{"id":249338,"date":"2017-10-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=249338"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:16:20","slug":"no-law-couldve-stopped-what-happened-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/03\/no-law-couldve-stopped-what-happened-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"No Law Could\u2019ve Stopped What Happened in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I want to try to get through as much of what we have here <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/10\/03\/join-rush-247-now-to-see-tomorrows-special-members-only-4th-hour\/\">because it\u2019s starting to back up<\/a>, including news unrelated to the shooting event in Las Vegas. But the audio sound bites here, you know, they\u2019re always interesting to react to, and reacting, frankly, is one of the most fun things we do here, particularly on the spontaneous side. So our first bite today is from Representative Al Green, a Democrat from Texas. He was speaking on the floor of the House yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqhrgkT0BuM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GREEN: Our nation is in mourning. Many hearts are bleeding. Mr. Speaker, there is much suffering. Lives have been lost in a senseless, needless manner in Las Vegas. Mr. Speaker, there is a right time for all things. This is a time for our nation to mourn and for hearts to heal. Mr. Speaker, I announce that impeachment is postponed. Let us mourn. Let us heal.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wow. The impeachment is postponed! How many of you knew that impeachment proceedings were taking place? Well, they weren\u2019t. This is just some ragtag renegade, some rogue out of Texas who\u2019s working with Maxine, Auntie Maxine Waters, who wanted impeachment proceedings to get going so he filed some impeachment papers that nobody cared, they yawned about, and he decided to postpone impeachment yesterday because hearts are bleeding, Mr. Speaker, and it\u2019s a time for our nation to mourn and for hearts to heal.<\/p>\n<p>I would think that this would be the time to ratchet up impeachment. I mean, if you\u2019re really gonna go impeach Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors and so forth, this is his audience out there getting shot. If they hadn\u2019t gone, they wouldn\u2019t have gotten shot, the way these people think. But I just wanted you to hear for yourself that impeachment has been postponed, kind of like a rain delay. We don\u2019t know when it\u2019s gonna be brought back.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have a bunch of Democrats parading to the floor of the Senate to politicize the shooting. There\u2019s a new thing the Democrats are doing. They are denouncing prayer now, since Trump endeavored to pray. They\u2019re blaming Republicans. We have Chuck You Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, the fake combat war hero from Vietnam. He totally made up that he faced combat and he gets elected in Connecticut. And then Fauxcahontas, Elizabeth Warren. Up first up is Chuck You.<\/p>\n<p>SCHUMER: How did this monster acquire the arsenal he used to rain down death on a crowd of innocents? We\u2019ll have to reckon with the fact that this man was able to assemble an arsenal of military grade weapons. As much as we might hope to, we cannot banish evil from the earth. Congress can\u2019t do that; president can\u2019t do that. What Congress can do, what Congress must do is pass laws to keep our citizens safe. And that starts with laws that help prevent guns, especially the most dangerous guns, from falling into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You can\u2019t do that. What law? What law that we do not have that you could enact that would have prevented this guy from getting his arsenal, Senator Schumer? That really is the question. There isn\u2019t a magic law you have out there. We have 59 people dead. We have laws against murder. People still get killed in America. Not even laws against murder stop it from happening. What law could you come up with here that would, quote, &#8220;prevent guns, especially the most dangerous guns, from falling into the wrong hands&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GunsNRAss-guns-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GunsNRAss-guns-2.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GunsNRAss-guns-2-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>The guy already broke every law on the book getting these guns. What\u2019s another law gonna do? Automatic weapons are essentially illegal. Is the NRA advocating new laws to make them legal? Of course not. The NRA has no involvement whatsoever in trying to make the acquisition of illegal automatic weapons easier. What\u2019s tough about this is this shooter had nothing in his background, at least that\u2019s been reported, that would disqualify him from owning a gun. Not a thing. But even at that, he had to violate every law on the books to accumulate this kind of an arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>What law, Senator Schumer, could you pass that would have prevented these weapons from falling into his hands? What does that even mean? We need a law to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. What does that even mean, falling into the wrong hands? This guy didn\u2019t have anything fall into his hands. He went out there and got them, and he violated laws to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I have had so many debates in private settings, not public, private settings with typical establishment liberal political types who just utter whatever they say on gun control because it makes them sound like they care. It makes them sound very sophisticated, but they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re saying. They\u2019re just articulate. This is why I say the Democrats have no innovation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like Hillary Clinton. She is programmed. She goes out and starts talking about, &#8220;We must take the politics out of this situation and we must start taking action against the NRA.