Little Miss Addie, who is almost two, and Branch,
who's just a few months old, they have brought us so much joy.
They've brought us purpose.
Now Addie, who soon will need them, I want to reassure you,
she already has a shotgun and she already has a rifle.
And she's got a little pony named Sparkles, too.
So the girl is set up.
>> Only in America would a woman brag about arming a little
two year old with a shotgun and a rifle.
But there you have it.
That was South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, at the NRA conference.
Cenk, thoughts.
>> Honestly, she would be put in mental asylum in almost any other country.
If you went to the authorities in a European country or in Japan or Taiwan,
or some sane developed country, and you said, I gave my two year old a shotgun,
they would look into mental health services instantly.
They probably wouldn't let you leave the building, and
they would certainly take your kid away.
You already got your two year old a rifle and a shotgun.
We live in a country filled with lunatics, period.
>> It's just amazing that she says that, and
no one in the room thinks she's crazy for doing it.
She gets cheers for arming a two year old with a rifle and a shotgun.
Okay, by the way, in the middle of ever increasing gun violence and
mass shootings in the country.
Now, another person who spoke at the NRA conference was Donald Trump, and
he engaged in the typical Right Wing deflections to any calls for gun reform.
Let's watch.
>> I will ask Congress to repeal totally ineffective legislation that
makes it harder to protect our schools and easier for
criminals to face absolutely no opposition when they go in.
I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full cost of
a concealed carry-firearm and training from highly qualified experts.
Who's better?
>> [APPLAUSE] >> If even 5% of teachers,
people that are skilled with arms, we want that.
5% were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters,
we would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist.
And that would be a lot of people.
But these are all people that are trained and talented with firearms.
>> I just don't understand the disconnect in Republican logic when
it comes to the whole arming teachers solution.
In their minds a solution, in my mind absolute insanity.
So, do you trust teachers or not?
Because when it comes to curriculum, they don't trust teachers at all.
They think teachers are groomers, they think teachers can't be trusted,
they think teachers need to be super involved in developing curriculum even
though they're not experts on education.
And then on the other hand when it comes to gun violence,
we should arm our teachers.
So you wanna arm who you think are alleged groomers to protect your kids.
Okay.
>> So Anna, a, that's a brilliant point, b,
you said you don't understand Republican logic.
Well, it's not possible to understand it cuz it's an oxymoron.
When's the last time you saw a Republican being logical?
I haven't seen in 20 years.
So, >> It's certainly not when it comes to
this gun issue.
Because again and again, they deflect, they'll change the subject,
they'll pretend like they care about mental health care, and then once they
have an opportunity to appropriate the necessary resources for mental health
care, they vote no, except for literally one House Republican who voted yes.
And then there's this new disgusting development among some Republicans where
they've decided to point fingers at the new scapegoats, the new boogeymen.
And in this case, it is transgender people.
So let's watch.
>> To convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender
hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression,
aggression, and even violence.
I think most of us already know the answer, don't we?
Furthermore, we have to look at whether common psychiatric
drugs as well as genetically engineered cannabis and
other narcotics are causing psychotic breaks.
A lot of problems.
We're having problems that we've never seen before.
And people sort of think they understand why.
We must also be much better at detecting warning signs of evil,
disturbed young men like the one who murdered colleagues in Louisville.
We cannot rest until we get to the bottom of all of the sickness that
we're seeing in our country.
>> There's a lot to unpack there.
Real quick, I just wanna mention when he refers to genetically modified marijuana,
I'm gonna assume he's talking about synthetic pot spice,
I don't know what genetically modified marijuana is.
But nonetheless, I'll get to my comments on some of the other stuff that he said in
that clip in a moment.
I wanted to give you a chance to jump in first, Cenk.
>> Yeah. So we've been pointing this out for
the last couple of weeks since Tucker Carlson started this trend of saying
trans people are not mentally well and we should take away their guns.
Look, Right Wing and logic can't be used in the same sentence.
So mass shootings are new?
They just started with trans people?
Who could be that maniacally irrational?
Well, Right Wingers.
It's easy for them.
