WE HAD A TERRIBLE SHOOTING IN A MOVIE THEATER,
YOU HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THE SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA,
THEY HAPPEN ALMOST EVERY WEEK.
WE HAD ONE LAST WEEK IN LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, A CRAZY
GUY GOES IN, HE IS A NAZI, I GUESS,
IN HIS OWN LUNATIC MIND, AGAINST LIBERALS, HE WILL SHOOT
PEOPLE SO HE SHOOTS A COUPLE PEOPLE IN THE BACK IN A THEATER.
MOST RATIONAL PEOPLE LOOK AT THIS AND SAY, OKAY,
HE IS SO CRAZY, IS IT REALLY RELEVANT THAT HE IS
CONNECTED TO SOME SORT OF IDEOLOGY?
THAT IS AN OPEN QUESTION.
BUT THE ONE THING THAT TIES ALL THE SHOOTINGS TOGETHER,
WHETHER IT IS POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, OR NO IDEOLOGY,
IS THE METHOD OF THE SHOOTING, GUNS.
PEOPLE SAY, WE NEED GUNS TO PROTECT OURSELVES,
IF WE HAD MORE GUNS WE WOULD BE SAFER.
FACTS SHOW THAT THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
COUNTRIES WITH MORE STRICT GUN CONTROL DON'T HAVE MASS
SHOOTINGS EVERY WEEK.
IT DOES NOT HAPPEN IN THE UK, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN.
SO MUCH SO THAT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WHEN I MAKE THIS POINT,
SOMEBODY WILL SAY THERE WAS ONCE A STABBING IN JAPAN.
THERE WAS ONCE A STABBING IN JAPAN.
THAT IS CORRECT.
AND ONCE IN CHINA AS WELL.
WE HAVE MASS SHOOTINGS EVERY WEEK.
CAN YOU EVEN REMEMBER ALL THE MASS SHOOTINGS FROM JUST
THIS MONTH?
I BET YOU WOULD HAVE TROUBLE RECOLLECTING ALL OF THEM.
SO WHAT ARE CONSERVATIVES GOING TO DO?
THEY WILL JUMP IN AND SAY THE ANSWER IS MORE GUNS.
BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN MOVIE THEATERS.
BRILLIANT IDEA.
RICK PERRY, GO AHEAD.
EDUCATE US.
I WILL SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THESE CONCEPTS OF GUN FREE ZONES
ARE A BAD IDEA.
I THINK THAT YOU ALLOW THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY WHO
HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATELY TRAINED, APPROPRIATELY BACKGROUNDED, KNOW
HOW TO HANDLE AND USE FIREARMS, TO CARRY THEM.
YOU SEEM TO BE SUGGESTING THAT A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
WOULD BE TO ALLOW PATRONS IN THE MOVIE THEATER TO BRING
GUNS WITH THEM INTO THE THEATER.
I THINK THAT IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO SEND A MESSAGE
ACROSS THIS COUNTRY.
IF WE BELIEVE IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT, AND WE BELIEVE IN
PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES,
THEN TO TELL THEM THAT THEY CANNOT CARRY A WEAPON THAT THEY
ARE LEGALLY OBLIGED TO CARRY, THAT THEY
HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE TRAINING FOR, MAKES SENSE TO ME.
FORMER GOVERNOR OF TEXAS,
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO HIM TO HAVE EVERYBODY IN A CROWDED,
DARK MOVIE THEATER HIGHLY MECHANIZED.
GREAT IDEA.
WHY DON'T WE ALL BRING AN RPG AS WELL?
STUDY AFTER STUDY SHOWS THAT IF PEOPLE ARE CONFRONTED IN A
HIGH-PRESSURE SITUATION WORSE SOMEBODY IS SHOOTING AT THEM, IF
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN GUN, ARE THEY ABLE TO PULL IT OUT AND
SHOOT THE GUY WHO IS STARTING TO SHOOTING IN THE FIRST PLACE?
THE ANSWER IS AN OVERWHELMING NO.
MOST OF THE TIME THEY DO NOT GET THEIR GUN OUT,
AND THEY ARE SHOT DEAD.
THE SECOND MOST COMMON OCCURRENCE IS
THEY SHOULD THE WRONG PERSON OR THEMSELVES.
I KNOW THAT THOSE ARE FACTS, SO FACTS ARE ANNOYING TO SOME
PEOPLE WHO HAVE A CERTAIN IDEOLOGY, SO LET'S GET THIS
RIGHT ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN
LOGIC, THE RICK PERRY’S OF THE WORLD.
YOU THINK IT IS A GREAT IDEA TO HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
IN THAT THEATER PACKING WEAPONS AND GUNS, SO THAT WHEN ONE GUY
PULLS OUT A GUN, EVERYBODY ELSE PULLED OUT THEIR GUN,
AND DO THEY REMEMBER THE FIRST SHOOTER WAS?
OR DO THEY START SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER?
AND ON TOP OF THAT, YOU ARE GOING TO PUT IT
IN A DARK THEATER?
BRILLIANT IDEA.
