The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 4/9/21

Episode Date: April 9, 2021

Pat and Stu review President Biden’s gun control speech and discuss all the lies and absurdities that he claimed, including about background checks at gun shows. Great Britain’s Prince Philip has ...passed away at the age of 99, but why do American media outlets care so much? New details have emerged surrounding Tiger Woods’ horrific February car crash. Are "ghost guns" a real threat, or is this the Left’s newest fearmongering tactic? Pat and Stu take calls from viewers who have actually built their own "ghost guns." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast. Today, it's Pat and Stu in for Glenn. We expect Glenn Beck to be back at the helm on Monday. So make sure you check that out. He'll be going into everything that happened over the past week. I'm sure giving you an update and a family crisis he's had going on. We'll let him get into that on Monday. Today we talk about the Biden speech. The guns, he doesn't, I will say, I'll say Biden's speech on guns was filled with inaccuracies at a point that really, like, level you haven't seen, you didn't really even, maybe even see from Barack Obama. I mean, this was packed with lies. Lies. Yeah. Just flat out lies. Yeah. A lot of them. And it's hard to imagine he doesn't know that these are untrue. They, they, they, they're, I think he does. Even though I don't know that he knows where his shoes are true. He does know that, I think. So we get into a lot of that today. You'll love some of the history stuff that he got wrong. Some of the claims about weapons today that he got wrong. It's really just a collection of Joe Biden's saying things that are incorrect. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast as well as Pat Gray
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Starting point is 00:01:56 lots of fun, fun, common sense gun reform. Yes, that's what I was thinking. The common sense. This is common sense. And you know what? These people who talk about the second Amendment. This had nothing to do with the Second Amendment. I love the Second Amendment. Like my own grandfather. Like, great, great, because it's pretty old. So I love the Second Amendment. Like, it's my great, great, great, great grandfather. I really do. I love it. It's just that, you know, there's some common sense things that need to be done. Well, and eventually great, great
Starting point is 00:02:32 grandmothers and fathers pass away. Thank you. And we still love them, but they're not here anymore. Is that just like the Second Amendment? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We love it so. However, get out. That's essentially what they were saying yesterday. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:48 You mentioned common sense, and we mock this often because that's what they use. Can we get to, by the way, the Biden gun shows, SOT 7 from Pat's List? Because in some ways, he actually is proposing common sense gun reforms. And I want to. And in other ways, he's just flat out lying. Through his communist teeth. And this clip in particular, he's doing both of them, I think. Yes.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Let me explain why, because it's not how they mean it, common sense. Here is Joe Biden on gun shows. Most people don't know. You walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. Mm-hmm. But you go to a gun show and buy whatever you want and no background check. No. What?
Starting point is 00:03:31 No. That's terrible news. Yeah, it's not true either. It's not true at all. It's a total lie. Now, I have purchased a gun at a gun show. Oh, have you? I have.
Starting point is 00:03:42 And so you just walked in and they gave it to you and you left. They just threw it at me. It was a drive-through. Did you even have to pay for it? I bet they didn't even care if you paid for it. All they asked is if, look, you don't have to pay for it as long as you promised to murder innocence. And I was like, okay.
Starting point is 00:03:55 I'll go out and I'll find some. No, I got a background check, went through the entire process. The overwhelming majority of gun show sales go through this process. Only private sales. Like if I'm selling a gun to Pat, I am not a dealer. I do not have the, I don't have the licensed. I am not a licensed dealer, right? So I am not the type of person who has the resources or how would I get a background check on someone if I'm selling one gun.
Starting point is 00:04:24 I'm not a dealer. If I'm giving it to my son, for example, he's a little too young. But when he grows up, I'm like, I know what, Zach wants a gun. And I have this one, he can have it. I'd have to go do a background check on my son. Like, there are reasons why there are a very, very, very limited amount of gun sales that do not go through background checks. But, yeah. I went to a gun show.
