For all the billions and
trillions that this body authorizes in the name of national security.
We can't even keep our kids safe from their schools being turned into
a war zone.
Now, let's talk about why.
Let's talk about one thing more important to lobbyists and
the gun industry than children, than houses of faith than,
human beings, let's talk about profit.
>> AOC saying the very obvious thing behind the reason why we haven't got our
hands on any gun control and why gun lobby's continued to buy politicians to do
the same thing over and over and over again.
She pointed out, but in AOC fashion, she also had some receipts.
Let's go more.
>> In 2020,
22.8 million guns were sold reflecting a 64% increase from 2019, correct?
>> Correct.
>> In one year, and across the board, gun manufacturers and
ammunition companies began to see record profits.
Is that right?
>> That's correct.
>> Now let's put that into context.
In 2020 again, more than 45,000 Americans died by
gunfire reflecting an almost threefold increase from 2015.
Are those statistics correct?
>> That's accurate.
>> So in your view, are you seeing a correlation between gun profits and
gun deaths in the United States?
>> Yes.
>> This is about blood money.
>> Just telling the truth, that's all.
Now, by the way, we saw that the correlation between those two things,
the gun deaths and how much money they're making all of it based on that.
Now we can get to the gun lobby, make sure they continue with those profits as these
deaths continue to pile up, a little bit more from AOC.
>> Between 2019 and 2021, 2 years leading gun manufacturer Sturm and
Ruger saw gross profits double to almost $280 million.
In fact, during an earnings call, their CEO called the sales boom quote
historic ferocious and that the future was bright.
A month after that an AR 556 pistol and
ordered 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder Colorado.
Those profit margins $280 million when go to lobbying, is that correct?
Much of that goes to lobbying, correct?
>> Significant amounts go to lobbying, correct.
>> And can you remind us what the gun industry is lobbying against when it
deploys these lobbying resources?
>> They are lobbying against [COUGH] every law that would regulate firearms, period.
>> Every law that would regulate firearms, period.
Lobbying, kids,
people don't know what lobbying is this when they spend their money to make sure
they influence politicians to do what they tell them to do.
And actually in some cases writing exactly the legislation or
lack thereof may be the talking points and excuses to not do anything in this case.
That's what lobbying does,
and they commit hundreds of millions of dollars to this effort.
That's how important is, people with money, inc with money do not waste it.
They use it for a very specific reason and that's to make more of it.
What we also make is more school shootings.
Just look at this graph here because there's 288 shootings,
school shootings in the United States since 2009.
You guys look at those other six countries, they're off to the side and
how many they've had, Canada and France both had two, Germany had won,
Japan Italy and the UK a big zero.
Again, that's all the correlation going, on one more graph you guys,
because over 70% of mass shootings in developed countries happen in the US.
That's what it's international analysis shows, in case you need to see what 70%
looks like versus the rest of these other countries.
There that is, tell me your thoughts bro.
>> Yeah, so AOC made three really important points
here that are almost never made in Congress.
So progressives finally fighting back.
And I love to see it.
So number one, she talked about profits and lobbying and
how they funneled the money back to politicians.
In Congress, that is an unacceptable thing to say because you're accusing your
colleagues of corruption.
God damn right you are.
Okay, finally, somebody said something that's true.
She didn't use the word corruption and she didn't get too specific colleagues yet.
But look Bernie at the same time mentioned mentioned in cinema and
called them corporate democrats.
All of a sudden progress is fighting back.
My God, I know it's not.
If you watch this show, you're thinking, don't like, that's the beginning.
Yes, but we'll take it.
I'll take it, are you kidding me?
Like no one's done it before.
So for her to point that out that is exactly right.
And that 288 numbers between 2009 and 2018, right?
So it's about a ten-year period.
And you know how we showed you this stat the other day 44% of republicans say
there's nothing you can do about mass shootings in a free society.
Well, it turns out there was something that Japan could do in Italy could do and
UK could do, because in a decade they had none, zero.
You know what the difference is?
They have very strict gun control.
UK and Japan have the strictest gun control and they have no mass shootings.
Problem solved.
It turns out it's not like, hey man, I wish Einstein was around for this one man.
He put up the other graph that we showed you.
I just can't figure out what's going on man.
I mean, America has the most amount of guns by far and
it has the most amount of mass shootings by far.
