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RUSH: Thirty people you knew have died since you were nine years old?<\/p>\nRUSH: Jose in Chicago. Jose, thank you for calling, and I appreciate your patience. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Hello. Man, I\u2019ve been listening to you for four years, and man, you\u2019re a genius. The reason why I called was when you played the students about how they\u2019re so fearful, but yet nobody talks about how Chicago is, how there\u2019s so much mass killing. And mind you, this is one of the most strict gun control cities in all America. Yet there\u2019s more killing happening here than anywhere else. Really, what they\u2019re doing is taking guns from good people, you know, like from people that can protect themselves. You know, I was born and raised in Chicago my whole life, and it\u2019s… You know, like, it\u2019s sad. But, you know, a lot of my friends I have died since I was 9, at least 30, and… (chuckles) Man, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m on, so I\u2019m nervous.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. You have lost…? You have lost 30 friends?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thirty people you knew have died since you were nine years old?<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I\u2019m 26 right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow. That\u2019s more than the Clintons. No.<\/p>\n
CALLER: About 30 people I grew up with and friends, you know. I mean, for me, it\u2019s more like you get numb to it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You have to. Of course, but, see, Jose, here\u2019s the thing. If anybody in this current argument were to bring up Chicago, it has been tried. They are shouted down. “You can\u2019t compare those. Those two different things. Those are handguns in Chicago. This was an AR-15, this is one in Florida. You can\u2019t compare the two.” They won\u2019t let you because of course when you start comparing the two, Chicago\u2019s much worse, where nobody is doing a damn thing about it. Right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, and that\u2019s the thing. Like, people want to talk about other places, about what\u2019s going on around the country. Let\u2019s talk about Chicago and let\u2019s talk about all the killing. And mind you, these are Hispanic and black neighborhoods. I mean, I don\u2019t know, like, to me that\u2019s like something, is there a reason why, like, oh, we shouldn\u2019t care because of that? It\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n
And I also wanted to say, the mayor of this city, a majority of Chicagoans really hate the mayor. He really did a lot of awful things and a lot of things that people don\u2019t really talk about. I\u2019m sorry for getting off subject but, you know, like he closed about a hundred schools in the South side and west side of Chicago in poor neighborhoods. And this was about, like, I believe about three years ago. And I\u2019m pretty sure, I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s not gonna become mayor anymore because the majority of people do not like him, and you don\u2019t even know how many bad decisions and bad choices —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, what\u2019d I miss something here? You transitioned. Does the mayor have something to do with the shootings or lack of action against them or something?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s not that. It\u2019s just basically he put blames on more people than actually dealing with the core itself. Chicago itself is very segregated, very segregated.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right. Oh, you\u2019re saying he shut down the — I\u2019m missing why the schools were shut down, but — oh, he was changing the subject on me. Oh! Okay. Okay. Oh, he changed subject to bash the mayor. Well, that\u2019s perfectly fine here. I got no quarrel with that. Jose, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. I\u2019m up against it on time. I just have an interesting stat. I very much enjoy pointing out things to expose the phoniness of people.<\/p>\n
Now, what is it that the left, the Democrats, the media, let\u2019s just say the media because they\u2019re the face of this, what is the media trying to do with our emotions by hyping the students and their protests and the shooting in Florida, the high school, what are they really trying to do? What are they upset about? What do they want us to be upset about? What is it that is unacceptable about all this? And it is the death of the students, is it not? That\u2019s the outrage.<\/p>\n
All of the students who died and, by extension, others who are dying after being shot, except in certain places like Chicago where you can\u2019t bring it up. So death is the thing that has everybody upset, right? Unnecessary, needless, wanton death. Is that the animating emotion here? I\u2019m asking. Folks, I\u2019m not making a point yet. I\u2019m asking if I\u2019ve got this right. Or is it hatred for guns that is animating the passion and the emotion here and the energy from the Drive-Bys?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got a reason for asking. It\u2019s this. If it\u2019s death, if the media — and by extension, the Democrats, the American left — if they are really, really just beyond the pale with grief and sorrow over the death of these kids, then why don\u2019t we suggest banning the wheel? Do you know how many kids die in automobile accidents?<\/p>\n