Starting point is 00:04:48 But I think the common knowledge, the common sense says what he's saying is true, right? Wait a minute. You can just walk into a background. You can just walk into a gun show and buy something without a background check, buy whatever you want. If that was the law, there would be some sense. And people would be upset about it and want that law changed. It's just not true. Right.
Starting point is 00:05:12 So a common sense gun reform based on a lie is not a common sense gun reform, though that is what they're trying to pitch it as. They're trying to say, okay, well, common sense, I think it's part of common knowledge. People believe that you can go to a gun show and buy whatever you want. I think that is what people believe. The media says it. So yeah, they do believe it. They do believe it. It's common knowledge.
Starting point is 00:05:34 It's just not true. knowledge. Right. It's not actually a fact. At a gun show, a private, like a private, a, like a private gun owner can sell to another person, right? Isn't that what that can happen at a gun show, I think. It can happen, yes. And, and that has happened where a private seller sells to somebody who came into the gun show. It's all, it's so, it's so, but that's such a small percentage of sales. It's such a small, you know, I was talking to someone at the Heritage Foundation who testified in front of Congress a couple weeks ago. And I asked her, I'm like, is there an argument?
Starting point is 00:06:09 And I don't believe this. But again, your job as a host is to ask questions that you think might be interesting. And I said, is there an argument to say, hey, this is such a small percentage of sales. It is such, it is not an issue in this country. It really isn't. I mean, it's basically nothing. Yeah, do we know of any gun crime that has been committed from a person? to person's sale without a gun background check at a gun show.
Starting point is 00:06:39 I don't know of it at the top of my head. I've never heard of it. However, is it possible that it's happened? Sure. Of course it's possible. It's very unlikely that it's certainly not a big, it's not a big factor in our overall crime problem. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:52 That is the big issue here. Right. And I said, I said, I said, Amy Swearer is her name? And I said, Amy, is there an argument to say maybe the righteous gives up on that? They use this as a talking point all the time. And it's such a small percentage of sales. Maybe there's a way that we make it easy for a, you know, a background check to go through on private sales. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:14 You'd have to come up with a whole new system. There's all sorts of logistics in there. Is there an argument? And she agreed with me. No. You can't give one, I want to swear, inch to these people on this issue. Because they will take a mile every single time. You can't move a centimeter.
Starting point is 00:07:34 on guns. Because their goal is not a common sense reform. It is another step down the road to eventually have all of them gone. That's what they want. They're not going to tell you that. They'll occasionally they will. You know, you occasionally will hear people telling you that. I will say, it would be nice to have that argument completely eliminated. Right. That's what I want to say. But they'll still lie about it. They'll still say it's happening. And then they'll find the next thing. Like ghost guns is the new one. Now, ghost guns, look, if you're a criminal and you want to go kill someone, there are much easier ways to get a gun, right?
Starting point is 00:08:13 There is no reason for you to put it together in a kit. Now, yes, it has happened. Some people have done it. They do sell some of these things. Some shootings have occurred with these types of guns. But again, it's a minor, minor, minor percentage. It's much easier to go through a neighborhood and break into somebody's house and look for guns. You're much more likely
Starting point is 00:08:36 to find guns doing that than going through the whole process of trying to build one. Yes, you could do it. It is possible to have kits that make it somewhat easy. And the kits have directions. And the kits have directions. Biden said so yesterday. There are directions. Oh, really? Really? Huh? A kit with directions. Amazing. That's incredible. But like we are, this is a society that we are constantly told, cannot figure out how to get a driver's license to vote, but they're going to build
Starting point is 00:09:06 their own guns? Really? It's so over the top insane. It is. It's ridiculous. They know, I think they know they can't really do much of anything. If you look at the six things he wants to do, very few of them, some of them are like, we're going to recommend to states that they do things.
