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RUSH: Last week, the First Amendment was under assault. This week, the Second Amendment is under assault. The media templates have been set in stone. They started last night, yesterday afternoon even, in regards to this massacre at Virginia Tech, before anything was known, before any of the facts were known. It was one of the reasons I didn\u2019t talk much about this yesterday, because it was all breaking at the time, and had I echoed what I was seeing in the Drive-By Media yesterday, I would have been wrong in part. So as I mentioned yesterday I was sitting around and just waiting to gather all the information here. It has been utterly predictable and it has been utterly fascinating at the same time, to watch the Drive-By Media coverage of this massacre. Some people are calling it a ‘tragedy.\u2019 I\u2019m even having a problem with calling it a tragedy. A tragedy is a tornado or a hurricane running you down. This is an act of pure evil. This is an act of pure evil on the part of one person that has nothing to do with ‘American society.\u2019 It has nothing to do with anybody else who was not involved, and yet the media template is etched in stone here. We have found out that the killer had chains and a lock to keep his victims from escaping. <\/p>\n

He had two pistols, one of which he bought back in March or April. He had a vest filled with ammunition, and somehow some kind of gun control law was going to stop him from killing these people. That, frankly, is absurd, and I urge all of you to resist the groupthink that has been part of this. I don\u2019t care what network you watch, that has been the template: the Second Amendment and gun control, here. ‘We need more gun control. If we would have had gun control, why, this wouldn\u2019t have happened! Virginia is the headquarters of the NRA.\u2019 This is going to bring this all back. The bottom line here is that every event — regardless how bad, how large, or how small — is covered through the politics prism now. Everything is being looked at here through the prism of politics rather than looking at this for what it is. The shooter bought his first gun, a 9mm handgun, on March 13th, and his second weapon, a .22 caliber handgun within the last week. This is according to ABC News and their source here is law enforcement officials. None of this argues at all for the concept that gun control would have prevented any of this. <\/p>\n

