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RUSH: Here\u2019s Lou in Brooklyn. Hey, Lou, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush. Basically my concern is focused around the shooting in Oregon and what I learned yesterday was through a phone interview on Fox. Alek Skarlatos, one of the heroes in the European train incident in the way they thwarted a mass shooting there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — called in, and he indicated that he actually goes to that school, and I thought that\u2019s pretty odd, and he happened to be away that day. Accordingly, they said he was shooting an episode of Dancing With the Stars or something. I think that\u2019s what I heard. But I\u2019m hoping that in their investigation of some of the motives here that they may take that into consideration. It just sounded a bit, how should I say, coincidental to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I had not heard that. So the hero of the train shooting thwartery, the guy that thwarted that goes to this junior college?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So what\u2019s the thinking, that he may have been targeted, that\u2019s why this school was targeted, somebody putting that together, two and two equals four?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s a total fact, but someone should question it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it is an interesting coincidence. I didn\u2019t know that. I appreciate the call, though. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Actually grab sound bite 13. This is Dr. Krauthammer on Fox on The Kelly File last night, and she said to him, “Is it just the America in which we live where we\u2019re disconnected and we\u2019re on the machines all day, we have less empathy for our fellow man, according to the studies that I see. Is that just the reality of America in 2015, we\u2019re just disconnected, less respect for life, we\u2019re gonna see more shootings?”<\/p>\n

KRAUTHAMMER: Under our laws, which allow for maximum freedom, the mother couldn\u2019t do a damn thing until he killed. And that\u2019s a problem, it\u2019s an inherent problem in our society to balance security and liberty. And we have tilted towards liberty, which is completely understandable. And, as a result of that, and the same with possession of guns, as a result of that, we who live in the far more liberal in the sense of believing in liberty society, than any other in the west we have these incidents that are a result of that. We have to make a choice and we try to choose the fine line. It\u00c2\u2019s extremely hard to do, and however we choose, we are going to lose something.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the question related to specifics, Sandy Hook and, you know, cops, we can\u2019t do anything to a shooter \u2019til they\u2019ve taken action. And she wanted to know, is all the disconnect in this country, so many people on iPhones and iPads, you know, the smartphones and connecting via text rather than actually in person, is it leading to a desensitization among people and the resulting loss of respect for the sanctity of life, is that a factor, she was asking him. And as such are these shootings just gonna continue, because his answer basically said, “Look, we have a problem in our society. We tilt toward liberty. We tilt toward freedom, and there are prices to pay for it, and there are consequences, and possession of guns is thrown into that equation, and we are gonna have to make a choice as we try to choose a fine line between liberty and taking liberty away from people.” <\/p>\n

His point was it\u2019s extremely hard to do, and whatever we end up choosing, we\u2019re gonna lose something. Some people are gonna lose some liberty. And, folks, I don\u2019t know whether you understand precisely what he was saying, but the upshot of this is right on the money, because the proponents of more gun control are damn right they\u2019re trying to take away liberty. That\u2019s exactly what it\u2019s about. And the problem is that liberty and freedom is not the problem here. This is my opinion. And you\u2019ve gotta be very, very careful that you don\u2019t agree with the premise that there\u2019s too much freedom and too much liberty. That\u2019s what this sportswriter Albert Breer\u2019s point is when he says that these shootings are evidence the American public has blown it\u2019s right to bear arms. <\/p>\n

These shootings didn\u2019t happen because of freedom. Shootings happen because of evil, mental disability, derangement, what have you, cultural things that result in the loss of respect for life. But it\u2019s not liberty and freedom doing this, and if you think it is, if you think the solution to this is to shrink and reduce liberty and take it away from people you\u2019re gonna be taking liberty away from people that do not do this. <\/p>\n

Why should they be punished? Why should all of us be punished by having freedom and liberty taken away under the premise that we\u2019re all being made safer? Oh, man, that argument has resulted in more tyranny than any I know of. Give away your freedom. Give it away in exchange for, “I will protect you.” Well, people think that\u2019s what the cops are gonna do now. People think that\u2019s what\u2019s the government\u2019s gonna do now. Lo and behold, they don\u2019t; they can\u2019t. In fact, they come up with plans and policies that put people at more risk, such as no-gun zones.<\/p>\n

\"large\"But you gotta be really, really vigilant here that you don\u2019t inadvertently end up agreeing with people who think the solution to these shootings is a reduction in liberty for everybody, because we have people breaking the law here. The victims are not breaking the law, and you and I who were not there are not breaking the law. The National Rifle Association was not there. We have a single shooter, and the single shooter probably has copycats, and probably people like this shooter pockmarking all over this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

We can find \u2019em if we wanted to. If anybody deserves to have some freedom restricted, it would be some people that have already demonstrated a mental illness — and for their own good and everybody else\u2019s, be institutionalized or what have you. But the answer to this is not taking people\u2019s freedom away. Maybe you disagree. Maybe you think freedom is the reason this is happening. Do you believe in the concept of too much freedom? Is the Second Amendment too much freedom? I don\u2019t happen to think so. <\/p>\n

And I would fight anybody who wants tell me that our problems result from too much freedom, as a blanket explanation. You might be able to convince me that the criminal class may have too much freedom. Don\u2019t forget, now, folks, we are being led by an administration that ran a program called Fast and Furious. You remember this? In an effort to get more people opposed to guns and to support gun control, this administration enabled the sale of AK-47 type weapons to Mexican drug cartels. <\/p>\n

They were purchased in American gun stores and it ended up they were allowed to cross the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, and then they were to be used by these cartels in the commission of their crimes. And if Americans were killed or injured, we were supposed to be outraged and demand the government do something about it. It was a totally manufactured plan, and it blew up in their faces. A Border Patrol agent got killed. So be very, very vigilant here that you don\u2019t inadvertently agree with giving up your freedom as a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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