Starting point is 00:09:24 It's like, okay, that's not even, that's not barely an executive order, right? Some of it really was nonsensical, but they're going after the ghost guns. probably the biggest thing they're going after are these stabilizing grips as they're associated to pistols. Yeah, the pistol brace. Yeah, because those are,
Starting point is 00:09:41 those have become relatively common. Again, they're not involved in a lot of crimes at all, but they have become relatively common weapons for law-abiding citizens to own. And so that therefore, you know, I think part of that is because they know
Starting point is 00:09:56 there's always a chance they're going to ban assault weapons. So if you have, you get a similar feel from one of these weapons as an AR-15, though it's not an AR-15. It is a different type of weapon. It is a pistol. It just feels somewhat similar.
Starting point is 00:10:10 So you get kind of some of the, you get some of the package of an AR-15 without having to buy an AR-15, because you know they might be coming to your door to take your AR-15. And there's other reasons to own them. But they're good weapons, and they are very effective,
Starting point is 00:10:26 particularly for females, to be able to push back against attackers. you know, I mean, you know, you want to be able to hit the guy running at you and you want to be able to stop them. And that should be something that should be, you think the left would care about if they, they're so feminist and they care so much about these evil men that they tell us are raping people all the time and attacking people all the time. And, you know, when it comes down to it, they don't seem to want to give any protection. They want to defund the police and take away the guns. Yeah. And he continued with his fault.
Starting point is 00:11:01 arguments. Cut number two. From Joe Biden. Nothing. Nothing I'm about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment. Nothing, nothing. But phony arguments suggesting that these are Second Amendment rights at stake from what we're talking about. He knows phony arguments. He knows. No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
Starting point is 00:11:22 Oh. You can't yell you can't yell fire in a crowded movie theater. We call a freedom of speech. In the very beginning, you couldn't own any weapon you wanted to own. And the very beginning of the Second Amendment existed. Certain people weren't allowed to have weapons. So the idea is just bizarre
Starting point is 00:11:39 to suggest that some of the things were recommending. It's bizarre? Contrary to the Constitution. Gun violence in this country is an epidemic. Would you be arrested if you yelled fire at a crowded theater? No, I don't think so. Would you be arrested, though, if you
Starting point is 00:11:54 yelled... The Constitution does not say that a person can yell wolf in a crowded theater. Yeah. Okay, so you can't yell wolf in a crowded theater, but you can yell fire. I think you can yell wolf because particularly when there is a wolf in the theater. I've had several theater experiences where there's a pack of wolves running through the theater. That's scary.
Starting point is 00:12:17 And thank God Nancy Pelosi was there to yell wolf. She's awful. By the way, I should point out, as we're telling you that Nancy Pelosi sucks, there's something called a Nancy Pelosi sucks.com that is available. for you to tell everyone at work that Nancy Pelosi sucks. It's Nancy Pelosi sucks pen.com. By the way, David Harsani addressed the exact issue you're talking about, Pat, about fire in a crowded movie theater. This is a national review yesterday.
Starting point is 00:12:45 So Biden said, you can't yell fire in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech. Harsani, who's, by the way, an absolute expert on the Second Amendment, wrote an entire book about the history of guns. And he goes into a bunch of this stuff today. But he says, you absolutely can. This is probably the weakest and most infuriatingly overused analogy. used in effort to restrict rights. The line taken from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Starting point is 00:13:07 in the decision Schneck v. United States and subsequently repeated by thousands of censorship apologists since was at the heart of one of the most egregious violations of free expression in American history. The Schneck decision allowed the Wilson administration, Dun dun dun, Woodrow Wilson,
Starting point is 00:13:23 to throw anti-war activists in prison for violating the Espionage Act of 1917. It's difficult to think of a more legitimate exercise of political expression than debating war and peace. In any event, Schneck was basically overturned by the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision. We've heard a lot about that one recently,
Starting point is 00:13:42 which found that the First Amendment protects speech unless it is likely to incite quote, imminent lawless action which yelling fire in a theater does not. So you actually can... Yeah, I don't recommend it. But you actually can yell fire in a theater.