&#8221; It\u2019s stupid! She is putting politics in the situation. But I guarantee you that line comes from a Democrat playbook. Hillary Clinton can\u2019t say it if it hasn\u2019t already been said and published and approved in some Democrat Party policy manual. It is amazing to me. She cannot think on her own two feet. She cannot come up with something to say that is genuinely hers that she created from her heart or from her mind. Everything she says is a political cliche that has been popularized by the Democrat Party and the left for all these years.<\/p>\n<p>And so\u2019s Chuck Schumer here. We have to have a new law to prevent these exceptionally bad weapons from falling into the wrong hands. How does that happen? This guy was minding his own business one day and all of a sudden a bunch of guns started raining down on him? No. The guy went out and sought them. He violated the law to get them.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve asked these leftists that I\u2019ve had these debates with &#8212; one of them was at a dinner party on Fifth Avenue right across from Central Park. The guy was a former Treasury official in the Nixon administration. He was a dinosaur. This was in the mid-nineties, and he was a dinosaur then. I don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s still alive. And he\u2019s giving me all the clich\u00e9s the left has about gun control. And it\u2019s all about gotta get guns out of the society, the murder rate, the guns, there\u2019s no sense in having people have guns. It\u2019s senseless, it\u2019s cruel, it\u2019s stupid. &#8220;Why don\u2019t you conservatives join us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>So I pointed out to Central Park. And I said, &#8220;Mr. Dinosaur, if you can assure me that whoever\u2019s over there lurking under the cover of darkness is also not gonna be able to get their hands on a gun, then we might have something to talk about. But, Mr. Dinosaur, the only thing you\u2019re gonna do if you succeed is take guns out of the hands of innocent people who defend themselves with them, and you\u2019re not gonna solve anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FB-1002174-Las-Vegas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FB-1002174-Las-Vegas.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FB-1002174-Las-Vegas-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>You\u2019re gonna make people more at risk, more vulnerable, the danger will increase, and in fact let me repeat this. These are stats from the American Enterprise Institute. From 1994, the percentage change in number of firearms versus gun homicides. The number of firearms since 1994 has increased 56%. That\u2019s pretty substantial. Whatever the number is, it\u2019s substantial. A lot of guns have been purchased since 1994. Fifty-six percent increase over what it was in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the gun murder rate? Well, guess what? The percentage of murders, the gun homicide rate is down 49% in the same time frame. Now, the left says more guns equals more crime, more guns equal more mayhem, more guns equals more dead people, more guns equals more murder. No, it doesn\u2019t. Fifty-six percent increase gun ownership, 1994, 49% decline in gun homicide rates at the same time. You could say that having more guns has reduced the number of gun homicides.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s the Connecticut Democrat senator, Richard Blumenthal, who lied about facing combat fire in Vietnam. His lie was exposed during a Senate campaign, and he still got elected. He looks &#8212; never mind. Doesn\u2019t matter. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n<p>BLUMENTHAL: I am now furious because Congress has failed to act. Nothing has changed since Newtown. Thoughts and prayers are not enough.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>BLUMENTHAL: Hand-wringing and soul-searching is needed. But it is insufficient. What\u2019s needed now is action. Those five years ago when a man wielding a semiautomatic rifle murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the cries of grief echoed around this country. And there was a moment when action could have been taken. We need to seize this moment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-249381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-Playbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-Playbook.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-Playbook-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: We did. This is what gets so frustrating. This is a pure emotional appeal, and it works. It works on emotionally consumed, temporarily at the time brain-dead people. &#8220;We gotta do something!