This was not a spur of the moment crime. It was not something done in a flash instant. There was preparation here. This guy was going to get a gun. He was able to buy it, but he was going to get a gun regardless. He had it in his mind to do this. So last week the First Amendment\u2019s under attack; this week is now the Second Amendment, and it is terrible how an event like this can be so contorted to meet a political end. But that is the primary reason for all of the coverage: to meet a political end. There are several news templates in newsrooms. The Duke lacrosse case is a representative of a great template. The Imus situation is another template, and so is this. They\u2019ve just released some details of the note that the gunman left behind, and in the note — isn\u2019t this classic? — he rails against ‘rich kids and the debauchery of American society.\u2019 Now, who cares what this guy thinks other than a bunch of psychologists and psychiatrists who might want to examine this for the textbooks? This is the kind of thing that does not happen in this country every day. This is extraordinary, which is why the reaction that we\u2019re all having to it is as it is. <\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t happen every day in this country. This is not what America is. This event does not provide a microcosm of the evils and horrors of American society. So you have this kid that went nuts here for whatever reason, in a suicide note, railing against ‘rich kids and the debauchery of society,\u2019 and wait \u2019til the Drive-Bys pick up on that and start extrapolating that into the other templates that exist in their newsrooms as to what\u2019s wrong with American society. I don\u2019t know what his grievance was against ‘rich kids.\u2019 I have no clue and we won\u2019t know until the details of this note are spelled out. The Drive-Bys are all talking about the ‘healing\u2019 that we all must go through now, and that this is a tragedy. As I say, you can say it\u2019s a tragedy, and I may be splitting hairs here, but, as I say, a tragedy is when a tornado runs through town and flattens a building and 30 people die. This is pure evil on parade, or insanity. It\u2019s self-contained within the mind and the body of the shooter. It was a sick, evil act, very much like that of a suicide bomber. It was an evil, driven nut who had a couple of guns, and we have to face that head on and deal with that, not hide under our covers in fear and blame and guilt and start asking, ‘What\u2019s wrong with America?\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just like after 9\/11 — and I\u2019ve got a media sound bite here, people saying, ‘Ohhhhh, it feels just like after 9\/11! Whoa, it\u2019s horrible out there,\u2019 and what happened after 9\/11? The state department convened a little seminar on ‘Why do they hate us?\u2019 Now with this guy\u2019s note in which he rails against ‘rich kids and the debauchery of our society,\u2019 the question is going to become, ‘What\u2019s wrong with America?\u2019 not, ‘What was wrong with this guy?\u2019 This guy is going to end up, before it\u2019s all said and done in certain places in the Drive-By Media, having — if not a legitimate and understandable grievance — a grievance at the way America is — and guess who runs America right now? George W. Bush! ‘This guy had a grievance. It was understandable. There is so much partisanship. There\u2019s so much angst. There\u2019s so much hate! There\u2019s so much anger, racism, bigotry, homophobia!\u2019 All of this stuff is going to be thrown into the mix now, because the purpose of this he was not as far as the media is concerned — and it makes me sick. There are genuine families grieving here over an event, and the last thing they\u2019re doing is looking at this politically. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the total focus of the Drive-By Media, and as more information comes out they\u2019ll be able to fold it in and make it match whatever templates exist. It seems to me that, as a society, we have embraced the emotion-numbing, denying, guilt-ridden, morally neutral therapist babble. So this guy is going to end up being judged in a morally neutral way. ‘Why did he do what he did? Do he have reasons that we can understand and are explainable — not to excuse what he did, of course,\u2019 they\u2019ll say, and then they\u2019ll use the: ‘Are there more such people like this guy, waiting out there to explode and go nuts because of rich white kids on campus and the debauchery of American society?\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you, you\u2019ll be doing the wrong thing out there, folks, if you start hiding in fear that the Drive-Bys are so intent in piling on you. This is a self-contained incident. These things have happened before. The biggest I think crime spree on a college campus was, what, in 1966 somewhere in Texas. But this is an odd week. This is the week of Waco. The Oklahoma City bombing happened during this week. That was 4\/19 of \u201995. Waco was 4\/19 of \u201993. Columbine was 4\/20 \u201999 — and of course yesterday\u2019s incident, on the 16th of April. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s something about this week. Starting last night, even before we knew much of anything, the Drive-Bys were casting blame on guns and worse — and, of course, the people in charge of Virginia Tech! Everybody who wasn\u2019t there was an expert! Everybody who wasn\u2019t there would have made all of the correct decisions under pressure in life-and-death decisions better than anybody actually on the campus. So now, ‘We gotta get rid of the president of the university. We gotta get rid of the police chief. We gotta get rid of all these people that botched this.\u2019 There was no way to stop this! There was no way — well, I take that back. There might have been a way to stop it if this school hadn\u2019t been a gun-free zone and some of the students had been allowed to have a gun, somebody might have had a way of responding to this guy a little sooner than anybody was able to. It\u2019s a perfect illusion for what happens when you\u2019ve got gun control: the bad guys end up with the guns and everybody else is unarmed and is in the line of fire. But this is also a great illusion of how the Drive-Bys work. They\u2019ve driven into town. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s so many people in there that they\u2019re clogging the cell phone circuits, and parents have been unable to get through to talk to their kids to find out what\u2019s going on because the Drive-Bys have taken over the town, and they\u2019ve driven in there, and they\u2019ve flown in there. It\u2019s the same thing they did at Duke. They charge in there, start blasting us with their damn words, their political prism, how America\u2019s rotten. ‘This sucks. This is horrible.\u2019 I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019d be better off if you turned off the television for the next couple days. I\u2019m talking about your own mental attitude. This is not the fault of Virginia Tech or the president there, or local law enforcement that some nut came into their ZIP code to act this way. Everybody there is as much the victims of the shooter as the students who were shot. It is a devastating thing and within its own boundaries and context, it\u2019s bad enough, with the grief of so many families who have no understanding of this. They can\u2019t possible understand why this happened. What in the world would possibly explain it? People who suffer heartbreak do not do this routinely. People who have their thesis papers or their final exams rejected do not go on shooting sprees on a regular basis. It has happened, but it\u2019s not quintessentially American. This does not happen every day, does not happen every week, does not happen every month, does not happen every year. It is rare, and it is extraordinary precisely because it is so rare. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I know this goes against the grain of all discussion today, but sometimes, you know what? You just can\u2019t prevent things like this, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re stunned and upset when things like this happen because it is extraordinary. Now everybody\u2019s out there talking about gun control. Exactly what kind of gun control are they talking about now, as they attempt to politicize this — and when I say ‘they\u2019 today I\u2019m talking about the media. I\u2019m talking about the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party. Jim Moran, congressman from Virginia, is blaming this on George W. Bush, and there will be a lot of others that will join that chorus as the afternoon proceeds and the days proceed. At the time last night when they\u2019re calling for all this… Here, play audio sound bite number one. This is PMSNBC last night, and this is before we even knew half the details. This is MSNBC promoting something coming up.<\/p>\n

