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RUSH: Well, I\u2019m looking at the Drudge<\/a> page, and Drudge is on this in the right way. He has a picture of the shooter up there, and the headline is: ‘You caused me to do this<\/a>,\u2019 in quotes, which is a reference to this guy\u2019s note, blaming ‘rich kids\u2019 and ‘American debauchery.\u2019 Of course, the Drive-By Media says, ‘Oh, wow, does that fit a template! Yes, yes, yes! We\u2019ve got poverty and we\u2019ve got rich people and we have people who have a lot and people that don\u2019t have much, and we\u2019ve got a debauched society, culture — and, of course, we can understand why the guy might have flipped. Yes, yes, because America is unjust.\u2019 Again, the question needs to be asked, ‘If it\u2019s so bad here, why didn\u2019t this guy pack up and go back home?\u2019 He was here for 14 years! From RedState.com<\/a>: Liberal ‘Rep. Jim Moran who, less than \u201924 hours after the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history\u2019 took to the airwaves to launch a political attack against President Bush, congressional Republicans and the National Rifle Association…. Moran suggested Republicans were to blame for Monday\u2019s tragedy at Virginia Tech, which left 33 dead and injured another 30. <\/p>\n

‘The anti-gun congressman said Republican policies made it easy for the shooter to obtain a gun.\u2019 The serial numbers were filed off of these two guns, were they not? Well, now, I\u2019m going to tell you: if you file the serial numbers off your gun, it means you have evil intent in your mind and your heart, and there is no gun control law, period, that is going to stop you. Grab audio sound bite 18 again. If you\u2019re just joining us, I want you to go back and listen to Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, talking about the Amish tragedy, the shooting there in Pennsylvania last fall. This is from October of last year. The reporter said, ‘Governor Rendell, do you see any need for any changes in state public schools in terms of security?\u2019<\/p>\n

RENDELL: You can make all the changes you want, but you can never stop a random act of violence by a person who is intent on killing themselves. It\u2019s the same thing as protecting the president of the United States. You can have 50 Secret Service agents there, but if someone is willing to swap their life for the president\u2019s, they\u2019re going to get a point-blank shot at the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wonder if he\u2019ll be a guest on any Drive-By shows this afternoon or tonight. I wouldn\u2019t look for governor Rendell to be invited on some of these shows because he\u2019s not — at least with that comment, unless he changed his mind, he\u2019s not — going to fit the template of the propaganda the Drive-By Media is using this incident to promote. Remember this: the two biggest acts of terrorism in this country occurred with box cutters, pocketknives, gasoline, and fertilizer. That would be 9\/11 and Oklahoma City, and everybody knows it. I\u2019ll tell you something else: killers know that it is a crime to kill people, and they don\u2019t care! I really resent this. I caught myself even falling into the trap toward the end of the previous hour. I resent the fact we even have to debate the whole concept of gun control, and the Drive-Bys have taken over, and that\u2019s exactly all this issue represents to them is an opportunity once again to propagandize about the Second Amendment, and it happens every time some nutcase kills people. Now, interestingly enough, it didn\u2019t happen when Janet Reno conducted the Waco invasion. <\/p>\n

When the Waco invasion against the Branch Davidians took place, there was no Drive-By commentary on excess use of force by government on its own citizens, because the Drive-Bys thought they were a bunch of religious wackos, and Janet Reno said they were abusing children in there. So the way to solve this is burn everybody down and burn everything that they were in, up! Every time some nutcase goes out and kills people, that becomes secondary to the agenda-driven item that is gun control. You have uninformed people talking about, ‘What do we do about these automatic weapons,\u2019 and how we need an honest dialogue. You have Howard Fineman out there saying yeah, yeah, this is going to reignite the gun control debate. Virginia is the headquarters of the NRA, home to loose gun laws and so forth. They\u2019re going to ‘ignite the debate,\u2019 as though they\u2019re just bystanders who are just watching and there\u2019s going to be a debate that crops up. I\u2019m sure some leftists groups will start the debate again. They, too, will take advantage of the opportunity to do that, but the Drive-Bys will act like, ‘Hey, we\u2019re just bystanders watching this.\u2019 They\u2019re going to be the instigators of the ‘debate.\u2019<\/p>\n

So we gotta focus on handguns. We gotta do all this. We gotta get ahead of this now, as though all of this is going to make a difference — and it wouldn\u2019t. Howard Fineman also said that there\u2019s ‘something about this event that adds to the sense in the country that things have run off the rails.\u2019 Everybody in the country is just all upset. The country is on the wrong track and so forth. Of course, that\u2019s aimed at Bush being the president. That\u2019s also another template: people are unhappy. People are uneasy. People are nervous and so forth. I don\u2019t get the sense that people think the country has run off the rails. That\u2019s what they want to happen! That\u2019s what they want the perception to be. So, I don\u2019t know how many others have taken the tack I\u2019ve taken today, but I watched some of this last night and this morning, and to me there was only one way to go, and that\u2019s to try to bring some sanity to this where there isn\u2019t much. There is no sanity whatsoever in the confines of the event itself. There\u2019s very little sanity in the way this is being reported. You have campaigns for Pulitzer Prizes being waged now by Drive-By Media reporters who see Katrina II, and they\u2019re out there doing exactly what they did then. <\/p>\n

