A shooting at a Waffle House prompts some of the worst arguments for gun control ever.

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So on rare occasions, there's an event that happens in American public life that unleashes all of the stupid. And yesterday, indeed, it turns out was that event. There was a shooting at a Waffle House, and there's a guy who's incredibly heroic. We're going to talk about all of it, as well as the left's reaction to it, because the left's reaction is just fully crazy, like fully stupid and crazy. But before I get to any of that, first, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at stamps.com. So these days, you can get practically everything on demand. This podcast you can get on

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shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee. Chris Enzlo over at the Blaze reports on it.

He says, local and federal law enforcement turns out knew the man who opened fire in a Tennessee Waffle House early Sunday morning, killing four and injuring at least seven others.

They knew him so well that he was arrested last year and had his firearms confiscated. So you might ask, why was this person walking naked into a Waffle House and shooting people? How did he get his firearms? Well, I have the answer for you. The Secret Service said Sunday its agents arrested the killer in July 2016 after he was found in a

restricted area near the White House, according to the Tennessean. So it wasn't just that he was arrested. He was arrested by the Secret Service near the White House because what the hell? Secret Service Representative Todd Hudson said he wanted to set up a meeting with the president, which it turns out is not the way to set up the meeting with the president. Like really, I know how to set up a meeting with the president.

You don't do it by walking up to the White House

and saying you want to set the meeting with the president. Like really, I know how to set up a meeting with the president. You don't do it by walking up to the White House and saying you want to set a meeting with the president. That hasn't been true since like, 1860. The killer, who's reportedly from Illinois, was a revoked of his ability to possess firearms following his arrest in Washington. Illinois police also confiscated four firearms from his possession, including the AR-15 he used in Sunday's killing, a spokesman for the Nashville police said.

Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Hustin explained at a news conference that when the sheriff's deputies came to confiscate the killer's firearms last August, his dad was present and asked the officers if he could take possession of the firearms instead. Tazewell said the father was legally able to possess weapons in the state of Illinois, so they turned the weapons over to him, which it turns out was a terrible decision because daddy then gave the guns back to son, so he should go to prison for criminal negligence, no question about it.

Authorities say the killer's father later returned the firearms to his son.

However, it was not immediately known if there was a Tennessee law that prohibited the killer from possessing the firearm.

So, in other words, the cops knew about him.

They took his gun away, and then they returned his gun. if there was a Tennessee law that prohibited the killer from possessing the firearm. So, in other words, the cops knew about him.

They took his gun away, and then they returned his guns to the father, and the father gave the guns to the son. I don't know what law on the books would prevent any of this. Really, because it's criminal negligence for the father to have given the guns to the son, and the son was already not only barred from having the gun, but had had his guns taken away from him.

Now, what's amazing about this is that there is an amazing... son, and the son was already not only barred from having the gun, but had had his guns taken away from him.

Now, what's amazing about this is that there was an amazing American hero name, James Shaw Jr., who was present at the Waffle House.

And as this shooting went on, he decided to charge the shooter. The shooter had an AR-15.

He charged the shooter anyway. So here is James Shaw Jr. speaking about this publicly.

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