WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.600 There was a school shooting at a Christian school in Madison, 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:07.759 Wisconsin the other day in which a fifteen year old 3 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:14.759 girl killed a fellow teacher, excuse me, killed a fellow 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:20.879 student and a teacher, and killed herself, and the White 5 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.559 House immediately issues a statement. I won't say Joe Biden 6 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.960 issued a statement because I'm fairly certain he had nothing 7 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.600 to do with it, or if he did, it's pretty remarkable. 8 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.000 This seems just to be the reflexive Democrat instinct after 9 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:42.280 any kind of shooting. This is obviously very sad that 10 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.000 this shooting happened. I don't know though, that it's that 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:50.840 much different from shootings that happen every month, every weekend 12 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:54.880 in cities like Chicago and others where people die. I 13 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.240 guess the idea because it happened, you know, obviously, there's 14 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.679 a certain greater sort of shock value to it that 15 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:08.920 it happened at a Christian school and involved a child, 16 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:14.239 although children are killed in street related shootings in urban 17 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:19.319 centers throughout this country all the time. Nonetheless, it prompts 18 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.319 a statement from the White House. Here's the press release. 19 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.879 Here's the release from the White House. 20 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:27.000 Today. 21 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.680 Families in Madison, Wisconsin are grieving the loss of those 22 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.239 who are killed and wounded at Abundant Life Christian School. 23 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.280 It's shocking and unconscious, unconscionable. We need Congress to act 24 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:43.640 period now, period. Why this unnecessary drama of this statement. 25 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.879 From Newton to Uvaldi, Parkland and Madison to so many 26 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.599 other shootings that don't receive attention. It is unacceptable that 27 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.640 we are unable to protect our children from the scourge 28 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.599 of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal. 29 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.519 Every child deserves to feel safe in their classroom, room 30 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.439 to words not well edited. Students across our country should 31 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:05.920 be learning how to read and write, not having to 32 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.480 learn how to duck and cover. Jill and I are 33 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.439 praying for all the victims today, including the teacher and 34 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.199 teenage student who were killed and those who sustained injuries. 35 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.240 We are grateful for the first responders who quickly arrived 36 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.360 on the scene, and the FBI is supporting local LA enforcement 37 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.120 efforts in my direction. My team has reached out to 38 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.039 local officials to offer further support as needed. My administration 39 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.000 has taken aggressive action to combat the gun violence epidemic. 40 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.639 We passed the most significant gun safety legislation in nearly 41 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.960 thirty years. I have taken more executive action to reduce 42 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.360 gun violence than any other president in history, and I 43 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.080 created the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Protection. 44 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:35.879 But more is needed. 45 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.680 Congress must pass common sense gun safety laws. And then 46 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:45.240 we get to the kicker. Congress must pass must pass 47 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:53.319 common sense gun safety laws. Universal background checks with a period, 48 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.240 a national red flag law with a period, a ban 49 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:00.000 on assault weapons, and high capacity magazines with a period 50 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:08.319 have been commas. But all right, universal background checks. How 51 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:13.560 is this released with a straight face? And of course 52 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:20.439 I'm talking about the Hunter Biden part. So here here's 53 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.960 the President saying we need universal background checks. There are 54 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:32.120 federal background checks, and the entire line of argument from 55 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:38.599 Democrats over the last over this past month, sort of 56 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.400 trying to line up to defend the Hunter Biden pardon, 57 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.199 has been as follows. So let me let me just 58 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.280 go back before I explain. 59 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:47.560 This line of argument. 60 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.719 Basically, their line of argument is that Hunter Biden shouldn't 61 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.199 have been charged with any crime for lying on a 62 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.560 federal background check on the basis of well. 63 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.120 These kinds of crimes are rarely charged. 64 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:02.719 So let me let me explain why Hunter did all right. 65 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:10.000 Hunter Biden was charged was actually indicted for two different things. 