In the wake of two mass shootings that would not have been prevented by any of the gun control

legislation proposed in recent years, Republicans and Democrats are coming together to endorse,

you guessed it, more gun control legislation that will not stop any future shootings.

But hey, at least the laws will infringe on our constitutional rights. We will analyze the many

red flags in red flag laws. Then the mainstream left keeps up its defamatory temper tantrum. We'll

look at a few examples of that, what it means for 2020, what it means for our political future.

Finally, conservative environmentalist Benji Bakker stops by to try to turn me green. Good luck,

buddy, all that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.

Red flags and green conservatives. We've got a whole slew, the whole rainbow of politics today.

I want to start with red flag laws because unfortunately it seems the president, conservatives

in Congress and obviously the entirety of the far left did not watch my show yesterday.

They just didn't listen. I hate to say I told you so particularly on this topic,

but I pointed out yesterday that all of the reaction, particularly on the left to these two

awful shootings over the weekend, has been emotivist. It has been grounded in raw emotion. The

slander, the temper tantrums, the political attacks that have come out of it have not been grounded

in reality, have not been grounded in crime statistics, have not been grounded in legislation

that actually would change anything. It is just this raw emotional response and I feared, as I

have seen my fears vindicated, that conservatives in the desire to be seen as doing something

would allow their emotions to run away with them and embrace gun control laws that would not have

stopped the attacks and will not stop future attacks. Turns out I was right. You know after

the last few mass shootings, conservatives did a pretty good job of thinking with their heads

and not just thinking with their overheated emotions. This one was different, I guess. I don't

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