I can't believe you're a sick son of a come to a deal like this to make
a political issue.
>> What you just watched was better O'Rourke confronting enraged Texas
officials and politicians who were holding a press conference to discuss the details
of the mass shooting that took place on an elementary school campus in Uvalde Texas.
Now, it turns out that the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott,
the lieutenant governor of Texas Dan Patrick don't like the fact that
they have blood on their hands for continuing to expand gun access.
Including two people who should not have any access to guns.
But nonetheless, let's watch a little more of this exchange and
I'll fill in the blanks.
>> Pass the mic to Lieutenant governor Dan Patrick.
>> Excuse me.
Excuse me, excuse me,
you're out of line and
an embarrassment [CROSSTALK]
[INAUDIBLE].
Sir, you're out of line.
Please leave this auditorium.
I can't believe you're a sick son of
come to a deal like this to make a political issue.
>> What you just witnessed were republican politicians and
officials in the state of Texas who showed way more outrage over Beto O'Rourke
confronting them about what they've done in that state than they did
when news broke involving Children getting gunned down in a classroom.
There was more outrage expressed by them over what Beto O'Rourke had to say.
It shows you what their priorities are.
They refer to him as a six son of A B.
Because he had the audacity to do something that, quite frankly, I wish more
democrats had the courage to do, instead of playing these games with civility and
my dear colleague, yeah, how about you stir the pot a little bit.
How about you call them out?
Especially as they're about to hold a press conference to pretend as though
they're really concerned about these families who just got word that their
fourth grade Children were slaughtered by a mass shooter,
an 18 year old mass shooter.
And the statement that we get over and over again,
from the very people who want to enable, terrible people to be able to go out and
buy guns is don't politicize this, don't politicize this.
This is political politicians, telling us to not politicize this is so
stupid and so brazenly meant to shut us up, so
they don't have to face any consequences for their actions.
But let's discuss their actions.
I think that's important.
Let's start with what Texas Governor Greg Abbott has done,
what has happened in Texas under his leadership.
In the last two legislative sessions, Texas, legislators have loosened gun laws,
most notably by passing permit less carry 2021, less than two years
after mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa took the lives of 30 people.
Less than two years after those shootings happened.
Look, I've said this on the show before, I'm gonna say it again.
Okay, I'm not in favor of banning guns and in fact,
I haven't heard a single politician advocate for banning guns.
Yes, the Second Amendment exists and much like our other constitutional rights,
it has limitations or it should have limitations.
Why would you do away with the requirement that would have people get a permit,
qualify for a permit before being able to purchase a lethal weapon?
How does that make any sense?
Almost everything we do in this country is regulated in some way.
You can't just decide out of nowhere, I don't have a driver's license, but
who cares?
I live in a state where lawmakers think it's totally fine for
anyone to drive a car regardless of their age and the argument will be,
well, there isn't a constitutional right to a motor vehicle fair, fair.
But the constitution specifically mentions a well regulated militia when it
comes to the Second Amendment.
Funny how the right wing loves to leave that out.
Let me give you more, when a then 17 year old student killed 10 people and
injured 13 more in an art classroom in Santa Fe near Houston in 2018.
Abbott called on state lawmakers to consider red flag laws that would allow
state courts to take firearms away from a person who represents a danger
to themselves or others.
Wow, I didn't know that impressive,
Greg Abbott apparently has somewhat of a conscience, right?
The problem is he doesn't have balls because a few months later he backed away,
like the coward that he is, like the craven, pathetic politician that he is.
He backed away, why did he back away?
He backed away from the idea after Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and
gun rights activists drew a hard line against it.
The state ended up passing laws more focused on boosting mental health
resources and giving teachers more access to guns on public school and campuses.
By the way, this recent shooting in your body,
it turns out that there was an armed individual on campus.
A resource officer who was armed.
There are also cops on the scene just outside the school.
They actually watched him run into the school and barricade himself.
The cops are outside of the school for
about an hour before backup showed up and then went in.
That's an hour, an hour.
They're sitting there or
standing there outside of the school listening to the gunshots.
I thought all we needed were good people with guns.
What happened?
We're talking about highly trained individuals who never hesitate to use
their guns when they're chasing down an unarmed black person.