PMSNBC ANNOUNCER (whispering): Tonight: (dramatic music) the deadliest shooting rampage in US history. Should today\u2019s massacre at Virginia Tech prompt a call for tighter gun control? (gunshots) Scarborough Country. MSNBC tonight at nine!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not targeting Joe Scarborough. They have producers there, and they do things like this. But this is exploitation. I know it\u2019s done for ratings, and I understand that, too. But I\u2019m talking about the political prism that you find in Drive-By newsrooms and how the templates in there govern everything they do. Rather than the facts of each case, rather than the facts of each event, templates guide them. John Leo has written a brilliant piece today in the New York Sun<\/a> which we\u2019ll also get to as the program unfolds. These were not ‘assault weapons.\u2019 These were not ‘military-style weapons\u2019 as the left likes to call other weapons. These were two pistols. Now, the liberals tell us to rely on law enforcement, do they not? They love law enforcement. Law enforcement is never wrong. ‘Law enforcement\u2019 are great sources for them. Now all of a sudden they\u2019re attacking law enforcement! All right, well, if law enforcement can\u2019t be counted on, then what about defending ourselves? If we gotta fire the police chief and we gotta fire the cops, and we gotta get rid of the university president and they have gun control laws on campus (it\u2019s a gun-free zone in the campus), why in the world…? If we\u2019re going to get rid of law enforcement, who the hell is going to protect us if we can\u2019t protect ourselves? <\/p>\n

No, no! They tell us we can\u2019t do that, either, because guns — even in the hands of trained, law-abiding people — that\u2019s bad. That\u2019s recipe for disaster waiting to happen. How come it doesn\u2019t happen? This was not a standard, trained law-abiding citizen here obviously by definition. So what we have here, what I want you to be on the lookout for is throughout the afternoon and night and into the days ahead, what we\u2019re going to get is an agenda being pushed, and that agenda will be pushed whether in the middle of a war or in the middle of a terrible, terrible personal tragedy that most of us can never imagine, like this. You get an agenda with the Imus situation. You had a political agenda with the Duke lacrosse situation. No time for reflection! No time for actually thinking through the possible consequences of their agenda because — and that\u2019s why I call them the Drive-By Media. They drive in, take over, load the community up with a bunch of fear, panic and paranoia, and move on to the next story whenever the template exists, whenever it fits, and continue pushing an agenda: blindly pushing an agenda without concern for the consequences of what it is they do. In fact, I\u2019ve thought that by the end of my program yesterday, I would have a decent number of facts that had been learned. When was the first shooting yesterday? It was before ten o\u2019clock, right? <\/p>\n

Seven a.m. was the first shooting, and I was stunned, frankly, that it took so long to get basic facts about what happened. Whose job is that? Reporters, I thought. If they weren\u2019t out pushing their own agendas — what do you have here? You have a shooter, unidentified, killing people on campus — the number, the death toll keeps rising — and I guarantee you that the focal point was, ‘Why\u2019d the guy do it? Who is he? Is there some legitimate grievance he\u2019s got that we can understand? Is there some sympathetic reason,\u2019 and gun control, and that has to be one of the reasons why it took so long to put together the simple facts of what had happened here. Because, folks, I\u2019m going to tell you: getting facts is no longer the job of the Drive-By Media. In fact, sometimes facts will get in the way of the agenda, and that\u2019s why facts are not pursued. Facts are not their job. Advancing the liberal agenda is their job, and because they were advancing that agenda all day and all night is one reason why we were getting so few facts. They\u2019ve already got the story written even before they have the information. I had people walk in this morning, ‘This is disgusting, the exploitation of this massacre by the media and other liberals to promote gun control.\u2019<\/p>\n

