{"id":265628,"date":"2018-02-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=265628"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:53:42","slug":"longtime-listener-defends-anger-at-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/23\/longtime-listener-defends-anger-at-cnn-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Listener Defends Anger at CNN Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s Matt in Phoenix. We head back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening since 1993, so quite a while now. I just want to say, just real quick… I know you don\u2019t like all the compliments. But you\u2019re an excellent talk show host. I can see your professionalism, and I really appreciate it. On a scale of one to 10 radio talk show hosts, you\u2019d be the 10. Everybody elsewhere, everybody else is about a four or less.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I really appreciate that, but more than anything, let me tell you what I do not take for granted. You\u2019ve been here since 1993. That is a long time, and I really appreciate that. You cannot know what it means.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rub it in, I\u2019m getting older. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you\u2019ve stayed here as you\u2019ve gotten older. That\u2019s a great thing. It\u2019s an amazing thing. And I don\u2019t take it for granted, is my point. I really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019re welcome. You put on a great show. But here\u2019s the thing. We\u2019re not gonna agree on this issue I\u2019m gonna talk about, and, you know, and actually my views have changed over the years, but I won\u2019t get into that. I used to be very, very conservative and just recently I\u2019ve kind of gone the other side. But, anyway, the point of my call was to say that the CNN town hall thing and all the anger and vitriol<\/a> that\u2019s coming from the anti-NRA, anti-gun lobby I think is a valid part of the argument.<\/p>\n

Meaning, you know, this is outrageous, what happened to these kids. And it\u2019s outrageous that it keeps on happening. You know, in October we had the Vegas shooter. You know, shot 800-some-odd people. We\u2019ve got, you know, the Texas shooting where he killed all the people in the church, and then every year there\u2019s three or four, and they\u2019re horrible. People are getting tired of this, and they\u2019re looking for a solution. Now, armed guards in the schools? That\u2019s a good temporary solution, but do we want to live in a society where the solution to gun violence is more guns? Because that\u2019s just gonna add… I mean, do we want to live in the Wild West where everybody\u2019s packing heat all the time?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: I\u2019m so glad that you called. Can you hang on through the break?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Cause I addressed this in some detail last week, and I\u2019m gonna run by you everything I said in case you… You probably missed it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because every question that you have just asked, in my humble estimation, I blew to smithereens. But we\u2019ll run through it again, \u2019cause you\u2019re asking what a lot of people think are very sensible questions. I don\u2019t think they are. But a lot of people do, and so we will address them if you hang on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we are back, and we have Matt in Phoenix, a listener since 1993. He began as a conservative, and the program\u2019s turned him into a leftist on certain issues. You\u2019re still there, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m listening. Great bumper music. That\u2019s one of the things that hooked me. I always loved it about your show. The bumper music\u2019s great. But — (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The bumper music. Well, we\u2019ll take whatever can get. I just want to restate, he… (crosstalk) By the way, Matt is… Look, one thing, Matt. Because of the phone service, you and I cannot hear each other when we\u2019re talking at the same time. It\u2019s not your fault. We have a phone system that, if you\u2019re on cell, it\u2019s like you\u2019re on a speaker and when you\u2019re talking, your own speaker\u2019s blocked out. You can\u2019t hear reactions. So take a pause now and then. Nobody\u2019s gonna shortchange you on time, okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019ll —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nobody gets hung up on on this program. Well, I mean, not usually. Doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hmm. Well, I\u2019ll try not to be one of those that gets hung up on. (chuckles) But even if that were to happen, it\u2019s been just a… I\u2019m actually tickled to death that I\u2019m talking to you. I can\u2019t believe this happened.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: (laughing) Yes. Okay. So Matt is calling to tell me how… He wants to explain the CNN rally that he thinks was justified and he wants to explain to me why it was. I think it was garbage. I think it was a disgrace. I think it was an example of what happens when people are indoctrinated and propagandized, and the anger on that show last night or whenever it was was totally worthless and misplaced. You said people are angry. That was unjustified. They\u2019re angry at people had nothing to do with anything that happened in that high school. Now, you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: If you look at it from the point of view of… You know, if you think that part of the problem with all the gun violence that we\u2019ve had in this country, you know, from a leftist perspective is just the sheer number of guns out there, right? And so — and so it\u2019s gonna be avoidable for the crazies to be able to get a hold of one. I have a… This isn\u2019t exactly towards the CNN thing, but it\u2019s related in the sense of the anger that\u2019s out there, the outrage that these kind of shootings and these murders keep going on again and again and again and again and again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Let me address that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The American people out there, they\u2019re sick of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Understandably. Everybody is! I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m sick about is: We don\u2019t do anything to stop it, we haven\u2019t done a single thing to stop it, and there\u2019s not one idea that has come from any Democrat that will stop it. That\u2019s what makes me mad. Let\u2019s go through some of the questions you asked. You said, “Do we really want to live in a society where a solution to a problem is more guns in schools?” And then you talked about how all these other school shootings and nothing has changed. And bingo! Do you think maybe, Matt, that it\u2019s time to realize this is our society? This is our culture? We don\u2019t have the luxury of saying, “Gee, I hope our culture doesn\u2019t become this,” because it has. Starting with Columbine, there hasn\u2019t been one thing done to change this. Not a single thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree. It needs to change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you start banning certain guns you\u2019re still not changing anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the thing is —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: We have guns when you get on an airplane. We have guns when you go to a sporting event. We have guns, we have metal detectors, we have armed security at every public entity — except schools. Why? Because bad guys have shown themselves to take action in these places. And we fixed, we stop the 9\/11s. We have stopped airplane hijackings. We have armed air marshals. Nobody knows who they are, but they\u2019re on many flights. There is a deterrent factor. We have left schools wide open, and everybody knows that there\u2019s not a single deterrent in these schools.<\/p>\n

