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RUSH: I want to get to the phones. Vinny, formally of New York, now seeking refuge in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hey, Vinny, how you doing, buddy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, mega dittos to you and your family. God bless you. You know, Rush, I was telling Mr. Snerdley I did something for the first time in my life yesterday, and I bought a gun. And I\u2019m not a gun lover. I believe in the Second Amendment, and I believe in your right to bear and carry firearms and hunt, you know, to your content. But guns never fascinated me one way or the other. But I have to tell you, I think that as a society we\u2019ve crossed a line and it\u2019s no longer Republican versus Democrat. It\u2019s not just politics anymore. I feel as a white male that I have a target on my back painted on by the media.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Vinny, you sound different than I\u2019ve ever heard you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m shaken up by this, to be honest with you. I\u2019m not pleased that I had to do this. As I said, I\u2019ve never shot a gun. I don\u2019t own a gun. Nobody in my family has. And for me to do this, it took a lot for me and my wife to come to this decision.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me give a thought. You\u2019re in North Carolina. I just saw a picture in Fayetteville, North Carolina, cops all took a knee in front of the protesters. The cops took a knee in solidarity with the protesters. That\u2019s what taking a knee means. The cops are fully armed and they look like they\u2019re loaded for bear. What do you think of that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know what to say or what to think or what to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true. It\u2019s unfair because I kind of hit you with that and that\u2019s not what you called about. Vinny, if you want, hang on. Because I am out of time for this segment. If you want to respond to that, think about it, we will. If you want to move on, that\u2019s fine too.<\/p>\n

Gotta go.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me get back to Vinny, because I kind did Vinny a little trick. I asked him to comment on something he didn\u2019t even know about before he was finished saying what he actually had called about.<\/p>\n

So, Vinny, we\u2019re back to you now. You say you\u2019re scared, and I can hear it in your voice. You got a gun, you never thought you would get a gun, you\u2019re not nervous having a gun, you never thought you would be scared enough to go get a gun, but now you\u2019re scared enough and you\u2019ve got a gun. That\u2019s where we left off with you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sure, more so for my family and of course for myself, but, yeah, I feel I\u2019m a target in some respects that blacks feel they\u2019re (unintelligible) the police. I feel like they\u2019re marked by the Democrat Party, by the media, by minority groups, by Hollywood. I mean, even by young white Millennials who are running around looting, breaking, destroying, hurting.<\/p>\n

You know, I feel that I\u2019ve been backed into a corner when I hear terms like “white supremacy” and young people that I know talking to me about my white privilege, which I don\u2019t even know what the hell that means when I think of how I grew up and where I grew up and what I grew up with and without. I feel at this point we\u2019ve crossed a line in this country, and it\u2019s almost feels like it\u2019s turning into survival. And, yeah, what you said a few moments ago about a civil war, yeah, I\u2019ve thought about it a lot. And, you know, I\u2019ve thought about, well, maybe the country should be divided in two. Maybe they should be on their one side of the country and we should —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but, you know, I\u2019ve thought about that, I\u2019ve thought about that. We\u2019ve run that whole, okay, let\u2019s divvy it up. It wouldn\u2019t work because the left would end up having to cross the border into our part of the country because theirs would be like their blue states are now. It wouldn\u2019t work. Vinny, I appreciate the call. I really do. I\u2019m glad you held on.<\/p>\n

\"\"Folks, Vinny used to be from Queens. And now he\u2019s in North Carolina. And I remember Vinny\u2019s calls in the past. Vinny was a guy with… let\u2019s just say testicular fortitude. Vinny was a guy with verve and bravado, and he was confident. He was confident the left was gonna go down, the left was gonna be defeated, he was confident that, if necessary, the American people were gonna rise up at some point and put a stop to this insanity.<\/p>\n

And you know what I hear in his voice now? It sounds to me like Vinny has kind of gotten sad \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t think any of that\u2019s gonna happen. That\u2019s why he\u2019s scared. And I wouldn\u2019t blame him. I can\u2019t tell you the number of columnists over the years that I have read at various websites and blogs who\u2019ve pointed out, “Well, we\u2019ve got 90% of the guns. You let them try this, and they don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna hit \u2019em.”<\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re out there trying it. They\u2019re not just trying it, they\u2019re out there doing it, and there isn\u2019t any of this uprising that has been promised or forecast. Yeah, yeah, I could name names, but that\u2019s not the point. I don\u2019t want to name names. I don\u2019t want to get into feuds with people. That\u2019s not what I do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you there\u2019s a lot of people who never thought the American people would be this tolerant. The thing to keep in mind is we\u2019re talking about people in blue states. They\u2019ve already been turned into docile people who accept whatever they\u2019re told, whatever is demanded of them by the authorities and by the state because they totally believe in government and the state. I don\u2019t know what percentage. And it\u2019s a wild guess, but my guess is that there aren\u2019t a whole lot of gun owners in blue states, in the cities.<\/p>\n

We may be surprised. There may be a bunch of secret blue state liberal gun owners who don\u2019t want anybody to know they\u2019ve got guns, but that would be the surprise to me. NRA could probably — I don\u2019t know if they have data to that degree. I know they do city to city, who owns guns and so forth. But it\u2019s not a surprise that there wouldn\u2019t be an uprising in blue states. Look, blue states have been economic hellholes for I don\u2019t know how long. And the people that live there just accept it or leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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