As I say, last week they were after the First Amendment: Don Imus. Look, they got Katrina wrong. They got the whole Imus situation wrong. Now they\u2019re getting this wrong, because they let their elitism and their liberalism blind them from doing their jobs. All these media that went on Imus and wouldn\u2019t stand up for him and so forth, ran for the tall grass? That\u2019s the Drive-By Media. The Drive-Bys are the Imus media. I want to throw a little thought out there, folks. We\u2019re all talking now about — well, some people are — we need more gun control laws. We need make sure that people can\u2019t get guns and so forth. There\u2019s going to be a convocation at two o\u2019clock, 46 minutes from now, and there will be prayers, and there have been prayers ever since the first word of this was reported yesterday morning and all through the day. That\u2019s fine. Don\u2019t misunderstand me here. But perhaps we could have done a little of that prior to the incident as well. The Drive-Bys want to go back and take a look at the gun control laws and say, ‘Well, that\u2019s where the problem exists.\u2019 Were I to say to a Drive-By Media person, were he or she on this show, I can imagine the reaction I would get.<\/p>\n

Maybe there needs to be more religion and prayer at our universities, folks. Maybe there needs to be a sense on college campuses that there\u2019s something bigger than the individual. Maybe there\u2019s something larger than the professor. Maybe they\u2019re not too young to learn that there are many things in life larger than self, and maybe being able to take comfort in a relationship with that which is larger than self ( i.e., God) would have a calming effect on some of these people who go absolutely nuts and lose their sanity. But that\u2019s even arguable. But can you imagine the leftists hearing me say this now: More prayer, more religion at our university? ‘Separation of church and state!\u2019 would be the template there. ‘What are you trying to do? You\u2019re trying to force a religion on people!\u2019 No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no! You don\u2019t understand. You can\u2019t possibly because you\u2019re irreligious. But it\u2019s no different than going out and saying, ‘Hey, we need gun control,\u2019 after the fact. <\/p>\n

Again, I\u2019m going to repeat this. I think this is profound. I think it\u2019s salient. This guy is on a student visa for 14 years. I don\u2019t know if illegally here or not. That\u2019s not my point. But maybe we need to examine the student visa program. Maybe what we ought to do, is make sure from now on that no foreign students get into this country to go to school. They obviously don\u2019t understand our culture. They can\u2019t deal with it. They go wacko. They go nuts. Doesn\u2019t that make as much sense as saying, ‘Let\u2019s ban all guns\u2019? In fact, let\u2019s close the borders. Let\u2019s ban all immigration, legal and illegal. The guy was from South Korea! He was from South Korea, living here for 14 years, in a country he didn\u2019t like very much, it turns out. (He didn\u2019t go home, but he didn\u2019t like the country.) So if we\u2019re going to say, ‘Let\u2019s ban all guns,\u2019 let\u2019s close the borders and ban all immigration, and let\u2019s eliminate the student visa program. Let\u2019s get rid of all foreign students. We can\u2019t have them here! Does that make sense? That makes as much sense, doesn\u2019t it, as the Drive-By argument on guns? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me throw this out again. Maybe there\u2019s not enough religion, maybe there\u2019s not enough prayer on college campus these days. Yeah, yeah. ‘Well, come on, Rush! Why do you want to try to make this controversial?\u2019 I\u2019m not making it controversial. I\u2019m reacting to the Drive-Bys who want to get rid of everybody\u2019s guns here when it\u2019s not a factor in this. It has no relationship whatsoever. Gun control to whatever degree, would not have stopped anything that happened at V Tech yesterday. But that doesn\u2019t matter. What happened was not really of any importance to the Drive-Bys or many on the left. It\u2019s just, ‘Wow, what an opportunity has fallen into our lap for gun control! We can finally go close the NRA,\u2019 or what have you. Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, maybe the liberals and their culture of death is the problem, folks. There is a culture of death with liberalism, from abortion on. Embryonic stem cells, you name it, euthanasia? They own that as well as they own defeat in Iraq. Maybe the instant effort to ban God and faith from the public square is a problem here. Maybe the coddling of criminals by liberals, including judges, has created this environment. <\/p>\n

Maybe, maybe, maybe! <\/p>\n

See? I can sit here and speculate all day long, just as the Drive-Bys were doing all yesterday and last night. Maybe<\/emphasize> it\u2019s not enough God. Maybe<\/emphasize> it\u2019s the culture of death on the part of the left. Maybe<\/emphasize> there needs to be more religion in the public square. Maybe<\/emphasize> the tarring and feathering of religious people, which happens in the Democrat Party and the American left, is responsible for this. We can play this game all day long. I\u2019m telling you, this happened because we had a nutcase who had some sort of grievance somewhere, and we can sit here and blame aspects of this country all we want — and if we fall into that trap, we are going to be making a huge, huge mistake. There\u2019s already enough guilt in this country that the libs have slathered everybody with over the prosperity and the other things in this country that liberals tell us we need to be guilty of, and this is just going to be added to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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