Arizona senate candidate Blake Masters boiled
gun violence in America down to just a simple racial issue.
And of course, as you can imagine a Republican like Masters would
just blame it all on black people and he did so during a recent, well,
while he was appearing on a podcast called the Jeff Oravits show, let's watch.
>> We do have a gun violence problem in this country and
it's gang violence, right?
It's gangs, it's people in Chicago and
St louis shooting each other very often black people frankly and
the democrats don't wanna do anything about that.
Look at san Francisco and LA, they've legalized crime, property crime.
You can't even get arrested if you go and smash someone's window and
take a purse or an iPhone, they're light on crime.
What they mean by gun control is disarming you and me.
>> Listen, first off, as we know this is not a race issue,
we can get into demographics when it comes to shootings if you'd like.
But at the end of the day it's meant to be a massive distraction from what the real
issue is which is easily accessible guns which are then used by mass shooters and
criminals to carry out death, murder, destruction.
We see it every weekend, everyday, it's a common occurrence in this country,
something we talked about on the show regularly.
So even if we just took what he said at face value,
didn't even question the racial component to it,
which by the way obviously I do question, obviously he's wrong.
Again, we'll get to the details in a second.
Okay, so who cares what the race is,
shouldn't we do something to prevent the deaths.
Shouldn't we do something to prevent people, criminals or individuals with
severe mental health issues from accessing these guns so readily and easily.
No, you don't wanna do anything about it, okay.
I mean it's amazing to me how he decides to point to race as an excuse
to do nothing about gun control, nothing about the murders and
the mass shootings that we're experiencing in this country on a regular basis.
Anyway I'll get to those details regarding demographics in a minute but
honestly it doesn't even matter, it's a distraction.
It doesn't matter what the race is,
end of the day people are dying because guns are so easily accessible.
That's it, that's all ut matters.
So the question is are you gonna do something about it?
And of course his answer is no, of course his answer is no.
>> Yeah, so look hoods are off.
I mean even the Klan was kinda embarrassed they had to put on a hood but
here's Masterson saying yeah it's black people that's the problem.
There's no dog whistle, there's no subtlety, just flat out racist.
You know why Masterson and his master and his master's Peter Thiel.
Masterson ironically is just a servant, he's a boy, just like JD Vance.
>> I think his name is just Masters, right?
>> Or whatever the hell his name is,
honestly doesn't matter at all because their actual name is Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel puts up the money for these guys,
Peter Thiel's the racist who unleashed these in the world and
they go okay, yes sir, master, what would you like me to do Peter Thiel?
Blame black people?
Yes I'll do it, Master.
That's who this son of a bitch is, gonna blame black people, for it here,
I'll blame you.
I think it's you Republicans and by the way I'm right and you're wrong,
you're just racist.
It's Republicans who say don't pass any laws because I like the mass shootings.
I don't give a damn about the mass shootings, massacres, I love them.
That's what this son of a bitch says, that's what Peter Thiel says, right?
You're gonna fund these sons of bitches, go ahead, do it, I'm gonna out you.
He's the funder, he's the one that puts up the cash for
this bitch to go out there and go it's black people, it's black people.
Obvious over the top racist, that's what Peter Thiel is,
that's how who this guy is.
Blake Masters, that's who JD Vance is.
Bunch of fascists that are now just buying the elections while mainstream media is
like money, I don't know what money has anything to do with it.
I guess people like JD Vance's ideas more than they like the other people's ideas.
>> Yeah, by the way again, I mean you could flip it around on them and
just be like this Republican candidate wants all sorts of people
regardless of race but he thinks only black people.
He thinks it's okay for black criminals to access guns readily and
easily to potentially murder you, to terrorize you.
Now again as we know, especially when it comes to mass shootings,
the predominant perpetrators are not typically black.
In fact let's take a look at this study that was done by Statista.
And they looked at mass shootings in the United States,
they have a higher threshold for what they consider mass shootings.
We've been reporting on analysis that considers a mass shooting with
four people or more being shot and killed, with Statista they're focusing on some of
the more predominant mass shootings that have higher numbers of casualties.
So they looked at the numbers of mass shootings in the US between 1982 and
June of 2022 by the shooter's race or ethnicity.
And if you take a look at mass shootings,
the white perpetrators are dominating that situation, okay?
So they're at 68 whereas black perpetrators are at 21,
Latinos at 11, Asians at 8 and then other at 5,
you guys get the picture, you can read the graph yourselves.
Also as the Washington Post reported, James Alan Fox,
a criminologist at North Eastern University maintains
a database in collaboration with USA Today and
the Associated Press that covers all mass shootings in the United States since 2006.
When asked to analyze the data around incidents such as the Boulder massacre,
he confirmed that about 55% of perpetrators in such incidents had been
reported as white.
In some cases race was unreported using a different dataset that ran from
1976 to 2019 with more inclusive criteria for inferring race,
Fox actually found that some 64% of shooters were white.
Now when you look at non mass shootings, if you look at homicide specifically,
they are overrepresented by black perpetrators.
Gun homicides are concentrated in cities.
Half of all gun homicides took place in just 127 cities which
represented nearly a quarter of the US population.
Within these cities gun homicides are most prevalent in racially segregated
neighborhoods with high rates of poverty.
Black Americans actually represent the majority of gun homicide victims.
In fact black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun
homicide.
And by the way where you see the most gun related deaths is actually
through suicides so let's take a look at this.
This is data from Everytown Research and Policy and the majority,
59% of gun deaths in this country are caused by suicide using a gun.
By the way does the race matter?
Does the reason for the deaths matter?
Shouldn't we wanna do something about it and prevent people from dying,
especially from individuals who are either part of a party or
running to be part of a party that claim that they care about human lives.
They wanna like regulate my body because they care about human lives, please.
>> No no, Republicans don't care about life at all.
>> At all.
>> They're antilife party, they don't mind all these massacres at all.
So look, obviously poverty and socioeconomic status is a giant
factor in shootings but we're not having a rational conversation.
We're having conversation about cultural wars and it's a totally lopsided one.
If I said on this show the real problem with shootings in America is white people,
white people are the problem, people would be outraged, their heads would explode and
we'd probably get banned.
That's a Senate candidate, that is a very good chance of winning in Arizona who
says it's black people's fault with no factual basis at all and no one cares.
Outwardly racist, no one cares.
No, right wing is allowed to say anything they want,
the left wing is not allowed to say even things that are true, okay?
And then finally, wait, how much money did Peter Thiel put into Blake Masters?
Was it a couple $100,000?
Ooh, that could swing an election.
No, he's put in 13 and half million dollars million to the park that is
supporting Blake Masters in Arizona.
He put in 10 initially now he put it in another three and
a half million last month.
They're just buying these politicians and
Blake Masters used to be his actual servant.
He used to work for Peter Thiel and his foundation where they came up with
a really interesting ideas about how everything is black people's faults, okay?
So he's just bought by Peter Thiel.
Whenever he sees Vance or Masters, understand they're puppets for
Thiel but everybody's scared of teal because he has billions of dollars.
So everybody in Silicon Valley by the way, super powerful people.
On the regular kisses ask they're like, you're a fascist wannabe?
You're the guy funding the new right who would like a king instead of a democracy?
You're funding blatantly racist politicians.
Yes but do you have money for me Peter?
So this is a sickness in America.