We are told that the liberals are the most compassionate and the most tolerant and understanding. They have the biggest hearts. You couldn\u2019t tell it by this! The emotional, the personal element of this tragedy is not that interesting, no, no, no. ‘There\u2019s gun control out there! We can finally get rid of NRA, and get rid of Wayne LaPierre! We can finally get rid of NRA headquarters. We can finally get gun control,\u2019 and they can\u2019t even tell you why they support it. It\u2019s just their agenda. It\u2019s just something that they have been longing for, for years, decades, and this has fallen into their laps! I\u2019m sorry if you think this is callous, but I\u2019m telling you what I think based on what I have watched about this, and the agenda and the political prism through which this is being seen and reported is far more interesting to them, far more important to them than the personal characteristics of this tragedy. Let\u2019s go to this morning on MSNBC, David Gregory talking to Howard Fineman, who, during the Edwards press conference, looked first at the political results, the political impact of that. Gregory said, ‘The politics of this, the issue of gun control undoubtedly comes up. The availability of concealed weapons, licenses, permits in Virginia.\u2019<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: Every time something like this happens people predict a big change in terms of the politics of gun control. This may be different, in part because it\u2019s in Virginia. This happened in the home of the right to bear arms.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: Right.<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: Literally. We\u2019re talking about the headquarters of the NRA in northern Virginia. <\/p>\n

RUSH: See? See?<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: There\u2019s going to be a huge debate here because of handguns. If you look at the press around the world, then —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, stop the tape a minute. Who\u2019s going to start the debate, Howard? What do you mean, ‘There\u2019s going to be a huge debate\u2019? You guys are supposed to sit by, watch what happens and tell people who aren\u2019t there what happened. You guys are going to start the debate. You guys are going to make it look like the American people are having a debate. Can anybody remember for me the 2004 presidential debates, and how about the 2000 presidential debates? In both cases (Algore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004) made it abundantly clear they were not part of the liberal gun-control movement. We had John Kerry out there, ‘Can I get me a huntin\u2019 license here?\u2019 and Gore stunned everybody in the debate with Bush, talking about how they\u2019re not interested in taking guns away from private citizens who obey the law and so forth and so on. Remember how stunned everybody was? My point in bringing this up is, there\u2019s not this national, mad dash for gun control on the part of the American people. There\u2019s no big debate about this to grab guns out of people\u2019s hands, but the Drive-Bys are going to make that debate. They\u2019re going to make it look like you are having it and everybody else is having it when in fact it\u2019s just them pushing an agenda, driven by one of their many templates. But the deeper point to me here is, as with FEMA during Katrina, the liberals are out there blaming the institutions of America for their tragedies — and then they insist the institutions are the only thing that can prevent them. The institutions are the only thing that can stop them. Government institutions somehow fell apart here, the school institutions, and yet it never occurs to them to think individuals can deal with these problems themselves.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, they found a note from the shooter in which he rails against ‘rich kids\u2019 and ‘the debauchery of the United States.\u2019 Well, I have a simple question and retort. He was here for 14 years. If he thought this country was so bad, why the hell didn\u2019t he pack up and go home, then? The question ought to be — and I\u2019m just warning you people, because what\u2019s going to happen here is that once the Drive-Bys get hold of the full contents of that note that he left it\u2019s going to fit right into the template: ‘America is to blame. We\u2019re too rich.\u2019 It\u2019ll even be folded into global warming. ‘Rich kids? We\u2019re destroying the planet! We\u2019re living in excess of our responsibilities,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All of this stuff, and it will be used in part to not justify — and I want to make this clear. They won\u2019t justify, but it will explain his temporary insanity. ‘A lot of Europeans are angry at us for the same things, are they not? Islamofascists say the same thing. We have too many rich people and our culture is debauched, and now this guy is saying it.\u2019 Believe me, it\u2019s all going to fit into the template. If this guy thought the country was so bad, he can take his little ass back home. He stayed here for 14 years! So I reject the whole context, the whole thrust of the contents of his note. <\/p>\n

Here we\u2019ve got a piece of slime, a piece of human debris bent on killing as many people as he can. Now, unless law enforcement\u2019s tipped off to this in advance, it\u2019s difficult to see how he can be stopped from doing at least some of these killings. It is this guy who is personally responsible for this. Now, maybe things could have been done to lessen the chances of the tragedy, I don\u2019t know, maybe reduce its severity, but the bottom line is this guy did it — and that will be rejected by the left and the Drive-By Media because they are looking to advance an agenda. As always with the left, personal responsibility is secondary. Most people are not capable of personal responsibility when liberals look at them. They look at them with contempt and arrogant condescension. So the whole concept of personal responsibility is throw it out the window. It\u2019s secondary because the big thing here is now to find scapegoats and to make broader arguments. The British press, some UK newspaper, is blaming Charlton Heston who is sitting in his home with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. You\u2019ve got Democrats blaming George W. Bush today. <\/p>\n