66 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.759 Federal tax violations where basically he didn't pay taxes on 67 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.759 millions of dollars of income, which at a certain point, 68 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:20.920 if you're not paying your taxes, it ceases to be 69 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:27.759 an IRS intervention and it becomes a federal prosecutor intervention 70 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.480 where you're you're being criminally charged because you're not paying 71 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:37.120 you so much in taxes. So he was charged with 72 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:45.120 the tax stuff. He was also charged with a gun crime. Basically, 73 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:51.360 Hunter Biden gets a form. The form asks if he 74 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.680 has a history of drug abuse, and Hunter Biden lied 75 00:04:54.720 --> 00:05:02.959 on the form. Hunter actually has a rich, storied, abundant 76 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:09.000 and varied history of drug abuse and continued to be 77 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.360 using drugs and behaving erradically, I believe after he got 78 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.480 after filling out that form, so he'd been using it before, 79 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:24.000 he continued to use after. So he lied on a 80 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.399 federal background check, which is a crime. That's the whole 81 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:28.560 point of the background check is to try to cells 82 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.199 out if you are the kind of person who is 83 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:37.680 qualified to purchase and own a gun. Now, often what 84 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.639 happens in the background check process when people lie on 85 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.759 the form is that in the course of doing the 86 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.600 background check, the FEDS realize that this person is not 87 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:51.480 actually qualified to have a gun. These are called lie 88 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.800 and try cases, where the person lies on the form 89 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:57.839 but the FEDS who are looking through the form and 90 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.839 doing the background check realize way to sy no, this 91 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:05.319 guy's lying. He says on the form that he doesn't 92 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.120 have a felony conviction, but actually our review of local 93 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:12.800 and of state and federal records indicates that he has 94 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.439 a felony conviction in Oklahoma in two thousand and six. 95 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:20.600 And so sorry, you lied on the form, but we're 96 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.399 not gonna approve your background check. That's called a lie 97 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.160 and try. So someone lies on the form, but the 98 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:32.879 FEDS catch the lie, and so the person does not 99 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.120 get the gun. He tried but he failed. And then 100 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:41.240 the question gets passed on to prosecutors. To federal prosecutors, 101 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.480 all right, well, this person lied on their background check 102 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.720 to try to get a gun. They didn't ultimately get 103 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:52.279 a gun. So do we expend federal resources to prosecute 104 00:06:52.279 --> 00:07:00.120 this person for lying but ultimately not getting the gun. 105 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.399 You could see how maybe that would be a question 106 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:08.800 for for prosecutors, you know, any US Attorney's office. 107 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.199 So the US attorneys. 108 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.639 Are basically the federal prosecutors, and US attorney's offices are 109 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.879 divided by the various federal court districts throughout the country. 110 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.000 So we in the presdent in the present area, we're 111 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:27.160 in the Eastern District of California. So there's a US 112 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.560 Attorney for the Eastern District of California. There are federal 113 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:35.199 judges appointed for the Eastern District of California, et cetera. 114 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.879 The US attorneys for the Eastern District of California, maybe 115 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.399 they might determine. Okay, well if we you know, we're 116 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.399 busy prosecuting major drug crimes and this and that, and 117 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.319 you know, we only have so many attorneys in our 118 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.639 office and so many hours in the day. You know, 119 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.000 we don't want to spend a bunch of time and 120 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.720 energy and resources prosecuting people who just lied on a 121 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:03.399 federal background check. So lie and try cases often don't 122 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:09.519 get prosecuted again, where someone lies on the form, but 123 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.759 the lie is found out and the person is not 124 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.199 given the gun. And again, it's just this position where 125 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.160 the prosecutors are like, well, we have this person who 126 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:19.759 lied on the form, but they didn't get a gun. 127 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:24.519 Nothing bad happened. Ultimately, so do we spend the time 128 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.800 and energy and resources prosecuting this person? Hunter Biden was 129 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.679 not that kind of case. Though Hunter Biden lied on 130 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:41.200 the form, and because he lied, he was able successfully 131 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.679 to get a gun. It wasn't a lie and try 132 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.919 And this is the this is the thing where commentators 133 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:53.519 have been really dishonest. Both commentators and Joe Biden have 134 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.879 tried to make the argument that, you know, people are 135 00:08:55.960 --> 00:09:02.639 rarely prosecuted for lying on federal background checks for guns, 136 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:08.600 so's it seems like targeted political persecution that my son 137 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:14.080 Hunter was singled out for this kind of a prosecution. 