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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP98: Hour 2 - The Politics of Guns Work Against Democrats

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As democrats double down on gun confiscation the politics won’t work for them plus Kellyanne Conway joins the program to talk about her new book.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 877973, 745, should you wish to be on this here program.

0:13.2

I, my friends, would like to keep my promise to Cornelius, who will apparently be the only person who can come on the program to talk about this issue who can restrain temper.

0:29.0

So we're going to go here.

0:30.4

Cornelius, thank you for being patient with me.

0:33.5

How you doing?

0:34.4

Can you just get admitted to address two issues with the security and the gun, right?

0:39.3

Go for it.

0:40.3

Go for it.

0:41.3

First, you know, I have a criminal justice degree of bachelor's, and I've studied police studies and mass shootings, and I'm currently taking my master's.

0:48.3

And if you study criminal justice, the history of security, if you like the courthouses, back in the

0:54.3

70s and early 80, they had some courthouse shootings. And now you can't remember the last

1:00.3

time you've heard of a courthouse shooting. So it's very simple. We just do the schools like we do

1:04.8

the courthouses. There is more than one way in and out, but the security is very good.

1:11.2

So that are in the school shootings right there.

1:14.1

And the number two, they need to, with all this gun right stuff,

1:19.4

87% of crimes committed with a gun were purchased illegally.

1:25.1

Only 13% was illegally purchased.

1:31.3

So I was working in the jail one time, and I heard two inmates talking about gun laws and gun rights, and one inmate turned to the other

1:36.8

inmate and said, if they make guns illegal, I can double my prices in the streets. That was his

1:42.8

solution. His solution wasn't that if they make

1:45.4

guns illegal now, what am I going to do? I'm going to be out of work. No, he actually thought I can make

1:49.6

more money because now I can sell my guns even higher. This is all in books. This is nothing new.

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