Oct 26, 2023
Conservatives Get ABSURD In Their Response To Maine Mass Shooting
Fox News' Sean Hannity is going to ninja his way out of a mass shooting, and other horrible takes by conservatives.
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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,
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when something like this happens,
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 have to use it.
>> Speaker 2: I am truly and
utterly dumbfounded.
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I listened to this clip now five
times probably, and every time,
it still catches me off guard,
the sheer stupidity of Sean Hannity.
So before we get into anything else, Ben,
this man thinks that he'll be able
to use martial arts to defend
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himself from an assault-style
weapon if crap hits the fan.
The hubris of this guy
is just off the charts.
And it's so
many conservative media figures and
politicians have this weird
fantasy of defending themselves,
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either with a gun or from a gun, both.
They believe themselves to be an expert.
I'm sorry, Sean Hannity,
if someone's coming at you with a gun,
you're gonna get shot and die [LAUGH].
You're either gonna get
severely injured or die.
You're not gonna do some jiu-jitsu flip,
kick the gun out of the guy's hand.
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It's an absurd notion.
Get your head out of your ass.
>> Speaker 3: I have to strongly disagree.
He's not gonna flip and get the guns.
He's gonna karate chop the bullets.
We all know that.
>> [LAUGH]
>> He's gonna karate chop all the bullets
like a good Sean Hannity would.
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I mean, listen,
if he cares about America so much and
doesn't wanna pass regulations to stop gun
violence because that would politicize it,
I guess we have no choice left but
to send Sean Hannity into active shooter
situations and
just let him ninja his way out of there.
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Let him ninja the group to safety.
Let him do what he's gotta do to
just protect all of us with his
superior martial arts skills.
The man is idiotic.
It harkens back to Ben Carson,
when he was running for
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president, the sleepiest man to ever live,
whose eyes were closed two-thirds of
the time he would speak, literally said,
if I was in a mass shooting, what I
would do is run towards the shooter.
>> [LAUGH]
>> And incapacitate him.
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Literally before he said,
if I was, he'd be dead.
He'd have 30 bullets inside of him.
But he believes all of a sudden
he would be super speed.
Maybe if he was, I don't know,
on some sort of drug,
maybe an amphetamine that would speed
up his system, he'd still be dead.
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These people live in fantasy land,
and unfortunately,
that's not where shooting happens.
Shootings happen in reality land.
>> Speaker 2: Mm-hm, and
[LAUGH] I was going to pause there for
a second just to talk about
the absurd nature of his comments.
And we're gonna get into some
more absolutely absurd comments
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from one Newt Gingrich in a minute.
But first, let's just go over a little bit
about the already extremely lax gun laws
that apparently Sean Hannity thought were
too oppressive in the state of Maine.
From AP, NBC, Maine, where more than
a dozen people were killed Wednesday night
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in a mass shooting, does not require
background checks on all gun sales and
does not have red flag laws,
according to Everytown For Gun Safety.
Now, Maine does not ban high capacity
magazines, nor does it require
a permit to carry concealed guns,
something that conservatives have
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been fighting to prevent in many states,
my state of Illinois included.
Maine already didn't have that.
So here's this from NBC News.
Proposals to require background checks for
private gun sales and
create a 72-hour waiting period for
gun purchases failed earlier this year.
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Proposals that focused on school security
and banning bump stocks failed in 2019.
Continues on,
residents have also voted down some
attempts to tighten gun laws in Maine.
A proposal to require
background checks for
gun sales failed in a 2016 public vote.
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But obviously, that's not enough for
some Republicans,
like former speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich, who says despite this,
citizens need to take on more
responsibility for protecting themselves.
Take a look.
>> Speaker 4: Well, I mean,
first of all, it's horrible.
And I think that we're
gonna have to really
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think through a better
method of protecting people.
[COUGH] Frankly, in current states
that have concealed carry and
other permits,
constitutional carry permits,
you have a much more rapid response to
these kind of people who are crazy.
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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.
We have to have a greater ability for
our citizens to protect themselves.
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Because it's clear that law enforcement
comes in after the massacre,
but law enforcement is almost
never there to stop the massacre.
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
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are extraordinarily dangerous, are willing
to kill others, have no sense of decency.
And frankly,
you have to stop them as early as possible
to minimize the loss of individual lives.
>> Speaker 2: Incidentally, Newt Gingrich
doesn't support red flag laws,
which are proven to prevent the people who
would carry out these types of shootings,
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these types of atrocities,
from getting guns in the first place.
No, instead, what he's proposing is
Minority Report-style policing [LAUGH].
We need cops who are going to look into
the future and determine whether or
not you're gonna commit a crime and
neutralize you then.
