The left trots out students as their point people.

Everything is about race and the media spin wildly for gun control in every possible direction.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

So this is our last day of the week until Friday, broadcasting from Los Angeles.

We're headed off to Washington, D.C. for CPAC. I will have some notes on CPAC because a little bit of controversy has broken out about one of the invited speakers. Suffice to say I disagree with the invitation, but I also don't control the invites. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at CPAC, however. Before we get to any of that, plus the news of the day, first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Zeal. So, if you are in need

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something I talked about yesterday. David French at National Review spoke about the possibility

of having laws on the books that allow immediate family or close friends to go to the court

and petition to have your capacity to own a gun temporarily removed from you if a court finds

that you are a threat to yourself or others. That would be a useful measure in my view. Another useful measure would be dramatically heightening security. I talked about this on Fox and Friends this morning. I've talked about it this week. The idea here would be that you have to harden the defenses around schools. Our banks have tremendous security. There's no reason why our dollars should be guarded more closely than our children. There's been a lot of talk about arming teachers, and some people object to this. Well, I don't understand why a trained armed teacher would be a threat to your child. You trust your child in the classroom with that teacher every single day. And right now, we are leaving teachers at the whim of mass killers. There is that coach in Parkland who was shot to death while he was attempting to defend students. Wouldn't it have been better if he'd actually been licensed to carry a handgun and had a gun with him so he maybe could have done something about it? They should build schools. From now on, they should build schools with fail-safe mechanisms, so that if a mass shooter were to enter the school, there would be a capacity to actually lock down separate parts of the school. They have this lockdown capacity at a lot of hospitals. There's no reason why they shouldn't use it when it comes to schools as well. And another thing that ought to be done is something that we here are now doing at Daily Wire. So at Daily Wire, as I've said on the show, I said it in the last week that I wasn't going to name the shooter on the show.

I wasn't going to show pictures of the shooter on the show. And somebody emailed me and said, well, then why is your website naming the shooter and showing pictures? And I thought, well, that's a good point. And so we at DailyWire will no longer be showing the names or the faces of mass shooters. being that studies tend to show that mass shooters are driven by a need for media attention.

And so this time we are going to try to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. The media, the race to show faces, the race to show names in the media, is obviously ratings driven. It's obviously click driven because people are curious, people want to know what the guy looks like who went and shot up a school. we're not going to be part of that game because we can give you all the relevant information as we have been doing on the show. We've told you who the guy is. We've told you everything about him. We've told you what you need to know for the public policy debate. We're just not going to put a name and a face on him because we don't want to give him any sort of under notoriety. We don't want him to be unintentionally given levels of exposure that will drive the next

mass killer. There's no reason why we should know the names of mass shooters particularly, except

out of just normal human curiosity, or why their picture should be flashed across the news.

We can give you all the information that you need to know without that pictorial evidence behind

it. The reason we're doing this is because there

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