Starting point is 00:13:59 And what about Wolf? But you cannot yell Wolf. You can't yell Wolf. under no circumstances. Can I yell, coyote? Is that okay? I'm pretty sure. I just yelled it on the radio.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Am I going to be arrested? Oh my gosh. My understanding is you cannot yell any four-legged furry animals on the radio at any point. So, really? Yeah, please don't, don't test it because you already did the coyote thing. That's already a First Amendment violation.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Oh, man. But if you're in a crowded theater, do not, do not yell, you know, poodle. Because that is definitely. Augusta Constitution. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Piker Woods crash. He was going 87 miles an hour when he hit the tree or 75. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:59 He was going to 87 when he ran into something when he first made contact. And then 75 miles an hour when he hit the tree. That's incredible. How did he survive that? They say the forensics showed that he didn't even tap the break. Right. Didn't even tap at any. No.
Starting point is 00:15:17 So he wondered like, did he? you fall asleep, right? That's what I think happened. Yeah. Did he do it on purpose? Like, I don't think so. But I mean, like, it's like that's the type of thing to go 87 miles an hour without tapping the brakes around in a 45 mile an hour zone, by the way. And especially when he doesn't remember. Or at least he says he doesn't. He doesn't remember what happened. So it's going to be hard to pin that down. It does seem like sleep is the most likely. Yeah. I would think so. But if you fall asleep, you think you'd come off of the gas, but it's possible, I guess, if you fall a certain way and the gas. pedal stays down.
Starting point is 00:15:50 Maybe he had cruise control on at 87 and the 45. I don't know. It's a very, very strange story. And on end, he should never get it in an automobile again. I mean, he's got to stop getting inside automobiles. Yeah, it just does not work out well, does it? No. That's how we found out about the whole scandal.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Remember he was like backing down his driveway and like crash into a tree? Yeah. Just stop driving. Well, I think he crashed into a tree after his wife put a golf club through the back window. Is that what happened? And he's trying to get away from her and then he crashed into the tree. So, yeah, he and SUVs don't seem to mix very well. AAA 727 B-E-C-K.
Starting point is 00:16:31 It is Pat and Stufer Glenn. Yeah, Prince Philip has died. That seems to be the only news of the day today. I do not understand the fascination with the American people. Not at all. Now, I guess, like you'd say, these are elevated celebrities in Great Britain. and if you're in Great Britain, maybe you care. But I don't understand why our media cares so much about this.
Starting point is 00:16:54 I care a lot. I guess it's market forces, right? The only thing I could think of is market forces. You put them, you put, now look, what's her face? Megan Markle is a pseudo-U.S. celebrity. I mean, she was on a relatively notable show. I liked it a lot. I like suits a lot.
Starting point is 00:17:13 I was a fan of that show. But, you know, it ran for nine seasons. It was on USA and had millions of people watching it. She was a main character in the show. Now, she was not an A-list celebrity before this, but she was relatively well known. And the fact that an American princess, an American actress has become a princess or whatever, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:37 however that works. Princess or a Duchess? Duchess, yeah, sorry, Duchess. It's a big deal. You know, and you could see why that would make it that part of it interesting for the American people. Okay, one of our celebrities is now married into the royal family. Kind of interesting. Yeah, maybe. But wall-to-wall coverage of a 99-year-old. Right, who just passed away. Doesn't really even have an impact on this situation. Like,
Starting point is 00:18:02 he's just in the family. Is it worth mentioning? Yes. But wall-to-wall coverage? I mean, for the last several hours, that's about all they've talked about. It's amazing. it really it's absolutely amazing to me I've never understood it and it just continues I really haven't even understood it for the British people because
Starting point is 00:18:26 again no it's not like the monarchy was a good thing when was that great for them it never it was never great to my knowledge is there a beloved king that that I mean unless Arthur was real
Starting point is 00:18:42 and that's doubt they had a pretty much a string of bad guys for hundreds of years so I don't know why they look back on it so fondly I don't know why they keep pretending that the monarchy means something to them yeah it's really weird it's very strange
Starting point is 00:19:02 I mean it was a horror show yeah for a lot of them yeah and by the way I mean they killed their wives they beheaded their wives these guys really is a strange thing to continue to celebrate. It is. And, you know, not to mention, it unleashed awful things all across the globe to all sorts of different people. And now it's like, well, yeah, but we like when they're, you know, it's kind of cool. Like, they come out and they do the tea. They have the tea in the afternoon.