So, personal responsibility? ‘Nah, that\u2019s secondary. We gotta find some scapegoats! We gotta make broader arguments. We gotta advance our political agenda,\u2019 but, interesting, is it? Liberals and the media don\u2019t always take this approach, do they? When it comes to George Bush, why, he is personally responsible for whatever tragedy occurs in our country, or in Iraq. George Bush is personally responsible for poverty, personally responsible for gasoline prices. Personally! Bush is personally responsible for everything, but real criminals, real perps, terrorists, on down to this guy? ‘No, no, no, no, no! We can\u2019t rush to judgment on this, Mr. Limbaugh. No, no, no, no. We must understand and define the underlying socioeconomic reasons for this,\u2019 and I\u2019m going to tell you something: this is very destructive to our society. It\u2019s very destructive to the victims of the Drive-By Media who are you. You are the average news consumers. You tune into this and you get barraged with politics and guilt, and you\u2019re told you\u2019re responsible because you\u2019re Americans, and you haven\u2019t done enough to get guns out of the hands of people, and so forth and so on, but the bottom line is that we all know that individuals are responsible for what they do or don\u2019t do. <\/p>\n

Let me give you an illustration of just how ridiculous the media are here. Why talk about gun control? Why talk about that? You could just as illogically blame the massacre on, say, the student visa process. This guy was a legal alien in the country on a student visa. You could blame immigration. You could blame any number of things. You could blame the student visa process, and you could further say — if I want to draw an analogy — they\u2019re trying to say we\u2019ve gotta get rid of all guns? Let\u2019s keep all foreign students out of the country. How would you react to that? You have one guy from South Korea over here for 14 years. He goes nuts for whatever reason and kills 32 people at V Tech, and now we\u2019ve gotta get rid of every gun in America. We\u2019ve gotta get rid of every gun owned by law-abiding citizens. Why don\u2019t they look at it, ‘Hey, maybe let\u2019s stop all foreign students from coming into the country? They obviously don\u2019t assimilate. They don\u2019t understand the society. They end up getting angry and enraged, and they start killing people.\u2019 It would be the same argument.<\/p>\n

If I were to sit here and say ban every foreign student and get \u2019em out of the country, it would be no different than what the Drive-Bys are saying about trying to get rid of every gun. We could go into the lax immigration laws. We could say, ‘You know, we gotta close the borders! We can\u2019t let anybody who\u2019s not an American into this country. Look what those people do,\u2019 we could say. If we wanted to echo the Drive-Bys but take it a different direction, we could say, ‘This is it. Legal immigration, illegal immigration, it\u2019s over because the people coming into this country they get drunk and drive around and kill people or they get guns and they go to college campuses and kill people!\u2019 The Drive-Bys are doing the same thing, only they are targeting guns for only one reason. They have a political agenda to take away your gun. It is part of liberalism. All of these examples I have cited would be just as absurd in this case as the gun control argument is, because this guy was a nut, pure and simple, 100% nut — and look how much of this story they got wrong. It\u2019d be nice to be able to mourn the students and the professors and families without being fed all this garbage. You know, just as the Democrats in Congress are thinking politics when it comes to equipping our troops in the war, the Drive-Bys are thinking ‘ratings\u2019 and not news reporting in the middle of a slaughter. <\/p>\n

Can\u2019t we mourn the students and the professors and families without being fed this garbage? Can\u2019t we get some facts from so-called reporters whose job it is to get facts, before they start advancing a predictable agenda? That\u2019s what reporting has become today, and this story is a classic illustration. Endless propaganda is what reporting is today. Endless liberal propaganda, from the war to talk radio to this mass murder, it is always the same. It is liberal propaganda driven by an agenda — and they got this story wrong for hours. They said he was ‘Asian of Chinese background.\u2019 They also said he ‘wasn\u2019t a student.\u2019 Well, it turns out he was a student, and he was Korean. Gun control liberals. They also support activist judges and the ACLU. They oppose building more prisons. They oppose stringent sentencing guidelines for violent criminals, but in this case, none of this matters! This guy was hell-bent on slaughtering unarmed students and professors who he knew would be unarmed and unable to defend themselves, and that is key. He knew he would own the possession of the only gun on campus before law enforcement got there, and he blew himself away before they showed up. <\/p>\n

