During a recent interview on Fox news, former education secretary, bill Bennett, who actually
served as an education secretary under Ronald Reagan, for some reason were still acting
like this guy's relevant in the news and bringing him on cable news for interviews.
But anyway, bill Bennett was brought on Fox news to address the issue of the mass shootings
that were happening all over the country.
Uh, pretty much every day here in the United States, you know, we're halfway through the
year, we've had over 310 mass shootings so far this year.
So we're not doing well as a country.
So, yeah.
Bring on the old education secretary from the mid eighties as if he knows what the hell
he's talking about, or as if he's any kind of relevant to any discussion taking place
today, but maybe Fox news was hurting for guests.
I don't know what it is, but either way Bennett went on TV and said the dumbest thing you
could imagine, he suggested that maybe what we could do right to, uh, curb some of these
mass shootings start having some exorcisms because he says, this is actually a spiritual
problem.
Now let me read his whole, his whole statement here.
So you can get the context.
Uh, he did say this is not a direct quote, this a paraphrase at first, uh, he said that
parents, schools and police officers are among the people who can quote, pay more attention
to potential red flags for mass violence.
And then he said, quote, but you know, you may need an Exorcist too.
It's a deeply spiritual void.
I think that these young men have in their hearts and their souls.
And I think it needs to be addressed.
You know, if he had just ended with, you may need an exorcism too total joke.
Right?
Right.
I would not have taken that seriously.
But then he actually does get into the spiritual argument.
Like, Hey, they have holes in their hearts.
They have holes in their souls.
Maybe an Exorcist would help maybe doing anything other than addressing the fact that we can
get guns.
Like we can get bubble gum in this country.
Maybe that'll help.
Right.
Bill.
Because at the end of the day, that is what you're suggesting here.
Like that's the deflection.
That's what you're trying to do is just say, Hey, uh, look over here.
Hey, what about this thing?
It's is it the doors?
Is it the ladders?
Is it, uh, the exorcists demons?
Uh, it can't be anything.
Well, it can't be guns.
So it has to be literally anything else.
As I always say, the only common denominator in every single mass shooting here in the
United States is the fact that they're carried out with guns, different kinds of guns every
time.
Sure.
I'm not saying they all use the same gun, although they are all fond of course of the
AR 15.
So that does seem to be a problem, but it's not because people are in need of spiritual
guidance.
It's not because everybody is a racist.
It's not because everybody loves Trump or everybody's a bleeding heart liberal it's
because we have two mini
Guns here in the United States.
We don't need exorcists.
We need gun control.
We need nationwide red flag laws.
We need literally anything that actually addresses the crisis of gun violence here in the United
States.
But we have very unserious people talking about very serious problems.
So that's why we get talking points.
Like maybe we just hire a bunch of priests to go out there and bless everybody.
And we'll be good to go.
Maybe we need to cut down on the number of doors in a school, which will kill a bunch
of children if there's ever a fire, but Hey, they won't get shot.
They'll just burn to death.
We're a country being run by idiots.
And unfortunately some of the dumbest people have some of the loudest voices, not just
in Washington, DC, but all over the country, the dumber they are, the louder they are.
And those loud idiot voices are the ones trying to distract us from the fact that the root
cause of the mass shootings in this country is because of
the guns.