138 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:15.200 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 139 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:23.679 Lie and try cases are often not prosecuted. This was 140 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:30.120 a lieon succeed case. Hunter lied on the form by lying, 141 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.080 he got the gun. If he had told the truth, 142 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.360 he wouldn't have gotten the gun. But he lied and 143 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.480 thereby got the gun that presumably the background checkers weren't 144 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.600 able to find any other evidence of Hunter's drug abuse, 145 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:51.320 so he got the gun. Not only did he get 146 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.600 the gun, we then had the kind of bad gun 147 00:09:55.679 --> 00:10:04.200 outcome that the federal background check is deliberately designed to prevent. 148 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.759 Hunter was behaving so erratically with this gun that his 149 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:17.279 girlfriend at the time, Halle Biden, Bo's widow. You know, 150 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.639 we don't need to talk about how extremely weird that is. Anyway, 151 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.759 Halle Biden is so concerned about his erratic behavior that 152 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.879 in a moment seemingly of desperation, she takes the gun, 153 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.879 brings it out of the house, and dumps it in 154 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:39.720 a garbage can that's near a school. That's a bad outcome, 155 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:47.519 loses the gun. That is the precise kind of bad outcome, bad, dangerous, 156 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.799 risky outcome that you fully expect is within the realm 157 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.039 of possibility if a druggie gets a gun, if a 158 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.679 guy lies on a background check as a drug ee 159 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:05.200 and gets a gun. So Hunter wasn't a lie and 160 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.519 try case where he just lied on the form. The 161 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.480 Feds figured it out and he never got the gun. No, 162 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.480 he was a lie and succeed and misused the gun. 163 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.960 Case he lied on the federal background check, he got 164 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.879 the gun, he was misusing it, and a bad outcome 165 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:19.759 resulted from it. 166 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:21.279 Thankfully, no one was hurt. 167 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.519 Other than maybe whatever kind of psychological fear and torture 168 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:33.440 his girlfriend at the time experienced from this maniac druggie 169 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.159 waving a gun around. In fact, there is if you 170 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.120 go to the Laptop from Hell and all the photos 171 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.600 that are stored on Hunter's laptop from Hell, there are 172 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:51.399 pictures of Hunter with two different kinds of guns. So 173 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:56.919 Hunter was only prosecuted for the one. It seems actually 174 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.399 that there's evidence that he did he may have done 175 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.519 this twice because he's got two different guns. 176 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.440 So how Joe Biden. 177 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:17.240 Can stand up there with a straight face and say 178 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:24.120 that we need universal gun background checks after pardoning his son, 179 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.720 and not just pardoning his son, but pardoning his son, 180 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:35.200 while saying he shouldn't be prosecuted, that he was singled 181 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.679 out for prosecution. I don't know what Joe Biden wants 182 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:45.960 there for. Do we want to have federal gun control 183 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:50.360 laws that are just on the books but that we're 184 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:55.519 not enforcing. Is that what he wants? More background checks 185 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.720 that we don't prosecute people for under what circumstances does 186 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.840 Joe I think we should prosecute people who lie on 187 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:07.519 background checks? So he thinks that Hunters shouldn't have been prosecuted, 188 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:15.879 who should? What has to happen with the gun before 189 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:20.600 you actually prosecute people for lying on a federal background check? 190 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:23.879 Does the person have to lie on the form and 191 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.720 get the gun and murder somebody first? Is that what 192 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:34.559 has to happen before you're okay with prosecuting them. I mean, 193 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:40.039 the whole idea of the background check is for it 194 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:44.720 to serve as a prophylactic against bad people getting guns, 195 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.440 the kinds of people who he thinks shouldn't have a 196 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.039 gun getting a gun. 197 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:50.840 That's the whole point of it. 198 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.559 If you're not gonna prosecute somebody who you realize lied, 199 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.399 then what's the point Why have the law on the 200 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.960 books if you're not going to prosecute it. And apparently, 201 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.679 in Joe Biden's mind, someone who lies and tries shouldn't 202 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.320 be prosecuted. Someone who lies and succeeds and has a 203 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:19.799 bad and dangerous outcome his own son shouldn't be prosecuted. 