These are the people who are protecting and serving us.
And this is the argument that you get from the right wing when it comes to
doing something about gun violence in the country,
we just need more people who are armed, good people with guns.
Yeah, that worked out real well.
And this isn't the only shooting where you have an armed security guard,
an armed resource officer, a trained person who's supposed to
keep individual safe in whatever establishment we're talking about.
Same thing happened in Buffalo, when the mass shooter opened fire,
he was immediately shot at by an armed security guard/excop.
He was wearing body armor.
It didn't work.
So apparently the good guy with the gun risked
his own life died while trying to save others.
In August of 2019 after 23 people were killed by an avowed
racist at an El Paso Walmart,
the guy who was inspired by trump's anti immigrant rhetoric.
And a few weeks later, seven more people were killed in a shooting
spree in midland and Odessa, Abbott and Patrick discussed
expanding background checks to include stranger to stranger gun sales.
But the talk is cheap.
They might tell you what you wanna hear after a mass shooting.
But what do they really do when all said and
done when the insane news cycle distracts us with some different story.
This is what happens by the end of the next legislative
session in 2021, Patrick had gone silent on the issue.
And the legislature instead passed a bill long sought by gun
rights activists that allows Texans to openly carry a handgun, without a permit.
Openly carry a handgun without a permit.
This is the state by the way that effectively banned abortion even before
we got word that the Supreme Court would be poised to overturn Roe V, Wade.
And what did they tell you?
They tell you that they care about lives.
They care about lives so much.
No no no, they care about the reproductive rights issue.
They care about posturing as anti choice zealots because that's
the culture war that keeps them in power.
But when it really comes down to it,
what they communicate to the people of Texas and
everyone else across the country is that their campaign donations from the NRA.
They're likely personal investments in individual stocks for
these gun manufacturers way more important.
Way more important than human lives.
They don't even care about the lives of the zygotes.
They purport to care about.
It's a political tool for them.
It's the only way that they accumulate power.
They certainly don't do it by regulating their power grid to ensure that
people don't freeze to death during a winter storm.
They certainly don't do it in the form of legislation meant to make people whole in
the middle of a pandemic where they desperately need financial aid
because they've been laid off.
They can't campaign on those things because they abandon their voters when it
comes to anything that would actually substantively improve their lives.
So instead they decide, alright what's what's our next culture war issue.
Who will the collateral damage include?
Okay, let's take women's rights away from them.
Let's strip them of their reproductive rights and
then we'll posture as individuals who care about human lives.
While we simultaneously allow every lunatic in the country to access whatever
gun they want with whatever magazine capacity they want.
That's the pro life garbage that we hear from states like Texas.
So I'm sorry, Beto O'Rourke interrupting them in my opinion is the bare minimum.
The bare minimum.
And then what did Abbott have to say after all was said and done.
Let's watch.
>> Every Texan, every american has a responsibility
where we need to focus not on ourselves and our agendas.
We need to focus on the healing and hope that we can provide to those who
have suffered unconscionable damage to their lives and loss of life.
Hey Abbott, we're still trying to heal from the mass shooting that happened not
too long ago in buffalo, new york to say,
don't politicize this is to tell the american people to shut the F up.
Don't blame me.
I love my power.
I love my money and I love basically continuing what I'm doing.
I mean, Texans died under his watch as a result
of his decisions with their privatized deregulated power grid.
Does anyone really think that these people care about human lives?
No, this is political and federal Rourke doing the bare minimum was nice.
I'd like to see more and not just from one or
two politicians in the Democratic Party.
I'd like to see just a little more fierceness, a little more rage.
A little more passion from the very people who right now,
as we speak, our fundraising off of the tragedy that happened.
Don't send me your goddamn emails, Pelosi or schumer or
any other member of the Democratic Party that doesn't do anything.
They love the legislative filibuster in the Senate.
They love the Senate parliamentarian,
they love any excuse to not have to do a goddamn thing for you.
And then when tragedy strikes, they'll send you those emails.
Please give us money.
Don't they?
Don't deserve it.
And what they'll do with your money is help either reelect or
elect conservative democrats who then later serve as their convenient excuse.