Speaker 1: JD Vance again stuck his foot in his
mouth, saying that school shootings are just a fact of life. This is, after the deadly shooting
in Georgia. And he says, you know. Which it just is. It is. Now, look, the Kamala Harris answer to
this is to take law-abiding American citizens guns away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants
to do. Says, look, I don't like this. I don't like to admit this. I don't like that this is a
fact of life. But if you're if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that
our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person
who walks through the front door. So he does his usual you've got to harden the schools and double
up the doors and add a second lock to the window and this entire thing. It's a fact of life, he
says. Yet no other developed country has this problem. It's not a fact of life in Canada or
the UK or Spain or Australia or Hong Kong or, you know, I'm trying to include or Sweden. I'm
trying to include a number of different types of governments, more and less authoritarian, more,
more and less wealthy. It's not a fact of life in any of these places. It's only a fact of life
in the types of countries that Trump would often refer to as shithole countries. And these are not
the countries that we normally expect Republicans to equate us with. So, as usual, it's all about,
I will say whatever I need to say to avoid dealing with the things that really matter here. Number
one, put it anywhere in the list, but somewhere on the list. Accessibility of firearms. It has
to be on the list. Now, I am not so disconnected from reality that I am a get rid of the guns and
we totally solve the issue altogether. We have a second amendment. We're not going to get rid of
all the guns, but in addition to the gun part, we also need to deal with licensing, testing and
mandatory insurance. We also need to deal with the toxic gun culture of the United States, because
there are lots of other country, there are other countries. Switzerland is an example where guns
are more available than in some other countries. But culturally you don't have as many people who
think to themselves, oh, I have a problem. I have an emotional problem, I have a personal problem,
I have an employment problem, I have a cultural problem. I'm going to take a gun and try to solve
that problem. And so that's a part of it as well. We have a broken culture in this country, and it
exists because of this gun culture that the right wing has generated. And I would also include
in that mental health. Now, the little caveat with mental health, because Republicans love
to say this is only a mental health problem. If you believe that mental health is part of the
problem, then you must fully fund access to mental health treatment. And as many of you know, in
combination, because of in some areas, stigma, in other areas, insurance company decisions, all
sorts of different things. You need time off for therapy from work. Well, that's not that's going
to have to be unpaid. You know, all this different stuff. We're also not even getting the people
who say mental health is the primary issue to actually say, well, because we think it's the
primary issue, here's how we're going to take it more seriously, make it more acceptable,
etc.. So I include mental health in it, for sure, but I'm the one who actually wants
to destigmatize mental health, make it more accessible. So JD Vance is disgusting. He's
a horrible person. He's failing as a VP, but he's also laughably stupid or blind when he
says it is a fact of life, when it only seems to be a fact of life. In the United States, among
Western wealthy, developed countries, it's these people are truly disgusting. They must lose in
November. Legally, of course, we must defeat them in November with a victory so big that they can't
steal it. We have a fantastic bonus show for you today. We will talk about Putin's faux endorsement
of Kamala Harris. We will talk about Dick Cheney saying he's voting for Kamala Harris. We will
talk about Kamala Harris abandoning her previous suggestion to get rid of plastic straws.
And I want to remind you, tomorrow night, 8 p.m. eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific, I will
be live, live, live for the Trump Harris debate. I hope that you will join me. Make
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