Starting point is 00:19:31 That's kind of cool. The tea in the afternoon is what. So let's spend a few billion dollars remembering it constantly. Right. You know, I don't, I don't get it. Let's just continue to make them the richest family in the world. Let's do that. Let's do that. That's good. That's good. That's worthwhile. It's a worthwhile pursuit. Okay, well, good luck with that. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. Finishing up our discussion on Biden and his gun control legislation, or not even legislation, it's these executive orders that he's putting forward.
Starting point is 00:20:15 And just some suggestions to states on doing other things like the red flag laws. You can't do an executive order on that. So he's recommending to states that they take up the red flag law situation. So you found something else interesting in his discussion yesterday? Yeah, there's been this thing that changed a few years ago, I guess, where if there was like a mass shooting, everyone would say, oh, geez, thoughts and prayers are with the victims. Like it was a standard thing to say. And it was something that is like just a general, there's people going through tough times. and maybe we shouldn't be talking about politics right now,
Starting point is 00:20:53 but even more fundamentally than that, I feel bad that this happened to these people. Whether you agree or disagree with new laws to try to correct it, it makes no difference. Just saying, hey, I'm thinking about you, I'm praying for you, or two really basic human things. It's particularly important for people who of faith
Starting point is 00:21:16 to say, I'm praying for you. It's, you know, again, if you're a person of faith, it's like the most important thing you can do. It's not some flippant thoughts. You know, okay, my thoughts are with you. It's a nice thing to say as a human being to another.
Starting point is 00:21:30 But a prayer is something you think is really important if you're a person of faith. It's basically like the most important thing you can do. So oddly a few years ago, it used to be something that all Democrats would say. You know, oh gosh, you know, our thoughts or prayers are with the victims here, but we need to do something, you know?
Starting point is 00:21:49 that was very standard democratic stuff. They acted as if they cared about people who believed in God. Whether they do or not, I don't know. But they acted as if they cared about people who do. A few years ago, that changed. And people started saying, you know what? I'm sick of hearing about thoughts and prayers. What does that do?
Starting point is 00:22:09 It doesn't stop these things. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. And we got into this thing where at first it was just people on Twitter or crazy, like, left-wing writers that would say, oh, thoughts and prayers are not enough. and then it crossed over into politicians where politicians would say it. It'd say like, you know, thoughts and prayers are just not enough here.
Starting point is 00:22:28 We need to do something. Now, it's very revealing, Pat, to me, that a person who claims to be a faith would say that praying isn't doing something, right? It's prayers. Yeah, there's prayers. We need to do something. Actually, if you're a person of faith,
Starting point is 00:22:44 praying is doing something. For sure. It's vital to this. And you might not agree with that. You might not believe in prayers. You might not believe in God. But like, if you're talking about a person of faith, which all of these Democrats say they are,
Starting point is 00:22:58 I mean, listen to Nancy Pelosi. She sounds like a preacher half the time when she's talking about laws. And they say, oh, thoughts and prayers. We need to actually do something. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Joe Biden took that to a whole new level during this speech. And very few people have noticed it. I've never, I don't know that I've ever heard a politician
Starting point is 00:23:18 ask for this before. Whether Congress acts or not, I'm going to use all the resources of my disposal of President to keep the American people safe from gun violence. But there's much more that Congress can do to help that effort. And they can do it right now.
