-minded leftist, he doesn\u2019t see the utter irony in what happened to him.  He goes in to expose the entire background check apparatus as fraudulent and worthless, and it uncovers that he is unfit for a gun, and he ends up attacking the system! When he ought to have walked out of there and said, “You know what?  I\u2019m wrong.  This system works.”  He should have walked out of there realizing, “You know what? I learned something I didn\u2019t know.  The background check is not an automatic.  It\u2019s not something that\u2019s set up to fool everybody into thinking they\u2019re really looking into people\u2019s backgrounds.”<\/p>\n

‘Cause this guy walks in thinking anybody in the world could go in and buy a submachine gun if they want to, and it turns out, no. We\u2019ll link to the piece. We\u2019ll link to the column at RushLimbaugh.com.  You really need to read the whole thing, particularly near the end when he admits that he didn\u2019t pass the background check because these reasons. He says that\u2019s not the real reason. “[T]he real reason is: Gun manufacturers and the stores that sell them make their money in the dark. Congress, which has so much trouble passing the most basic gun laws, passed a law making it illegal for the federal government to fund research into gun violence. Except for the week or two after massacres…” So guy totally doesn\u2019t get it.  He exhibits his total closed-mindedness. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite an informative piece.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  No, the Sun-Times reporter thought he was turned down not because of his admitted alcohol abuse and admitted spousal abuse. No! They turned him down because he was a reporter, and they didn\u2019t want a reporter to learn how easy it is to give everybody else\u2019s gun.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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