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RUSH: As I predicted, as I warned you all yesterday, gun control has become the central theme of the Drive-By Media after the tragedy here, the massacre at Virginia Tech. By the way, speaking of something that we were just talking about, this guy was sending out clear warning signs that he was not right, and nobody would do anything about it on the campus. I mean, they sent him to counseling. They don\u2019t know how that went. He might have been taking anti-depressants. We don\u2019t know what the effect of that was. He went to some institution for a while. We don\u2019t know how that went. We also have just learned that the guy\u2019s writings, which we did know about, but what we just learned is that the guy\u2019s writings were so scary that there were people that refused to go to his class. They refused to actually go in the classroom when this guy was there. So there clearly were all kinds of warning signs about this that were not heeded in a serious way. As I say, it\u2019s very easy to start running around saying, ‘Well, ban guns! It\u2019s the GOP\u2019s fault. It\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault! Get rid of the NRA,\u2019 rather than actually deal with what circumstances people had known for years prior to this guy committing this random act. <\/p>\n

By the way, I think the Democrats heard me. Dingy Harry\u2019s out there saying, no, we can\u2019t start talking about gun control now. ‘Let\u2019s Not Rush to Gun Control,\u2019 is the headline of the story on Dingy Harry. There\u2019s no question the Democrats are. The Drive-By Media didn\u2019t, but the Democrats did. I want to explore something entirely different than banning guns, and that would be a ban on political correctness. You people (and you know who you are), I\u2019m getting e-mails from you, some of you have called, and you\u2019re lamenting the ‘soft structure\u2019 of the American child these days, the American young person. ‘Why didn\u2019t they gang tackle this guy? Why didn\u2019t they just overpower this guy once he started firing!\u2019 Everybody\u2019s got their theories, and one of the most common theories that I\u2019m hearing in my e-mail and on the phones here is that, ‘Come on, Rush! From kindergarten on they\u2019re taught conflict resolution. ‘Don\u2019t offend anybody. Don\u2019t make anybody mad, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.\u2019 Well, what is that if not political correctness,\u2019 and it may be a factor. You don\u2019t really know. But let me put it to you in the form of a series of questions. <\/p>\n

What might have had a better chance of preventing the carnage on the campus of Virginia Tech, a law banning guns (which they had; that was a gun-free zone) or a law banning political correctness? Well, I know what some of you are saying, ‘But, Rush! But, Rush! But, Rush! It was two guns,\u2019 and by gosh, that\u2019s true, folks, thanks for reminding me. There were two guns the guy had. But let me remind you, the killer was a senior. He was in that university for four years, and his mental state was not a secret. This university is an institution of higher learning. They have lecturers. They have advisors. They have teachers, professors, deans, and all these people have degrees, postgraduate degrees, doctorate degrees. Before he was in this university for four years he was in a high school, and before he was in the high school he was in the middle school. Now, even now, we are just beginning to learn some of the warning signs, the flares. These were not ‘signs.\u2019 This guy was sending up flares, and didn\u2019t anybody notice? Was everybody so concerned with the trumped-up global warming scare they didn\u2019t notice a real threat, for example? <\/p>\n

How about this: the guy\u2019s Korean. He\u2019s Asian. How many people refused to do anything about it or even complain about him because they would be tagged as racists? And not just because he\u2019s Korean, but he\u2019s a minority. How many people in our school system, from kindergarten on up through senior year in high school and all that, have been — by virtue of political correctness — told you don\u2019t comment on people who are in a minority, no matter what they\u2019re doing? You\u2019re going to be called bigoted. You\u2019re going to be called prejudiced. Worse, you might even be called a racist! So I wonder how many of the students at this campus live in daily fear of global warming because of what is no doubt being taught there and on every other college campus. That\u2019s a trumped-up scare, and they don\u2019t even notice a real threat. Well, it\u2019s hard to say that because somebody, a lot of people noticed something wrong with this guy, whether that equaled a threat to them? Well, we know that it did with some because they refused to go to the class where he submitted all these writings. You do not have to be a talk show host, you don\u2019t have to be a conservative or a Republican or a moderate to ask this: How is it that we have outlawed standards of behavior? <\/p>\n