Man, I wish Sir Isaac Newton was around for
an apple to fall on his head to figure this one out.
No, it's the most obvious thing in the world but yet almost no politician ever
says it, because it would offend the feelings of their goddamn colleagues.
So thank you AOC, thank you for finally speaking truth, but she's not done yet.
So I'm gonna go actually to the beginning of her speech because it had two more
points that were really important.
Let me show you the first one here.
>> There's no discussion about gun violence in New York city without
discussing the iron pipeline.
That is Florida, Georgia, south Carolina, north Carolina,
Virginia, Pennsylvania and honorary mention to Ohio,
where 70% of likely illegal traffic guns found in New York city come from.
There's no discussion about gun violence in Chicago without talking about Indiana.
Because the violence and the mothers that we have to comfort are losing children due
to the guns and the carnage on the lot lawlessness unleashed by those states.
>> Again, guys, if you know any of the facts, you're like, I don't get it,
that's obviously true.
And she cited cited statistics.
There's no question about it.
What's the big brave thing?
No, she just attacked Red States, never happens in Congress.
Never, but those are the real Americans.
We can't criticize the Red States.
They're run by republicans.
We would be yelled at.
Who cares, it's true.
So finally someone said the obvious talking point in Congress,
where do you think the guns come from to Chicago in New York?
Every idiot republicans like the gun control worked.
Why would everybody grab in Chicago?
As if there's like this giant wall around Chicago.
That's impenetrable as if you can't just walk right into Chicago with a gun
you bought in Indiana.
What's this like?
It's the dumbest talking point in the world, but every democrat was like, but
it's red states, we can't criticize red states.
Finally, it takes a young woman to have enough courage to embarrass
the rest of them into action.
So, but she's not done yet.
Another thing that is never said in Congress watch every week in
recent memory, we have had at least one mass shooting Miss Pringle.
>> You are the president of the National Education Association,
you represent Teachers.
Between 2009 and 2018,
how many school shootings did the United States have?
>> 288.
>> 288, now let's look globally our G7 Partners, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy Japan and the United Kingdom combined.
How many school shootings did those countries have?
>> Five, 50 more.
>> In 10, almost 10 years.
288 vs five, this is not normal.
Not only is it not normal, it is internationally embarrassing and
delegitimizing to the United States.
>> So another talking point never mentioned in Congress,
as the idiot republicans are like, we just need more doors or less doors.
I mean, less doors.
That'll do it.
Less doors, more prayers.
Louie Gohmert just gave a speech about, I think legislators are not praying at all.
We just prayed more then the bullets would stop working.
They would just freeze in midair like the matrix people.
He didn't say the matrix part but I wouldn't be surprised.
Okay, well, the Ottoman empire that would reconstitute itself
like an asparagus would stop all the bullets and we just prayed harder, okay?
And everything, well, those are beloved republicans.
You can't criticize them and I was just like what are you guys talking about?
Italy stop all the bullets.
So did the UK.
So did Japan how they do it?
They didn't need neo.
Okay, they just needed gun control.
We have more guns and we have more deaths.
Such an easy point, almost never made in Congress.
See that wasn't hard.
The world didn't cave in.
Other progressives do likewise.
Go and explain to the american people what our position is, and fight back against
the republicans and against corporate democrats that are in your goddamn way.
So in this issue it's more republicans but get in the fight.
So thank you AOC, that's an excellent start.
>> And just like world has, and just like with the romantic thing we talked about
earlier, how he gets caught up by Bernie Sanders.
He then has to respond.
These folks who like to talk about how democrats are only being so
emotional over these children that are slaughtered.
They'll then have to talk about what someone said is happening in their
state and if they don't talk about it looks like it's an uncontested battle.
Keep talking about it until someone says, wait a second,
I'm the governor of Indiana.
You know what really happens in Indiana?
Now we're talking about what's happening and they have to either deny it and
lie to your face.
And then we have more proof and their constituents only listen to them will
have to listen to them talk about the problem.
They don't have to right now.
>> Again JR is 100% right attack on your moral high ground and on this issue,
the entire country is on our side.
What are you waiting for?
If Biden had 5% of the fight that AOC has in our we'd be in 1000 times better shape.
Instead last night he was on Jimmy Kimmel kissing Mitch McConnell's ass.