Starting point is 00:23:37 They've offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of Congress. Here it is. But they passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. Okay, standard. Enough prayers. Time for some action.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Yeah, enough prayers. Enough prayers. So you're saying we should stop praying? This is not thoughts and prayers are not enough. This is please discontinue the activity of praying. Yeah. Enough prayers. This is from the big time Catholic that it means so much to him.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Oh, it means so much to him. He is a deep, deep faith. He means some of the things mean so much to him. Yeah, not everything. Clearly obviously. Thou shalt not, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who knows what they really meant by that? Maybe they did, you know, look, maybe,
Starting point is 00:24:25 maybe they don't want all the babies to be alive. Who needs all of them? There's so many. There's so loud. You're right. You know. But that's a whole different story. And then he essentially tells you to stop praying.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Stop praying. Enough prayers. Enough prayers. That's just, no, I mean, maybe that was just him, you know, blubbering through another line, which is not impossible. But this, it's, it's, surprising how dismissive these people are over faith now. It is. It's just like, ah, your prayers suck. Stop doing them. Not only they're not helping. I don't want to hear it from you Christians.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Yeah. It's really like that dismissive. And it's because, of course, this is what they have thought the entire time, but we're usually used to be smart enough not to say it. Now there was blurting it out. Stop praying. We'd like that activity to cease, please. Yeah. The only thing that is doing something is government. government does something, then it's real. But if it's you praying your prayers, that's nothing. Again, you might believe that. And that's up to you. This is, you know, America.
Starting point is 00:25:31 But Joe Biden supposedly is a Catholic. Right. And it used to be that they wouldn't dare say something like that. Right. But now they just, they do. They just do. It really is amazing. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Triple 8-727 BECK. Let's go to Kenton in Georgia. Hi, you're on the Glimback program with Pat and Stee. Hey, what's up guys? Hey. So I tried to do this about three years ago. My son had a great idea. It would be fun for us to do this together.
Starting point is 00:25:59 The ghost gun? Yeah, ghost gun. Yeah. I spent about 100 bucks buying the tool that we needed. I bought him used because I knew I'd never use them again. Right. And we spent about a week watching videos together, figuring it all out. Before we dove into it.
Starting point is 00:26:16 It was a nightmare. It didn't turn out well or it just took too long. Oh, no, I completely, we ruined the lower half that we bought. So we bought two of them. Okay. Ruin the first one. Then the jig that we were using, which was supposed to be the best jig on the market, completely ruined that.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Oh, man. So now I still have the second lower in the original packaging in my face. Yes. Because we didn't even try it again. But this is what all drug dealers are doing right now. They're just like, you know what, let's just get the jig, and we'll get that all set up. It's, like, ridiculous. This is not a core part of this, of the problem of gun violence in this country.
Starting point is 00:27:00 Absolutely incredible. And this is exactly how I would expect to. Thank you, Kenton. I appreciate the phone call. Let's try Justin. Justin, welcome to the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu. Hey, guys. How are you doing?
Starting point is 00:27:12 Good then. Anyway, we're trying to outlaw an inanimate object. Why? does it not take a human being to operate that? And if that's the case, that the inanimate objects are killing people, why not outlaw them all? They could potentially kill somebody.
Starting point is 00:27:30 It is a ridiculous flaw in their basic logic. And thanks, Justin, for the call. There's this, this is the same thing when he was talking about suing gun manufacturers. Another lie. Another lie. First of all, you can sue gun manufacturers. There is limited shield they have.
Starting point is 00:27:47 And it's limited because if you screw up with their device, like you do something stupid with a gun and misuse it, then they can't be held liable for that. Right. And of course, that's... I mean, it makes sense. Of course, that would be ridiculous. Yeah. You know, if you were to buy a car or a Toyota, you should not be able to sue Toyota because you decided to run somebody over. It's not Toyota's fault.
Starting point is 00:28:10 It's what you did with it. It's not a crime until you actually commit the crime. And that's why it would be ridiculous. the reason why Joe Biden wants it so badly is because he knows he can sue these people out of existence. You can just file a million frivolous lawsuits and most of these companies will have to shut down. And that's, of course, what they want. Brian in North Carolina, welcome to the Glenbeck program with Pat and Stu. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:28:34 This is an absurd conversation. I can't even believe we're having it. The Second Amendment was designed so that we could maintain a militia, not go bird hunting. Although I like the idea of bird hunting. It's just as we have progressed in ways of needing to defend ourselves because those around us who would seek to hurt us have greater ways to hurt us. We should have greater ways of defending ourselves. We don't need a 22 short to defend our homes anymore.
