JASON: Now, look. What\u2019s going on throughout the country and this chaos that\u2019s being sowed — with defunding the police, the rioting that goes unchecked, the refusal to prosecute — the district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Philadelphia and Chicago that refuse to prosecute violent criminals and want them released. In California now, 76,000 inmates eligible for early release.<\/p>\n
When you talk about criminal justice reform, whether it was the First Step Act or whether it was my bill that passed, the Juvenile Justice Act, you want to talk about rehabilitating nonviolent offenders. You don\u2019t release violent offenders ever! That\u2019s the difference between what Trump did and what Biden and Newsom and everybody else is doing. These George Soros-funded prosecutors… Have I mentioned the abuse of these tax-exempt organizations electing people?<\/p>\n
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These George Soros-funded prosecutors (and Los Angeles is the real lunatic) are making your communities less safe while they are defunding the police and taking away your right to keep and bear arms. Makes sense to me. There is a motive here, and it is total chaos. And people will die. (chuckles) You know, when I was running against Senator Tina Smith here in Minnesota last year, I ran on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a constitutional orphan. It applies to the states under incorporation just like the rest of the amendments do. Nevertheless, she cosponsored the Background Check Expansion Act, which means it would have criminalized private sales. If your uncle gave you or a neighbor sold you a five-shot revolver, you\u2019d volunteer to register it with the federal government. A family heirloom! Register it with the federal government.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s especially ridiculous because when you look at Parkland or the shooting of Gabby Giffords. Those guns went through a background check. The background checks, as they exist, are fundamentally flawed because of the privacy rules whether it\u2019s with regard to it HIPAA or FERPA or any of those things. You could have kids threatening other kids in school, and nobody knows about it let alone going ever on a background check.<\/p>\n
But yet they want to expand that useless piece of paper so the government knows who owns what? This is the same people that think an AR-15 stands for “assault rifle,” the AR. Of course, it does not. Look it up. It\u2019s ArmaLite. I\u2019ll give you a little hit. The point being, whether it\u2019s background checks or red flag laws… Red flag laws are especially dangerous. People forget this. They forget that…<\/p>\n
In fact, this is what we did when I was in Congress. I was Joint Resolution 40, a congressional review act to repeal Obama\u2019s red flag on Social Security recipients. They put in, in Obama\u2019s final days, a red flag law for any Social Security recipient that was, quote-unquote, “a mental defective.” That means they couldn\u2019t manage their benefits. They hired somebody to do their budget or maybe an adviser.<\/p>\n
And they couldn\u2019t buy a weapon to defend themselves. We repealed it, but now it\u2019s back, and it\u2019s dangerous. So they\u2019re taking away the Second Amendment, rescinding it to the point of meaninglessness. They\u2019re letting out inmates, and they are defunding the police. Listen to what Rush had to say about that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Folks, I gotta tell you, the level of incompetence at some of the formerly most trustworthy, reliable institutions is one of the greatest elements of this country\u2019s…. you used to be able to count on things. There used to be institutions that were reliable, you trusted the people in them, you trusted when they came out and said something, especially if they were focused on public safety.<\/p>\n