Where is our sense of community and civic responsibility? Has all that has held our society together been swept away by political correctness? You might have some people say, ‘Come on, Rush! You can\u2019t say this about us! He was just doing his own thing and they didn\u2019t want to invade his space. He\u2019s Asian. We didn\u2019t want any civil rights lawsuit. If we singled him out for aberrant behavior, where would it stop?\u2019 So this is the paralysis caused by political correctness. But the fault, my friends, lies in ourselves not in a gun shop, not in a gun, not in a hall of Congress, House or Senate, not in Washington. It\u2019s easy to say that we need more gun laws, but what\u2019s not so easy to say is that we need less political correctness, and we need a lot more return to some sensible values that exist. You know, one of tenets of political correctness is you can\u2019t judge anybody. You can\u2019t judge \u2019em even when you know that there\u2019s something wrong with them. You can\u2019t offend \u2019em. You can\u2019t offend \u2019em. So what do you do? You just don\u2019t go to class when this guy shows up with his wacko writings. You do your best to send him to an institution, get him on some drugs, but even at that, you can\u2019t offend and you don\u2019t judge. You just leave people alone. It\u2019s none of your business, and this sort of thing, and this leads to paralysis, which is one of the many things that we had at Virginia Tech earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just finished a brilliant monologue on the concept of banning political correctness for the good of our kids and the good of our society. I want you to listen to this montage here of NBC\u2019s Meredith Vieira, Wolf Blitzer and a psychotherapist Caryn Stark, Chris Matthews of Hardball. (I still wonder if he\u2019s going to resign and let a minority take his position at MSNBC. Remind me to bring that up, because I\u2019m thinking of running a poll at RushLimbaugh.com: Who at MSNBC should resign to allow a minority to have a primetime show? In fact, we are going to do that. I\u2019ll give you the choices here in just a second.) <\/line>\n\n\n
<\/td>\nSo we\u2019ve got Matthews. We\u2019ve got Brian Williams. We\u2019ve got a forensic psychologist, Dr. Helen Morrison, and Larry King, and they\u2019re weighing in on the very thing we\u2019ve been talking about. The profile of this guy, the shooter, and the warning signs were all there. Listen to these frustrated questions from the Drive-By Media types and the psychotherapists.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

MEREDITH VIERA: Is there a profile for someone who would do something like this? <\/line><\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: It seems like the classic profile. <\/p>\n

PSYCHOTHERAPIST CARYN STARK: He\u2019s a loner which fits the profile. <\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: What do you do when you have a kid that looks like a profile who might go on a rampage?<\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: The classic profile of a loner that exhibited trouble, isn\u2019t that a trend now that deserves more resources?<\/p>\n

HELEN MORRISON: We see the typical profile of a mass murderer! <\/p>\n

LARRY KING: Is there anyway to spot before? Can we profile this type of person?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How does this happen? They all end up asking the same question: ‘Can we profile?\u2019 Can you imagine if this guy was Islamic? Would we be asking the question? Now they want to profile Asian-Americans. Now they want to profile people that they think can be identified as people who are going to go out and shoot 32 people in one morning. I\u2019m telling you, that can\u2019t be profiled. I don\u2019t care what these people say, it doesn\u2019t happen enough. You can\u2019t profile somebody\u2019s going to do that? Just because they\u2019re a loner, just because they play video games, just because they have a gun? All these things may add up, but the thing you profile is he was a nutcase! They\u2019re all asking, ‘Is there something we can profile?\u2019 Yes, it was all over. The guy was screaming! What\u2019s the thing the left says? ‘It was a desperate cry for help.\u2019 (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley? What\u2019s the question? You\u2019re interrupting me here in a brilliant riff. It better be a good question. Mmm-hmm. That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying! We can\u2019t profile them if they kill 3,000. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t profile the Islamofascists. No, no, no! We can\u2019t profile them even in the Transportation Safety Authority. You go through the metal detectors, and you can\u2019t profile them in there. No! Your little grandmother might get wanded. Your six-year-old might get wanded. You might have to give up your shaving cream or whatever, but no! The same people who agree that we shouldn\u2019t be profiling Islamofascists now want to profile people like this. There was a profile. Nobody paid any attention to it in a serious fashion. Nobody paid attention. They tried to give him drugs and they sent him to the funny farm and all, but nobody did anything about getting him off campus. So that\u2019s why I say it\u2019s so easy to start talking about guns. These guys don\u2019t know how they\u2019re undercutting their own argument. What are they saying? Are they asking, ‘Isn\u2019t there a way to profile a madman with a gun?