204 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.799 And this is the I just find it outrageous that 205 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.120 the White House would have the temerity to issue this 206 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:36.240 kind of a statement. 207 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:38.840 Just what was it two weeks. 208 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.720 Ago Hunter got three two or three weeks ago Hunter 209 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:48.639 got pardoned? It boggles the mind. I mean, maybe it's 210 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.720 just a thing of the lights are on and nobody's home, 211 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.720 nobody gives a crap anymore. This is the lamest lame 212 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.879 duck president presidency. I've heard people comment that nobody has 213 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.759 he's been more clearly in charge during the kind of 214 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:09.080 interregnum between the election day and January twentieth than Donald 215 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.600 Trump has been. The flip side of that is that 216 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.000 no one has been a lamer lamer, lamer lame duck 217 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:21.840 than Joe Biden. You know, he's not doing anything. 218 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:23.559 You know, he's there. 219 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.120 People asked him, the President, Biden, why didn't you go 220 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.960 to the reopening of you know, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. 221 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.600 Donald Trump went, Joe Biden went. Why didn't Joe go? Oh, 222 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.440 Joe had a prior commitment, He had a scheduling conflict, 223 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:37.919 so he couldn't go. But he's very proud of the 224 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.960 First Lady and her represented her representing our country. And 225 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.879 then people look at the schedule. He had nothing on 226 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.919 his schedule. Yeah, he didn't want to go. He's tired, 227 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:55.679 he's tired of international travel. So maybe I don't know, 228 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.840 maybe Joe never even looked at this statement, which seems 229 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:02.440 like it was written by some annoying millennial staff, or 230 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.240 even down to the style in which it's written, in 231 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:04.840 the fact that it's. 232 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:10.399 Poorly edited, et cetera. But it just boggles my mind 233 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.960 how this is done. 234 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.559 When we return, would any of these things have stopped 235 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:22.399 this shooter? Next on the John Girardi Show, I want 236 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.519 to go through President Biden's kind of astonishing statement or 237 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.240 the White Houses anyway, I don't I'm not sure if 238 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.919 President Biden had anything to do with this statement. I'm 239 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.559 not sure if President Biden has anything to do with 240 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.440 anything at this point. But the White House issued this 241 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.960 statement after this school shooting that happened in Madison, Wisconsin, 242 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.519 in which the same repeated Democrat talking points about gun 243 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:54.519 control get you know, reiterated and reiterated and reiterated. And 244 00:16:54.840 --> 00:17:01.080 the thing that always frustrates me is how often the 245 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:09.079 purported solutions have actually no connection whatsoever to the crime 246 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:15.039 that happened. So let's go through the purported. 247 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:15.640 Actions that happened. 248 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:21.119 All right, Let's go through the purported solutions, and we'll 249 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.160 compare it against the action that happened in this school 250 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.519 shooting in madisone. So for those again just learning about this. 251 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.039 I believe it was yesterday a school shooter, a fifteen 252 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.920 year old girl, killed a fellow student and a teacher 253 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:39.039 at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin. Here are the 254 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.680 things that the Biden administration says we need to do 255 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.960 universal background checks now. Again, as I said in the 256 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.720 first segment, recommending universal background checks is laughable given that 257 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.440 Joe just pardoned his son for lying on a background check. Nonetheless, 258 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.319 a background check wouldn't have helped here. It appears this 259 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:01.680 fifteen year old got her dad's gun. I'm not sure 260 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:05.240 how the dad's background check would Maybe he already passed 261 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.200 a background check, probably did. How that would have stopped this? 262 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:14.119 I'm not sure a national red flag law. Again, this 263 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.200 fifteen year old didn't even own the gun. She was 264 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:18.440 able to get it from her dad or to steal 265 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.119 it from her dad. No red flag law would have 266 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.240 been able to flag this. You know, she was a 267 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.920 fifteen year old girl who was kind of depressed. There 268 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.119 was some evidence that she was depressed, no indication again 269 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.160 that I'm not sure a national red flag law would 270 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:39.799 not have helped. A ban on assault weapons and high 271 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:45.480 capacity magazines. She used a handgun. It was her dad's 272 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:50.839 handgun wasn't There's no definitely. I mean, the term quote 273 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.799 assault weapon is a kind of made up term that 274 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.440 is not really a term of art within gunsmith ry 275 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:02.440 or gun manufacture. It's a made up term that lawmakers 276 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:06.359 use for certain kinds of features of different kinds of guns, 277 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.279 some of which are purely cosmetic. 