&#8221; What? This guy broke every law that already exists. &#8220;Don\u2019t care. We need to do something.&#8221; Okay, what could we have done to stop him? &#8220;I don\u2019t know, but we gotta do something.&#8221; But this guy broke every law we have. &#8220;I don\u2019t care. He should have been stopped.&#8221; What would you suggest? &#8220;Get rid of the NRA. That\u2019s the problem.&#8221; That\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA\u2019s not advocating for people to be able to buy automatic weapons, machine guns. The NRA didn\u2019t do anything here. The shooter had nothing in his background that would disqualify him from owning a gun. Did the NRA own the Mandalay Bay hotel? Did the NRA rent the guy the room? Did the NRA have anything to do? Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA\u2019s a bogeyman for the left. The leftists know that most of their supporters don\u2019t have any knowledge whatsoever about guns other than, &#8220;They\u2019re bad, they\u2019re bad, they\u2019re horrible.&#8221; That\u2019s all they know about guns. And they know even less about gun law. They just know that we have to get rid of \u2019em. &#8220;We gotta get rid of the guns!&#8221; Because they\u2019ve been told that if we get rid of the guns that Sandy Hook wouldn\u2019t have happened and this wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n<p>There is no concern for constitutional rights because only 30% of the American people can even tell you the three branches of government correctly. And besides, now the Constitution was written by a bunch of racist pigs engaging in toxic masculinity, so it doesn\u2019t even have any credibility with people. So that\u2019s why people like Hillary Clinton and the brainless Jimmy Kimmel were all over the NRA yesterday, creating false narratives, false stories, exploiting the ignorant with emotional appeals when emotions are raw.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how the politically craven behave, when people are suffering, when dead bodies are still warm, these vultures are flying over the scene within minutes feeding off of the crisis, feeding off of the despair. It\u2019s no different than with the Gentle Giant in Ferguson, Missouri, &#8220;hands up, don\u2019t shoot.&#8221; Didn\u2019t happen. Same playbook, same feeding frenzy every time. And every time we have to show up here and start mouthing the same fact-based defense of whatever aspect of our country is under assault today by these same people. Here\u2019s Fauxcahontas, Elizabeth Warren. She was on the floor of the Senate yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WarrenPIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WarrenPIX.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WarrenPIX-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>WARREN: Thoughts and prayers are good, but they\u2019re simply not enough. Thoughts and prayers are not enough when more moms and dads will bury their children this week, and thoughts and prayers are not enough when sons and daughters will be forced to grow up without their parents. Attacks like we have seen today have happened all too often in America. Enough is enough. We have to have a conversation about how to stop gun violence in America, and we need to have that conversation right now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You do not really want that conversation, Senator. You do not really want it because it has nothing to do with the NRA, and it has nothing to do with guns, and it has nothing to do with gun law. You want to find out why this guy did what he did? You\u2019re gonna have to learn a lot more than what you think the NRA is responsible for. You\u2019re gonna have to learn a lot more about the specifics of this guy\u2019s life and what they are that drove him to this.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ll guarantee you, the NRA couldn\u2019t have done anything to stop him. Getting rid of the NRA wouldn\u2019t have stopped him. There\u2019s not a single law you could have passed at any time in the past that would have stopped this guy from doing what he did. If you really want to stop this guy from doing what he did, find out why he was mad. You people on the left are always interested in remedial things, right? You think evil characters can be saved. Well, find out what drove this guy over the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Is it gambling? Ban gambling, then. Is it debt? Did debt drive him nuts? Then ban debt. Is it gigantic government where nothing can get solved? Is it bureaucracy everywhere no matter where this guy went, he couldn\u2019t get a solution, he couldn\u2019t get even anybody to take what he had to deal with seriously? In that case, ban government. I mean, where does this end, Senator Warren? I\u2019ll tell you where it doesn\u2019t end is where you want to take this.<\/p>\n<p>You could get rid of the NRA, you could strip the Second Amendment out of the Constitution, and events like this are still gonna happen, probably even more of them. When you fix it so that people cannot defend themselves in circumstances like this, you are guaranteed to get more of this, Senator Warren. And if you ever did that, all of the forthcoming death would be on you. And then let\u2019s see what you have to say about prayer being irrelevant. Let\u2019s see what you have to say about prayer and concern being not enough.