There is no gun control law that could have stopped him, and anybody with an IQ of a pencil eraser or higher understands this. As I watched some of this last night, I felt a bubbling, effervescent resentment here at the constant insertion of this liberal political agenda into these tragedies, and to practically every other story that they cover. No time for the families to mourn, no time for the nation to mourn. We\u2019ve already got stories from the Drive-Bys about how great Bill Clinton was at being mourner-in-chief, citing his brilliant speech after the Oklahoma City bombing, and implying that when Bush goes down there today, he\u2019s just not going to pull it off as well as Clinton. Now, what the hell is that about, if not pushing a political agenda and propaganda? Two audio sound bites here, and this is to remind you of a point I made before the half hour break, and that is all this talk of the Drive-Bys are all for gun control, and Howard Fineman out there saying, ‘It\u2019s going to ignite a massive debate.\u2019 It\u2019s Democrats who have to run as opposed to gun control in order to win elections these days. Gore tried it in 2000. Kerry tried it in 2004. Last night, CNBC on Larry Kudlow\u2019s show, he was talking with Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy from New York, and he said to her, ‘Ms. McCarthy, you\u2019re an advocate of gun control. Do you see that as an issue in this shoot-out?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: He got an awful lot of rounds off, so I\u2019m curious to know what kind of gun he used. I know it was a 9mm, but I\u2019m wondering if it had been changed at all, and I\u2019m also wondering if there were large-capacity clips being used. We had tried to ban the large-capacity clips, and that\u2019s any amount over ten bullets in a clip. We find that, you know, our police officers, our military, they should have the large-capacity clips, but there\u2019s no reason except, you know, if you\u2019re — you know, for sportsmen, and it certainly was an exception for that. But there\u2019s no reason for the average citizen to have large-capacity clips.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See that? See that? They gotta make an exception for the sportsmen. They know where they stand on all this but the point is, ‘Okay, it was 9mm. Okay, you limit the size of the clip. The guy just takes in more clips!\u2019 Who are these people? How ignorant do they have to be? This guy was hell-bent on doing this — and it was not spur of the moment. He planned it. He went in with all kinds of ammo. He had two guns. What is this about…? I\u2019m not a gun expert, but what is this, converting a 9mm clip? They just can\u2019t wait to use the word ‘semiautomatic.\u2019 I think this was a Glock, wasn\u2019t it? One of them was a Glock. Okay, if it was a Glock then where is the Glock made? Austria? If we\u2019re going to blame Charlton Heston and Bush, let\u2019s blame everybody in Austria because they allow Glock to exist, to manufacture the weapon. Now, here\u2019s the next one. Kudlow said, ‘Well, has that federal assault ban expired and there\u2019s been no renewal? Why hasn\u2019t that gotten through both houses?\u2019 <\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: Well, as you know, this is a — a pro-NRA House and Senate, so it\u2019s been very difficult. I go up on the House floor every single week and talk about the gun violence that\u2019s going on across the country. Our gangs are getting more sophisticated guns. They\u2019re outgunning our police officers, again. What people have to understand is that it\u2019s costing — it\u2019s also a health care crisis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, let\u2019s bring that into it now!<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: It\u2019s costing this country over a hundred billion dollars a year — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, bring it in.<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: — on those victims that do survive —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeeeeeah!<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: — and not even counting the 30,000 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: — people that are killed each year, from gun violence —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah!<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: — whether it\u2019s suicide —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah!<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: — whether it\u2019s accidental, or there is homocide. [sic]<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s gun control leads to increased health care costs. Can anybody say ‘buzzword\u2019? Can anybody pick another item from the liberal agenda that they\u2019re trying to ram down everybody\u2019s throats? So she says that Congress is very pro-NRA, and that\u2019s the dirty little secret of how the Democrats got the majority. They had a lot of pro-gun moderates out there, candidates, pro-gun people running as moderates. It\u2019s a pro-gun Congress, she\u2019s out there saying. Anyway, gangs are getting more sophisticated guns, outgunning the police. (Laughing.) Does anybody think that the Crips and the Bloods or any other gang out there is not going to have guns if there\u2019s gun control? If we abandon the Second Amendment, if we just wrote it out of the Constitution, does anybody think that gangs like this are not going to end up with guns? Oh, they think they\u2019re obeying the law. Go to Washington, DC. Wasn\u2019t there a recent DC court of appeals decision saying the whole local gun control law there was unconstitutional because it violated the federal Second Amendment? Yeah, now they\u2019re asking for the whole court to rehear this, I think. (It\u2019s called en banc.)<\/p>\n