278 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:18.079 So none of the White House's policy. 279 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:23.880 Recommendations actually would have done anything to have stopped this shooting. 280 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:32.119 And I think this is the frustration Democrats have. Ultimately, 281 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.440 I think what democrats want is something the Second Amendment 282 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.599 wouldn't allow. They just don't want people to own guns, period. 283 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:48.720 They just don't want people to own guns. And clearly 284 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:53.359 the Second Amendment is in their way. Clearly, this Supreme 285 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:57.200 Court and its interpretation of the Second Amendment is in 286 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.000 the way of them achieving those policy goals, and Democrat 287 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.039 have always this is part one of many reasons why 288 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:07.119 Democrats are driven so insane by the current six to 289 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:12.880 three Republican appointee majority on the Court. They're so furious 290 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:19.200 over it, in part because they've always been able to 291 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.319 use the Supreme Court as the shortcut to getting the 292 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.319 kinds of policies they want, so they don't have to 293 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:30.079 do the hard work of actually convincing people and passing legislation. Abortion. 294 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.839 Just have the Court do it via Roe v. Wade, 295 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.839 same sex marriage. Just have the Supreme Court do it 296 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.920 via oh Bergefell. They want, they have wanted a decision 297 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:47.279 like that for guns for forever, and they didn't get 298 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:51.000 it in the time when they had, you know, a 299 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.680 pretty sizable majority on the Court. And now they look 300 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:55.599 at the makeup of the Court. They look at the 301 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:58.599 fact that Donald Trump is now in office and the 302 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.799 very distinct likelihood that he and a Republican controlled Senate 303 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.200 are going to be able to replace Sam Alito and 304 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:12.359 Clarence Thomas, maybe even John Roberts, and as a result, 305 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:16.279 there's going to be Republican appointee majority control of the 306 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.039 Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. 307 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:20.839 And it infuriates them. 308 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:27.119 Because really, what they should propose is the thing that 309 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:29.960 Gavin Newsom kind of pretended like he's proposing. Really, this 310 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.160 was just a fundraising employ by Gavin Newsom. I don't 311 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.680 think there's any real substance to it, but you know, 312 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:35.519 I'll give him credit. 313 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:36.000 Ga. 314 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:39.160 What Gavin Newsom proposed is, hey, we should amend the Constitution. 315 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.480 We should amend the Constitution to give the government more 316 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:46.960 leeway to regulate guns, because that's ultimately what they need. 317 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:50.440 Their problem is actually with the Second Amendment. Their problem 318 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:57.160 is with the fact that the Second Amendment provides, by many, many, many, 319 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:01.240 many extremely reasonable readings of the text of the Second Amendment, 320 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.880 provides for people to own guns. And that just drives 321 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:15.079 them up the wall. When we return distressing court developments 322 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:19.759 for the establishment of an abortion clinic in Vicealia, what 323 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:24.680 it excuse me into, Larry, what it could mean for 324 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:29.559 abortion as a civil right in California. That's next on 325 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:34.680 the John Groarty Show. So yesterday I attended the hearing 326 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.240 at the Vice Salia at the Superior Court, the California 327 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:42.000 State Superior Court in Vice Salia. This was a hearing 328 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:46.200 in front of the judge, Brett Hillman's California State Judge. 329 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:48.799 And this has to do with a court case that 330 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:50.880 I'm going to be following on this show, and I 331 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:53.759 might be writing about all the folks at GV wire, 332 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.200 might be sending over a little op ed to them 333 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:02.200 today maybe later on this evening. And it has to 334 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.359 do with an attempt to open an abortion clinic in Visalia, 335 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:09.839 and it's raising some interesting legal issues for how California 336 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:15.400 law should approach doing abortion. The right to apparently a 337 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:17.640 right that we're just sort of making up to do 338 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:21.440 abortions as opposed to a right to have an abortion. 