I BET INSIDE A DARK MOVIE THEATER, IT GETS EASIER, RIGHT?
HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE SAYING THIS.
PHILIP HOLLOWAY IS A CONCEALED CARRY ADVOCATE,
HE WAS ON CNN, AND WHY BOTHER BRINGING THESE GUYS ON?
THEY PAINTED HIM AS A LEGAL EXPERT.
LOOK AT THIS JOKE OF A HUMAN.
I CERTAINLY DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH IT IN GENERAL, BUT
THE FEAR OF ARMED RESISTANCE
COULD BE THE THING THAT DETERS SOMEONE FROM PICKING THAT
PARTICULAR TARGET.
MOVIE THEATERS ARE UNIQUE, BECAUSE THEY ARE DARK, THEY ARE
OFTENTIMES LOUD, AND IF YOU GO IN THERE, AND OPEN FIRE, WHO
KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO HIT?
AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A FIREARM ON YOU, IT MAY NOT BE
THE RIGHT THING TO DO TO IMMEDIATELY RESORT TO THAT,
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY THE
SHOOTER.
SO IN PRINCIPLE, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT GOVERNOR PERRY
SAID, BUT I DON'T THINK
NECESSARILY THAT RESORTING TO A FIREARM IN AN ACTIVE SHOOTER
SITUATION IN A MOVIE THEATER UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES
IS THE CORRECT FIRST CHOICE.
ACTING APPROPRIATELY WITH THAT FIREARM, IF SOMEONE IS IN THE
MOVIE THEATER, ARMED AND IN AN ACTIVE SHOOTING SITUATION, YOU
DON'T WANT THAT PERSON ACTING INAPPROPRIATELY, YOU WANT THEM
TO SEEK COVER AND THEN TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD A SHOT
THEY CAN SAFELY TAKE.
OTHERWISE IT CAN ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.
I'M SORRY, HE IS THE REASONABLE ONE.
HE SAYS TAKE COVER FIRST, AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A FIRST OPTION.
BUT SECOND OR THIRD OPTION, I MEAN,
ONCE YOU HAVE FIGURED OUT, WHAT?
YOU CAN'T RUNAWAY?
NO, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE A HERO, A TOUGH GUY,
YOU ARE GOING TO START SHOOTING IN THE DARK THEATER, AREN'T YOU?
BECAUSE EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THE WEAPON,
MAYBE THAT WILL DETER PEOPLE.
DETER PEOPLE?
THE GUY WAS A LUNATIC WHO RAMBLED ON ABOUT NAZIS
AND HOW THE LIBERALS WOULD TAKE OVER.
THESE GUYS ARE ALL LUNATICS.
JAMES HOLMES HAD NO POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AS FAR AS WE CAN
TELL, HE WAS A LUNATIC.
HE DRESSED LIKE THE JOKER.
YOU WILL NOT DETER THAT GUY.
WHETHER IT IS THE MUSLIM RADICALS THAT CAN DO IT, THEY
CAN'T WAIT TO BE MARTYRS AND GET VIRGINS IN HEAVEN OR
WHATEVER THEY ARE LOOKING FOR, YOU WILL NOT DETER THEM.
THEY ARE LOOKING TO GET KILLED ANYWAY.
ALL YOU WILL DO IS GET OTHERS KILLED.
SHOOTING IN A CROWDED, LOUD, DARK MOVIE THEATER, IF YOU ARE A
RATIONAL HUMAN, SHOULD NOT BE A FIRST OPTION, IT ALSO SHOULDN'T
BE YOUR 18TH OPTION.
YOUR FAMILY TO SAFETY, MAN.
300 MILLION GUNS IN THE COUNTRY, AND THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE THE
LAST ACTION HERO.
IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
WE HAVE DISASTER ALREADY AT OUR DOORSTEP WITH MASS SHOOTINGS
EVERY WEEK, IT IS ONLY GOING TO
GET WORSE WHEN KNUCKLEHEADS LIKE THIS ENCOURAGED BY GREASY
POLITICIANS LIKE RICK PERRY ARE GOING TO START SHOOTING BACK,
EXCEPT THEY DON'T KNOW WHO
THEY'RE SHOOTING AT.
IT WILL GET WORSE, NOT BETTER.
AND THE NRA WILL CELEBRATE, AND SO WILL REPUBLICAN
POLITICIANS WHO GET RICH AND FAT OFF THE NRA, THEY WILL SAY, YES!
THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS MORE GUNS, SO WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEY.
THAT IS THEIR AGENDA, WAKE UP TO IT.
OH, YOU TAKE OUR WEAPONS AWAY,
WE WILL FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, SHOOT COPS?
I THOUGHT YOU WERE PRO-COPS.
WHAT HAPPENED?
MILITARY, GOVERNMENT -- ARE YOU GOING TO SHOOT AT THE MILITARY?
ARE YOU ON AMERICAN?
IN CASE WE NEED TO MURDER FEDERAL OFFICIALS -- OH, I SEE.
THAT IS SUCH A COMPELLING CASE, I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE
MAKING SUCH A GREAT CASE ABOUT MURDERING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
MY BAD.