Starting point is 00:29:07 Having an AR may be necessary at some point. But you said something a few minutes ago that made a lot of sense to me. You said that this is more than just. for defense. And that's the truth. The people that are buying these ARs are buying them yes for defense, but a lot of them are buying them because it's an art or a skill or a hobby. Some of them are doing it as a form of an investment for retirement because, you know, money is about worthless anymore. And so they stockpile guns, not to use them, but to have them in storage for their future. There's nothing wrong with this. And if we outlaw every gun in the world, I mean, even Blue Bloods is
Starting point is 00:29:41 now even using knives for their murders. There's not a lot of guns on TV anymore. People are going to find a way to kill somebody, even if they don't have a gun. It's absurd. Yeah, no, it's very true. And Brian, thanks for the call. It's true.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Most of the people buying these things are people, like the callers we're talking to, who are average people who might want to try to do this. Maybe they're collectors. You know, there's something, you can go buy a table at IKEA. There's something about building it yourself. The American people have always praised that instance. It's always been something that people love. I have a friend who loves playing poker and is building his own poker table.
Starting point is 00:30:18 I can go to Amazon and get a freaking poker table delivered in the next day. He's building his own because he wants to do it. That's just, that's something you can't make illegal. And of course, it's not going to work even if you do. The Australian law is the thing that I always loved going back to because they bought back about 20% of the guns in the country. and it was supposed to really help gun violence showed no effect, by the way. All the studies afterwards showed it had no effect on gun violence.
Starting point is 00:30:46 But if you were to do that here, you'd have to buy like a hundred million guns, first of all. Just the cost of that, buying back 100 million guns. You take the way, how would you do that? Gun owners are not going to, you know, maybe you could get 20% of them back, maybe. I mean, maybe.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Oh, I doubt it. But I mean, there's some people who probably wouldn't care. Maybe, I don't know. But let's just. just say you could. Yeah. What does that leave you with? A country with 300 million guns in it.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It makes no freaking difference. The people who are going to commit crimes with them are not going to give them back to you. And the other people, there's still going to be plenty of guns out there to commit crimes with. So you're going to disarm the law-abiding citizens. Right. It's what you're going to do. Not only unconstitutional, but it is also completely ridiculous. Let's try Noah, line eight in Texas.
Starting point is 00:31:39 Noah, welcome to the Glennback program with Pat and Stu, and you have a phone call. Did we lose him? He just put it. Do you believe this? This guy just put it down. Let's see if he answers it. Hello? Yes, hi.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Noah? Why did you pick up this call and not the other phone that was ringing? Well, the other one's my business phone ringing in. I think it's more important to talk to you guys. Right, there you go. There we go. That's America for you. The heck with your customer.
Starting point is 00:32:05 All right, go ahead. All right, Noah, you were talking about, you called into the ghost gun conversation? Yes, sir. Yeah, so I've built quite a few of these things, not for anybody else, but only for myself. And it takes a lot of money investing in it, and one, you can't, you never do it perfectly, unless you have a CNC machine. The CNC machines that they make for these things run about $3,000. That's for the, and even then half the time you don't do it perfect. I got to admit, I mean, these are precise instruments. This is not like, you know, it's going to be very difficult to do on your own.
Starting point is 00:32:46 You've built a bunch of these for your own. Do you know a lot about guns? Yes, sir. Yeah, I have a gun store. And so build my own guns is kind of a hobby of mine. And it gives me a sense of pride, especially whenever I'm outshut, and them are harvesting animals with them. And so that's kind of just a hobby of mine.
Starting point is 00:33:04 I enjoy it. I take pride in it. This is a great point because, like, the guy owns a guns. store. He can get guns, but he's building them himself because, you know, it is. It's a point of pride. It's a cool thing to go through. Noah, thanks so much for the phone call. Appreciate it.

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