And every incident that happens we get the same worthless, whining complaining about the NRA or assault weapons or semiautomatic weapons, and they don\u2019t have a single thing to do with this. There are 300 million guns in America, and you\u2019re not gonna get rid of all of them, and the crazies who get… You think the crazies, the way to stop them is to keep them from getting guns? Well, let\u2019s stop the illegals from crossing the border. We don\u2019t seem to want to do that. Let\u2019s stop abortions. We can\u2019t stop these things! We have to deal with them and come up with them as they exist, not sit here and wish they weren\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, but that\u2019s the point is, you know, yeah, this is the side we\u2019re living in where there\u2019s guns everywhere, there\u2019s gun violence everywhere. We\u2019ve got mass murders happening. Why don\u2019t… I mean, as Americans, \u2019cause the Founding Fathers were progressives. They fault against injustice and things that were wrong in their time. Now it\u2019s our turn to be the founders, to go and solve this problem — and if that means no more guns, then so be it.<\/p>\n

If we have to worry about, you know, where\u2019s the next hero cop that\u2019s gonna come save me at the school? You know, this guy that — this coward that — didn\u2019t go and the kids, are we expecting to hire heroes? We gotta hire heroes every time instead of changing society for the better? Now, I agree that, you know, armed guards in schools now would be a good thing, because we\u2019ve got so many guns out there. But long term do we need all these guns? Really, the AR-15 is a prep for military style —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not… See, that is avoiding the reality. “Do we need all these guns? Do we need all these people on welfare? Do we need all these illegal immigrants?” Whether we do or not, we\u2019ve got \u2019em. The Founding Fathers were not “progressive.” The Founding Fathers were the epitome of modern-day conservatism. The Founding Fathers wrote and included the Second Amendment. I wish they had done a less ambiguous job of writing the darn thing because it\u2019s open to interpretation by any wacko that comes down from law school. But we\u2019re not dealing with the reality of what\u2019s going on in schools.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re dealing with the reality that happens in airplanes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re dealing with the reality that happens in so many other areas where there is wanton crime.<\/p>\n

But in the schools, we\u2019re not doing a thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna tell you something, Matt. I think the American left likes the opportunity to advance their agenda, presented by these episodes. They don\u2019t like the killing. They don\u2019t like any of that. I don\u2019t think they do. But the opportunity to once again scream at the NRA… The NRA had nothing to do with this. Donald Trump and the Republican Party had nothing to do with this. Yet the CNN so-called rally was nothing more than an anti-Trump, anti-GOP, anti-NRA rally. It had nothing to do with solutions! At best, it was televised therapy. At best, it was televised catharsis. But it had nothing to do with dealing with this problem realistically, and it had nothing to do with any solutions that are out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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