<\/p>\n<p>What is the purpose of prayer, Senator? What is the purpose of prayer for you to categorize it as not enough? What are people praying for, do you think, Senator? Are they praying that they wish it hadn\u2019t happened? Are they praying for the salvation of the souls of the dead? Are they asking God for understanding? What are they praying for? And until you know that, how do you know that it\u2019s not enough, Senator?<\/p>\n<p>The presumption of these people drives me batty. These assumed know-it-alls on the left who wouldn\u2019t understand basic human values if they got slapped upside the head with them.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now I want to go to audio sound bite number 6. Jimmy Kimmel. The Democrat Party has gotten its hooks into Jimmy Kimmel. Ever since his son had the episode at the hospital, Jimmy Kimmel has become an emotional expert on the Democrat Party agenda. First Obamacare and socialized medicine and everybody ought to have it and nobody ought to have to pay for it. It\u2019s inhumane to have to pay for health care, especially your sick infant and so forth. And now Jimmy Kimmel is becoming an expert on the Democrat Party\u2019s version of the NRA and gun control.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100217-Vegas-shooting-crowd-runs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100217-Vegas-shooting-crowd-runs-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100217-Vegas-shooting-crowd-runs-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>For those of you who watch Jimmy Kimmel, I just want you to know that every monologue that he will do on this is going to effectively be Democrat Party talking points. Ever since he got off onto the Obamacare tangent, look, he\u2019s always been what he is, make no mistake. But with that monologue, the Democrat Party I think has established channels. And here\u2019s a guy who was funny as he could be, he was a great comedian, but it wasn\u2019t enough. Everybody in showbiz wants at some point in their careers to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great getting laughs, it\u2019s great making people laugh, but at some point, like actors, who, when called to testify, say they play a farm wife in a movie, and then some senator who\u2019s got a crush on actress calls her up to testify on farm problems in America because she portrayed a farm wife in a movie. The actress readily accepts the invitation because it\u2019s a chance to show off her brain. It\u2019s a chance to show that she\u2019s much more substantive than just an actress.<\/p>\n<p>So they all jump at the chance. Take a look at this the next time you read a showbiz interview. It\u2019s the most amazing thing. An actress will portray &#8212; in this case I\u2019ll give you an example of a real life character who was a victim of something. And the actress who plays this character is then interviewed by the Drive-Bys as the movie is coming out, and they\u2019re trying to hype ticket sales. And the actress is accorded expert status.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment reporter asking the questions assumes that the actress or actor, depending on the role, has become an expert on that person. And the actress or actor willing accepts this and starts describing what they learned about the person as they worked hard to prepare for the role. And so people who are pretending to be other people for a total of a couple of hours are automatically granted expert status in who those people are. And I just marvel at these interviews as I listen to these actresses and actors describe these people they\u2019re portraying as though they are educational historians who know everything about it, and they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is what\u2019s happened here to Jimmy Kimmel in a way. Kimmel was a great comedian. He was uniquely funny. I especially liked him when he did the predictions bit on the Fox NFL pregame show back when it was good. He was hilarious. I haven\u2019t seen the late-night show much, but he was genuinely funny. But now Jimmy Kimmel has become a political expert, and he is looked at as a political expert.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, I\u2019ve had this happen to me. I know what I\u2019m talking about. In the early days of this program I would say something that was particularly brilliant and unique, and before I knew it I would hear from an elected official somewhere who wanted me to appear with him at one of his fundraisers or would want to establish a line of communication to keep me up-to-speed on what this politician cared about. And it always featured flattery and, &#8220;Limbaugh, you know more instinctively than people who have been taught this stuff for 20 years. Can I stay in touch with you and keep you on top?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely, Congressman or Senator,&#8221; whatever. It\u2019s very seductive when it starts happening to you, especially if you\u2019re a Hollywood entertainer and here come all of a sudden the ugly people in showbiz &#8212; that\u2019s politicians &#8212; they call you, and they want to make you legitimate in a world of really serious stuff. So you accept it. So now Jimmy Kimmel has gone from being an expert in health care to an expert in gun control. And here is a brief segment of his monologue last night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ruYeBXudsds\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>KIMMEL: When someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls, we take every possible precaution to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again. But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there\u2019s nothing we can do about that. Second Amendment, I guess. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won\u2019t do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip also sent their thoughts and their prayers today, which is good, they should be praying. They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country, because it is &#8212; it\u2019s so crazy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You say it\u2019s over the top, but every bit of that, have you not heard that before? The NRA runs the country, runs the Republicans, the NRA\u2019s responsible. It\u2019s cliched. All of that is Democrat Party talking points. Mentioning Paul Ryan and McConnell is what ties this guy to the Democrats. Don\u2019t you see? I mean, I don\u2019t know the process here. I don\u2019t know who is teaching Jimmy Kimmel what to know, what to say, and how to say it. But all of this is cliched.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like Hillary Clinton, when this event happened, &#8220;We\u2019ve got to take the politics out of this and start seriously blaming the NRA.&#8221; That\u2019s right out of a playbook. Hillary, tell us what you really think about this. Don\u2019t give us something that every Democrat\u2019s memorized that is a talking point from your speech messenger and manager. That\u2019s what this is. All of that is clich\u00e9s. That is an assembled bunch of cliches that make a monologue.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA &#8212; one more time &#8212; the NRA had nothing to do with this. You could have gotten rid of the NRA 25 years ago, this would have still happened. The NRA has no linkage to this whatsoever. There\u2019s not a law that you could pass that would stop this guy from doing what he did. He already broke existing laws, including murder laws, to do what he did. But let\u2019s get to the point that the reason this happened is the NRA owns the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>There was a typical know-it-all tweet from a guy named Kyle Griffin. I don\u2019t know who he is, but I\u2019m gonna use his tweet. Here\u2019s what he said, &#8220;I\u2019m sorry. I do&#8221; &#8212; he\u2019s an MSNBC producer. Okay, so he\u2019s another cliched, leftist Democrat. &#8220;Since 1998,&#8221; he says, &#8220;the NRA has donated $3,555,000 to current members of Congress. Find out who has received the donations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with this event. If the no money had been given to the NRA, it does not have a thing to do with whether this event would have happened. But that\u2019s not the way to deal with it. The way to deal with it is respond this way. &#8220;That\u2019s all you\u2019ve got? That since 1998 the NRA has donated three and a half million to members of Congress? How about the fact that since 1998 labor unions have donated over $700 million to the Democrat Party in the same time period?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, that doesn\u2019t mean anything.&#8221; Exactly. It doesn\u2019t mean anything. &#8220;Well, the labor unions, I mean, they\u2019re not shooting guns.&#8221; No, you\u2019re missing the point. If you\u2019re gonna blame financial donations and contributions by the NRA for impacting American life, then you had better be prepared to agree that twice as much money donated by Big Labor to Democrats has the same kind of impact. &#8220;It doesn\u2019t get people killed, it doesn\u2019t put guns in &#8211;&#8221; Not the point. Not the point. You\u2019re trying to point out here that all of this money is itself corrupting. Well, if that\u2019s true, then you guys have twice the problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-x.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-100317-x-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>I doubt that Kyle Griffin even understands how he has had his tweet rammed right back down his throat, \u2019cause in his world there\u2019s nothing wrong with labor unions, there\u2019s nothing wrong with labor unions giving to Democrats. The NRA is a standalone. The NRA doesn\u2019t advocate for events like this. In fact, the NRA probably works harder than anybody to prevent events like this. &#8220;What do you mean? That\u2019s the stupidest thing I\u2019ve ever heard. You can\u2019t say that.&#8221; I just did say it, and it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no more gun safety oriented group than the NRA. But the NRA is not in charge of how people behave. But I don\u2019t know what else you want. Every law on the books was already violated by this guy, including murder, meaning no law stopped it. You could confiscate every gun &#8212; well, you actually couldn\u2019t do that, but let\u2019s say you could. Let\u2019s say you did confiscate every gun that you know exists, you could pass a constitutional amendment, you could make it illegal, and you could get every gun. This guy would still find a way to get the guns he got and use them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; &#8216;Cause he broke the law, for crying out loud. Laws don\u2019t stop these people. &#8220;You mean there\u2019s nothing we can do to &#8211;&#8221; Not with laws, and not the NRA. You\u2019re not gonna stop this by going at it the way you\u2019re going at it. You\u2019re not even getting close to finding out why this guy did this. You\u2019re stopping at the NRA made it possible. The NRA enabled it. They did not. They had nothing to do with this.