There's an interesting dynamic, once again connected to a very sad reality of this nation. Now, here's what I wanna do. There's another mass shooting in the United States of America. [00:00:15] Multiple people dead, multiple people injured. I wanna first take you to what Sean Hannity had to say broadcasting right after this trauma. [00:00:32] Here it is. >> Speaker 2: What bothers me, and I could literally probably count the seconds before an incident like this becomes politicized. And that part of it I never like, because that's not gonna bring back lives. And then I always ask the question, when something like this happens, [00:00:51] what is your plan? What do you do? I have a personal security plan. I train in mixed martial arts. I've been a big believer in the Second Amendment for a long time with the prayer that I never would ever to use it. Maine happens to be a rural area where people tend to [00:01:06] be involved in outdoor sports. So I would imagine a lot of people are gonna have a lot of defense issues. But the bigger question, what do you see as the underlying cause of a lot of these shootings? >> Speaker 1: I want you to understand the hypocrisy of Hannity during moments [00:01:23] like this. But tragedy is real. He wants to dissuade anyone from the argument of a policy solution. So instead of calling it a policy solution and a good faith debate about what policies would lead to a better outcome, instead of that, he says, I'm just waiting for them to politicize it. [00:01:40] And we're not going to politicize it on my political show as we continue to politicize it the other way. So he wants you to think somehow talking policy is a bad thing. Do you know what political means or the dynamic of something being politicized? [00:01:56] It means having to do with the affairs of the country of government. That's the core of the definition of the word. He probably doesn't know that. In addition to that, he literally then proceeds to give an interview about solutions that are absolutely not solutions that are credible, [00:02:17] such as his ability to engage in martial arts. He literally said this on television, as if somehow that is a serious barrier to a mass shooter. [00:02:32] They're reaching. 40 year old Robert Card, the suspect in Wednesday's mass shootings, which took place in Maine, is facing eight counts of murder, [00:02:49] according to Maine State Police Colonel William G Ross. As authorities have identified eight victims and are working to identify ten more, an intensive manhunt is underway. His card remains at large and should be considered armed and [00:03:09] dangerous while Hannity talks up his martial arts skills. As of now, 18 people are reported dead, another 13 injured. Seven of the people killed in the shooting were found at a bowling alley. [00:03:25] It's called Just-In-Time Recreation, including one woman and six men. All died from apparent gunshot wounds. Eight of those killed were found near the Schemengees Bar & Grill, including seven men inside the establishment and one who was found outside. [00:03:42] All of those victims also died of apparent gunshot wound. An additional three people killed in the shootings had been taken to local hospitals. I put up the colonel. This is Colonel Ross. On Thursday, he provided a timeline of events around Wednesday's mass shootings. [00:04:00] Here's how he detailed it. On October 25, approximately 06:56 PM, the Auburn Communications Center received a 911 call of a male shooting in just in time, or the Spare Time Recreation Center. [00:04:16] At about 7:08PM Eastern time, the communications center received multiple 911 calls about an active shooter inside of the Bar & Grill in Maine, okay? You have a map to help you understand distance covered, [00:04:33] and you have a timeline given. The police department released this image of the vehicle connected to the shootings. The Colonel also said, quote, a large law enforcement response from the multiple surrounding agencies assisted with the Lewiston Police Department [00:04:52] in trying to identify who this individual was and what was happening. As you can imagine, this was a very fast-paced, fast moving, very fluid scene, very dangerous scene that these guys and girls were going into. Let me give you what's available on Card. [00:05:09] Law enforcement officials in Maine, they tell CNN that Card is a certified firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserve. Card had recently made threats to carry out a shooting at [00:05:28] a National Guard facility in Maine, and also reported mental health issues, including hearing voices, according to the official, okay? Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, or Newt. [00:05:45] Newt finds a way to always kind of weasel his way back on television, make himself halfway relevant. So this is what Newt had to say about the mass shooting. >> Speaker 2: News is a bit sketchy. Your reaction to the initial reports here. [00:06:02] >> Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, it's horrible. >> Speaker 3: Yeah. >> And I think that we're gonna have to really think through a better method of protecting people. [COUGH] Frankly, in states that have concealed carry and other permits, constitutional carry permits, [00:06:20] you have a much more rapid response to these kind of people who are crazy. And we have no idea what this person's motivation was. But I think we have to assume as we move forward that people, and by the way, this also applies to what happened in Israel when Hamas attacked. [00:06:38] We have to have a greater ability for our citizens to protect themselves, because it's clear that law enforcement comes in after the massacre. But the law enforcement is almost never there to stop the massacre. [00:06:53] This has been true in Europe. It's been true here. It's been true in Israel. So I think we have to think about a whole new strategy, because these kind of people are extraordinarily dangerous, are willing to kill others, have no sense of decency, and frankly, [00:07:08] you have to stop them as early as possible to minimize the loss of individual lives. >> Speaker 1: You know what Newt? I actually agree with your last statement. Stop them as early as possible. You see in your context, you would like to stop them after they kill, I don't know, [00:07:27] maybe five people, maybe six, possibly seven, and then you stop them. You see, I think we can actually stop them earlier than that, Newt. I think we can stop them before they actually get their hands on the weaponry. I think we can stop them by not having a broken mental health system. [00:07:46] I think we can stop them by challenging the narrative of a gun culture and that guns are the solution for everything. So, Newt is saying the answer is to get more guns, not to have less guns. [00:08:02] The answer is to have more ammunition, not less ammunition. The insanity is unreal, but these are the guys that cannot give you a policy solution. Everything that they're offering you is sentiment, feeling, nothing else. None of this stuff is policy. [00:08:19] Government is elected to bring you policy answers, to make remedy by way of policy. I don't give a damn that you feel the way I feel. I don't care that you can sympathize or empathize. That's not why you get elected. [00:08:35] You get elected for policy solution, anything else, that's between you and your God. But policy is why you have a job, all right. Sister thoughts? >> Speaker 4: Yeah, Newton Gingrich talking about decency is quite rich. [00:08:52] And yeah, I feel he was gone for so long and then all of a sudden he was back and he was in the mix for being speaker. I don't know why he's back, but I'd rather he wasn't. Hannity wants to talk about politicization, but he is the one politicizing things. He's running interference. [00:09:07] He's blocking and obstructing the gun narrative that inevitably and understandably comes up every time our nation suffers another deadly and preventable shooting. Of course, shootings create discourse. As a nation we mourn the lives that are lost in shootings like this one. [00:09:23] But we also mourn the circumstances that lead to incidents like this one. We mourn our nation's state of poverty and poor mental health that contributes to these shootings. But we also mourn the fact that our government does nothing to help the things that it can help. Not only do they not do anything about these things, but [00:09:40] they also even refuse to talk about them. You have news hosts like Hannity shaming people for basically wanting things to be better for next time so that we don't have to lose any of those lives. Whatever Newt Gingrich was trying to prove his point. We wanna prevent the needless loss of life in the future. [00:09:58] His job, Hannity's job, is simply to delay that conversation long enough until either a new headline takes over, which will happen inevitably, or people will just become fatigued with grief, whichever one comes first. >> Speaker 1: Well said, well said. And here's the thing. [00:10:13] The majority of Americans are on the same side as it relates to gun reform in this country. The people who oppose the majority sentiment are the interest group and the politicians they purchased.