339 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:27.279 This distinction between doing abortions and having abortions is a 340 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:32.880 troubling distinction. Well, it's a distinction that is troublingly elided 341 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.720 all the time. There have been a number of Supreme 342 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.759 Court cases where I mean the whole characterization of the 343 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.480 right to abortion from row to planned parent versus Casey, 344 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.000 although that is now gone at the federal level, but 345 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:50.960 the characterization of the right to abortion within the California Constitution, 346 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.640 et cetera. It's always framed as a right that the 347 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:59.200 woman has, that the pregnant woman has, she has a 348 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:05.799 right to abortion. That's always how it's framed. But when 349 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:12.440 it comes time to vindicate that right in court, very often, 350 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:18.039 for some reason, the abortion provider is deemed to have 351 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:24.319 standing on behalf of those women, which Clarence Thomas always 352 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:29.400 pointed out, No, that doesn't not necessarily or naturally follow 353 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.119 There are certain kinds of principles of third party standing 354 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:36.680 where someone other than the directly impacted party can sort 355 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:42.839 of stand in for and represent that injured party. But 356 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:47.599 by his contention, he's often said, I don't see why 357 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:53.039 abortion providers, abortion doctors who are doing abortions should be 358 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.599 able to stand in for women who want to have abortions. 359 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.839 And what this has resulted in in federal abortion legislation. 360 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.400 In the pre Dobbs era, some state would pass some 361 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.680 kind of restriction on abortion, and who would sue It 362 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:11.000 would usually be Planned Parenthood or some abortion doctor, as 363 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:16.720 if the abortion doctor, as if the abortion doctor naturally 364 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:20.400 has the exact same interests as the women having the abortions, 365 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:24.240 even for stuff like Okay, Texas passed a law with 366 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:29.119 health and safety standards for abortion clinics, and the clinics sue, 367 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:34.200 saying that it violates the right to abortion. Well, do 368 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:36.559 the clinics have the same interests of the women there? 369 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:40.079 I mean, couldn't the health and safety regulations be interpreted 370 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:46.039 as benefiting women? Could the abortion clinics posture of not 371 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.839 wanting these health and safety standards be deemed as being 372 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.880 antagonistic to their abortion seeking female patients. Anyway, this has 373 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:58.960 been a problem in the history of American abortion jurisprudence 374 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.039 where we just sort of slip in the slide between 375 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:06.519 abortion as a right that women possess versus do women 376 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:09.160 have a right to get abortions? Or do doctors have 377 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:13.839 a right to perform them? I think that's those are 378 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:16.519 two very different things. Is there some civil right that 379 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.640 women have to have abortions? All right, if you want 380 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.799 to argue that, okay. I think that's different though, from 381 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.960 the right of a doctor to perform them. And this 382 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.359 is kind of the heart of this dispute that's happening 383 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:35.559 in the city of to Larry. So there's a office 384 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.599 complex and I talked about this a bit yet last week. 385 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:39.599 There's an office complex in the city of Tillarry, the 386 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:44.440 Tilarry Medical Center, and it's basically an office suite with 387 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:46.839 a bunch of different individual doctors' offices. 388 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.960 The complex is governed by a covenant. Think of it. 389 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:56.119 It's almost like a homeowner's association agreement, where you know, 390 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.799 it's a private agreement between all the parties in this 391 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:05.839 place about the kinds of standards according to which their 392 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.799 businesses will operate. And in the context of this you know, 393 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.759 medical center, this office, this you know, suite of offices, 394 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:16.759 what kinds of businesses, what kinds of practices they will 395 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:21.640 allow to set up within the complex. This covenant is 396 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.480 from nineteen ninety one, and it has certain kinds of 397 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:27.960 things that excludes. They say, we're not going to have chiropractors. Okay, 398 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.799 we're not going to have this. We're not going to 399 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.880 have that. You know, if you want to have a 400 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:38.599 kind of professional setting, a professional medical office setting, maybe 401 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:40.599