\u2019 (Laughing.) These people are so out of it. They don\u2019t even realize how they set themselves up for people like me. Where were these same questions after 9\/11? In fact we\u2019ve gone just the opposite. We can\u2019t profile them at all. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: David in Columbia, Mississippi, hello, sir. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings from Katrina-ravaged south Mississippi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, sir, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You made a point about gun control\u2019s impotence, another law not being relevant, and Columbine, what, 53 gun laws were violated, and that wouldn\u2019t have mattered. This guy had chains and locks. He could have had a five gallon can of gasoline would have done a lot of damage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course. I made that point yesterday. Fertilizer and so forth blew up the Murrah Building, but this guy filed the serial numbers off the gun, too. It clearly indicates a criminal intent.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. You know, you had made the point about folks not being prepared. You know, before the 9\/11 hijackings, people weren\u2019t ready for that. After 9\/11 they wouldn\u2019t have put up with people trying to take over the airplane. Same thing about Virginia Tech today. I doubt somebody would be able to do something like that. We did have Columbine, though. We did have a precedent about schools being attacked. Your point about political correctness is only really semi-tongue-in-cheek. For instance, one of the guys — one of the victims — was an Eagle scout, and he was trained to keep his head. He was shot in the leg and it ruptured his femoral artery, and if he hadn\u2019t have kept his head, he would have bled to death, but he was able to stanch the bleeding and tie his leg up with electrical cord while —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — people were being shot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna have to take a break here. I\u2019m going to hold you through the break.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want you to get to what you called about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because I thought I could squeeze you in, in a minute and a half —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to David in Columbia, Mississippi. All right, where were you headed with this, the Eagle Scout and the shootings?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. My point is that people, American citizens, can be trained to react under pressure or in an emergency. This guy was trained in a voluntary organization. It doesn\u2019t require a lot of extra work. If they would just have a portion of emergency preparedness in a government class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. You\u2019re not talking emergency service training like paramedics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about, in this case, the students who are watching this guy shoot the gun, learn what to do to stop him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, keep their heads. I mean, obviously you can\u2019t train them to be commandos, but you can train people to keep their heads and think logically. What if somebody had just tossed a big heavy chair or something? <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, we have generation after generation of political correctness that we would have to somehow erase from people\u2019s minds to do this. Look, I understand what you\u2019re saying, and this seems to be a budding theme out there that we need to do something here to get people to toughen up in these circumstances, average citizens who are involved in whatever these events happen to be, rather than just sit around, wait, or run away. I want to take you back to Columbine. You remember after the Columbine massacre, the Clinton administration mounted this huge push for new gun control, and it was crushed, and do you remember (I doubt that many of you will remember this) what the given reason was, the conventional wisdom on why the two Columbine shooters did what they did? I will tell you. We were told that they were ‘teased.\u2019 Those two boys were teased and laughed at and made fun of by their classmates, and from now on we should be careful of that sort of behavior, because if we start teasing people and making fun of them, and making them outcasts, then they might act on some of the movies they see, or video games they play, or the television shows that they watch and so forth. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s extrapolate that and move forward here to Virginia Tech. How would it manifest itself? ‘Well, don\u2019t call this Cho guy a nut. Don\u2019t point him out to others. Don\u2019t say, ‘Ooh, this guy is a wacko!\u2019 Just, shh! Shhh! He might explode! This guy might blow up. Let\u2019s just don\u2019t go to class when he\u2019s there.\u2019 Except the problem is, he did explode. We don\u2019t know whether he was teased or not, but this is an outgrowth of political correctness: don\u2019t tease them. Of course, what is the real meaning of this? When you came up with this conventional wisdom, ‘Those boys were being teased! They were made to feel like outcasts.