about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
place on monday in nashville.ers the killer was a twenty eight year old female transgender iste who shot her way into a christian elementary school and murdered three ninede year olds and three adults. why did she do that?o th in a rational country? that is the very first fir question we would ask in our country. it s the last question.. in fact, often it s never askedse rare n at all on those rare occasions when somebods wheny finally man to wonder out loud about motive, our leaders immediately. start lying, which should tell you a lot. state here s the attorney general of the united states yesterdayit . i realize that the shooter is dead, but the shooter could have had collaborators. do you plan on opening a hate crime investigation? for the targeting of christians? the fbi and atf are bothscen, on the scene working with thel i local police. as of now,ce motive hasn t been
identified. and the police chief said that a a colast as the last press conference that they don t yet have reached a conclusion with respect to motive. we are certainly working full time with them.y working for full time with them to try to determine what the to try and determine what and t the motive is . and , of course, motive is whato determinesr whether it s a hate crime or not. so here s what we just learned from merrick garland, fh the fbi, the atf and thevestigat nashville police are all investigating these shootings. yeng, ant more than twenty fours after they took place, nonhoseef those professional as to investigators can even guess as to why the shootings happened. motive hasn t been identified > garland told us . how thatd really? you wonder how that could possibly be . fire, just before she opened fire ,vil the nashville shooter wrote these words to her best friend over instagram, quote, s one day, this will make enoug more sense. i ve left behind more than enough e
here or at least one that they d hoped that the jury would buy into was here you have a guy who just signed a multimillion dollar contract why would he give it up to commit a murder that the motive hasn t even been fairly explained. and i think that s a fair question to ask. and while prosecutors enjoy having a clear motive, that s not necessary to the crime charges p. and that s a bit beside the point. the other thing that they had in their favor was a more generous favorable, legal theory on which to proceed, which was the joint venture theory and you don t
distressing. as you are finishing up, what could be the motive? the motive hasn t been stated. but what s the hidden message in tapping a person of this pedigree to speak on this issue, a person who is explicitly, based on what we ve seen, taken positions that are contrary to accepted civil american positions in terms of the constitution, in terms of who we are as a people? appalling, by the way. you can have concerns with police overreach and still recognize that calling for the death of police officers, saying things like i pray for your death, that s just beyond the range of civil discourse. it s disgusting and needs no explanation. in my view, the invocation he received from the justice department gave him legitimacy. the people running the justice department believe apparently he has a legitimate point of view that should be represented in discussions. that reveals a lot about them. look, he s adjust gran stander and a creep. he s going to go, what were they