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not a single gun owner in the country except the people that sold this guy guns that had anything to do with this. None of that matters, because the cliches attached to the emotionalism of bashing Republicans and bashing the NRA is all that\u2019s necessary. Just like every other liberal solution to a problem, it doesn\u2019t solve the problem, it doesn\u2019t even address the problem. Liberal fixes for health care, where\u2019d that get us? Liberals fix Social Security. Where\u2019d that get us? Liberals fix deficit spending. Where\u2019d that get us? Liberals attack the national debt. Everything they fix gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s a question for all the late-night comedians, and they all weighed in on this, except I think Jimmy Fallon didn\u2019t, but the others did, and in a predictably cliched way. Here\u2019s a question. Have any of these late night comedians ever done a heartfelt monologue on all of the gun murder in Chicago? The totals there dwarf what happened in Las Vegas. The thing is in Las Vegas it happened in one day. Chicago in just the last year, certainly two, has a murder total that dwarfs this. And Chicago\u2019s run by Democrats. So we don\u2019t really hear much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/2017-chicago-murders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ChicagoMurder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ChicagoMurder.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ChicagoMurder-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a>I mean, we never hear about the NRA and its responsibilities in Chicago. We never hear late-night comedians or anybody else demanding that the NRA do something. We don\u2019t even hear that people ought to be told to get rid of guns in Chicago. There\u2019s literally nothing said about what goes on in Chicago. But there certainly have not been heartfelt and heart-tugging tear-filled monologues and comments about the gun homicides in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that, folks? Why do we not get that? Why do we not hear that? It\u2019s been going on a lot longer than what happened in Las Vegas. But it fascinates me, and I mean, I know the answer to my question. It\u2019s still is a fascinating question. Where is all of the hurt? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/2017-chicago-murders\">Where are the heartfelt monologues over what\u2019s being done to our children in Chicago every weekend<\/a>?\u00a0We don\u2019t hear a peep about it. And the answer, of course, is politics. Democrats run that town, so nothing can be wrong there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Phillip in Las Vegas. Great to have you, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, I\u2019m doing good, Rush. Hey, I\u2019d like to make a point that I can answer your question. Sell weapons or guns only to conservatives, because they don\u2019t seem to be the ones doing the shooting, which brings me to my second point.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Sell guns to &#8212; say that again.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Only conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Only conservatives buy guns, is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, if you want to make a law, only sell guns to conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh! Oh! You\u2019re talking about a new law. Okay. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And that brings me to my second point. If the shooter was a Republican, the liberal news would have outed him the minute they identified him. That\u2019s what I believe.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I see where you\u2019re going with this. You\u2019re saying the guy probably might be a Democrat because the media isn\u2019t reporting that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Or a Trump hater. And the only other alternative could be a false flag shooting to start trouble to take our guns away.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Those are two scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, let\u2019s leave that one aside, the false flag.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know. I understand.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So you\u2019re two things. You\u2019re proposed law is only sell guns to conservatives? What would that accomplish? I may not be following you here on that. What\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, there\u2019s Democrats that are conservative, there\u2019s Republicans that are conservative. But the last several shootings don\u2019t seem to be any conservatives. They identified \u2019em as either Muslim or Democrat &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Or apolitical. I got you. Okay. His whole point here is that the shooter must be something the Democrats and the media don\u2019t like, otherwise if the shooter were conservative and a nutcase and a lunatic, they would have pointed this out, and they haven\u2019t. Okay. 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