\u2019 In the process of doing that, you — in a way, you — justify their actions. ‘Well, yeah, what do you expect them to do? They put on those long black coats. They grabbed their machine guns. They went on this shooting spree! What do you expect them to do? They spent their whole youth being laughed at, made fun of. Girls wouldn\u2019t go out with them on dates! They made fun of their acne and pimples and zits and so forth.\u2019 That is how this political correctness is justified, because you then come out, and you justify what they did because of the actions and behaviors of others, regardless whether it\u2019s mass murder or is the commission of a bank robbery or something like that. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s where political correctness has taken us — and, of course, the umbrella under all this, ‘Don\u2019t offend anybody. Don\u2019t insult them, and don\u2019t, don\u2019t, don\u2019t make them mad! They might go nuts.\u2019 They\u2019re going to go nuts anyway at some point, and it\u2019s not because they\u2019re being laughed at or made fun of. They\u2019ve got something wrong with them, which was clearly evident in this guy\u2019s case. Check the timing on this. This hit last night about nine o\u2019clock: ‘Authors of a new comprehensive analysis of antidepressants for children and teenagers say the benefits of treatment trump the small risk of increasing some patients\u2019 chances of having suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The risk they found is lower than the one the Food and Drug Administration identified in 2004, the year the agency warned the public about the drugs\u2019 risks in children.\u2019 So you can sit there and you can say, ‘Well, yeah, they might get suicidal, but that\u2019s a small risk compared to what might happen.\u2019 I only bring this up because we were told this guy was prescribed anti-depressants. I don\u2019t know if he took them or not. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is David from parts unknown in Pennsylvania. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. This is a privilege.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you hit the nail on the head again with implying that political correctness is causing paralysis to action. I teach, and we\u2019ve noticed recently that students do not participate in class, and this is at a bunch of colleges, and we actually think that perhaps political correctness has gotten them in the situation that any time they open their mouth, they\u2019re afraid they\u2019re going to get dumped on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or they\u2019re going to offend somebody or they\u2019re going to make somebody mad and that\u2019s going to lead to them getting dumped on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, and I think it is a very good idea that you hit that nail on the head. I think you\u2019re right on target.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. In case you missed this, about an hour and a half ago I posited a theory that rather than ban guns we need to ban political correctness. We just need to get rid of it! It leads to paralysis. It leads to fear, and it leads to people not being who they are. I\u2019ll give you a couple of examples of it. These are true stories. London\u2019s Sunday Times<\/a>: Headline: ‘Don\u2019t Stare at Muslims, Says Advice to Schools — Pupils and teachers have been told by an official body not to stare at Muslims for fear of causing offense. A document intended to educate against religious intolerance and sectarianism urges teachers to ‘make pupils aware of the various forms of Islamophobia — i.e., stares, verbal abuse, physical abuse.\u2019 Osama Saeed, a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, accused officials of going too far. ‘There are far more serious elements of Islamophobia. People look at all sorts of things — that can just be a glance. A glance and a stare are two different things — glances happen naturally when all sorts of things catch your eye whereas a stare is probably gawking at something. Personally I have not encountered much of a problem with people staring. I don\u2019t know how you legislate for that.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not going to stop them! Good for him for speaking out, but this is not going to be stopped. I\u2019m just telling you that the pupils and teachers, they will continue to be told: ‘Don\u2019t stare at Muslims! It might incite them.\u2019 Then, try this. This was Tuesday in a different paper. This is the UK Telegraph<\/a>: ‘Don\u2019t Stare at the Apes, Zoo Tells Visitors — Most people visit the zoos to see the animals, but visitors to Antwerp Zoo in Belgium are being told not to look at the apes. Here\u2019s why. Visitors are now confronted with signs telling them that making prolonged eye contact with the apes leaves the apes sad and withdrawn. Zoo staff reckon staring can result in a creature\u2019s becoming less sociable.\u2019 ‘Multiculturalists usually claim to be respecting people from different cultures, while in fact treating them with a decided lack of respect,\u2019 that\u2019s the conclusion of James Taranto at BestoftheWeb.com<\/a>. So two different days, two different UK newspapers, say don\u2019t stare at Muslims! No, that\u2019s Islamophobia, and, don\u2019t stare at the apes in a zoo because the apes will become sad and withdrawn. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re crying out. How do you know if they\u2019re crying out for attention? (interruption) Yeah, just wink at them. If you want to have eye contact with the apes, just wink at them. Why stop at the apes? Don\u2019t wink, don\u2019t stare at the tigers! Don\u2019t stare at the lions. You could go even further. Don\u2019t stare at your own pet! It might cause your own pet to become sad and withdrawn, might give your own pet an inferiority complex. These are the outgrowths of political correctness. I know it sounds funny, and it is, but these people are dead serious. There is insanity all over the place, and some of it is located in positions of power and authority all over our societies in Western democracies. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Clyde in Boise, Idaho, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello there? How are you? <\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m good, sir, thank you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s good talking to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019ve been listening to you and I heard you talking about all the people that knew about this nutcase in Virginia and nobody did anything, and I want to know if you\u2019d been one of the people that knew about it, exactly, directly, what would you have done? What could have been done ahead of time?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You talking about the Virginia Tech situation?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is a question actually for the people in positions of authority there, and they did do certain things. They put him on anti-depressants, and they did send him to a mental institution in 2005, but none of that apparently had any impact or had any effect. I know what you\u2019re getting at. You\u2019re getting at — and it\u2019s a valid point — was there really any way to stop these things? My only point in mentioning this is (don\u2019t forget the context) everybody is saying, ‘We gotta ban the guns! We gotta get the guns out of there.\u2019 There was all kinds of information long before the guy started pulling the trigger, that something wasn\u2019t right with him, so banning the guns, that\u2019s not the solution to this at all. It would have no impact whatsoever. In fact they already have banned guns on that campus, but this guy was able to go out and get one because the guy that sold him the gun didn\u2019t know anything about him. The people at the school knew that something wasn\u2019t right about this guy, and I don\u2019t know what you do other than take him out of school and institutionalize him. His parents felt he was suicidal. There were all kinds of warning signs. What is your ultimate point with this? Have I touched on it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The ultimate point is, I\u2019ve heard other talk shows say that people were remiss in not doing anything, and I\u2019ve been associated with the courts enough to know that we can\u2019t arrest a guy because some day he\u2019s going to kill somebody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, we\u2019re not talking about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s not a lot we can do about people like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re not talking about — nobody is talking about — arresting him. We\u2019re doing this in the context of either sequestering him or getting him some serious help. The talk of paralysis enters the fray, enters the picture when we start introducing the notion of political correctness. ‘Well, we don\u2019t want to be critical because it might hurt his feelings. It might set him off.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I understand that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to know if you had a solution that — I mean if I\u2019d have been there and knew this guy, there\u2019s not much I could do, either, so I hear all the criticism about, ‘Why did everybody let this go on.\u2019 Well, there\u2019s not a whole lot in society that can be done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) Hmm. Trying to —<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have the ACLU and attorneys and we got the Constitution, and we can\u2019t just jump in and do something involuntarily on these people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know what? You\u2019re inadvertently making the case for what people here are saying, because you\u2019re going to have people like the ACLU come along if the school had tried to do anything to sequester the kid until he could have been properly analyzed and treated and so forth, he might have been able to get some ACLU lawyers… I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s speculation, too. You\u2019re illustrating the problem at the same time you\u2019re making a point. I had people e-mail me today, ‘Well, if we don\u2019t get rid of the guns, are we just going to have an OK Corral every day?\u2019 We don\u2019t have an OK Corral in this country and we have all kinds of guns out there, video games and everything else. Thanks, Clyde. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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