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He said that the police weren't
there to stop these mass shootings.
No, why would they be?
Why would they be?
And how would they know?
Are they just going to point a gun at
every single person who enters a building
and do a visual check to determine
whether or not they're a threat?
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That's absurd.
It's an absurd notion,
and it's not feasible.
It's physically impossible.
And what he's suggesting is
honestly downright illegal.
It violates our constitution.
So shut the hell up, Newt Gingrich.
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I thought we were done with you.
I never wanna see you again.
>> Speaker 3: I was astounded to hear Newt
Gingrich say that because I could have
sworn he was dead.
I did not know this dog was still alive.
That's wild.
And he's there on camera 80 years
after he was in power saying,
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we gotta think of a whole new strategy.
Yeah, you know what would have
been a good time to do that?
Was 80, 90 years ago when you were
one of the leaders of our government.
I love that only now are you kinda
kicking to brainstorm around.
Now that I've been out of power for
hundreds of years,
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maybe we should try to figure
out a way to stop gun violence.
He says it could have happened in Israel.
It could have helped in Israel too.
Yes, yes, terrorist attacks would also
be stopped by people with guns, just
regular people stopping trained militias
that are coming there to cause mass harm.
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It's a brilliant point
made by the ghoulish,
long deceased Newt Gingrich,
may the Lord rest his soul.
>> Speaker 2: And
Donald Trump did the same thing, right?
He did the same thing as Newt Gingrich.
We need to try something new.
He said this, a terrible situation
going on in Maine, at least 22 dead.
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Again, those are not the numbers
that we are officially reporting.
It just seems to never end for
the United States.
You were the president.
You were the president of the United
States of America, and what did you do to
limit mass atrocities, to limit gun
violence, to try to prevent gun violence?
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Absolutely nothing.
You were president during a time where
there was a ton of school shootings,
a ton of mass shootings, violent,
bigoted mass shootings, and
you did nothing to make it better.
Another person-
>> Well,
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at least he's taken it very seriously.
I'm sure he just posted that and then took
the rest of the day to be somber, right?
>> Speaker 2: Well, you would think,
because Donald Trump is a very serious man
who cares very deeply about
these types of tragedies.
But three minutes after he made that post,
he posted again.
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About the tragedy?
No, just to praise Mike Johnson, who
was elected speaker earlier in the day.
And in 12 minutes-
>> Speaker 3: Okay, but
that at least was political, and
then he probably was somber
the rest of the day, right?
>> Speaker 2: Right, you would think.
But 12 minutes later, he posted
a video of him entering an arena to
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watch a UFC fight with the words,
what a difference a president makes.
>> [LAUGH] Wow, I mean, at least he was
around the people, he was there to give.
I'm sure after that,
he probably didn't post anything else, and
he probably took time to
reflect on gun violence.
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>> Speaker 2: Right, well,
he might have been reflecting at
the time that he posted a video of
him teeing off juxtaposed with footage of
President Biden falling on the stairs.
>> Speaker 3: So he's focusing
on the issues, on what matters.
>> The important issues that matter.
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Another person who no one could ever
accuse of not focusing on the issues
was one Lauren Boebert, who tweeted out,
sending prayers to Lewistown.
Lewiston, excuse me.
She spelled the name of the town wrong,
by the way.
She wrote Lewistown,
it's Lewiston, Maine tonight.
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Know that the entire
country is praying for you.
I mean, this is a woman who posted
a Christmas photo of her with all of her
sons holding guns, some of them
with very poor trigger discipline,
all of them holding [LAUGH] assault-style
weapons next to the Christmas tree.
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Is that someone who gives
a crap about gun violence?
She ran a bar where all of the workers
had to carry pistols on their hip.
The idea that this woman, I mean,
she's from a town called Rifle, Colorado.
I'm sorry, could she be any more pro gun?
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It's absurd.
It's ridiculous.
>> Speaker 3: Her bar was called Shooters.
>> Speaker 2: Yes.
>> Speaker 3: It's now closed, but
when it was open,
was it called Active Shooters?
It wouldn't be too on the nose for her.
She also probably offered a hand
to anybody who's suffering.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> She really takes it very,
very seriously,
trying to help people in this nation.
She's always about thoughts and prayers.
Always about thoughts and prayers.
Most of these Republican lawmakers are.
If they're so into prayers,
why didn't they become preachers?
Why do they go into making laws?
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If their focus is praying, go pray,
have a congregation somewhere and
have no effect on the outcome.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah,
[LAUGH] I mean, it's easy to do.
You've taken up a position where
you actually can effect change, and
instead of doing that,
you're sending vibes.
We're sending vibes.
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That's what we're doing.
>> Yep [SOUND].
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