Is Gun Control the Answer to Las Vegas?

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

News, Government

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bill shares his thoughts on the horrific attack in Las Vegas and responds to Democrats' calls for greater gun control. He reflects on how well President Trump and the First Lady have handled this string of catastrophes, from the hurricanes in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico and now the mass murder in Las Vegas. Bill also shares more of his interview with Steve Wynn, one of the titans of industry in Las Vegas, and some very prescient thoughts Wynn had about the security risks Las Vegas faces and what he's done to try and improve security at his properties. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Bill Bennett show. A lot has gone on in the last couple of weeks. I want to put some of it in perspective and we of course as always welcome your comments.
0:12.0	Let me start with my trying to put in
0:15.7	perspective last night on Fox News on the particularize them so much as to try to put in context his remarks there and the
0:35.8	remarks and visits over the last couple of weeks. Lou let's play that clip.
0:40.5	The President, the First Lady, they have been to Texas, they have
0:44.1	in Florida, they have been to Puerto Rico, they have been to Las Vegas. They have
0:48.4	seen misery, they have seen suffering of human beings, they have held their hands, they have hugged them, they've seen
0:54.8	the carnage and its consequences in Las Vegas.
0:58.8	When they go to bed tonight, what effect does this have on them?
1:01.7	I remember a book I read in college and it was a theology book and it said if you had an ears attuned enough to hear all the suffering of the world at once that would overwhelm you.
1:12.0	Well, the trumps have had a pretty suffering of the world at once it would overwhelm you.
1:13.0	Well, the trumps have had a pretty good portion of the suffering of the world,
1:18.0	least of America in the last few weeks, and they have absorbed it very well and presented themselves very well.
1:24.6	I'm I as one American and very proud of them and I admire what they have done.
1:30.7	I admire their composure and I I imagine this is for drawing
1:34.6	them closer but I cannot fathom what they are thinking about what effect this
1:39.8	will have the cumulative effect of all they have seen. People should have some real
1:43.7	empathy for them such as the empathy they have shown to the people in those four
1:48.9	places. Yeah, again, thoughts and process here, just trying to get my brain around the whole thing. The book I was referring to, Chris, I think I've mentioned it to you before, it's's called the Lord and it's by a Italian theologian
2:05.7	name Romano Guardini and it's a very thick book, the long 600 pages and small print as I remember even with the young eyes and one of the
2:18.6	things he says at least as I remember it is that if we could hear all the suffering of the world at once as God
2:27.0	does as the Lord does it would crush us would overwhelm us. Now certainly you know there's there's a in many ways the
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