You have some of the most stringent gun control laws in both New York and Washington. Murder rates there are very, very high. But look at what we\u2019re doing here. See, I\u2019m even falling prey to it. We have a once-every-30-years tragedy. We have families beside themselves who will never understand this, I don\u2019t care what they\u2019re told. We\u2019ve got 32 kids and professors who are dead, and all they did was show up. We have a genuine human debacle. It\u2019s impossible to relate to this to try to understand this, and yet the gun control argument, here it is! It\u2019s come up. That\u2019s the point of this whole story to these people, and I even found myself being sucked into it here just mere moments ago, as though gun control would have prevented this! See, the trick here is that they are supposed to be able to convince you that if we just had gun control laws, why, this guy couldn\u2019t have gotten a gun. That\u2019s what\u2019s just insane. So you see how easy it is to get sucked into something about which this story is not at all. This is not a gun control story. This is a pure, unadulterated (sigh). This is human misery on the scope that most of us will never be able to relate to or understand, and these families won\u2019t either, and it\u2019s a disgrace and it\u2019s disrespectful to them to take advantage of this and take it off into the world of liberal propaganda, templates and agenda-driven items such as gun control. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back to October 3rd of last year, 2006. There was a press conference for Amish schoolgirls who were murdered. Remember that circumstance? The governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, conducted a press conference, and an unidentified reporter said, ‘Governor Rendell, do you see any need for any changes in state public schools in terms of security?\u2019<\/p>\n

RENDELL: You can make all the changes you want, but you can never stop a random act of violence by a person who is intent on killing themselves. It\u2019s the same thing as protecting the president of the United States. You can have 50 secret service agents there, but if someone is willing to swap their life for the president\u2019s, they\u2019re going to get a point blank shot at the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow! Governor Rendell was saying exactly what I\u2019m saying to you today. Interestingly that he\u2019s a liberal Democrat and this Amish massacre happened in his state, and so everybody said, ‘Well, what are we going to do? We gotta make all schools safer! Oh, my God, gun control!\u2019 He says there\u2019s only so much you can do. You can make all the changes in the world you want but you can\u2019t stop a random act of violence. I wonder if the Drive-Bys will talk to him — and they love Eddie Rendell. Chris Matthews loves Fast Eddie. Fineman? I wonder if they\u2019ll go talk to him about this. I wonder if you will hear what Governor Rendell said, if you\u2019ll be reminded of what he said last October in the Drive-By Media. I\u2019m telling you, folks, no gun control law would have stopped this shooter. Everybody with an IQ of 12 knows it. I cannot express with the passion I\u2019d like because it would require profanity, the human aspects of this. The grieving the loss, the questions, the just total bewilderment, lack of understanding, the nonsensicalness of this is being totally overlooked in the effort by the people covering this event to advance their own political agenda: the propaganda of gun control. <\/p>\n

Jim Moran was on some radio station this morning, and he\u2019s blaming the GOP, blaming the Republicans and blaming George W. Bush for this — and so what you have here is a contemptible political demagogue with a history of this kind of inane comment. Of course nobody is going to talk about Jim Moran. Like I said yesterday, on floor of Congress, a member of Congress can go anywhere and say anything, and nobody is going to say a word. Television can do hit pieces. Newspapers can do hit pieces. But somehow if you say something on radio, critical of somebody, well, the ‘watchdogs\u2019 are going to come after you, and why is this? Because radio is dominated by conservatives. So here you have a genuine lunatic trying to blame this on George W. Bush! I imagine Pelosi or somebody is going to call up and say, ‘Wait a minute, Jim. Shhh! Shh! We got a good thing going here. You\u2019re going to blow this. Nobody is going to buy that Bush is responsible for this.\u2019 By the way, the two biggest acts of terrorism in this country occurred with box cutters, pocketknives, gasoline, and fertilizer — 9\/11 and Oklahoma City — not guns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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