They're like, when all of the Christian white males did it,
we had hundreds of mass shootings, thousands of dead.
It was never them.
It was not their fault at all, not the identity of the shooter,
also not the gun, it was the doors.
Doors and mental health were never going to solve or fad, or
whatever the frick, right?
Now, one or two trans people do it, they're like, that's it.
It's all trans people, and it's their fault and let's take away their guns.
That's amazing.
How do I communicate with people who just don't believe in logic?
I don't know how.
>> So I wanna talk a little bit about one other argument that you typically hear
from proponents of these guns and loosening gun restrictions.
And the argument is, listen, it's just that the United States
has a culture problem, and we need to fix the culture, right?
Except there are cultures that Republicans have been pretty
vicious toward that tend to have lower rates of gun violence.
So I turn to this fascinating data that compares gun violence in the United States
to some Middle Eastern countries, and some North Africa countries as well.
And let's take a look at graphic two here.
So it shows that in the United States, the gun violence is pretty high.
And look, the info here, the data is a little bit dated because it's from 2017,
I would like to see an updated version of this study cuz it's fascinating,
to say the least, but it shows that in the United States in 2017,
there were 4.43 of violent gun deaths per 100,000 people.
So that is higher than Afghanistan,
where there are 3.96 per 100,000 people, higher than Iraq,
where there were 3.54 in 2017, higher than Lebanon, at 2.30,
higher than Jordan, higher than Turkey, higher than Yemen.
So is the Republican Party arguing that the culture in these countries
just tends to be better than the culture here in the United States, and
that's why they have lower gun violence?
>> Yeah.
So look, Trump talked about in that speech,
many people at the NRA meeting talked about it.
You've seen it on TV a thousand times yourself.
The problem is the values.
We're getting away from God and Christian values.
Wait, it turns out the Muslims are right about God.
God is on their side.
It's not my logic, it's Republican logic.
Anna just read you the numbers from the Middle East.
There's a lot less shootings in the Middle East.
And by the way, Afghanistan and Iraq come in one and two in the Middle East.
Why?
Cuz we filled those countries to the rim with weapons, and then left.
It was like, good luck, okay?
Now, I looked into the top two Muslim countries cuz I wondered, wait,
maybe the Middle East is so incredibly peaceful, and
that's why they have so much less gun violence than America.
Maybe it's Middle East that has amazing morality and
values that America lacks, right?
No, it turns out it's a Muslim thing.
The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia.
Anna showed you there, we have 4.43 gun deaths per 100,000 people.
Indonesia, it's 0.04.
We have 110 times the gun violence that Indonesia has.
Largest Muslim country in the world.
I looked up Pakistan, second largest Muslim country in the world, 0.57.
So we're only about ten times worse than them, but
110 times worse than the biggest Muslim country.
And we beat, I think, every Muslim country in the world in gun violence.
So we have definitively proven through Republican
logic that Muslims are more holy than Christians are.
They are more connected to God, and God favors them more.
It's not my logic, it's Republican logic.
So apparently, Allah loves Muslims.
Christians, take it or leave it, you guys can deal with a lot of gun violence.
>> Now, of course, we don't agree with that viewpoint at all,
>> Of course not.
What are we, damn asses like Republicans?
>> So look, the point is, they look for any excuse, any deflection,
any scapegoat other than the nonsensical loosening of gun laws.
Like what just happened in Florida,
where you no longer need to get a permit for concealed carry.
It's just nonsensical, and it panders to the gun lobby.
And instead of addressing that, they're gonna go ahead and target trans people,
they're gonna go ahead and target genetically modified marijuana,
whatever that is.
I mean, it's just a joke, to say the least.
>> Yeah, in case you're logically challenged, let me be absolutely clear.
Indonesia doesn't have 110 times less gun violence than us because Islam is
better than Christianity.
They have a lot less gun violence cuz they have a lot less guns.
That's the most obvious thing in the world, and
that's exactly what the Republican Party is trying to avoid.
You finding out the most obvious thing in the world because they're funded by gun
manufacturers, they literally profit off of your deaths.