President Trump meets shooting victims and CNN runs one of the worst town halls on gun control I have ever seen in my life.

It's truly egregious. Orwellian two minutes of hate stuff. I'll go through all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

We have a lot to get to today. We're going to spend a lot of time with the CNN Town Hall that took place last night, moderated by Jake Tapper. I think Jake is a pretty good journalist, but I think that this did not do him any credit. I thought that the CNN special last night, which featured all of these shooting survivors asking questions of Marco Rubio, really casting accusations at Marco Rubio and at Dana Lash of the National Rifle Association, and then a

crowd filled with people from Broward County where the shooting took place, cheering wildly, screaming,

booing. It really was an egregious scene. I'm going to go through all of it. I'm going to explain

why it was so bad. Also, President Trump at the White House asking questions of and being asked

questions by shooting survivors. One of those events was good. One of those events, not so much. I'll explain all of this. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold. So a lot of uncertainty in the world right now. You've seen the volatility in the stock market. It's been going up. It's been going down. But if you want a safe haven, if you want at least some of your assets and precious metals, the people you need to talk to are my friends over at Birchgold. So, when you go over to birchgold.com slash ben, you get a comprehensive 16-page kit free, revealing how gold and silver can protect your savings, how you can legally move your IRA or 401k out of stocks and bonds and into a precious metals IRA. The nice thing about Birch Gold, you can trust them. They have a longstanding track record of continued success and A-plus rating from the Better Business Bureau, countless five-star reviews. They're the people I trust from my precious metals investments. Go to Birch Gold Group right now and ask them for the free information kit. Just go to birchgold.com.com slash Ben. That's birchgold.com slash Ben. Use that slash Ben as well so that they know that we sent you. They're the people that I would trust when it comes to investing in precious metals. And again, everyone should have at least part of their portfolio in a solid asset like precious metals. All right. So we begin today. Now at the CNN Town Hall, we'll get to that in just a few minutes. But with an actual useful thing. Okay, this useful thing happened at the White House yesterday. So at the White House yesterday, the president of the United States had a bunch of people in who'd been shooting victims, family of shooting victims, some people from Parkland, Florida, some people from Sandy Hook, some people from other mass shootings that have taken place around the country, and he had a listening session with them.

Now, Trump was mocked by the media because he was holding a piece of paper during this with notes on it, and one of the notes said, I hear you. And so the idea was, oh, well, I guess he's being coached to hear people. But, you know, President Trump actually is quite good in these sorts of situations. and I think to everyone's surprise, they expected him to get angry or in need-jerk fashion, argue with folks.

He didn't do that. He sat there and he took it. He took it on the chin from a lot of people who were very upset. It was a wide variety of perspectives.

So the media were very upset with this because they want all town halls to basically be people who are shooting victims or shooting victims family or friends, they want those people to all be

pro-gun control fanatics who go up there and yell at politicians. That's what it was on CNN last night.

So they were very upset that the White House had a variety of perspectives. So they had some people

who were pro-gun control, some people who thought that school safety and armed guards were the

solution. But that wide variety of perspectives was actually useful. And again, it demonstrated something that the left does not want you to believe. I've been saying this now since the Parkland shooting. I've been saying it more than that for five years. Since the Pierce Morgan interview I did on CNN after the Sandy Hook shooting, the left media, so many people in the left media, wish you to believe that people who own guns, people who care about Second Amendment rights, people who want to protect their families, that these are people who don't care if children are shot, that they just don't care enough. If they truly cared enough, then they'd agree with the gun control agenda. Well, Trump yesterday showed that he cared, and that's what made the media so angry about this event.

I think it was a useful event. I think that it was an event that had class. I think it was an event that had dignity. And I think that it was an event that, again, demonstrated that we are all in this together. This is the thing that's missing. The media are trying to drive us apart. There are a bunch of folks on the anti-gun left who are trying to suggest, because they're the only way they can find to push their unpopular agenda, they're trying to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them is morally bereft. Those people have moral shortcomings. The truth is, we're all neighbors. We all mourn when we see things like what happened in Parkland. We all want to stop that stuff. I want the shooter to fry in hell. You do too. Everyone's on the same page with this, except for the

people who wish to believe that their political opponents are actually scum of the earth,

pieces of crap, who don't care about dead kids. They only care about polishing their weapons in

the background while posing in front of their Confederate flags. This is the view that too many

on the left have of law-abiding American

gunners. Okay, so at the White House yesterday, there are a bunch of folks who spoke. One of them was a Parkland father named Andrew Pollock. He was a Trump supporter. There was a famous picture of him going around during the actual massacre. He's driving around trying to find his daughter who'd been murdered in the shooting. He was wearing a Trump 2020 t-shirt. He was at the White House, and here's what he had to say to President Trump about losing his daughter.

It's not about gun laws right now. That's another fight, another battle. Let's fix the schools, and then you guys could battle it out whatever you want. But we need our children safe. Monday, tomorrow, whatever day it is. Your kids are going to go to school. You think everyone's kids are safe? I didn't think it was going to happen to me. If I knew, I would have been at the school every day if I knew it was that dangerous. It's enough. Let's get together, work with the president, and fix the schools. Okay, well, working with the president is something Democrats don't want to do, and they don't want to give him credit for moving on the issue at all, even though he tweeted out this morning that he wants better background checks and that he wants to ban bump stocks, and then he wants to raise the age of rifle purchase until 21. That last measure is one that I could understand, if you're also going to raise the age of consent to 21 in terms of joining the military or voting. But it seems to me that we can't grant rights piecemeal to people. We can't say you have the right to vote, but not the right to drink or the right to bear arms. It doesn't work like that in the United States. Rights are generally granted when you reach the point of maturity or at the point of adulthood. In any case, this guy was not given, this father was not given

the sort of credibility and respect that the media normally grant to shooting victims and fathers.

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